T3 86: Top 10 Cover Songs

The story of the video game Rock Band, as well as its sequels, is the story of how the world’s greatest cover band eventually becomes the most popular group of all time. Here at Mildly Pleased, we’d like to believe that could happen someday. I mean, is that really such a far cry from what things are already like today? Don’t all the most popular artists play music that sounds exactly the same? What if it was literally the same? These are the musing of an old, bitter man. I am not that man. I found his notes and thought them worth printing here. You could say I “covered” them. Heh.

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Pitching Tents 10: Young Adult Fiction (Featuring Kollin Holtz!)

It’s the future. The bad future. The one where it’s been more than two months since the last Pitching Tents. Now our only hope is a young woman with a lot of determination but very little ability to actually drive the plot. It’s up to her to be bossed around by all the men in her life! Only she can not decide between which of the two guys who have a crush on her gets to live to the end of the story and get with her! Only though thinly veiled social commentary can we succeed!

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Stream Police Ep. 16: Shakespeare in Love

It’s an Oscar Extravaganza on Stream Police! Who gets to walk the red carpet this week? Why it’s good ‘ol Bill Shakespeare from the 1998 Best Picture Winner Shakespeare in Love. If that wasn’t enough, listen to Michael and John dish on this weekend’s prestigious award show. Who will take home the gold? Why the listeners of this podcast of course!

T3 85: Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 2015

I’m not so sure about Ant-Man, everybody. Marvel’s been on a hot streak because they’ve always put passionate, talented fans behind the camera for every single one of their movies. This was supposed to be the ultimate realization of that, a project Edgar Wright had been working on since 2006 (that’s two thirds of Boyhood ago!) but now we’re getting something with a modified version of the script from Adam McKay and star Paul Rudd directed by the guy who did Yes Man which is not a movie about a super hero who always gets his way. And I guess all that has dulled my excitement Where have I put my anticipation instead? Find out on this week’s Top Ten Thursday!

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T3 84: Top 10 Movies of 2014

There’s something really tricky about top 10 lists. When you don’t have a list at all, when you just have to name a movie your favorite of the year, it’s actually not that bad. It seems like it would be, but usually there’s just one movie that you truly, truly want to stand up for. And top fives, well, top fives are great. Again, it’s never too hard to choose five movies that you think are especially worth noting. But a top 10, that’s hard. There’s something so damning about not making your top 10, so finite about that cutoff. And worse, when it gets to the back few spots, it’s almost always the case that the movie you would put at something like number 14 could just as easily have been your seven. It’s really hard, especially if you’re trying to be funny and a little insightful along the way. Let us show you just how difficult it is on this week’s podcast.

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T3 83: Top 10 TV Shows of 2014

Well, so I’m pretty sure everyone had an exciting day today watching the Seattle gridiron team come from behind to earn their tickets to the Big Game in overtime. That was a game so exhilarating, you might need a little help coming down. You gotta cool off, right? You’ve got work in the morning. Maybe we can help with two hours of TV talk. Listen in if you want to hear John, Sean, and Colin dissect the various entries in their TV top tens and try to determine the overall favorite shows of the year. Yeah, that’ll help you cool way off.

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Stream Police Ep. 15: Santa Claws

It’s January 17th and you know what that means, only 341 days until Christmas! To celebrate this festive time of year Stream Police has reviewed the iconic 2014 family-holiday film Santa Claws . We’ll also talk about some of our Christmas favorites and some of our not so favorites. Isn’t it Exciting? Or do you think I’m just trying to come up with excuses for why our Christmas episode is three weeks late? Well no one will ever truly know the answer to that question, except for the omnipresent being that is Santa Claus. Happy Holidays!