Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream DVD: Boy, has Best Buy got the deal here. Seriously, you'd be pretty foolish to pass this up, regardless of your stance on exclusives or big-box stores. While other stores will be getting a two-disc, four-hour version of director Peter Bogdanovich's documentary on Petty and the Heartbreakers, Best Buy will get their own special version with four discs. The third disc is a DVD of the 30th anniversary date in the band's hometown of Gainesville, Florida, and the fourth is a 9-track CD of rarities, and all with a price of $24.99. Can you seriously say no to that? I didn't think so.
REM - Live: You can't get much more explanatory than that title, huh? Two CDs and a DVD of the same material from a February, 2006 pair of shows in support of the band's lowest moment, Around the Sun, Blogcritics' (and official Friend of Lookout For Hope) Josh Hathaway has a great review that pretty much sums up my every issue with this release. This is one I'll have to wait on until I feel a great need for some new R.E.M. material, since they apparently have opted to take a really, really long time to release the remasters that looked to be imminent when the IRS years best-of, And I Feel Fine, came out last year. Maybe next year . . . ?
Article comments
1 - Donald Gibson
With the REM release, for those of us on the fence about whether to buy it, we face this dilemma: Buy it now while it's on sale everywhere or wait a while and take the chance that the $19.99 price will go up another ten bucks.
2 - Mark Saleski
the REM release is confusing. i mean, i've heard some of the new material and it kills...making me think that this is the kind of release that a label puts out when the band is about to exit.
3 - Kristina
Great
4 - Pico
LMAO. I think Keith is a tad pissed.
I'll still give him my money, though.
5 - STM
Breakdown? England are very quick to the breakdown, and their forwards are pushing their opponents off the ball with ease (look at what happened to the two teams with the best and most entertaining backlines in the world: Australia and France).
It is this power up front, speed to the breakdown and England's technical expertise at scrum and lineout that will have South Africa at sixes and sevens in this weekend's Rugby World Cuip final. The only hope for the Japies is if they can release their formidable backline.
Oh, sorry ... are we talking about a different kind of breakdown here?
Shit and bugger. I must pay more attention.
6 - Dr Dreadful
Stan, there are some perfectly good threads about rugby (at least, they're about rugby now) in the Sports section - here and here.
See you there for your contorted explanation of why the Wallabies got their arses kicked.
+++Breaking newsflash update+++: I see you've already found your way to that second one.