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Monday, June 29, 2009 6:55 PM
SONS OF ANARCHY
Just whipped through the whole first season and FX does it again!
Awesome show and I cant wait for Season Two in the Fall....
SAMCRO!
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:26 AM
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Finally got out to see this!!! (maybe the longest I've gone before seeing a Tarantino flim upon release...)
QT is back baby!!!
This was phenominal!!!
Perhaps his best film since Pulp Fiction??
The thing I love about seeing a Tarantino film the first time is that incredible suspense of not knowing what the f*ck can happen at any moment....of course, this makes the 2nd viewing perhaps NOT as enjoyable, but man the first time is always intense!
Hands down, best film of 2009 so far....
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:21 PM
HARPER'S ISLAND
Missed this when it was on TV this past summer, so am now finally catching up with the DVD that just came out...
I'm halfway through the 13 episodes and it keeps getting better and better...shame it never caught on....
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Friday, October 23, 2009 10:18 AM
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
HO......LY......SH*T......
That was INTENSE!!!
It's The Blair Witch meets The Exorcist...
Absolutely Top 5 scariest movie I've ever seen!!
I probably won't get a good night sleep for a few weeks after this one... 
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Saturday, November 07, 2009 3:56 PM
MODERN FAMILY
Been lovin this new show...
Probably my favorite network comedy since The Office.
This is a must see for fans of Arrested Development!
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:11 AM
SONS OF ANARCHY
(again....2nd HOTD on one page...this may be a first!)
The Fall & Rise of SAMCRO....
Tonight's episode RULED!
Hands down the best show on TV at the moment....
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:00 PM
A SERIOUS MAN
The new Coen Brothers film is another masterpiece!
Set in a Jewish community in 1967 (the year I was born BTW), this film nails it all on the head!!
Easily Joel and Ethan's most personal film to date and is surely in my Top 5 of their body of work (which is saying a lot!)
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:17 AM
LARS ULRICH
Went to see Metallica last night at Madison Square Garden with my family and my bro Chris Jericho...
I need to say that Lars Ulrich is one of the classiest guys in the business...
After the first song of their set, he sent his assistant to our seats to get us so Melody and Max could watch the show from the stage.
We watched the whole show from "his world" (with his son sitting with us playing air drums along with his dad all night!) and he would come over to hi-five Max and Melody and chat with me between songs....
Meanwhile, Metallica played the most ridiculously awesome setlist I've ever seen them play...rarely played stuff like Shortest Straw, Dyers Eve, Trapped Under Ice...some of the more obscure new tunes like My Apocalypse and Judas Kiss...and of course all the classics. Me and Jericho were buggin the whole time like 2 little kids!!!
Not only was Lars a great host, but Kirk, James and Rob were also incredibly cool hanging out with us afterwards...
Regardless of being one of the biggest bands in the world, Lars is still a true class act...you rule dude!
MP
PS - Sayid from Lost was sitting with us the whole time too....No, really!!!!
Bummed I didn't snap a picture with him....
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Monday, November 23, 2009 2:56 PM
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM / SEINFELD
What a PERFECT Curb season finale and Seinfeld reunion!!
That could not have been more pitch perfect....
As much as I am glad L.D. is doing more seasons, how the hell do you top that???
ICON...NO-CON!
There's no John, Paul, George and Larry!!
Classic stuff.... : )
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:04 PM
MP's Best Of 2009 Year-End Wrap Up CDs:
1. Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
2. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
3. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
5. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
6. Them Crooked Vultures
7. Megadeth - Endgame
8. The Devin Townsend Project - Ki/Addicted
9. Heart Of Cygnus - Over Mountain Under Hill
10. Animals As Leaders
Honorable Mentions:
Lazarus AD - The Onslaught, Muse - The Resistance, Porcupine Tree - The Incident, Baroness - Blue Record and Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
And of course:
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
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Films:
1. A Serious Man
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Broken Embraces
4. Thirst
5. In The Loop
6. Time Crimes
7. Martyrs
8. (500) Days Of Summer
9. Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
10. Paranormal Activity
** The last few spots are still subject to change for late 2009 releases I haven't seen yet (still waiting to see the new ones from Jarmusch, Solendz, Linklater and Haneke)
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TV:
1. Lost
2. Sons Of Anarchy
3. Rescue Me
4. Breaking Bad
5. Mad Men
6. Eastbound And Down
7. Dexter
8. True Blood
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm
10. Modern Family
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MP's Best Of 00's Decade-End Wrap Up CDs:
Top 10:
1. Muse - Absolution
2. Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows
3. Opeth - Blackwater Park *
4. Spock's Beard - Snow
5. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
6. Endochine - Day Two
7. Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Pts 1&2
8. Metallica - Death Magnetic
9. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
10. Peter Gabriel - Up
Top 20:
11. Between The Buried & Me - Colors
12. Machine Head - The Blackening
13. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14. Slipknot - Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
15. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
16. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
17. King Crimson - The Power To Believe
18. Weezer - Green Album
19. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
20. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
* A special mention must be made declaring Opeth as my "Band of the Decade" as I could have easily listed Deliverance, Damnation, Ghost Reveries and Watershed all in my top 10 as well, but I had a self-imposed rule of only one album per band...
