Forget literary analysis, I’m watching Kings!!

Yeah, I really should be doing my homework. But everyone needs a break. Take a break with my favorite sort of list, my favorite tv show list!! Wait, it doesn’t end there….this is my favorite CANCELED tv show list!! I will skip over well covered territory here…

1. KINGS- This show is so striking because of its originality. It knows what it is, and aims for something grand. Beautiful, well acted, and poetic, it may seem stuck in the clouds, but you’ll want to soar with it.

2. SPORTS NIGHT- This show will make you want to love sports. And it has the most adorable bromance in tv shows about sports anchors history. Josh Charles, 1/2 of that bromance, is my new obsession. Everything he touches is gold. Even in his brief stint on the stumbling Six Degrees. In Treatment couldn’t steal all the Emmys, or else he would have been nominated.

3. BRIMSTONE- This show is notable for a subtly sexy lead, a New Orleans style violin theme, a very funny devil, and riveting moral dillemas, particularly in the first 8 or so episodes.

4. THE RICHES- Haven’t watched every episode, so maybe it got bad, but I can not for the love of God imagine how. WHY???? This show is also edgy, funny, sad drama about a family of travellers.

5. Kyle XY- Just because it was canceled JUST when it was getting really good!! In my mind Kyle chose Jessi.

6. MOONLIGHT- This is one great vampire show. Jason Dohring masters wry sarcasm.

Music is my boyfriend

My Dad sat me down to warn me the other day of the evils of multi-tasking. I would say the root of that problem is I like to constantly listen to music; in the shower, while doing homework, during commercials of my favorite shows. I have decided to focus on the tasks at hand, and give music the time it deserves. While I was cooking dinner, checking my email, and watching Defying Gravity on Hulu earlier today, I decided to step out of my multi-tasking hell for a moment. ENOUGH! Music, let’s spend some real time together.

“The Last Recluse”, The Tragically Hip

I have not checked NPR Song of the Day in weeks, and am ashamed. I mean, I don’t like actually listen to the program. Who listens to the radio anymore? (wait, apparently a lot of people). Anyway, I caught this song from the NPR show’s website, and it is excellante.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105107494
“Canary”, Liz Phair

Maybe I am stupid, but I did not realize Liz Phair emerged onto the music seen in the 90′s with an apparently BRILLIANT MINDBLOWING MUSIC CHANGING album, Exile in Guyville. I have yet to fully appreciate the album, but this song is just, well, listen I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYYCdUXqP0

“Better Run”, Army of Me

Another Kyle XY find. That show really knows how to play up its simultaneously elusive & poignant scenes with great songs. This song is worth listening to for the last minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sl9MiT9UI4

This song grew on me, like a wad of algae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwVTK10cwQ

Darn I love it.

This song soars

Kyle XY

Matt Dallas Being Angelically Cute

This summer I studied for three months for the MCATs. I now associate my basement with taking MCAT practice exams. I spent all day studying, then at night I watched hours of television on Hulu. Hey, that’s how I deal! Anyway, towards the end of the summer I started watching Kyle XY again. I had not watched it since the end of the first season. It took me about a week to watch the last two seasons. The degree of my obsession with this show is frightening. First of all, for all the people who say it was stupid, maybe it was a bit. But the show evolved in a way I have never seen a show evolve before. This show was awesome. And I LOVE Matt Dallas. The dude is just great. I heard a rumor he was gay, but I don’t know, and I don’t care. He is still talented and gorgeous! No wonder Katy Perry had him in her Thinking Of You video. The character Kyle has a strange innocence/prophet/humanity/otherworldiness to him. And I am defintely a Kyle/Jessi fan. I probably will post about the ridiculously AMAZING music on every episode of that show in my music section. I dare say as good as the music on the O.C.???