choice things for: November 2004

Black Box Voting.org See also: Evidence Mounts that the Vote was Hacked		Punchline Starring Sally Field, John Goodman, and Tom Hanks. It's like Norma Rae meets Last Comic Standing set in the visceral early 80's NYC. Directed & written by the same fellow who wrote Willy Wonka, the Omen, Lucas, and Bird on a Wire. How sick is that?
Cute Couples Barak Obama & Jim McGreevy and Tina Fey & Amy Poehler. Because they rule the school. See also: Obama jam.		Arrested Development Season 2 premieres this month and S1 is available on dvd! The Fonz is Gay! We are all so lucky.   See also: Porta Rossi's amazing hair

choice things for: October 2004

Veronica Mars Tuesdays, 9pm UPN A great new show in a very Twin Peaks-ish (not art-wank but everyone in the town has a sordid tale waiting to be unearthed) + Buffy (snappy dialogue + girl hero) sort of way. Enjoy it before the plebeian masses demand it be cancelled to make room for a Summerland spin-off.		Greendale soundtrack Neil Young's directorial debut, shot on super 8 and dialogue performed entirely by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Sort of like a folk rock opera.
Cintra Wilson Colors Insulting to Nature All-around brazen lass, Cintra Wilson's first novel. Also check out her obscenely good A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Cripping Disease and Other Pop Culture Revelations (it's a bit more cheerful than it sounds).		Shaun of the Dead A touchingly honest and hilarious romantic comedy set during an apocalyptic zombie siege.