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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> |
| Subject | Re: Another way OT media recommendation: Too Beautiful To Live |
| Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:17:52 -0800 (PST) |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Stewart Mason wrote:
> such as during an opening segment recently where Luke and Sean
> attempted a live, on-air mashup of the Vampire Weekend single and Paul
> Simon's "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes" (which really are damn
> near the same song, frankly), alongside movies (Luke is obsessed with
> THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and was the first media figure I heard jump onto
> the "I...drink...your...MILKSHAKE!" bandwagon, playing a clip of that
> line obsessively until it started getting to the point that everyone
> else was quoting it as well), TV shows and other topics such as the
> nightly segment Awesome/Not Awesome, in which the day's news stories
> are graded according to that admirably simple scale.
OK, I have to admit, I did enjoy the Vampire Weekend and There Will Be
Blood segments. BUT...
> There are those who will likely find the show irritatingly precious --
> given that they have three hours to fill every night, a fair amount of
> the show really consists of the three principals talking about
> themselves at great length -- but for those on its wavelength, it's a
> smart, funny, unpretentious show with a lot of charm, and I recommend
> checking it out.
...yeah, I really do find it irritatingly precious, and I can't stand the
name. I predict that it will end up being self-fulfilling.
Actually, I don't think I'd dislike it as much if it hadn't been for the
recent "revamping" of KIRO's schedule:
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2008/02/were-still-stin.html --
they got rid of a lot of good local talk and TBTL is pretty much the last
thing standing after 6 p.m. Better than nothing, but not better than what
it replaced, I'm afraid.
Then again, I actually still listen to KIRO *on the radio*...so my opinion
probably doesn't mean much :)
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