Monthly Archives: September 2009

obama and kanye: perfect together

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 16, 2009 | Comments closed
Some quick links today, we’ll have a full Emmy preview coming up tomorrow: Thank you Mr. President! Now the Kanye West thing is never going away. What’s more embarrassing, that Obama called Kanye a jackass, or that he was watching the VMAs? What, the White House doesn’t get AMC? He doesn’t watch Mad Men? What’s with [...]
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rip patrick swayze

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 15, 2009 | Comments closed
Maybe it’s because I’m not a girl. Maybe it’s because I enjoy good acting. Maybe it’s because he turned into one of the 80s icons who heinously tried his hand at a singing career, with disastrous results. I just never indulged in the whole Patrick Swayze thing. Four Patrick Swayze movies stick out as “enjoyable and harmless but [...]
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kanye west needs to be committed

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 14, 2009 | Comments closed
Only caught about a half-hour of the VMAs — the Phillies and Mad Men held much higher precedence — but in that time, I managed to see Taylor Swift in what seemed like her nightmarishly uncomfortable subway performance, Lady Gaga’s head-scratcher of a dance number and . . . the Kanye incident. I left like [...]
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the 90s were weird

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 11, 2009 | Comments closed
Straight links today, with a heavy emphasis on the 90s today: And in the shocking portion of the news today, the Michael Jackson tribute concert scheduled for this month has been pushed back to next June and now is going to be in London, not Vienna. Talk about a disaster doomed from the jump. A stupid [...]
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fall tv (sons of anarchy, glee)

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 10, 2009 | Comments closed
I was waiting until I got through all of this week’s premieres to jot down some thoughts, but didn’t watch the new Melrose yet and I may not get to Vampire Diaries tonight, so . . . Sons of Anarchy: FX is the ultimate “it is what it is” network. You know exactly what you’re getting [...]
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a boycott of leno is a vote for the future of tv

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 9, 2009 | Comments closed
You may or may not have noticed in yesterday’s blog post about my fall TV viewing schedule that Jay Leno was nowhere to be found. That wasn’t an accident. Beyond the fact that Leno isn’t very funny, at least not to me, this little experiment NBC in conducting by giving Leno an hour of primetime programming [...]
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fall TV viewing preview

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 8, 2009 | Comments closed
My TV viewing habits have shifted exponentially in the last year. Anything that comes on before 10 p.m., I tape on my DVD recorder. Not DVR mind you, DVD recorder, so I can only tape one thing at once. 10 is when my daughter goes to bed, and trying to watch anything while she’s up [...]
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heh heh, you said extract

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 4, 2009 | Comments closed
Not exactly the best note to end the summer on, this All About Steve thing that has a chance to be the worst-reviewed movie ever. We’re talking history here people, it’s gotten a 0.0 on Rotten Tomatoes so far, not just with a smattering of reviews in, but with forty-freakin’-three reviews. And they’re not even kinda [...]
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the new tv season

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 3, 2009 | Comments closed
It’s the really exciting time of the TV year — the start of the fall season. It gets underway next week, so that’s when we’ll start the PopRox season preview. Just to get it out there, some shows that look like they’re worth watching: –Glee: Already gone on about how this is one of my favorite pilots ever. Watched the [...]
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movie music beatdown, vol. 9: stayin’ alive

By Mike Sadowski | Published: September 2, 2009 | Comments closed
Last week of the WEDNESDAY MOVIE MUSIC BEATDOWN since I promised I’d only do this through the summer. Maybe we’ll revisit it at random times when I come across a song two movies have used, but let’s close this chapter for now until next summer. A good way to close it out would be the most [...]
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