Bored? Yeah, me too.
Lucky for us, Time magazine has created a list titled "50 Things to See, Hear and Do This Fall," and it includes movies, books, theater, art and architecture, music, and television that can't be missed this autumn.
I won't list them all, since some of the picks are New York-centric (it is the center of the universe, of course), but here are the more accessible choices:
TV
(all premiering in September)
NBC's "Community," starring Joel McHale and Chevy Chase
HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," featuring a story arc centered around the cast of "Seinfeld"
CBS's "The Good Wife," starring Julianna Margulies:
ABC's "Modern Family," starring Ed O'Neill
PBS's "The National Parks," from documentarian Ken Burns
ABC's "FlashForward," meant to fill the mindf*** void left by the departing "Lost"
Movies
(coming in September)
"The Informant!" starring Matt Damon
"Jennifer's Body," starring Megan Fox:
"Fame," which apparently is going to live forever
(coming in October)
"A Serious Man," from the brothers Coen
"Capitalism: A Love Story," from Michael Moore
"Zombieland," starring Bill Murray as a zombie (yes, please)
Spike Jonze's highly anticipated (by me) "Where the Wild Things Are":
"Amelia," a biopic about Amelia Earhart starring short hair enthusiast Hilary Swank
"This Is It," rehearsal footage from the concert Michael Jackson never got to give
(coming in November)
Sundance prizewinner "Precious," starring Mo'Nique and Mariah Carey
The amazing Wes Anderson's stop-animation film "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Twilight sequel "New Moon" (duh)
"Broken Embraces," starring Penélope Cruz and directed by Pedro Almódovar
"Nine," starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Music
(coming in September)
Nelly Furtado's "Mi Plan"
Supergroup Monsters of Folk's self-titled album
Pearl Jam's "Backspacer"
Mariah Cannon Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel":
(coming in October)
Bob Dylan's "Christmas in the Heart"
Dolly Parton's four-disc set "Dolly"
(coming in November)
Untitled-so-far Norah Jones album
"Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection," 70(!) CDs worth of material
Lil Wayne's maybe-gonna-happen rock album, "Rebirth"
Books
(coming in September)
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
Blood's a Rover, by James Ellroy
Kazuo Ishiguro's Nocturnes
Her Fearful Symmetry, from The Time Traveler's Wife author Audrey Niffenegger
(coming in October)
The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Antony Beever's D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River
(coming in November)
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, a pro-vegetarian nonfiction work
Barbara Kingsolver's return to fiction, The Lacuna:
Andre Agassi's Open: An Autobiography
Stephen King's 1000-page Under the Dome
The late Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes
So... what are you looking forward to most? Did Time miss anything super important?
I must say, I do dig Barbara Kingsolver's books.
But......no mention of the Re:FUSE Festival?
C'mon Time Magazine, get your priorities straight!
Re:FUSE-----downtown's gonna be burstin' at the seems with music for a whole day (and a bit on the night before!).
Re:FUSE --- October 3rd.
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