End of Year Review

I'm sorry for not posting more often this year. Work piles up and writing more at the end of the day gets to be difficult. I did have time to review two shows of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. You can read those reviews in the August 2014 issue of RE/Search's newsletter. Here are a few other events, TV shows, and memorable moments I enjoyed over this past year (no order, just a list)

• Broad City Live (can't wait for Season 2)
• Swans
• Kelley Stoltz
• Alan Cumming (with book signing for I'm Not Your Father's Son)
• Frank Portman (with book signing for King Dork Approximately)
• James Ensor art exhibit at The Getty
• Visiting the graves of Sharon Tate, Bela Lugosi and Jackie Coogan
• "Frankenstein" production by The National Theatre of London (seen on screen with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Monster)
• 20,000 Days on Earth film
• final season and series finale of "Sons of Anarchy"
• final episode of "The Colbert Report"
• the debut of El Rey Network (launched December 2013, but was a main focal point of my TV viewing in 2014)
• the series "The Strain"
• final season of "True Blood" (the writing really suffered, but the slaughter was pretty awesome)
• the series "Penny Dreadful"
• From Inside with Gary Numan soundtrack
• film Heaven Adores You
• re-release and new print of Queen Margot: the 4K Director's Cut
• film Of Horses and Men
• film Trip to Italy
• film Boyhood (with Richard Linklater Q&A)
• "Hannibal" 2nd season
• book A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton
• TCM, the channel airing twice the movie The Man With the Cloak

In the coming year, I'll try to post a few words for each event, TV show or memorable moment for which I either view or attend just to keep the Korner active. One thing to look forward to (I miss "Pan Am") is the TV miniseries "Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles" on Lifetime coming in 2015 starring Christina Ricci. She starred in the Lifetime movie "Lizzie Borden Took an Ax" nearly a year ago. It was panned, so I don't understand the miniseries being picked up.

There's so much I could say about my favorite "guilty pleasure" TV shows which include The Mindy Project, The Walking Dead, The Good Wife, The Comeback, Homeland, The Affair, Veep, Castle, New Girl, American Horror Story, and Z Nation. I look forward to seeing more excellent writing in 2015.

Write in the comments what your favorite moments of 2014 included. Do we have anything in common?

True Blood is back and I'm on it like it's crack

Loving the first two episodes of True Blood, Season 4. I won't spoil it for anyone by talking about it here, but I will share links about it in my reader feed above. Click with caution is all I can say. I do recommend getting HBO for this season's shows. You can even ask a favor of friends who have HBO to lend you their login to watch it HBO Go online. I did this for a friend who is recovering from a surgery and she is really thankful that she has something to keep her mind off her pain.

There's a site that is tracking the songs used in the episodes, so check it out. You can also listen to the cover of "She's Not There," by Neko Case and Nick Cave. It's on iTunes now.

True Blood Paper Dolls!

True Blood paper dolls!. Designer and cartoonist Andy Swist has debuted a printable paper-doll collection based on characters from the series. There's a contest, too, and a hilarious video explaining their plans to do more paper dolls.