TNT is Dropping the Ball

Sat. 8pm ET

NBC - Law & Order, "In God We Trust" Fontana and Falco (Michael Imperioli) make an arrest after a blaze kills a firefighter, and the discovery of a charred pistol leads them to reopen the investigation into an old murder. [I missed a bunch of episodes after Green was shot, I had no idea there even was a Detective Falco. Rock me, Amadeus.]

USA - Law & Order: SVU, "Fallacy" A female party-goer claims self-defense after killing her attacker.

BRAVO - Law & Order: Criminal Intent, "Cherry Red" An elderly woman who dies in a fire leaves part of her estate to a young woman who is subsequently murdered.

COURTTV - Law & Order: Trial by Jury, "Truth or Consequences" When the murder of a young woman leaves detectives with three suspects, they work to turn them against each other to determine the culprit.

What's with TNT tonight, they couldn't roll out a Briscoe and Curtis episode? They show two or three every other night. Slackers.

Cracking a Thousand

Last.fm tracks the music I listen to on the pc at work and at home (usually while playing poker). While getting bounced from a sit and go this afternoon, I noticed I'd gone over a thousand tracks. Here are the artists I've listened to the most:

The Replacements, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and The Specials also tied for 10th; evidently, the chart link only grabs the first one listed.

Underrepresented because they've been in the car for most of the last month or so would be The Killers, Jets to Brazil, Modest Mouse, Fugazi, The Mekons, The Blow Monkeys, and Superchunk.

Update: Whattayaknow, looks like the chart updates as I continue listening. Neat.

"You know how I know that you're gay?"

Not quite as funny as billed, I thought The Wedding Crashers was funnier, but still pretty darned good: Steve Carrell in The 40 Year Old Virgin. As Mooj said, "It's not about the Butthole Pleasure ... not about the Rattlesnake Wiggle and the Alligator F#ckhouse," or something to that effect. I was laughing too hard to keep up with his brilliant monologue.

Spies Like Us

Without any legal authority or judicial oversight, they have been spying on us. Us meaning Americans. This should surprise no one. Any government willing to torture foreigners and detain its own citizens without charges or due process doesn't care one bit about your historical rights. They are, in fact, hostile to our constitution and our privacy and will misuse whatever powers they are given and even some they are not.

Now, will the rats leave this sinking GOP ship?

Kong

Piggybacking on the upcoming release of Peter Jackson's King Kong, two of my channels showed the original and the '76 remake. Piggybacking on the fact that I had nothing to do, I managed to catch the endings to both within 45 minutes of each other. The only thing I can say about the first one is that it's not as good as I remember. (Hard to beat the experience of seeing it as a nine year old and not knowing what will happen.)

The second one was just laugh out loud funny, though. The guy in the monkey suit doesn't event pretend to act like an ape. He walks upright. He kind of saunters around, like he's looking for his mark and not aware they're filming. Also, Jeff Bridges wears the same beard Jeff Daniels will use 24 years later in The Squid and the Whale, meaning I will confuse the two for the next decade. Finally, how could they end the movie without, "It was beauty that killed the beast"?

This means that I probably won't be seeing the new version anytime soon. Watching two Kong death dives in rapid succession - in the original he bounces of the ledges of the Empire State Building in a Homer-esque fashion - saps my excitment.