One of those most anticipated new shows is the highly touted prequel to Sex and the City—The Carrie Diaries. The show, starring Anna Sophia Robb begins on January 14th on the CW network. In it, a teenage Carrie Bradshaw is trying to get her footing in life and dreaming of becoming a writer in New York. She's also dealing with the common issues of high school students like who to date, what to wear and how to become a strong individual. All of that plays into what molds and shapes Carrie into the woman she eventually becomes. It's also when she begins to get a passion for fashion and a yearning for the opposite sex.
While there are obvious nods to the later Miss Bradshaw, The Carrie Diaries also offers something unique that the older show did not. If it can maintain that freshness, it stands a good chance of survival. However, if it tries too hard to mold itself into Sex and the City too early, it may quickly lose its audiences. A delicate balance must be achieved between the old and the new. Tune in to see if the show can achieve it.
NBC continues to try to strengthen its TV lineup with a new drama called Deception. Starting January 7th, the show centers on the suspicious death of a young socialite. An FBI agent played by Laz Alonso recruits the girl's former best friend, who also happens to be his girlfriend, to work undercover to break the case. It's Joanna's (played by Meagan Good) job to uncover whether the girl was murdered or committed suicide.
Fraught with enough twists and turns to keep the most dedicated thriller junkie happy, there will be a lot of information for the average viewer to retain and process. For that reason, the show may not be for everyone. However, those who love ABC's Revenge will probably like Deception as well. The tone of the plot is similar while being just different enough to intrigue as well as captivate.
NBC continues to try to strengthen its TV lineup with a new drama called Deception. Starting January 7th, the show centers on the suspicious death of a young socialite. An FBI agent played by Laz Alonso recruits the girl's former best friend, who also happens to be his girlfriend, to work undercover to break the case. It's Joanna's (played by Meagan Good) job to uncover whether the girl was murdered or committed suicide.
Fraught with enough twists and turns to keep the most dedicated thriller junkie happy, there will be a lot of information for the average viewer to retain and process. For that reason, the show may not be for everyone. However, those who love ABC's Revenge will probably like Deception as well. The tone of the plot is similar while being just different enough to intrigue as well as captivate.
The members of the memorably named Cosmic Slim and His Intergalactic Plowboys admit they are getting rather advanced in age, but this fact of life, that we all must encounter someday, has not vanquished their life-long love of music.
In fact, by all accounts, time has only made it more potent. They still have an unending passion, as their motto states, for "touring the cosmos for your listening pleasure."
They describe their brand of music as eclectic, and there is truly something for everyone. Ultimately, the band plays what they personally find interesting and fun, and that can become pretty much anything. For this reason, they joke, "one thing is for sure, we aren't in it for the big bucks."
"Some us come from Folk, Country, Jug-Band, and old-fashioned Rock 'n Roll. And sometimes we'll just jam away on some Grateful Dead stuff," says the band.
"For example," they continue, "in an old jug-bandy kind of song, which are usually pretty straightforward harmonically, the jazz guy will occasionally throw in some of those 'ambiguous' chord voicings. Or we'll be doing an old boogie-woogie kind of thing, and suddenly you're hearing a finger-picked electric guitar, or a bass line that feels more like a Texas Shuffle. And imagine the thrill of doing a sweet old Blues Ballad, when the Pedal Steel speaks up!"
The Pedal Steel player is Tim Bowles, who indeed has a "long and glorious history" around the Worcester music scene. He has been a member of such local acts as The Trailers, Prudence and the Plowboys, the Prairie Oysters, and Dave Pike's Good Old Boys. Two other members of the band are legends of the Worcester rock n' roll scene as well, Rick McCarthy on drums and the newest member Phil Nigro on guitar.
The rest of the band consists of the three friends who met while attending Clark University back in the late 60s. Guitarist Rick Levine, bassist Bill Fisher and keyboardist Sten Gustavson played together in college before going their separate ways. Rick and Bill went on to help form the Prairie Dogs, while Sten moved to Arizona. Despite the distance, they stayed in touch.
"We've reconvened off and on since then, and this 'Slim' thing happened."
This "Slim" thing happened in a perfectly ordinary fashion. Once again, the common story of a bunch of guys coming together out of a unitary desire to play fun music.
"You need to know that this whole thing started out as just a weekly jam. Yes, we always intended to bring it out, but basically this is about us having fun doing tunes we find interesting," they said.
As a young and quite unique creation with a non-traditional sound, they will play basically anywhere that will have them.
"We'd like to find that mix of fun and dancing rooms and 'listening' rooms. Something like a coffeehouse that would be happy with a 6-piece, all-electric-except-for-the-drums eclecto-improvisatory experiment that's always riding the line between art and a trainwreck!" they joke.
For those residents of the cosmos lucky enough to experience a performance by thw band, they can succumb to any number of possible emotions. Which one of the musical genres from their wide repertoire the band chooses to play depends on the context and setting in which they are placed.
"We do some tunes which are simply fun -- people out in a bar will dance and enjoy themselves," they said. "But then there are other things we do which are more for listening. We hope people enjoy them, but 'fun' would probably not be the right descriptor. These are the things you might more commonly hear in a coffeehouse or lounge setting."
But no matter what they choose to perform on a given night, they recognize the one important quality that unites all music, that truly makes music an art form in every sense of the word, i.e., its ability to stir special, potent feelings in both the listener and the musician, feelings that really can't be created by any other type of event.
"It's a fascinating exercise on a personal level. You're trying to bring technical skills to create or recreate an emotional event. We've been playing around with the idea for a long time now, and we still find ourselves asking 'How can that possibly work?' But it does. It's the almost magical part of artistic endeavors."
The band's music can be seen as purely improvisational, almost chaotic. They don't even consider any one individual a traditional 'frontman.' In other words, they are a 'band of sidemen.' But it is an organized and welcoming chaos that they bring to the music world, and after all, can't all music (and indeed the cosmos) ultimately be described in such a way?
"In a group context, the teamwork aspect is a thrilling kind of challenge. Our stuff is pretty improvisatory, but even when you're playing a tight arrangement, you're constantly listening and adjusting to what's going on. Lots of practice and repetitions make it more predictable, but you never quite lose that constant, unspoken sort of dialogue that's going on underneath the song," they explain in terms all true musicians can understand.
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