So, last year, I did a three-part series for new iPod owners during the holiday season. This year, my father got my mom one of those iPod nano (PRODUCT) REDs, here’s the breakdown of what I wrote last year at this time:
I’ll post an updated list of podcasts I listen to now later in the week. Peter’s out of town, so I have a lot of freaking out work to do to get next week’s paper out.
(I know I haven’t been posting a lot this week, sorry. For the first time in my career, the news hasn’t slowed down in December. If anything, this has ended up being a pretty busy few weeks.)
At last, we know the title of the final book in the Harry Potter series:
J.K Rowling announced on Thursday that the seventh and final book in her teenage wizard saga will be called “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
No publication date has yet been set.
So what is a “hallow?” According to the Oxford English Dictionary (thanks, Nicole!), it’s “shrines or relics of saints; the gods of the heathen or their shrines.” I think it’s a good guess that this relates to Voldemort’s artifacts of power, and/or relating to Harry’s scar.
Peter’s Christmas-during-a-divorce song, “Christmas in Victorville,” is now getting theoretically international exposure, thanks to him putting it out on Podsafe Music, meaning anyone with a podcast can use it in their shows.
And now someone has: Opinionated Ramblings has played the song this week. The show’s site is located here.
To be honest, I was never much of a “Miami Vice” fan when it was on TV. Even as a teenager, it was apparent to me that it was trying way too hard and that, frankly, it was all pretty silly.
Well, Michael Mann grew up and his characters put on socks. And in probably an inevitable move, he came back to “Miami Vice.” The film incarnation
does not have much of a connection to the television series, for good or for ill, but more of a successor to “Heat,” “Ronin” and “Collateral,” with insanely gorgeous (digital video) cinematography is its biggest asset.
Worth a watch for Michael Mann’s modern film work. It’ll probably just be frustrating for hardcore fans of the television show, though.
The bad news is that this is only part of season six, so the payoff to all the plot lines isn’t there, and the set just sort of … ends.
The good news is that there’s been a ton of great set-up for the end of the season and if the payoff is half as good as the set-up, season six, in its entirety, will definitely be a series high water mark.
And it’s not that there aren’t great stories told in this half of the season, either. In particular, Vito finally takes center stage and the Soprano family’s relationship with the New York mob takes several violent twists.
As an incomplete season, this DVD set is unsatisfying in that so many plot threads are left dangling. If this is the kind of thing that will bother you (it seems to bother a lot of people), wait on the next DVD set being released before picking this up.
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