Monthly Archives September 19, 2007

Ahh the morning after. It can either be as awkward as possible, or you can thrive. When you wake up, roll over and say, "Who are you?" you know you either settled for a wildabeast to break out of a slump or it was $1 pitcher night at the bar. Every guy gets that one-track mind where he'll do anything to get some and, unfortunately, alcohol makes wayyy too many females doable.

D'oh! is probably one of the most recognizable sounds in the world. This Sunday "The Simpsons" is set to begin its 19th season, just three seasons short of replacing "Gunsmoke" as the longest-running television show. What started out as a short on "The Tracy Ullman's Show" has become the definition of Middle America.

Conspiracy, blackmail, bloodshed and tears. No, I am not describing a typical night at my townhouse. I'm talking about the brand new season of "Prison Break," which kicked off this past Monday. The third season of the Fox smash hit came back after a long, overdue hiatus, with close to six months since the previous season ended.

There is a game that I used to play with my friends. We would try to speak only using the lyrics of a song. For example, I would say, "Brandy she's a fine," and my friend would reply, "What a good wife she would be." The conversations rarely made sense, but it was more of an exercise to see if we could remember all the lyrics. o see if we could remember all the lyrics. Julie Taymor's "Across the Universe" is an expansion of this game creating an entire film around Beatles songs. The musical uses only Beatles songs performed by the cast, much like the hit pop-culture musical "Moulin Rouge."

I stopped by New Haven to check out The Starting Line. The band played before a packed crowd in the very intimate Toad's Place. Hitting the stage around 9:30 p.m., the group jumped into its explosive 15-song set. Five songs from the set list were taken from the band's newest album release, "Direction," which may be one of the most impressive of all.

Greetings, once again to old readers and welcome to new readers! Comic Book Boy here again and making some changes for this year. I will still be reporting about the best books in the superhero domain, but I'm also going to spend a fair chunk of time talking about the best indie books.

How do music artists today battle continuously-dropping album sales? The answer is quite simple: They get together, mastermind a feud and release their highly-anticipated albums on the same exact day. Throw in a threat to retire if one artist outsells the other, and the world goes into frenzy.

It was not too long ago that Eric Donnelly and Tim Warren were partying at Fairfield. Now, the duo is a part of the rock band Alternate Routes, and their music has been featured in such places as the MTV reality show "The Hills." The group's most recent album "Good and Reckless and True" has enjoyed a nice showing on the music stage, and the group plans to release a new album soon.

In this weeks roundup, the men's basketball team snagged two recruits, the volleyball team went 1-1 in conference, men's cross country finished in ninth place and women's tennis played in one of the largest tournaments in the country.

Men's soccer dominates this weeks 3 x 5, but three sports editors also give their insights into women's soccer, field hockey and the great debate over what professional sports to watch this fall.