Last Update - October 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM EDT
The 'Reading And Viewing List' for October 1 through October 10, 2011 contains title links and snippets from places Junior visited at the beginning of October 2011.
Film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news clippings are featured this time.
October 10, 2011
POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 6, Lightning 5, SO
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
Winning Ugly – Two points are two points, and every goal is a rocket from the slot in the box score. But neither coach is likely to be overly happy about his team’s performance in tonight’s sloppy, ugly yet fast-paced and exciting game, a 6-5 Capitals win over the Lightning that required a skills competition to determine a victor for standings purposes...
Talking Point: do you stream TV more than movies?
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest
Netflix have revealed that 60% of their US subscribers prefer to stream TV shows instead of movies. Does this fit with your own online habits? I've only ever streamed a few movies online, and because the quality was sub-DVD standard (with no surround sound), my choices were always old "classics" I'd never ordinarily bother to buy or rent...
Impressive entry for Spain’s WRC counter
Posted at WRC.com
A total of 62 crews will contest Spain's round of the World Rally Championship later this month with 20 new-generation World Rally Cars appearing on the provisional entry for the mixed-surface event, which runs from 20-23 October...
Thin Lizzy - Live in London 2011
Posted by Racer at The Ripple Effect
...Phil can never be replaced. He remains one of the most galvanizing, mercurial figures in rock history. But the new version of Thin Lizzy playing his music are good. Damn good...
...So really, the question is the front man. Who could do it? Who has the balls and the proper charisma to take the place of Phil on stage. Talk about being set up to fail! Well, let me tell you, the Lizzy boys couldn't have found a better man than Ricky Warwick. Nothing in his resume of the Almighty or New Model Army prepared me for what I heard...
October 8, 2011
Postgame Notebook: Capitals 4, Hurricanes 3, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
No Place Like Home – The Caps kept their good home karma going with a 4-3 overtime win over the Carolina Hurricanes in their 2011-12 season opener at Verizon Center on Saturday night...
Doctor Who Encyclopedia on Book and iPad
Posted at Doctor Who Online
BBC Books recently confirmed that the latest revision of the Doctor Who Encyclopedia, compiled by Gary Russell and out on 13th October, will be released as both a book and an iPad app...
October 7, 2011
Lady Gaga To Front Queen?
By mdome at Classic Rock
...Talking to the Daily Express, the guitarist had this to say about the idea: “We talk about going out on the road all the time but there’s a bit of a singer problem to put it mildly. We get a lot of offers to work with other people. I worked with Lady Gaga and she’s very creative and is someone we’ve talked...
Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com
McLaren's Jenson Button seemed to rule the roost in Japan, dominating the timesheets in both opening practice sessions, but with changing track conditions affecting proceedings, the pecking order is yet to be settled. All the drivers, and senior team personnel, reflect on their early progress at Suzuka...
October 6, 2011
The David Tennant Years DVD Collection
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog
Lucky fans in America have a big shiny new Doctor Who boxset to look forward to as BBC America gear up for the release of The David Tennant Years on 11th October 2011...
Nativity 2 Update
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog
Doctor Who Magazine has reported on the fact that David Tennant is attatched to the BBC Film Nativity 2 which is of course a sequel to the Martin Freeman film, Nativity, which was released in 2009...
...Earlier this year Debbie Isitt spoke about the possibility of a sequel to the original Nativity!
BBC cost-saving measures announced
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest
...The radio and daytime TV cuts I can live with, but a BBC with no foreign imports and less entertainment shows doesn't fill me with happiness. But BBC1 is set to benefit, as it becomes an even bigger focus of the BBC, and the corporation's promised to invest more in comedy/drama. I think we'll have a better idea what this has done to the quality and output of the BBC in a few years time, but it's definitely a concern...
Alice Cooper Hosts Horror Night
By mdome at Classic Rock
Alice Cooper is to have his own horror movie night in London on Friday, October 28.
It will happen at the BFI, where Alice will discuss his love of the genre, accompanied by clips from some of his favourite movies...
Motorhead: New Live Release
By mdome at Classic Rock
...It’s titled The World Is Ours Vol 1 – Everywhere Further Than Everywhere Else and features the band’s entire set from Santiago, Chile, filmed on April 9 this year, plus selected highlights from gigs in New York and Manchester on the last tour. Thee will also be new interviews...
