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As I'm writing this I smell food cooking, leading to an eventual steak dinner. So, needless to say, I'm psyched. Anyways as Jon said, this is gonna be a place where we can write random stuff. I write reviews of cds, so I'll probably post those here, in addition to www.guitartechnica.com and on my facebook. Sports entries should get interesting considering our being fans of the biggest rivals in sports. As it turns out, we're home on Thanksgiving break from school, so I'm in NY, and Jon's kickin it in Mass. This past Sunday was awesome, because Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy was released, the Giants game was on, 24 returned with their 2 hour movie, and the Entourage finale was on. I decided I'd write a bit on 24 and entourage for my first post, so here it goes.

24:

Now, 24 is one of the best tv shows on. However, I thought that season 6 was somewhat weak, borrowing storylines from previous seasons. I was excited when they announced that there would be a 2 hour movie, bridging seasons 6 and 7, which will air in January. The movie takes place in both a fictional African country, and in the United States, where the first female President (a fictional Hillary?) was sworn in to office. Jack Bauer is in the African country, while a coup is about to take place, in which the militia is snatching young boys to fight as soldiers. I commend 24 for bringing this extremely relevent issue to light, one that a number of people may not be aware of.

Overall, the movie was great. The show hit it's stride in doing something uncharacteristic, and it really worked well. There was your usual level of intensity, good acting, and good writing. I can't wait for the next season to start in January.

Entourage:

This season of Entourage has been quite strange, with Vince struggling to get work after Medellin's flop. The finale was probably one of the best episodes of the season. For a while now I was hoping the crew would have some time in New York, and they finally did. The only disappointing aspect of the season was that they didn't go on Queens Boulevard. All's well that ends well, especially when one of the best directors offers you a role in his next movie, which sounded like a cool idea to me. Bring on season 6!

Uncle Mizzle sent me the newly released Opeth cover of Would? (Alice in Chains). It turned out exactly as I imagined it, and of course, it sounds killer.

I read today that the LA Angels offered CC Sabbathia an offer similar to Johan Santana's from last off-season, which puts the Yankees into an interesting spot. Do they pull out the big guns and up the ante? Or do they give up and go for Burnett, Lowe, Peavy, Sheets, or the bat of Mark Texiera? Being a Yankee fan as long as I have, I can only guess that we'll see a bigger offer in the next few days.

GO GIANTS

to read my review of Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy, visit www.guitartechnica.com

-Steve