The Useless Critic 2.0

So hello early hours of Wednesday morning. From reading many of The Useless Critic posts, you can see that NBC sitcoms are favorites. So for the last few days, I have been catching “Outsourced” nonstop on the internet. Why? Because it deals with Indians and people that don’t have Indian names like Rebecca Hazlewood. It is so nice watching all the names of Indian actors, Anisha Nagarajan Parvesh Cheena Rizwan Manji, And then see Hazlewood. For some reason, that might make you want to get Stoned! But Rebecca Hazlewood gains the s/s for more than just appearing in a late NBC sitcom. It turns out she is rather keen on the blogosphere herself. All her information is available on Wordpress, and so visit here. It is not run entirely by her, but it is a more perosnally interactive blog They have some great photos of her posted. http://rebeccahazlewood.wordpress.com/ And of course thanks to her name, I get to post another video from "Motherfucking Lee Hazlewood." You know he has bee...

watch SOME VELVET MORNING, which is pretty trippy . and as is the video. Before there was Zooey and Matt or Dean and Britta or any of those other cute male-female duos that occupy important spaces in mainstream music (I guess it's arguable about that last pair), there was Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood . I feel it's criminal I overlooked them until my 20 th year of existence, when I listened to one of their albums on a whim after getting a job at my local zoo. It was a rainy May; I was stuck in the basement; the album was totally streamable on last. fm . (not so anymore!) This is a pair that's as American as baseball or apple pies. Kids should listen to their catalog in elementary school, along with the music of Woody Guthrie, Ke $ha and the Gershwins . If my parents had been more into music, I wish they would have made me listen to them as a small child. I think I would have loved Nancy and Lee as a toddler, as a kid, as an adolescent. Their music conjures up thoughts ...