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1. The Go Find, “Dictionary.” 2. The Flaming Lips, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Almost too pointillistically accurate until it gets into the “Beshmillah!” section, then it will remind you of those uber-demonic vocal arrangements Dave Fridmann and the boys put together during the Priest-Driven... Read More

Hello world! June 20, 2007 Welcome to Blog.newsok.com. This is your first post. Read More

Adventures in Ancient Meat-Rock June 13, 2007 Any way you don’t want it First came its revival on MTV’s “Laguna Beach” a couple of years ago, then the song was chosen to abruptly end the most revered television drama of our time. For a relic from the days when giant beetle-shaped warships were considered perfectly fine album art material,... Read More

The Chase Scene June 12, 2007 David Chase Alan Sepinwall at the Newark Star-Ledger scored an interview with David Chase, but the “Sopranos” creator is keeping mum on his intentions regarding the cut to black at the end. The ball is clearly in our court. Find it here. Read More

Don’t Stop — On Second Thought… June 11, 2007 This morning, I watched a particularly moronic report on CNN’s “American Morning” offering ill-informed analysis of the Sopranos “Made in America” finale. Much of it focused on viewer reaction to the episode, which was anedotally hostile toward the abrupt ending, and Kiran Chetry’s superficial comments... Read More

Video: Crime, Wrongdoing, Evil and Sin June 08, 2007 Read More

Born Under a Bad Sign With a Blue Moon In Your Eyes June 05, 2007 This weekend marks the end of possibly the greatest series in the history of television. On Thursday, join me along with managing editors Mike Shannon and Joe Hight and metro editor Kathryn McNutt for a special “sit-down” podcast in honor of the final episode of “The Sopranos.” The body count in last... Read More

I’m Listening to the Worst Song I’ve Head This Year May 31, 2007 Back in 1990, I was solidly in the Madchester camp and had the floppy hair to go with it, and so “Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches” by Happy Mondays was standard listening — it was twisting my melon, man, and while the disc is more of a time capsule of Tony Wilson-led Hacienda excess and doesn’t really... Read More

First Response: The White Stripes, “Icky Thump” May 29, 2007 I’m possibly in the minority on this one, but I don’t consider 2005′s “Get Behind Me Satan” that much of an outlier in the White Stripes catalog — I would rather a band do exactly what it wants rather than settle into a pro-forma stylistic march that merely gives people what they expect. Real White... Read More

For All Your Buddy Hackett and Oingo Boingo Needs May 25, 2007 Thanks to Idolator, a magnificent clip of Oingo Boingo winning “The Gong Show” in 1976. This, of course, proves the direct link between So-Cal po-mo godliness and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. Want to be the greatest film composer of your generation? Run around in a papier-mache spaceship. Of course, all... Read More

Good Site. Nice Work. May 23, 2007 Yes, spam is being vomited all over this blog, but the times are about to change. A software update sometime in the next week should correct this issue. Then, maybe all those “Good Site. Nice Work” messages from “Citizen Watches,” “Winged Sandals” and “Mandy Moore” will end, though Mandy can... Read More

CBS Upfronts: Status Quo with a Few Minor Adjustments May 17, 2007 CBS is No.1 these days mainly because the vast majority of its programming follows the path of least resistance: procedural dramas rule the roost at the Tiffany, and the sitcoms are all traditional, four-camera set-ups. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: “How I Met Your Mother” is consistently well written... Read More

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Skating Polly - Lost Wonderfuls

Delo Creative produced this video for the title track of Skating Polly's new album, "Lost Wonderfuls," which was produced by Exene Cervenka with engineering by Kliph Scurlock.