Friday Night House Party 5

Couple "Friday Night Lights" items.
Enter here for a chance to win a Friday Night Lights House party. You get a couple DVDs, some collectibles and a sneak peak at season 2.
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Bears Fan?

This will get you ready for this season.
I guess this is the extended version of a great 2006 highlight reel.
So Good.

Eventually they will get it right

This season NBC will be offering 4 of their pilots on demand for about 2 weeks before the actual premiere. The pilots for "Chuck", "Bionic Woman", "Journeyman", and "Life" will be available Sept 10th on "virtually every major cable and satellite system in the country".
This (along with being the lead-in for "Heroes") will give Chuck a head start on the 10 other new shows premiering the week of the 23rd. There will be 35 hours (not including reality/game shows) of new television airing from Sept 23-28. This makes it nearly impossible to catch all of the new shows with out dropping some favorites.
Its a stupid system.
Hopefully all the new shows will streaming for free on the network sites, this would let you watch at least the pilot for every new show you have interest in. But otherwise there are going to be some good and smart TV shows canceled because of scheduling conflicts.

I highly recommend trying to catch up on the first season of "Friday Night Lights" before the season premiere Friday Oct. 5th at 8. You can still stream all episodes on the NBC website, or you can wait for the DVD release on Aug 28th. Right now you can preorder it at Amazon for only $20 (serious no brainer for that one), or if you're not sure you'll like it, you should at least get Disc 1 at the top of your Queue now.
The same goes for "Heroes". Well, except Heroes isn't still streaming on NBC.com and I'm assuming you have already seen it. But if you want a refresher for the premiere on Sept 24th, it will also be released on DVD Aug 28th, and is available for $40 at Amazon and at Netflix.

I don't know if anyone else watched "The Nine" last fall, but you will be able to watch the final episodes online. The Nine was about the 9 hostages in a bank robbery, with scenes from the robbery being shown in flashbacks as the robbery gets pieced together and Scott Wolf was one of the stars (I always have to support Bailey). It was pulled back in November but ABC announced they were going to air the final episodes during August, only to pull it again. Now the final episodes will be released online, with 2 new episodes already available.

Music is fun

I have a few quick music recommendations for you

Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds "Live at Radio City", is a near perfect sounding live album. Granted its not extremely hard to mix 2 guitars and 1 vocal, but this really sounds great.
Check out their myspace page for a couple song clips and a video of a new song "Eh Hee"

I recommended The Feeling awhile ago, but I feel the need to draw your attention to them again. "Twelve Stops and Home" is a "soft rock" album that could very easily be from the 70's, except its really good. You can listen to the whole album on soundpedia. The album really doesn't have a weak song, if you like one of them you're going to like them all. I can't stop listening to this CD in my car, even with the temptation of Soul Street on XM trying to pull me away.

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals new album "Lifeline" has a very cool laid back groove to it that Ben calls "acoustic soul". Check out these solo acoustic hotel room performances of some of the new songs, as well as the official videos.

I just gave a listen to the new Josh Ritter album and I don't know if it is "the best album of the year", but it is pretty good and I am already liking it more on a second listen. The album is sort of a folky pop rock combo that deserves the Dylan and Springsteen comparisons. It has a very loose feel to it (almost accidental) but pulls it of with a nonchalance that Ryan Adams wishes could achieve regularly. Check out the album on his site, and the rave review on Amazon.

If you've been counting the hours until the big showdown between 50 and Kanye (I'm much more excited for Kanye) you probably have a jones for some rap.
Kanye has 2 videos for "Can't Tell me Nothing" and another for "Stronger", and listen to the John Mayer collaboration on "Bittersweet".
Check out what 50 Cent is up to and see a video for "AYO Technology"(which really is more of Justin's song than 50's) and "Amusement Park".
You should also check out this hilarious, somewhat vulgar video from Mike O'Connell featuring Yoshido(who really steals the show). The video for this last call love song is all done in one shot and is a really well done rap parody song.
Also check out the new link in my link section for some indie hip hop from Drok.

I am getting very excited for the upcoming TV season, and I promise that as we get closer I will make my posts much more regular.
I am still working on a grid for my suggestions on what to watch this season, but there is still plenty of time, the first premiere is "Prison Break" on September 17th. My current estimate is that I have 17 1/2 hours of TV that I will be watching every week with about 13 more hours of shows I am at least trying out. That's over 30 hours of programming every week, so I am mentally preparing myself to once again have no life.

Click on this button and you can add my Fall 2007 premiere schedule calendar to your Google calendars.

This lists the date for the premiere of every show (it will not include any reality show because I WILL NOT BE AN ENABLER!)
If you don't have a Google calendar yet, you can check out my calendar here.

Save the World, or something

I got a little inspiration while grocery shopping tonight.
I am still waiting for my damn Zorbeez to show up, so unfortunately I am still buying paper towels. But tonight I found Seventh Generation brand paper towels (as well as paper plates, napkins, facial tissue and toilet paper) and right under the brand name it says "Saves Natural Resources, Reduces Pollution" so I obviously checked it out. The back of the packaging told me that if every household in the U.S. replaced just one triple pack of virgin paper towels with 100% recycled ones we could save:

• 1,660,000 trees
• 4.2 million cubic feet of landfill space, equal to 6,600 full garbage trucks
• 590 million gallons of water, a year's supply for 4,700 families of four
• and avoid 101,000 pounds of pollution

Doing more research I have found that they also make garbage bags, laundry and dishwasher detergents, glass cleaners and many other environmentally friendly products. And all of their products have equally inspiring examples of how a simple switch can make a big difference. They also have online coupons available. So if you are looking to do your part in saving the world, this is a very easy step that everyone can and should take.

Now that I have preached and hopefully inspired, I have 2 funny videos for you to check out.
First is the hilarious video starring Zach Galifianakas on a farm. The video is for Kayne West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" which also just happens to also be a good song.
Then check out this very interesting commercial, the less you know the better it is. But the dude is really freaky looking and obviously just needs purpose in life.