In honor of SMITH Magazine’s new book, Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak By Writers Famous & Obscure, I’ve decided to conduct this week’s Must List in six-word memoir form: Short life stories are my Must.
From the same people who brought you last year’s compilation of very brief autobiographies called Not Quite What I Was Planning (Stephen Colbert: ”Well, I thought it was funny.”), the new book focuses on the age-old puzzle of love and its related problems with memoirs that are clever, earnest, sad, and funny. A surprising amount are technology-related: ”Will always follow you. On Twitter.” ”Met him online. Blogged our divorce.” ”If I get Chlamydia, blame MySpace.”
I was going to make a joke about RSS feeds condensing blogs like the memoirs condense people’s life stories, but it didn’t work. Pretend I said something clever, okay? That’s six words, so you can count it as a memoir, too.
What’s on your Must List this week? Share your picks below — and don’t worry, they can be more than six words. List up to three items from current TV/movies/music/books/games/online. Don’t forget your e-mail address, in case we decide to use your submission in the magazine. Deadline is Thursday, Feb. 26, at noon ET.
Heroes!! It has really started to redeem itself… and looks like it is going to even get a whole lot better.
Bring back the weekly Recaps! If Grey’s has one, come on!!
– “Chuck” – This season just keeps getting better and better. Jeffster!’s cover of Toto’s ‘Africa’ at the end of the most recent episode was the high point of my week.
– Jesse Plemons on “Friday Night Lights” – Because who doesn’t love Landry?
– ‘Rasl’ Volume 1, by Jeff Smith – The man behind ‘Bone’ has done it again with a new comic book saga, this time for decidedly older readers.
-The 81st Oscars. To me, this had to be the best telecast in a while. Hugh Jackman brought an infectious energy to the show, but the best parts were the best/best supporting actor/actress presentations by previous winners. What a great tribute to this year’s nominees! Why haven’t they done this before?
I can’t go a day without getting my fix of jezebel.com. The Jezebels talk politics, books, movies, wayward starlets, and pretty pretty clothes, all in their unique witty feministic way! I love, and it’s a must!
My must… Breaking out into the “Slumdog Millionaire” dance at random time, especially when strangers recognize what I’m doing!
Howard Fineman, a commentator on MSNBC. He used to, um, rinse, I guess to look younger on camera, but looked like a middle-aged guy anyway, but with orange hair. Now he’s graying gracefully, and I can listen to him speak without thinking, OMG, what’s he thinking with that hair?
LIFE ON MARS: had one of the best lines ever. Harvey Ketiel talking about when he first met his wife “she was the type of woman God made when Mr.s God wasn’t looking”
LOST: This whole season has been amazing.
WATCHMEN: I couldn’t be more excited about this movie, more so then he Dark Knight.
Flight of the Conchords! Great show, funny songs and it needs to be in your magazine.
I am loving Chuck right now, and how sad is it that this week it couldn’t get past 6 million viewers? It is consistently funny and heart-wrenching and satisfies my spy-show-quota, and I have no idea what to do to get more people to watch it. Free smoothies? Zachary Levi to show up at kids’ birthday parties? More gratuitous Sarah + lingerie + slo-mo scenes?
This underrated mega-awesome show deserves more viewers. At least more than Ghost Whisperer…seriously?!
Dollhouse — the pilot wasn’t perfect, but it was very promising. And it certainly is the most original and non-derivative new show out there. Plus the second episode was a vast improvement, sporting a tight story, lots of character development, lots of Whedonesque dialogue (“Four brothers. None of the Democrats.”) and strong performances. I can’t wait for the rest of the season. Plus, how haunting is that theme song?
My musts this week, hmmm…watch Idol, watch last Sunday’sFlight of the Conchords- it’s STILL genius, make an awesome meatloaf for dinner….plan my Spring Break and Summer vacations, oh yeah- and remind all of my friends how amazing they all are via Facebook!
Street Fighter IV – because HADUKEN!
Big Love on HBO – because with season 3, the show’s really hit it’s stride and become a weekly Can’t Miss show!
Amadeus Director’s Cut on Blu-Ray – One of the best Best Picture winners of all time gets the Hi-Def treatment in a very attractive coffee table edition!
Reaper is coming back!
I love my cable shows!
Leverage- This week’s season finale was great and I can’t wait for the show to come back this summer.
Burn Notice- I can’t believe the season’s almost over already. Burn Notice has the best narration on TV, a step-by-step guide to being your own badass spy.
The Closer- Whenever someone adds Amy Sedaris to the guest star roster, an angel gets its wings.
Lost–The Oceanic Six (well, most of them) are back and the show is better than ever. And this week we find out about Jeremy Bentham.