friday night lights

i'm almost embarrassed to admit how much marg and i like this show. it is an ensemble piece w/ an almost soap opera type series of plotlines but it is genuine and authentic and never condescends to the characters. proof of how good it is rests in the fact that margaret loathes, abhors, hates football and not only is cheering for the team (on the show) but last week she let slip that she was starting to have the teeniest bit of appreciation for the sport. a major coup in my book. check it.

king of kong: a fistful of quarters

mm and i finally saw this and it's real good. a documentary about two men battling for the highest score in donkey kong but really about more than that. even mom and dad will like this.

girls in trucks

this is not the sort of fiction i normally read or gravitate to. i guess they call it 'chick lit' but that sound pejorative, doesnt' it? anyway, i went to duke young writer's camp w/ the author way back when. it's not a great book per se but it's a good read and a good debut. check it.

together

watched this the other day.
hilarious and awesome
check it

no end in sight

great. depressing but great.

rocket science

granted this is an indie movie that suffers initially from a surfeit of cleverness and self-aware hip teens and some unnecessary (in my opinion) narration but after awhile i really grew to dig this movie. kind of tender and heartwarming and original.

shortcomings by a. tomine

just read this. it's real good. quick read. we actually got to see him talk a little while at wordstock in november.

legacy of ashes

been reading this lately. pretty comprehensive and cements the notion that everything the cia touches turns in to a collosal goat-f**k. i feared that it would be too dry but author writes real well and keeps things moving. however, it does not instill confidence in our country, our country's leaders, our country's history since WW 2. man oh man. italy, greece, korea, guatamala, iran, indonesia. one massive trainwreck after another. covert ops, briefcases of money, coup's, elections bought, sold, manufactured, controlled thru misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, radio free europe etc. I haven't even gotten to cuba yet.

update:
i've arrived at cuba. boy oh boy

Twin Peaks, tv series

been watching this on dvd. it was awesome way back when and it's awesome now.
at least it is so far. we're only a couple episodes in to season 1. season 2 is a bit less sucessful if memory serves