Monthly Archives: July 2007

Bank Of The West Semifinal + MLB Hall Of Fame

This is kind of a late — very late — post but I think I really wanted to com­ment on it. This week­end held two cool sport­ing events: the WTA Bank Of The West tour­na­ment and the 2007 MLB Hall Of Fame Induc­tion Ceremony.

Babylon 5 — The Lost Tales (2007)

Any­one who con­sid­ers them­selves a sci­ence fic­tion buff has to have watched all five sea­sons of Baby­lon 5 and the many tele­vi­sion movies that were pro­duced to com­ple­ment the com­plex sto­ry­lines that cre­ator J. Michael Straczyn­ski envi­sioned for the show.

Matt White — Best Days (2007)

The singer/songwriter used to be a dying breed. Matt White might be able to add his name to the cur­rent gen­er­a­tion that includes Howie Day, John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw. Hail­ing from New Jer­sey, Matt has music in his blood, with piano and violin-playing par­ents and a for­mer jazz orches­tra leader grandmother.

Monster Squad Is Finally On DVD

At long last, this really funny, yet campy pseudo hor­ror movie is finally avail­able as a two-disc DVD — all 82 min­utes of it!

Benzos — Branches (2007)

The sopho­more effort for the Ben­zos sec­ond album Branches, is full of depres­sion and gloom, and yet the band man­ages never to cross that bound­ary into emo ter­ri­tory like so many other bands before them. I guess com­ing from New York lets them expe­ri­ence that expan­sive tough view of the world with­out com­pletely los­ing one’s emo­tional fortitude.

New Movie Production Stills

Tom Cruise as Col. Claus von Stauf­fen­berg in Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie.

Lastings Milledge Is On Fire

After going 0–4 in every game of the July 16–18 series against the San Diego Padres which brought his bat­ting aver­age to an embar­rass­ingly low .133, New York Mets OF Last­ings Milledge went on a four game mul­ti­hit streak. His aver­age jumped to .283 and his OPS sky­rock­eted from .423 to .798 after hit­ting two dou­bles and a home run dur­ing that span.