Ripple Library - Spray Paint The Walls: The Story Of Black Flag
by Stevie Chick
By Woody at The Ripple Effect
Leave it to an English writer to tell the tale of one of America’s greatest bands. Given the long standing bad vibes that continue to exist between most of the key players it’s a good thing that someone with an outside perspective decided to deseed Black Flag’s dark history...
FIA Thursday press conference - Japan
Posted at Formula1.com
Drivers - Jerome d'Ambrosio (Virgin), Jenson Button (McLaren), Paul di Resta (Force India), Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber), Heikki Kovalainen (Team Lotus), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)...
October 5, 2011
Interview with Biff Byford of Saxon
By Miguel at The Age Of Metal
...The Age Of Metal had the chance to talk with Biff Byford lead singer of the band, during their stop here in Tempe, AZ last night, we talked about the new album, their current tour, the band, and their legacy, this is what he told us:...
October 4, 2011
Entertainment Media Special
By Martyn Havell, Pete and Chris (The Pharos Project) at Bad Wilf
In which Martyn, Pete from Bad Wilf and Chris from the Pharos Project attend the Entertainment Media Show and bring you interviews with...
...Dave Prowse...Eve Myles...Arthur Darvill...Paul McGann...
Tom Baker Signing at St Michaels Hospice
Posted at Doctor Who Online
...The signing will take place on Sunday 30th October at The Arthur Eastern Centre, St Michaels Hospice, Upper Maze Hill, St Leornards on Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0LB, between 12-4:00pm [GMT].
Tom will be signing photographs on the day and all proceeds will be going to the hospice...
Scorpions To Release Album Of Re-Recorded Songs
By mdome at Classic Rock
...They have done a new version of Still Loving You with French Pop Idol winner Amandiner Bourgeois, and this is currently being streamed here...
Loeb felt for the fans after France exit
Posted at WRC.com
World champion Sebastien Loeb has told his official website that one of the most disappointing aspects of his retirement from Rallye de France Alsace was a feeling that he had let down his thousands of fans...
October 3, 2011
Rock Radio To Change Its Name
By mdome at Classic Rock
...They claim that the emphasis will still be on classic rock, and veteran radio DJ Tom Russell is being retained in Glasgow. But a number of other DJs have already left, with the new schedule yet to be confirmed...
Hirvonen: title race wide open
Posted at WRC.com
Mikko Hirvonen says a thrilling climax to this year's world championship is in store after he drew level with Sebastien Loeb in the standings in the aftermath of Petter Solberg's exclusion from Rallye de France Alsace on Sunday night...Nogier: Solberg exclusion a disappointment
Posted at WRC.com
Benoit Nogier, who oversees the running of Petter Solberg’s Citroen DS3 WRC in the World Rally Championship, has spoken of his disappointment following the Norwegian's exclusion from Rallye de France Alsace...
October 2, 2011
Postgame Notebook: Capitals 4, Blackhawks 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
...In Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks, the Hawks picked up where they left off in Friday’s 4-3 overtime win over the Sabres. Washington was dominant in the first 30 minutes of Sunday’s game against Chicago, and when the Capitals – leading by a slim 2-1 margin at the time – did hit a lull midway through the second period, goaltender Michal Neuvirth was there to deny Chicago’s ongoing bid for the tying marker...
BREAKING NEWS: Petter excluded from rally
Posted at WRC.com
Petter Solberg has been stripped of his third place on Rallye de France and excluded from the results altogether after his Citroen DS3 was found to be under the regulation minimum weight for a World Rally Car...
October 1, 2011
Season finale review: 'Doctor Who' - 'The Wedding of River Song':
All at once
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com
...Steven Moffat laid out such a complicated story arc for himself this season that "The Wedding of River Song" had an awful lot to live up to. It had to explain how the Doctor wouldn't die at Lake Silencio - since, great as Matt Smith is, no one has any intention of having the series end with him - had to tell us more about the Silence and the Question, provide the kind of emotional resolution to the Amy/River/Melody story that "Let's Kill Hitler" didn't have time to, and more...
DOCTOR WHO, 6.13 – "The Wedding Of River Song"
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest
...I'm all for big ideas, expensive location work, and lashings of special effects, but it's ultimately a brilliant story and engaging characters that keeps me watching. There was some of that here, but it had a tendency to get lost in the noise, like a mother reading a fairy tale in the middle of a booming music festival...
