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Transhcan Sinatras - Midnight at the Troubadour
21 Jan 2007 at 10:50pm
Highly Recommended

THE SHOW:

Scottish quintet the Trashcan Sinatras has been one of my favorite bands since their first album came out in 1990. I lived in Southern California at the time, and their singles “Obscurity Knocks” and “Only Tongue Can Tell” were in regular rotation on KROQ and were even getting some airtime on MTV. Their music was beautifully melodic and the lyrics inspired debates among fans trying to untangle their clever, twisted wordplay. Sassy Magazine at the time even put them in their Cute Band Alert. Unfortunately, despite the artistic growth of their next two albums, they suffered from diminishing commercial returns. Their 1996 album never got released in the United States, and most people thought the band faded. I was among a small group of loyalists on the …Read the entire review

I Dream of Jeannie - The Complete Third Season
21 Jan 2007 at 10:50pm
Recommended

Always thought of as the slightly declasse cousin of tony, glamorous Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie was a bright, bouncy, colorful little comedy on NBC from 1965 to 1970, that told the story of astronaut Major Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman) and his real-life genie in a bottle, Jeannie (Barbara Eden). While Bewitched grabbed the critical and public acclaim for dreamy, romantic Elizabeth Montgomery’s trials and tribulations as a married witch living in the suburbs (with a husband who didn’t like her witchcraft), I Dream of Jeannie was often belittled for being a crude, blatant knock-off of the more successful witch sitcom (even though it was more closely based on the feature film, The Brass Bottle, with Tony Randall, Burl Ives, and Barbara Eden). I Dream of Jeannie never had the intial public adoration that Bewitched enjoyed during its network run (…Read the entire review

Captain N The Game Master - The Complete Series
21 Jan 2007 at 8:32pm
Rent It

The Show:

When gamers say that Nintendo dominated the late 1980’s and early 90’s they aren’t kidding. The Super Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda got their own TV shows and The Wizard was released as a glorified commercial for Super Mario Brothers 3. It’s pretty hard to deny Nintendo’s ownership of the gaming industry (during that time period anyway) and as further proof of that today we’re looking at Captain N: The Game Master.

Running for a mere 34 episodes, Captain N wasn’t the smash hit that the producers were hoping for I’m sure. It began airing in September of 1989 and ended in 1991 with a total of three seasons under its Power Belt. Like many cartoons from this era this one was a 22 minute advertisement from start to finish. It was as if somebody took all of Nintendo’s hottest titles and paraphernalia, tossed them into a blender and pressed star…Read the entire review

Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back - 65 Tour Deluxe Edition
21 Jan 2007 at 7:07pm
DVD Talk Collector Series

THE MOVIE:

D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back, a profile of Bob Dylan on his 1965 British tour, is arguably the most influential rock ‘n’ roll documentary of all time, predating even the Maysles’ Gimme Shelter and Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock. Thirty years later, Grant Gee pretty much orchestrated his Radiohead feature, Meeting People is Easy, note for note from Pennebaker. Ironically, given the movie’s title, Don’t Look Back is a film that deserves to be revisited every couple of years. While the movie has been on DVD since 1999, this new 65 Tour Deluxe Edition is a welcome upgrade in packaging and transfer.

Make no mistake, Bob Dylan in 1965 was one cool cat. Th…Read the entire review

I Trust You to Kill Me
21 Jan 2007 at 4:41pm
Recommended

The Movie

Musicians and actors have long drifted into and out of one another’s lives — the glare of Hollywood lights mingle with the intense heat of the nightclub spotlight, sometimes with good results (Kris Kristofferson has bounced between Tinseltown and the music industry successfully for decades) and sometimes with not-so-good results (30 Seconds to Mars, anyone?). I Trust You to Kill Me is a documentary with a few things on its mind, following “24″ actor Kiefer Sutherland around Europe for a couple weeks as he serves as tour manager for up-and-coming Los Angeles rock band Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, whose professional lives are also detailed, but with an almost detached air.

After wrapping up filming on the fifth season of “24,” Sutherland and his musical proteges packed up and jetted off for a series of dates in Europe over the Christmas holiday. From drunken par…Read the entire review

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Hard Drive DVD Recorders

I have decided today to look at hard drive DVD recorders which are set to become the new standard of DVD recorder in 2007 and onwards or at least until something new in home theater land arrives.

So what is a Hard Drive DVD recorder?

Well that’s a good question so here’s the answer basically a Hard Drive DVD recorder is a combination hard drive and DVD recorder all in the one box. Typically they will offer a stylish finish in either silver or black and it seems the norm so far is a massive 160GB hard drive which in case you wondered is the equivalent of about 250 hours of recording time.

This set up allows you to record huge chunks of stuff and then if you decide to keep something you just wack it in the DVD recorder and make a copy simple really.

Most models allow you top pause live TV so no missing the crucial play in the Superbowl when you need another beer or get caught short. Don’t forget though it doesn’t freeze time so your buddys might call you with the result before you have finished watching your recording.

Here are just a few Hard Drive DVD Recorders worth checking out if you have got one of these or another brand of Hard Drive DVD recorder let us know how you are getting on with it?

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