friday night soundtrack

so, friday night lights second season premiered last week & it picked up pretty much where it left off as one of the best shows on television...but i still had a couple issues, most notably, the transition of lovable sidekick landry from geeky comic relief into a semi-serious cast member involved in an over the top movie-of-the-week subplot...what ever happened to his death metal band crucifictorious, i never thought the writers took that storyline far enough...at least buddy garrity's still around to make us laugh...also, how is it that tim riggins, a 17-year-old high school student, is able to stroll through town in the middle of the day with an open beer in one hand & the case in the other, shooting head nods at everyone he sees & then get in his truck & drive away without a single passerby seeming to care...luckily i can overlook a ridiculous scene like that because it was kind of funny...anyways, the music is still top notch; wilco's "muzzle of bees" was used to great effect both in the beginning & end of the episode, as was t.rex's immortal "bang a gong (get it on)" in the opening scene & the brian jonestown massacre's "evergreen" during the aforementioned subplot...can't wait to see what the rest of the season's got in store.

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download: wilco - muzzle of bees
download: t. rex - bang a gong (get it on)
download: the brian jonestown massacre - evergreen

related: apparently, wilco is a pretty hot commodity in tv land right now, not only do they have those vw spots airing constantly, but they were also featured on bionic woman & how i met your mother last week.

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related: more television news, austin city limits 33rd season started this past weekend with a performance from norah jones...here's the rest of this season's schedule:

10/13 - the decemberists/exposions in the sky

10/20 - femi kuti

10/27 - jimmy reed highway: jimmie vaughan & friends

11/03 - wilco

11/10 - arcade fire

11/17 - brad paisley/dierks bentley

12/15 - john mayer

12/22 - lucinda williams/old crow medicine show

12/29 - bloc party/ghostland observatory

01/05 - crowded house/grupo fantasma

01/12 - regina spektor /paolo nutini0

01/19 - roky erickson/kings of leon

01/26 - acl present: the hardly strictly bluegrass festival