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Top Album Of The Week

Dave Matthews Band
Away From The World
Bama Rags/RCA/Sony

"away from the world" is another extraordinary album by dave matthews band.
their quiet revolution with a jazzy world-beat sound that appeals to
collegians on their way up, and peasant-attired hippies on their way down the
road is as pure as ever. they have kept their multicultural and unconventional
sound, and are, as always, a tour act. and they helped launch a jam-band craze
that thrives to this day. may they last forever.

Read all of this week's Top 21.

Give These a High Five

  • Hold On To Me Grand Marquis 
    Grand Marquis
  • Self-titled Rachel Timberlake 
    self-released
  • Countrified Ken Domash 
    Thunder Mountain/Spinville
  • Mood Music for Time Travellers Either/Orchestra 
    Accurate
  • Back to the Wheel Jenn Cleary 
    self-released

 

 
AC/DC's Angus Young with Shelton		  
Shelton with Ozzy, seriously		  


Patti LaBelle and Shelton

  • Glee: The Music - Season 4, Volume 1 Varous Artists Columbia/Sony
  • Time & Materials Story City self-released
  • Civilization and Its Discontents Michael Sahl & Eric Salzman Labor/Naxos
  • Straight Up Country Joel Warren Wynnesong
  • Since Philip Bell Clarion Bell
  • Days of Yesterday Hiromi Kanda Music Gate
  • BELiEVE SPiN howsaboutNOW?
  • Wood and Stone Tara Nevins Sugar Hill
  • #Waiting Max Burgundy self-released
  • Endless Summer (single) My Tiger, My Timing self-released

DVD Review
'50s TV Classics: Share Some Laughs with Old Friends Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Dinah Shore and More! (3 disc collector's edition)
Film Chest

Experience the best of the Golden Age of Television with this collection of shows from TV's early years. You'll enjoy over 10 hours of comedy, music, variety, game shows and drama starring some of Hollywood's biggest stars! Disc 1 The Bob Hope Show (1957) The Chevy Show with Dinah Shore & Art Carney (1956) The Ed Wynn Show (1950) The Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney Show (1950) The Red Skelton Show (guest starring John Carradine) Disc 2 Death Valley Days: Sego Lillies (4/28/53) Death Valley Days: Little Washington (10/1/53) Death Valley Days: Dear Teacher (11/24/53) The Lawrence Welk Show (7/14/56) The Milton Berle Show (5/15/56) Disc 3 Beat the Clock The Celebrity Game Do You Trust Your Wife (Ep. 1) Do You Trust Your Wife (Ep. 2) Name that Tune.
Book Review
merica, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom
Meghan McCain and Michael Ian BlackDa Capo/Perseus

She is a single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger, the daughter of a Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He is a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee. Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black barely know each other. But they are about to change the way politics is discussed in America.
Or at least the way politics are discussed in their crappy RV.

In America, You Sexy Bitch, Meghan and Michael embark on a balls-out, cross-country tour starting in California, the heart of liberal America, and ending in the state of Connecticut, the home of blue-blood Wall Street billionaires. Along the way, they visit such cultural touchstones as Graceland and Branson, party in Las Vegas and New Orleans, pretend to be Mormon in Salt Lake City (only for a second), and go to a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. They tour the nation’s capital; they fire semiautomatic weapons. But mostly Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black talk to each other: about their differences, their similarities, and how American politics has gotten so divided.
DVD Review
Babar: The Classic Series: The Complete First Season (2 discs)
entertainmentone

When Babar grows up, he's crowned King of the elephants, marries Celeste and has kids. One of the greatest lessons he learns, is that despite life's challenges, great things are always possible. Beloved series filled with learning lessons, based on Jean de Brunhoff's book series.

Makers, Takers and $2-a-dayers

By: Michelle Chen
Published on Friday, March 16, 2012 by In These Times

Makers, Takers and $2-a-dayers

by Michelle Chen

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Read more of this song's lyrics.
Is It Because I'm Black?
By: Syl Johnson

The dark brown shades of my skin
Only add color to my tears
That splash against my hollow bones
that rocks my soul, oohhhhh...
looking back over my false dreams that i once knew
When a why my dreams never came true
Is it beacuse i'm black, somebody tell me what can i do, oooooohhh, ohh lord
Something is holding me back
Is it beacuse i'm black, yeahh

 

Screen Play

A Scene from the Godfather Part II
Godfather Part II

 

VIEW ON THE SENATOR

Notices the tension in the room.  The Chairman commences:

				SENATOR KANE
		We have here a witness who will
		testify further on Michael
		Corleone's rule of the criminal
		empire that controls gambling in
		this country and perhaps in other
		countries.  This witness had no
		buffer between himself and Michael
		Corleone.  He can corroborate our
		charges on enough counts for this
		committee to consider a charge of
		perjury against Michael Corleone.
			(then he turns to Pentangeli)
		Your name please, for the record.

				PENTANGELI
		Frank Pentangeli.

				SENATOR KANE
		Were you a member of the Corleone
		Family?  Were you under the
		Caporegime Peter Clemenza, under
		Vito Corleone, known as the
		Godfather?

There is a long silence.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

He seems unable to speak.

VIEW ON THE SICILIAN

gazing at him.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

				PENTANGELI
		I never knew no Godfather.  I got
		my own family.

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