(I had similar issues picking a definitive album from Porcupine Tree, Pain Of Salvation, Mastodon, Lamb Of God and The Flaming Lips who all put out very consistant, quality releases all decade)
And of course the 5 Dream Theater, 3 Transatlantic, 6 Neal Morse, 1 John Arch & 2 OSI albums I released this decade! (not counting any live stuff!)
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Films:
Top 10:
1. City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)
2. Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
3. Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park)
4. Mullholland Drive (David Lynch)
5. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
6. Irreversible (Gasper Noe)
7. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
8. Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
9. Once (John Carney)
10. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
Top 20:
11. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
12. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
13. Dig! (Ondi Timoner)
14. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
15. Kill Bill Vol 1&2 (Quentin Tarantino)
16. Match Point (Woody Allen)
17. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
18. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
19. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
20. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
* Honorable mention goes to Christopher Guest as I couldn't pick just one film between Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration
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TV:
Top 10:
1. Lost
2. The Sopranos
3. Six Feet Under
4. The Office (UK)
5. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. The Wire
7. Rescue Me
8. Sons Of Anarchy
9. The Shield
10. Extras
Top 20:
11. Family Guy
12. Mad Men
13. Dexter
14. Brotherhood
15. Entourage
16. Californication
17. Breaking Bad
18. Eastbound & Down
19. Damages
20. True Blood
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Songs:
1. Opeth - The Baying Of The Hounds
2. Spock's Beard - The Great Nothing
3. Beck - Lonesome Tears
4. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
5. Sixx AM - Accidents Can Happen
6. Keane - Bedshaped
7. Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
8. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
9. Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
10. Bigelf - Counting Sheep
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 4:00 PM
THE COMEBACK
It took me years to get around to it, but I'm finally watching HBO's underrated and forgotten reality TV mockumentary.
Lisa Kudrow's character is as hopelessly sad (and hilarious) as David Brent, Andy Millman and Kenny Powers...
Like The Office (UK), Extras and Eastbound & Down, its a compact run of 13 classic episodes...
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Friday, April 02, 2010 6:22 AM
I must apologize for my lack of HOTD entries.... It's not that I'm not enjoying any new music, films and TV lately...of course I am...as always, I am knee-deep in constant media enjoyment and inspiration...  The lack of posts here are really more due to my frequent (if not daily) posts via Twitter and Facebook. When I began posting my Hero Of The Day posts in The Forum almost a decade ago, there was not "social networking" outlets like we have today.... So as I have begun to utilize things like Twitter and Facebook more and more, I find myself "blogging" here less and less....(however, I am still very active in my viewing, my responses and my overall participation on The Forum in daily threads...) So, it's not to say I may not still occasionally post here in the HOTD section of the site....however, for more consistant posts of music I'm enjoying, concerts I'm seeing and films and TV shows I'm watching and digging, I suggest keep up with my posts on Twitter and Facebook..... www.twitter.com/mikeportnoyDT www.facebook.com/therealmikeportnoy I must also mention that I use my Facebook mainly for "real" friends and family...not fans....(sorry, I need to keep something for myself!!) - so all friend requests will be ignored.... However, I do keep my wall (and some other areas of it as well) open for public viewing by everyone....so feel free to check in what I'm up to and posting... MP
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Friday, April 23, 2010 2:00 AM
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Hands down the best film I've seen this year so far....and I honestly can't picture seeing anything better...
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