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Blissfully Domestic (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Synopsis Mr. Schuester splits the Glee Club into pairs to sing their favorite ballad, but when one kid gets sick, he's forced to step in and winds up in a sticky situation. Meanwhile, Finn and Quinn have to face the music when they have dinner with her parents. (Fox.com) The Soundtrack Lean on Me (Bill Withers) Endless Love [...]
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Gilmore Girls News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Gregg Henry, who played Logan’s dad Mitchum Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls, guest starred as Quinn Fabray’s dad on this week’s episode of the new Fox show Glee. This week’s episode seemed heavy on the Gilmore shout-outs, including the cast singing a Paul Anka song “(You’re) Having My Baby“ and according to one of our Twitter friends, Quinn (who is currently pregnant)...
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Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
There's another Thursday night game, so don't forget. I could probably pick up a game by forgetting to remind you idiots, except one game ain't going to make much of a difference for me, and I'd have to actually get...
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Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
One thing I’ve loved about “Glee” is that its followers – or Gleeks – are immensely passionate about the storyline and the characters. On Show Tracker we get numerous comments on the show, and it’s clear you all are watching...
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Have U Heard?? (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Once again, Glee has hit it out of the park for another home run episode. Mr Schuester gives the definition of Ballad as “stories set to music, that is why they are the perfect storm of self expression”. A song style that is synonymous with what this series, in particular, this episode is all about. Mr. Schuester splits [...]
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thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Up to now, Glee has sort of tip-toed around being a musical, keeping the songs primarily performance-based, with lyrical ties not overtly specific to the moment. "Ballads" is the first episode that really can't be called anything but a musical, with every song having overt literal meaning to the scene at hand. And if there was any question, Rachel set us straight at the end. "Just listen...
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AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
How much do you miss Lorelai Gilmore? Not the Lorelai of the final seasons of Gilmore Girls . I’m talking about the original Amy Sherman-Palladino Lorelai who exchanged machine-gun-fast, pop-culture-packed dialogue with daughter Rory. I’m talking about the Lorelai who was quirky and cute and awkward, not the Lorelai who was wishy-washy and selfish and more than a little irritating. (What...
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Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Morning morons. Sittin outside here in Texas, drinking coffee and rubbing myself all over with orange marmalade. It's a nice cool day, sunny with a few clouds. Should be about 75 or so, perfect football weather. Cincinnati managed to pull...
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Do you love music? A sampling of song-inspired names for baby girls.
Explore : Cheap Trick,
Concrete Blonde,
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Harry Belafonte,
Lou Reed,
Music,
Neil Diamond,
The Beach Boys,
The Beatles,
The Everly Brothers,
The Smashing Pumpkins
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Easy Retirement (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Number 6 - Diana by Paul Anka Not one of my favourite songs, but memorable for one reason. It must have been a sunny day in the summer holidays of 1957, when the record was released, that Mum took my brothers and I on one of our many visits to Kensington Gardens, a short bus ride up Kensington High Street. I have a vivid memory of walking into the park and hearing some music. As we passed the source,...
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Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
During my mid-life career transition, many of my former students recommended to me following the travails of Jeff Shalit, something I have in fact been doing over the last years, as I have blogged, often linking to his excellent posts at his generally fine blog, Recursivity . But he has a post that baffles me now. I invite my reader to go and listen. All I hear is casual and useless cruelty, total...
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In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ topped the Box Office over the weekend in North America and the UK, and it looks as though the accompanying album will top the charts this weekend with early sales figures being around 373,000 to make this his most successful album launch week since 1995’s HIStory which shifted 391,000 copies. This [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Michael Jackson's album This Is It tops the US chart with first-week sales of 373,000, according to early figures.
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Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Taking advantage of the slowdown in election night action to post this week's pick results. Ben was timely but I was not, pardon. buzzion 72 Monkey Sleeping 71 Peoples Republic of Baltimore 70 Jay in Ames 69 Svenster61 69 Dave...
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PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Gentle-rock softy crafts a pop-standards beauty for the Paul Anka lover in your home. The tendency among rock fans might be to dismiss David Mead as a lightweight on his new album, not with respect to his obvious prodigious ability, but for the softness of his music. One can imagine, for instance, the indie-rock community disparaging Mead's winsome piano-and-acoustic-guitar ballads as too precious,...
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domino75 | 10/05/2009
Zombieland is an American zombie comedy horror film, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by Ruben Fleischer. The film stars Woody Harrelson , Jesse Eisenberg , Emma Stone , and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, Zombieland was released on October 2, 2009 in the USA and Canada. The film is rated R for horror violence/gore and language.
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Don't Forget the Lyrics!,
Emma Stone,
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Hank Williams,
Hard rock,
Jazz,
Kristin Chenoweth,
Metal,
Metallica,
Music,
Van Halen,
Velvet Underground,
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