http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog The Oklahoman's George Lang Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:39:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Either/Or, we take two people in similar pursuits, and you choose between them. It can be based on any criteria: professional ability, personality, intellectual prowess, physical pulchritude, or who you’d want backing you up in a knife fight. It really doesn’t matter: just choose Either/Or. Political Pawns, Celebrity Edition: Either ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/07/eitheror-episode-4/ 1. Guns N' Roses, "Since I Don't Have You" 2. Beck, "The New Pollution" 3. Belle & Sebastian, "Dirty Dream Number 2" One of my all-time favorite B & S tracks, "Dirty Dream Number 2" might be the world's greatest non-Donoovan Donovan song (Belle & Sebastian have done a lot of those). Like ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/07/random-10-for-aug-7-2008/ Hey, kids, be sure to set those DVRs tonight for The Graduate, which airs at 9 p.m. (CT) on God's Own Network, also known as TCM. One of my favorite films of all time, in many ways, the cinematic equivalent of Catcher in the Rye. And just to get you in ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/06/mrs-robinson-youre-trying-to-seduce-me-arent-you/ Seth Rogen and James Franco in "Pineapple Express."  Rating: 64 Despite their chronic condition, Cheech and Chong weren't exactly aiming high — they were midnight movie fare for people who were half-way to a laugh before the joke. While “Pineapple Express” owes a deep debt to their movies, it earns its laughs ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/06/movie-review-pineapple-express/ A new back-to-school ad campaign for Kohl's department stores, “Inspired by the Artists, Worn by You,” features Lenny Kravitz, Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton, “Heroes” star/aspiring pop star Hayden Panettiere and Plain White T's in its commercials, singing Kravitz' “It's Time For a Love Revolution.” Meanwhile, a current Converse ad is ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/06/selling-out%e2%80%9d-is-dead-long-live-%e2%80%9cselling-out%e2%80%9d/ 1. The Young Fresh Fellows, "Still There's Hope" Long before chief Fellow Scott McCaughey went on to more ostensibly respectable gigs with R.E.M. and Robyn Hitchcock, the Seattle-based YFF ripped through some of the most hook-laden, gloriously messy, criminally overlooked garage-rock gems of the Eighties and early Nineties. "Still There's Hope," from 1989's ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/06/random-10-for-aug-6-2008/ Rating: 23  Estonian singer Kerli's debut disc, “Love is Dead,” proves it's possible to record an album that sounds intermittently like Bjork, Evanescence, Fergie, Kelly Clarkson, Regina Spektor, Alanis Morissette and Nine Inch Nails and still bore listeners into a trance. “Love is Dead” simply resembles a cross-marketing experiment in which ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/05/music-review-kerli-love-is-dead-island/ "Ned... Ryerson. 'Needlenose Ned?' 'Ned the Head?' C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing again! Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/05/staticblog-afternoon-movie-groundhog-day/ King Khan and the Shrines keep the faith for whackjob traditionalist R&B -- Screamin' Jay would be proud to see this 20-minute epic. And Screamin' Jay is a wild man, so bug off. http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/05/video-of-the-day-king-khan-mr-supernatural/ 1. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, "Here I Am" "Please, if it's not too late ... make mine a cheeseburger." This jazzy 1989 gem illustrates Lovett at his best -- wry, funny and vivid. For me, too much of his work veers into the staid, but not this song. 2. Elvis Costello, "Can ... http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/08/05/random-10-for-aug-5-2008/