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.
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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.
The Big Bang Theory – “Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock!” Need I say more?
The Amazing Race – The tasks are more fun and challenging, but the scenery alone is worth the watch!
* Friday Night Lights’ Taylor Kitsch. Sweetest bad boy in prime time.
Top Chief- Cooking up the finale- hootie-hoo!
BSG- Who will be the 13th cyclon? Ellen mentioned there was another model besides the 5 that was boxed. Daniel. 13 cyclons? 13 lost tribes?
Lost- Back on the island, now what?
The 81st Oscars! Hugh Jackman! David Rockwell, Bill Condon! A thoroughly enjoyable presentation- classy yet fun- I’m still rewatching clips. An awards show that was live entertainment with new relevant ways of honoring filmmaking. Cheers for thinking outside the box.(I could go on and on- Tina and Steve! James Franco contemplating James Franco! Honoring each nominee with a past winner! Reflecting the video screens in the highgloss floor a la itunes! The recession set pieces in the opening!…) Can’t wait to see what they do next year if they continue in this fashion.
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12! This one’s GOT to be the cycle where they find a winner that will actually be legit in the industry, right? Right?
Call it seasonal-affective, but I’ve been coping with the harsh winter weather by listening to somber tunes from The Knife and Fever Ray. A cathartic, chilling, and essential February soundtrack.
Stephanie March’s return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. ADA Alexandra Cabot is a hottie and a half, and she rules the courtroom.
My three musts of the week are probably similiar to a lot of other peoples:
81st Academy Awards
American Idol semi-finals
Friday Night Lights
My musts for this week:
–’Kill Your Friends’ by John Niven. An absolutely hilarious (potty-mouthed and seriously dark) novel from the British author about a man trying to make it in the music industry. I couldn’t put it down.
–Slumdog Millionaire. I don’t care how sick you are of reading about it, there hasn’t been this much (legitimate) hype about a movie since the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies.
–Bag of Toys album ‘Afternooner’. Fantastic album I had the pleasure of reviewing. It’s like the music of the Long Beach Dub All-Stars (band created by the remaining Sublime members) and the themes from Jack Johnson had a child. A gifted child.
“Funny People” trailer. Adam Sandler is funny, Eric Bana looks hot and all in all, seems like this could be the most sentimental comedy we have seen in a long time.
Michel Gondry directing The Green Hornet starring Seth Rogen. Sounds like an usual director/actor pairing making an awesome movie.
My Musts:
The Millionaire Matchmaker-Though the dates don’t always turn out as expected, it’s a lot of fun to watch clueless rich folks put their love lives into Patti’s able hands.
The impending Watchmen premiere-The midnight showing will inevitably be one of the movie highlights of my year. Really, one of the highlights, period.
The Slumdog kids at the Oscars-It was pure joy to see the young scene-stealers on the red carpet alongside their incredible castmates and crew.
kyle xy: only three more left!!!
kate winslet finally getting an oscar
big love’s awesomeness
the fact that heroes is getting really goodslumdog millionare dance
1)Patricia Clarkson- Elevates any movie she is in….see trailer for Phoebe in Wonderland
2)Phoebe in Wonderland- A great looking trailer with unique visuals/storyline….and of course Elle Fanning and Patricia Clarkson
4) Natalie Portman- The Next Audrey Hepburn (see oscar dress for visual proof)
Kate Winslet finally winning an Oscar! Dollhouse, and Joss finally being back on TV! Kate Vernon on Battlestar!
1)Friday Night Lights
2)Friday Night Lights
3)Friday Night Lights!!!!!!!!
its the best damn show in TV and if it doesn’t get picked up for the 4th season i’m gonna be so pissed! haha
1) “Funny People” trailer
2) “Kyle XY”
3) “Chuck”