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Sunday, September 4, 2011

My Fall TV Picks

Wow does time fly or what?  The fall TV season is already here!  I've gone through the schedule of new shows and picked the ones I'm looking forward to.  By no means is this any kind of prediction for which ones are going to last or a review blog.  It's just the series premieres that I'm looking forward to.  


Free Agents


Premieres September 14th at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT and will air Wednesday nights at 8:30/7:30 CT on NBC starting September 21st. 




Based on the British comedy series of the same name, it follows the lives of two public relations executives, a recently divorced guy and a woman trying to move on after the death of her fiancee, who discover that they seem to have an attraction for each other, even after having slept together during a drunk-filled one night stand, while at the same time trying to stay professional at work, where their friends will do anything to get them to re-enter the dating scene.


New Girl


Premieres September 20th and will air Tuesday nights on Fox at 9/8 central.




The show will star Zooey Deschanel as Jessica "Jess" Day, a well-liked, bubbly, and adorable woman in her late 20s who is trying to get over her surprise breakup with her model boyfriend. She eventually finds a new place to stay when she moves in with three single guys, who try to help her learn about love, life and herself, while at the same time learn a lot about themselves.


Person Of Interest


Premieres September 22nd and will air Thursday nights on CBS at 9/8 central.




Based on a screenplay by J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan the show, which stars Michael EmersonJim Caviezel and Taraji P. Henson follows a mysterious billionaire who has developed a computer program that predicts the identity of a person connected to a violent crime that will take place some time in the future. However, the program has its limitations: for example, it cannot predict whether the person will be a victim, perpetrator, or witness, nor can it predict when or where the crime will take place. 


Pan Am


Premieres September 25th and will air Sunday nights on ABC at 10/9 central.




Is centered around the iconic airline Pan American World Airways during the 1960s. The period drama, from writer Jack Orman (ER) and director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), will focus on the pilots and flight attendants working for the world-famous airline in 1963.


Terra Nova


Premieres September 26th and will air Monday nights on Fox at 8/7 central.




The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction. In an effort to save the human race, scientists develop a time machine allowing people to travel 85 million years back in time to prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. However, they are unaware that it's in the middle of a group of carnivorous dinosaurs.


Grimm


Premieres October 21st and will air Friday nights on NBC at 9/8 central.




Set in present-day Portland, Oregon, the series puts a new twist on the stories of the Brothers Grimm in which a homicide detective learns that he is a descendent of a group of hunters known as "Grimms", who fight to keep humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. Upon learning of his destiny and that he is the last of his kind, he has to protect every living soul from the sinister storybook characters that have infiltrated the real world.


Once Upon A Time


Premieres October 23rd and will air Sunday nights on ABC at 8/7 central.




The series is loosely inspired by the classic fairy tale stories except set in the present day. The stories hold a key to the mystery that will draw a bail bonds collector and the son that she gave up for adoption 10 years earlier to a New England town called Storybrooke, Maine. This town is actually a parallel world in which fairy tale characters look like normal people and don't remember their true identities or anything about their true lives.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

DD Download - Thieves and Villains


Thieves and Villains are an American indie rock band from the Hudson Valley region of New York who have one album out (2008's Movement) and are about to release another, South America, on August 3rd.


These guys remind me of a more over the top version of My Chemical Romance with the lyrical sensibility of Coheed and Cambria.  Their music is really fun to listen to!


Below is the first single from the new album called "Virginia Woolf."






Monday, June 7, 2010

Eating My "Apple" Words


A few months ago I wrote a blog which was basically a bash against Apple for it's closed ecosystem and how Google's Android OS and their apps marketplace was so much more open to consumers and developers.  Pretty much it made it sound Like I'd never be getting a Steve Jobs branded product.


But...... after watching today's presentation introducing the new iPhone 4, I REALLY, REALLY WANT ONE!


Everything was fine, up until they announced the camera specs, and being an amateur photographer this was the hook, line and sinker.


Here are the stats.


5 megapixel.


Backside illuminated sensor.


5x digital zoom.


Led Flash.


Now, about that backside illuminated sensor.  You're probably wondering what the hell that is.  Well, according to Steve, it's a technology that has been used in higher end non-smartphone cameras for a while and allows more photons to get to the sensor, which improves the low-light sensitivity.


Another questions you may have is why they didn't go to a 8 MP camera.  Well, the higher you go on your megapixel count the smaller the pixels become and some how they've kept the same size while increasing to 5 mp.


The iPhone 4 also shoots 720p HD video at 25 frames per second.  In addition, there will be an iMovie app for $5 which will allow you to edit your video on the camera.  For radio station events that's going to be awesome!


Here are a couple of examples of pictures taken with the new camera and according to Apple they have not been retouched.




This is a sample video taken with the iPhone 4 and the remarkable part is it wasn't even shot in HD.








So there you have it.  If you're a fan of taking good pictures and don't want to carry a camera with you at all times, this might be the phone for you.


It's available starting June 24th.