i agree re Eurythmics for sure….and even perry a bit who i thought was perfectly ok.

hear hear. i am still teaching these songs to 9 and 10 year olds….no other band comes close to having such a monumental impact on pretty much everyone.

no other band has ever spanned generations the way the beatles do. it's simply astonishing and it will never happen again. let's just say i don't expect a gigantic nationally televised kanye tribute concert in 2050.

i think singing the actual melody was a lesson that most of the singers could have followed better. the beatles were masters of melody first and foremost. once that gets wavery the whole thing teeters. annie lennox pretty much nailed the melody of fool on the hill even when it pushed her range….and only let…

ha! touche.

i'm in the same boat. Even in a show which flaunts the unattractive elements of it's characters she takes it to an entirely other level of annoying. I think fiction should be completely free (and even encouraged) to focus on less than "perfect" characters (ugly, selfish, violent, amoral, and even outright…

reasonable perspective.

seriously….even as a fictional conceit she is over the top for the tone of the show. it reached a peak of "slapstick annoying" this ep that was unbearable.

hanna's just lucky her boss didn't kick her ass out of the building on general principals since as she said there are plenty more would be writers in NYC who would kill for that cushy job.

not to mention that it does not look like a very intense job, which means it should leave plenty of time/energy for her to write and still have a good paycheck. total win imo.

grateful in the mode of "i'd be broke without this job….it arrived just in time to save me! whew!" rather than being grateful to another person, god, fate, etc. so just good old selfish grateful rather than the nice kind.

it's definitely a real thing….it just felt way to early in the trajectory for me. living in expensive NYC off coffee shop tips even somebody with serious artistic ambition would be delighted with those nice GQ paychecks…at least for a while (or whatever an episode time period is). i also think it would have taken a…

really? i thought this was a documentary.

when i saw the trailer all i could think of was that clooney just made it as an excuse to hang with a fun cast, similarly to oceans 13 or what have you. as a movie it looks pretty darn cheesy.

children of men on a tv budget…brilliant.

i understand the work/art conflict "thing" but it felt insanely accelerated in this ep, even for a tv show. you would think that she would just be grateful for the job (or any real job) for at least another episode or so.

the show continues with a simple top notch visual and sonic aesthetic. hbo does it right.

treme may have no plot but when i think about it….it has more than it's share of truly memorable characters.

thanks for the heads up….had not even heard of this show. definitely a twilight zone for the digital age….

i just checked out a studio track…super tight produced modern kind of sound with plenty of electronic elements, polished vocal harmonies, etc. very professional operation.