A couple of months ago, Stephen Colbert featured a video clip where presidential candidate Mitt Romney professed to have enjoyed the book “Battlefield Earth,” by the late L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology. I’ve never seen the movie, starring Scientologist John Travolta, because it’s supposed to be a real clunker, but I read the book, in its first hardcover printing no less, and I agree with Romney. It’s a lot of fun!
Senator Richard Lugar now says it’s time to start leaving Iraq. Heck, I said that last October.
Last week, former Daily Show regular Steve Carell was Jon Stewart’s guest, pitching his new movie, Evan Almighty. Former Daily Show regular and on-screen nemesis of Carell, Stephen Colbert, comments…
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The shortest FiOS TV review is “GET IT IF YOU CAN!” The only weakness is the free video on demand selection. Here’s a bit of FiOS TV SD (Standard Definition) video from last night’s Red Sox game (reduced to 400×300, of course, with lossy compression). They lost to the Padres 6-1. Last time I made some screen caps and the Sox lost then, too. Most of my friends are Sox fans, and they’re a superstitious lot, so I promise to stop watching the games and jinxing them.
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For myself, not having XM or Sirius, Music Choice adds significantly to the value of FiOS TV. The selection is great (although a Folk station would be welcome) and the Dolby Digital sound quality is faultless. I’ve just hooked up my CCrane FM transmitter, so the audio from FiOS TV is being broadcast throughout the house, and the Music Choice channel of the moment is anywhere I want, including the bedroom clock radio.
Here is an exquisitely painful audio experience. It’s from the Beach Boys recording session for “Help Me Rhonda.” Also present in the studio was the insufferable one-eyed Wilson father, Murry. Listen to this and you’ll know why one-eared son Brian fired his father as manager of the band.
Thanks to WFMU for making this timeless recording available.
Kurau Phantom Memory is about a girl with extraordinary powers who’s a secret agent; but not for the government, which is out to get her. At least that’s what’s happening in the story as far as we’ve seen it. Kurau has a kid sister named Christmas to protect, who is actually a younger version of herself. Where this is heading, I don’t know!
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The video has the “clean” (captionless) versions of the opening and closing to Kurau, along with a clip from episode 6.
