MOVIES: “Watchmen”: Anticipated (and dreaded) this adaptation of one of my favorite books ever. Not a masterpiece, but its damn good. You can bet that a lot of dudes this Halloween will be dressing up as Rorschach. Plus, people will be dressing down less to play Dr. Manhattan (yea, it’s a bad pun).
TV: “Battlestar Galactica”: Already dreading the end of this show.
“Breaking Bad”: An intense and darkly comic show about a teacher riddled with cancer who goes into meth making. The first season is now on DVD, and the second season just started on AMC. One of my favorite new shows on television.
“24”: Bill Buchanan, we hardly knew ye. Unfortunately, he knew Jack Bauer, which pretty much gets your toetag prepared in advance.
DVD: “Miracle at St. Anna”: Spike Lee’s WWII movie doesn’t really work for me. The performances are off a bit, some scenes go on longer than they should (let alone exist), and in the end, it’s drowning in melodrama. No need to rush to see this one.
“The French Connection”: One of the best cop movies ever just came back into my view.
MUSIC: U2, “No Line on The Horizon”: A nice hodgepodge of experimentation and classic U2. Enjoyed this one more than their last album, which is still better than the granulated crap that passes for most pop music these days.
“Henry Rollins on KCRW” (kcrw.com): One of my favorite radio music shows ever is now on another online radio station, but it’s all good. A great mixtape of tunes from all over the place.
