HalfSquare.net » Entertainment http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress Caught Between Being Cool and Being Square Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:31:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 MUSIC: New Releases for October 12, 2009 http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress/2009/10/15/music-new-releases-for-october-12-2009/ http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress/2009/10/15/music-new-releases-for-october-12-2009/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:12:45 +0000 Eric Hancsak http://www.halfsquare.net/?p=298 Bob Dylan
Christmas In The Heart

The Flaming Lips
Embryonic

Joan Baez
 How Sweet The Sound

Los Lonely Boys
1969

Grant Lee Phillips
Little Moon

Brian Setzer
Songs From Lonely Avenue

Check out the video for The Flaming Lips – “I Can Be A Frog”

More at HalfSquareTV…

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As a music-loving parent myself, I find Caspar’s debut release “Here I Am,” to be as fun for me as it is for my son. Chock full of two minute sing-a-longs, “Here I Am” is a joy to listen to – over and over and over again – as I’m sure many young ones require.

]]> http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress/2009/08/27/caspar-babypants-music-for-kids-and-grownups-too/feed/ 0 TV SHOW REVIEW: Hung (HBO, Sundays @ 10p) http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress/2009/07/06/tv-show-review-hung-hbo-sundays-10p/ http://www.halfsquare.net/wordpress/2009/07/06/tv-show-review-hung-hbo-sundays-10p/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:52:48 +0000 Eric Hancsak http://www.halfsquare.net/?p=249 You are an underpaid high school basketball coach. Your wife left you for a rich, nerdy dermatologist. Your kids won’t listen to you – one of whom, the son, is into Goth and wears makeup and nail polish. The house you just moved into burned down. You are now living in a tent behind said house. You have no direction or prospects. But at least you have a really big penis.

This is the life of Ray Drecker (played by Thomas Jane). After his wife Jessica (played by Anne Heche) leaves him, and his house burns down, he meets friend, and former one-night-stand, Tanya (played by Jane Adams) at a get-rich class. After another night together, in anger Tanya tells Ray to “go market your penis!” He takes her suggestion to heart and becomes a male escort. Unfortunately for Ray, his first client changes her mind. At least she gives him $50 for his trouble. Rock bottom ensues.

Hung is way more than just an endless stream of tallywacker jokes. It’s a well written comedy with a dry witted dark side and a heart.

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American Dust Central

Maxwell
BLACKsummers’night

Marcy Playground
Leaving Wonderland…In A Fit Of Rage

Barack Obama
Days Of Hope (speech)

The Jayhawks
Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology

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Wilco (The Album)

Rob Thomas
cradlesong

Moby
Wait For Me

Levon Helm
Electric Dirt

Wilco perform “Wilco (The Song)”  from new album, live…

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Crack The Skye

Indigo Girls
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug

Pearl Jam
Ten (deluxe addition)

Winton Marsalis
He and She 

Watch Mastodon’s video for “Divinations”…

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The Hazards of Love

Branford Marsalis Quartet
Metamorphosen 

Willie Nelson
Naked Willie

Nick Lowe
 Quite Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
 Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is

Watch Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears perform “Sugarfoot”…

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Scream

Madeleine Peyroux
Bare Bones

Steve Earle
Live at the BBC

Taylor Hicks
The Distance 

> See Chris Cornell’s video for Scream at HalfSquareTV on YouTube

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No Line On The Horizon

Béla Fleck:
Throw Down Your Heart, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sesssions 

Neko Case:
Middle Cyclone 

Itzhak Perlman:
Joplin: Rag-Time Music; Previn: A Different Kind of Blues 

Watch U2 perform new tracks “Breathe” and “Get On Your Boots” …

 

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