Iron Man (Two-Disc Special Collectors’ Edition)

One of my favorite movies of the year, Robert Downey junior really stretches as an actor to play a rich guy with a drug problem.  He’s also a genius inventor and an arms manufacturer.  He builds himself a super powered suit, and awesomeness ensues.  This movie is not exactly an Oscar contender, but it’s a lot of fun to watch.  If you like the new Batman movies but wish they were less dark and more explosion-ey, this movie is for you.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Three-Disc Unrated Collector’s Edition)

I saw this movie with several female friends.  I thought it was only so-so, but they really loved it.  Jason Segel reprises his role as a sensitive caring guy from How I Met Your Mother in the movie he also wrote, directed by Judd Apatow, as musician who gets dumped and tries to get over his girlfriend by going on a vacation to Hawaii.  Also staring Mila Kunis from That 70s Show, this film is a fun comedy for a girls night in, but I’m going to warn you right now, there is gratuitous male nudity!

U2 – Under a Blood Red Sky

U2 is one of my favorite bands of all time.  I’ve seen them in concert many times, and they are still as fresh and exciting as they were twenty five years ago.  Now, I’ll admit I wasn’t listening to a lot of U2 music 25 years ago (what with the whole not-being-born-yet thing), but now you can judge for yourself.  This CD/DVD collection lets you both listen to and watch a series of live recordings from their War Tour back in 1983.  See U2 when he was my age.

Also released:

Music
T. I. – Paper Trail

Jennifer Hudson – Jennifer Hudson

TV Shows
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One

Happy to be here,
Will

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MC Lars? I kind of know that dude, sort of vaguely! What’s he doing on my TiVo? Well, I’m still not entirely sure WHY he was on my TiVo, but the video was interesting. It’s called Download This Song, and it’s all about how the record industry should grow up, quit suing its customers and basically get its head out of 1982. Clever lyrics and a well-produced video, even if the melody makes me want to track down and murder Blink-182.

But the most interesting thing here was that TiVo chose to feature such an anti-corporate song on its front screen. On the one hand, TiVo is all about liberating the consumer from the drudgery of an outdated business model (and charging you a pretty monthly penny for it)–on the other, when you try to do something simple like transfer the video off of the box and onto your iPod, you find yourself encountering the same onerous DRM restrictions that MC Lars is skewering. TiVo has even gotten caught testing a feature that auto-deletes specific shows from consumers boxes after a certain amount of time–kind of like if Sony broke into your house and erased your videotapes.

So what’s the deal here? I suspect that this is simply TiVo’s lame bureaucratic left hand not knowing what its cool, nerdcore, content-must-be-free right hand is doing, but I’d happily entertain idle speculations of a shift in corporate philosophy, mutiny or robot revolt. (I’ll always entertain suggestions of robot revolt. Seriously, people: we need to prepare ourselves.)

Aram

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