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 | Undeclared - The Complete Series |
 | "Great show but..." | 2007-10-03 |
Like someone else wrote, the discs I saw were different than an index of them I saw elsewhere. I rented it via Netflix, and both disc 2 and disc 3 had the episode "Truth or Dare", but disc 2 (which should have had "Rush and Pledge") didn't have that episode. (Turns out the discs might have been revised by the manufacturer sometime after the initial release, and Netflix anyway ships a combination of the first release and the corrected later release). Besides that, the menus for each disc have very small writing and navigating from one episode to the next via the index took a lot more concentration than it should take. This is why I'm only giving the DVD 3 stars. The show itself is very enjoyable. It doesn't have the poignancy and depth that Apatow and company put into "Freaks and Geeks", but it's still an enjoyable and accurate look at what it's like to be a freshman in college.
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 | John Renbourn - A Maid in Bedlam |
 | "simply fantastic!" | 2007-09-14 |
Back in my college days, I worked one summer in a curio store in Mystic, CT. I am forever grateful that the owner of that store used to keep a rotation of celtic and english folk LPs playing all day (a stack would play and when they were done, we'd flip the stack and start those). This was my introduction to the music of the isles, and one of those LPs was "A Maid in Bedlam".
John Renbourn was able to scratch alot of his musical itches with this group, and the mixture of medieval, gospel, folk and Indian music is spellbinding. This was also the first time I heard Jacqui McShee sing and her vocals are absolutely gorgeous. So many of the tracks are favorites, it's hard to single them out. But I'll mention that besides aural pleasure, the track "Talk About Suffering" has always conjured up visions for me of a church group in the 1700s singing at a midnight mass by lantern light.
This CD will not disappoint you- it hasn't me for many years. I also think that the follow up release by the Group, "The Enchanted Garden" is well worth your time.
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 | Surviving Picasso |
| "Why no DVD after all these years?" | 2006-03-15 |
When week after week you see some of the slop flipped to DVD quickly, it's surprising to me this interesting film is still VHS only. I disagree with some of the other reviewers- I think Hopkins did a great job at inhabiting Picasso's spirit. Did the film "explain" him? No- but Picasso was such an elusive complicated man, it's not entirely surprising. As when Hopkins did Nixon- sure, you don't totally forget it's Anthony Hopkins- but as with his Nixon, Hopkins is mezmorizing here. Hopkins said after playing men like in Remains of the Day who were basically dead from the waist down, he relished the opportunity to play a man who was completely alive- and his joy here is apparent. Beside Hopkins, Natascha McElhone is very intriguing, as are the rest of the supporting cast and the Parisian and Spanish locations. It's a Merchant Ivory piece fer cryin out loud- you KNOW the production values are always going to be rock solid. We'd like a DVD please!
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 | Steeleye Span - Original Masters |
 | "Song list on CD is different than what Amazon shows!" | 2004-07-14 |
I think Amazon either copied the song list from the LP version of "Original Masters" or the CD has been changed. Actual track list is (1) Sir James the Rose (2) Black Jack Davy (3) All Around My Hat (4) The Wife of Ushers Well (5) Fighting for Strangers (6) Thomas the Rhymer (7) Seven Hundred Elves (8) Long Lankin (9) Elf Call (Disc Two)(1) Cam Ye O'Er Frae France (2) Bonny Morhen (3) Alison Gross (4) The Mooncoin Jig (5) Drink Down the Moon (6) Skewball (7) Lovely on the Water (8) Jigs: The Bride's Favorites/Tansey's Fancy (9) One Misty Moisty Moorning (10) Saucy Sailor (11) Gaudete. I like a lot of these songs, but I purchased the CD for some of the others that Amazon shows as being on the disc that aren't. Beware!!
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 | Jazz Casual DVD (Count Basie, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie) |
 | "Jazz History in the Flesh" | 2001-06-05 |
I agree with much of what the other reviewers had to say, but give Gleason a break- if Trane didn't want to speak, he didn't want to speak (I'm sure Miles wouldn't have agreed to be interviewed if he had been on the show, either). But because of Gleason's show, we get to see the Coltrane quartet at one of its peaks-particularly the mezmorizing "Afro Blues".
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