Pretty Boring Stuff...Redux

[matthew]

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home - Part 1
     Bob Dylan participates for the first time in an exclusive, full-length film biography. From his explosive arrival on the downtown New York City scene in 1961 - with a raspy voice, pounding guitar and stunning lyrics - through his near-fatal motorcycle accident in Woodstock in 1966, no one had more of an impact and no one changed the landscape of contemporary music more profoundly. Private, almost reclusive, disdainful of customary forms of publicity, Dylan has now agreed to make an appearance in his own story, illuminated in particular by this remarkable five-year period. Directed by Martin Scorsese, this intimate and incomparable film includes an archive of never-before-seen footage from childhood, from the road and from backstage, as well as unreleased interviews conducted over the past 15 years with other seminal figures from those times - some of whom, like Allan Ginsberg, are long dead. And, Dylan brings the rights to his legendary music with him - "Blowin' in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Don't Think Twice," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Just Like a Woman," "Positively 4th Street," "The Times They Are A-Changin'" - and on and on.

Rated TVPG-L, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Saturday, September 22 at 9:30 pm (R)


Part 2
Saturday, September 29 at 9:30 pm

[matthew]

I totally forgot those which I posted above.


Michael Apted's 49 is on PBS tonight

[Just Some Girl]

I totally forgot those which I posted above.


Michael Apted's 49 is on PBS tonight

I caught that a few weeks ago. People are starting to decline further interviews. And unless I didn't see the whole thing (and I thought I did), there's no sign of Neil in this one. Oops, spoiler alert.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I totally forgot those which I posted above.


Michael Apted's 49 is on PBS tonight

I haven't seen 49 yet...And I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen 42 yet either.

I saw 35, uh, 14 years ago.  And then when they released them all on DVD a year or so ago, I watched 7,14,21, and 28, like, over the course of a week.

I don't recommend doing that at all because they do too much rehash.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I totally forgot those which I posted above.


Michael Apted's 49 is on PBS tonight

I caught that a few weeks ago. People are starting to decline further interviews. And unless I didn't see the whole thing (and I thought I did), there's no sign of Neil in this one. Oops, spoiler alert.

Ooh, I'ma slapp ya!

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Did anyone ever watch 14 Up in America?

It wasn't too good, but you have to give these projects time.

...But 21 Up in America was shown over a year ago and seems to have no distribution.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

The Nova episode about the samurai sword is also playing all this week.

Forget about the War.  This is the item on PBS's fall scheduled that's been tickling my anticipation.

[matthew]

Next couple of Austin City Limitses....including tonight.

Were there any Decemberist fans in the house? I don't believe I have ever even heard them. I actually like the new EITS album somewhat, but was bored to fucking tears when I saw them live recently. I assume they were playing stuff from the new album when I saw them (for Eluvium opening), but what it sounded like was shit and nothing like the album - so I am curious if they can manage to not sound like shit. Their early albums reek quite heavily of the post-rock cliches that I cannot bear to sit through, and that is more what they sounded like live. Like a bunch of self-satisfied guitar wankers with too many pedals and not enough rock.

There is plenty of "pretty noodlin' on the album and over-the-top dramatic crescendos, but it featured actual 'dynamics', which the show lacked entirely. They would noodle along for twenty minutes and lose the moment to break into the heavier bit. It was painful to watch. Still, it sucked a whole lot less than the band wedged between them and Eluvium.

October 13, 2007: The Decemberists followed by Explosions in the Sky
October 20, 2007: Femi Kuti
October 27, 2007: Tribute to Bluesman Jimmy Reed
November 3, 2007: Wilco

[matthew]

Good Ol' Charles Schulz
     This is a quintessentially Midwestern story of an unassuming, self-doubting man who, through expressing his unique view of the world, redefined the comic art form. His genius lay in depicting the daily collisions of insiders and outsiders, of mundane cruelties and transcendent hopes - seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. The "Peanuts" cast of characters is as familiar to us as our own siblings; their trials and tribulations speak of our families and evoke our childhood desperations. They are portrayed with whimsy and poignancy - and always with love and tolerance, each representing different facets of Schulz' personality and his perspectives on 20th-century America.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Monday, October 29 at 9 pm
Tuesday, October 30 at 1 am
Tuesday, October 30 at 3 am
Sunday, November 4 at 1 am
Sunday, November 4 at 2 pm

[matthew]

Can you have "classics" when your band is only a decade or so old?        


Wilco
     The ever-evolving Wilco returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, performing classics and cuts from its latest disk, Sky Blue Sky.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Saturday, November 3 at 10 pm     

     The Arcade Fire
     Canadian indie rock marvel Arcade Fire brings its powerful artistic melodrama to the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage in celebration of its acclaimed second album, The Neon Bible.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Saturday, November 10 at 10 pm

Paolo Nutini/Grupo Fantasma
     U.K. sensation Paolo Nutini debuts with soulful pop songs from his hit album These Streets. Austin's Grupo Fantasma throws down with the high energy Latin funk it's taken to stages across the country.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Saturday, November 17 at 11 pm

RETURN TO TOP

[Sabamah]

Good Ol' Charles Schulz
     This is a quintessentially Midwestern story of an unassuming, self-doubting man who, through expressing his unique view of the world, redefined the comic art form. His genius lay in depicting the daily collisions of insiders and outsiders, of mundane cruelties and transcendent hopes - seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. The "Peanuts" cast of characters is as familiar to us as our own siblings; their trials and tribulations speak of our families and evoke our childhood desperations. They are portrayed with whimsy and poignancy - and always with love and tolerance, each representing different facets of Schulz' personality and his perspectives on 20th-century America.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Monday, October 29 at 9 pm
Tuesday, October 30 at 1 am
Tuesday, October 30 at 3 am
Sunday, November 4 at 1 am
Sunday, November 4 at 2 pm

did anybody watch this? it was great. i've always been a huge peanuts fan, but this brought the strip into a whole new light. (duh statement, i suppose)

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Good Ol' Charles Schulz
     This is a quintessentially Midwestern story of an unassuming, self-doubting man who, through expressing his unique view of the world, redefined the comic art form. His genius lay in depicting the daily collisions of insiders and outsiders, of mundane cruelties and transcendent hopes - seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. The "Peanuts" cast of characters is as familiar to us as our own siblings; their trials and tribulations speak of our families and evoke our childhood desperations. They are portrayed with whimsy and poignancy - and always with love and tolerance, each representing different facets of Schulz' personality and his perspectives on 20th-century America.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Monday, October 29 at 9 pm
Tuesday, October 30 at 1 am
Tuesday, October 30 at 3 am
Sunday, November 4 at 1 am
Sunday, November 4 at 2 pm

did anybody watch this? it was great. i've always been a huge peanuts fan, but this brought the strip into a whole new light. (duh statement, i suppose)

I recorded it, but haven't watched it yet.

[Sabamah]

*SPOILER ALERT*

charles schulz totally dies at the end.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Ooh, I'ma slapp ya!

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Wilco
     The ever-evolving Wilco returns to AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, performing classics and cuts from its latest disk, Sky Blue Sky.

Rated TVG, Closed Captioned, In Stereo
Saturday, November 3 at 10 pm

I feel like I got Rick Rolled.

It turned out to be Train.