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*looks at the 64 people below Fergie* Yeah, are these people looking at pictures of celebrities with their heads cut off?

Dammit, I was hoping some of these songs had been already put on the shortlist so I could have fit some other stuff, but as it is... 1. Neil Young - Heart of Gold 2. Minor Threat - Straight Edge 3. Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released 4. A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation 5. Leonard Cohen - Love Calls You By Your Name Truthfully I was going to have Metallica's "Battery" as #5, but with all the Metallica already added, I felt the need for some Cohen representation.

He's NOT talking about Japan vs. USA. He never was. He's talking about MLB vs. Japanese leagues. The MLB benefits from a rich tapestry of ball players from around the world. It draws the best talent from around the world. I'm pretty sure he was also being a little unclear when saying that "nobody gives a shit" about foreign leagues. From what I gather from talking to him, he just means that because of the Japanese league's inferiority talent-wise, it would be unfair to classify anyone's non-MLB stats as being on an equal plane with the MLB.

No, he always betted on them to win. It isn't a matter of USA and Japan as I've said before, it is a matter of talent. This guy hit his against low level pitching which makes it quite significantly easier, while Bonds has done this against the cream of the crop. When people ask who is the home run king, it isn't Oh, it's Henry Aaron. If their league was as accomplished with the talent as the MLB then he would be mentioned by all the "Experts" when talking about this stat, but it doesn't matter. It's like comparing the AAA Home Run leader to Henry Aaron and saying that its the same, it's not.

"Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is the second best selling book of all time, with over 1 billion copies in print. The "Da Vinci Code" is massively popular yes, but not that popular.

Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction - 3/10 Boring and uninspired, Basic Instinct 2 is a psychological thriller for hapless idiots with a 10 second attention span. Have you ever wondered why soap operas are generally not made into movies? On TV, they work because they're written in a day, filmed in a day and aired a few weeks later. The problem is this film feels like it must certainly have followed the same process, because there's not enough here to make out a distinguishable plot. Sharon Stone is basically here shouting at audiences "Hey, look at me! I'm still sexy, and it doesn't matter that I still can't act!". And her co-star David Morrissey is quite certainly here only for a paycheck, and it shows. The only thing keeping the film from historic levels of awful is David Thewlis' fantastic performance as Detective Washburn, the only possible good guy in the story. Or maybe not. The characters are so loosely designed that we never have any idea. B-grade skin movie direction, terrible (generally) peformances and one of those way the fuck out there senseless endings make this one worth not only skipping, but picking up a copy, burning it with gasoline and then burying the ashes.

The Da Vinci Code - 4/10 3 hours of badly adapted story, completely losing the original material's heart and with awkward transitions, inconsistent performances and two dimensional characters. Ron Howard's adaptation is completely toothless; an effort to float by without any real statements and to cash in on an audience's passing interest in religious rebellion without insulting the believers. It's mush in celluloid form. Slither - 7/10 Now this is some fun B-Movie goodness. Nathan Fillion is a solid lead, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker and Gregg Henry round out a great supporting cast while director James Gunn certainly makes sure the film falls adaquetely under the "gross out movie" category. I'll guarantee you this, you can watch this film for 90 minutes without being preached to, bored or offended. You'll probably just lose your appetite.

NBC has released this revised fall schedule:

Carlo Rota was in the Boondock Saints, although some Canadian viewers will perhaps know him as Albert from this year's Ken Finkleman series "At the Hotel".

Morris has to join the cast next season. This is a must. The first half of the finale was dull, but the second half rocked. Watching the President get arrested is the payoff of the century, and Dr. Wen appearing on 24 is the icing on the cake. Now the countdown begins, although it's going to be hard to bring Jack back into the fold without a) him being out of commission for the first 12 hours or so, or b) next season taking place in China. Unless they were to do an hour long prequel in between. Which would be awesome. But they won't do it. I just got my hopes up for no reason. Oh well. I'd rank this at about 3rd in terms of finales, behind Season 3 and Season 4.

As an ignorant North American, someone needs to explain this to me.

The CW's new show descriptions:

Casey Janssen delivers his 2nd brilliant performance of his rookie season. I tell you, if Burnett and Chacin gets back and Towers hasn't kept his act together, we could have a new number 5 starter.

And now for CBS:

ABC's schedule is a wash, save "The Nine" and "Six Degrees". In fairness, it's important to keep in mind that networks like FOX and NBC have A LOT of room for improvement, whereas CBS and ABC are more or less just trying to maintain the status quo. Still, it just looks like the executives sat around a room and decided which concepts they wanted to co-opt for their own programs, and put lame twists on them. The Taye Diggs dramatic "Groundhog Day" is going to get old REALLY fast. That concept worked fine over 90 minutes in a Bill Murray film, but on a week to week basis? I don't think so. Many of the other programs even admit that they're essentially new spins on old ideas. It's just a completely visionless move. The best decision they made this year is the Grey's Anatomy to Thursday move. Thursday was a nothing happening night for the network this year, so it's good to have something familiar to throw out there, and something popular to boot. It's a schedule that should probably avoid a dramatic fall off for the network this year, but it'll do nothing to catch CBS. They'll probably even lose ground to the hopefully resillient NBC.

It's official, Raines is going to rock. All eyes go to Goldblum.

Fred Goss confirmed that Sons & Daughters was cancelled. Shame really, the show was a great replacement for Arrested Development.

Either Scrubs, 24 or Veronica Mars.

NBC's Fall Schedule Is Here: