I barely survived February and January. Some very rough months in what I hoped would be a less than rough year. However, some good things are coming, I can feel it.
Firstly, in a couple weeks we have a huge dual television premiere night on a Sunday. Not only does the genius show “Breaking Bad” return to AMC, but HBO premieres its newest mini-series “The Pacific”.
Let’s start with Breaking Bad.
If you haven’t seen it, Breaking Bad is a drama from creator/writer Vince Gilligan. Here’s the premise: Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher. He has a teenage son with cerebral palsy, a very pregnant wife, and a home in suburban Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Oh yeah, and he just found out he has lung cancer. Being a smart man, he soon realizes that he cannot leave his family hanging if he dies, so he takes the most obvious step to support them. He cooks crystal meth and sells it.
If that doesn’t interest you enough, I’m gonna give you a little bit of a spoiler. Cooking crystal meth is easy for a chemist. Dealing drugs isn’t. Within the first few episodes of the 1st season, Walt and his street savvy partner melt a guy. That’s right, they MELT A GUY.
Watch this TV show. Vince Gilligan is a genius, Bryan Cranston (of Malcom in the Middle fame) is amazing. Everything about it is awesome. Season 3 starts on AMC March 21st. You’ve got 21 episodes to watch before then. I think you can handle it.
Now onto “The Pacific”
HBO brings back the amazing producers to do a sort-of follow up to their “Band of Brothers” miniseries. If you haven’t seen Band of Brothers, then you are doing yourself and the heroes of World War 2 a disservice. I implore you to rent it on netflix, one disc at a time. If you live in Charleston and are friends with me, I’ll probably even let you borrow it. “The Pacific” is so exciting because it’s the other side of the war. The side that we as Americans know of, but I don’t think we necessarily understand.
Band of Brothers took us through the famous parts of WWII; D-Day, the battle of the bulge, the liberation of concentration camps, the fall of Hitler. It does so perfectly, stringing you along for every heartpounding gutwrenching moment. It puts us into the Army’s now famous 101st airborne division, easy company. We know these guys, we watch them grow live and die.
“The Pacific” promises more of the same, differently. The Pacific plans to follow the Marine companies in the island-hopping pacific campaign of WWII. What excites me about it is that for me personally, I consider myself a WWII history fan, but I don’t know nearly as much about the pacific campaign of the war. I’m so excited to experience it through the eyes of the producers and directors of this series. I can’t imagine it wont be epic. I know it will be. “The Pacific”, I believe premieres Sunday March 14th, on HBO. I bet its at the same time as “Breaking Bad” which premieres a week later on the 21st, but hey, I can’t complain. With an awesome Sunday lineup, Top Gear on Mondays, and Lost on Tuesdays, I’ll have something to watch on Wednesdays because I can’t watch 2 shows at the same time on Sunday.
Or can I? (sets up 2 TVs next to eachother)
And now onto the music… hopefully some stuff you will enjoy:
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
1. "Orchestral Intro" (featuring sinfonia ViVA)
2. "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach" (featuring Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. "White Flag" (featuring Kano, Bashy and The Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music)
4. "Rhinestone Eyes"
5. "Stylo" (featuring Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
6. "Superfast Jellyfish" (featuring Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
7. "Empire Ants" (featuring Little Dragon)
8. "Glitter Freeze" (featuring Mark E. Smith)
9. "Some Kind of Nature" (featuring Lou Reed)
10. "On Melancholy Hill"
11. "Broken"
12. "Sweepstakes" (featuring Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. "Plastic Beach" (featuring Mick Jones and Paul Simonon)
14. "To Binge" (featuring Little Dragon)
15. "Cloud of Unknowing" (featuring Bobby Womack and sinfonia ViVA)
16. "Pirate Jet"
Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB – Charlotte, NC 2/26/10
Part 1
Part 2
Set I:
Shine
Burlap Sack and Pumps
Push On Til the Day
Cayman Review
All That Almost Was
Sweet Dreams Melinda
A Case Of Ice And Snow
Mozambique
Sweet and Dandy
Night Speaks To A Woman
Tuesday
Set II:
Curlew's Call
Gotta Jibboo
Valentine
Alaska
Peggy
Sand
Goodbye Head>
Mr. Completely
Black Dog
Encore:
Dragonfly
Show Of Life
First Tube
A little about this Trey Show:
I went up there with my good buddy Lionel. The venue opened only 6-9 months ago, and is in a really weird part of Charlotte. Now I love the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte, saw Medeski Martin and Wood there in September and it was a blast, so I was hesitant about this venue. It was amazing, sound was great, it was crowded (2000+ people so of course its crowded for a club), and drinks were WAY too expensive (like $12 for a tallboy of bud? ser?). But our pre-planning helped us save the $. We stashed Jim Beam minibottles, and hooked up free 4 dollar coke refills with a very sexy bartender.
After Lionel was turned away at the door because his "ticket" he bought from a guy was a glorified parking pass, we had a minor freakout. Until the supremely cool guys taking tickets just let him in, no questions asked. Thanks Fillmore! The rest of the night was AWESOME, Trey raged it all night long. The band got into some amazing grooves, there was patience, great builds, good dynamics, and an all around fun vibe. Best Trey Band show I've seen since my first on Halloween 02. Great time, see this guy. He's a freakin jedi.
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