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The lighter side of espionage has pretty much put to the side and left alone. Something about 9/11, secret c.i.a. prisons and the poisoning of former K.G.B. agents in Europe has made the basis for the standard on spy shows on TV and movies today. The USA Network’s new series is a cheerful, smart and funny drama, mixed with plenty of action about an American spy who gets kicked out of the system, and dumped in the city of Miami. He has no credit cards, no cash, and no connections to anybody he knew in the business. In the premiere a wisecracking agent for hire named Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan, recounts his covert intelligence work in a cool, sarcastic guy. “Know what it’s like being a spy?” he asks. “It’s like sitting in your dentist’s
reception area 24 hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee and every so often someone tries to kill you.” Michael is in the middle of a secret operation in Nigeria, were warlords to lay off an oil field, when his employers inform him that he has a “burn notice” in his file and is blacklisted. Michael doesn’t know why he is under a burn notice, but it could be that he is just too sensitive for the job, but either way he is burned and doesn’t have a clue as to why. He ends up in his hometown, Miami, bruised, confused, and with those frozen back accounts, he is desperate to clear his
name and get back into the undercover game of being a spy. For one thing he wants to get away from his overbearing m o t h e r, Madeline, played by actress Sharron Gless. The spy ends up having to do private detective work to until he can find the person who burned him. Relying on the slick tradecraft he learned in covert ops to solve domestic crimes for friends and strangers he meets along the way. not only does he have issues with his mother, but an ex-girlfriend, Fiona, played by Ga-
briella Anwar, a former operative for the I.R.A., shows up and also smothers him with expectations and drama that Michael is forced to deal with. The show takes its name from an intelligence term for agents or sources that are marked as unreliable and blackballed, which in simpler terms means that cant be trusted so they are no longer in the spy game. Michael has a soft spot for children, yet he is so emotionally distracted that he cannot maintain a relationship. His trigger-happy ex-girlfriend Fiona expects more from Michael then he can seem to handle, because eventually they get involved again but trying to maintain a broken relationship and working together shows how hard it can be to execute jobs smoothly. This is an explosive new TV serious that is sure to keep you coming back for more.
Prop it or Drop It - Current Music Reviews 2010 is a new year and full of new music of all varieties. This year’s new albums feature new and award-wining artists of 2009. New pop country star, Taylor Swift, swept away four Grammys this year for best country song, best country album, best country vocal performance, and album of the year, at the 52nd annual awards show. Only being 20 years old, this country star’s new album, fearless, has been topped on the Billboard 200 for 11 nonconsecutive weeks; there hasn’t been an album at No.1 since 2000. Swift also set a record on the Hot 100 by a female artist at the same time with eight singles from the re-release of Fearless album, namely five debut new songs
in the top 30. Fearless was named top selling album of 2009 in the U.S. with more than 3.2 million copies sold, so this album is definitely a good choice for a solid record. If you’re not exactly into the new country pop sound coming from artistslike Taylor Swift, then maybe new rock from Jacksonville’s own Shinedown is more your taste. Jumping off their debut album, Leave a Whisper, came classic hits, such as, “45” and the re-make of the popular Lynyrd Skynryd’s, “simple Man.” Shinedown’s latest album, “Sound of Madness,” is a great example of new rock music, with a singer who has his own unique sound to the twist of the alternative hard rock sound. Their first hit single of this album, “Devour” was Shinedown’s second song to reach number 1 on the active rock charts. Following were more hits, such as “Second Chance,
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Sound of Madness”, and “If You Only Knew” This album is the perfect cure for breaking free of that new age pop music that drives you insane while you’re driving home from school or work. Now if you’re looking for something a little bit different then the rest, then a good choice would be none other than Lil Wayne’s newly released rock album, the Rebirth. Having just been released this year, Lil Wayne’s new album has already had two hit singles, “Prom Queen” and “On Fire” Lil Wayne currently is one of the top rappers in the game, with countless classics and new hits and collaborations all over the air waves with various artists. MTV has listed Lil Wayne as No.2 on their list of top MCs today. Just for the anticipation of this album, Lil Wayne was featured on the cover of
Rolling Stone. As a warning, the new Asher Roth album, Asleep in The Bread Isle, I would recommend staying away from because it promised to be a good, all night party music kind of album, but came out as mostly boring and dull. The album really failed to bring the hits after the success of there hit single “I love college’ If classic rock is more your style, you would think that Bon Jove’s new album, The circle, would be just the sound you’re looking for. Unfortunately, their return to the rock in roll charts was a bomb, showing how generic Bon Jovi has become. Where this 1980’s rock band was famous for there metal-pop hits, now has sadly become a bunch of adults playing that contemporary boring same old sound. So from all variations of music, you now have some pre insight to what some new albums have to offer.
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