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Rihanna – Diamonds

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The lead single off of Rihanna’s seventh studio album Unapologetic, the video for “Diamonds” seems to mirror the chaos the personal life of the singer and her tumultuous on-again/off-again relationship with abusive boyfriend Chris Brown. The soulful but melancholy song isn’t a stand-out comparison to the performer’s earlier work, but the video does a good job matching the ballad to interesting imagery including the singer running down a dark road to nowhere, floating alone in an ocean, and in the middle of a destroyed hotel room slowly being put back together through reverse photography.

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Person of Interest – The High Road

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  • Title: Person of Interest – The High Road
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Reese (Jim Caviezel) heads out in the suburbs to protect the latest number delivered by The Machine, a hardware store owner (David Denman) who Reese names “the most boring man in New York.” However, Finch (Michael Emerson) discovers the real Graham Wilder died two years ago. In order to blend in to their surroundings and find out the man’s true story Reese calls on Zoe Morgan (Paige Turco) to play his wife as the pair move into the suburbs across the street from the whose past has come back to haunt him.

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Burn Notice – Desperate Measures / Means & Ends

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Betrayed by his mentor (John C. McGinley), Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) finds himself trapped in Panama with no exit strategy along with Fi (Gabrielle Anwar), Sam (Bruce Campbell), and Jesse (Coby Bell) as the Burn Notice returns from its mid-season hiatus with a two-hour premiere. With the CIA, FBI, and a Panama drug cartel on their tails (after they steal a plane full of their drugs) Michael has to forgo killing the man (Kenny Johnson) who killed his brother (Seth Peterson) in order to make it home and use Gray to take the fight to Card.

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The Habitation Configuration

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Habitation Configuration
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The return of Will Wheaton (once again playing himself) causes a dust up between the Star Trek: The Next Generation celebrity and Amy (Mayim Bialik) when Will agrees to make an appearance on Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) webseries “Fun with Flags.” Looking for guidance from Penny (Kaley Cuoco), who offers him one too many Long Island Ice Teas, a drunken Shelton shows up at Wheaton’s home to defend his girlfriend’s honor.

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Iron Man #1

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iron-man-marvel-now-1-coverReacting to the success (at least in terms of the money raked in) of DC Comics’ New 52, Marvel moves forward with their own soft-reboot of several characters and titles starting with Iron Man. This new version, written by Kieron Gillen, is certainly meant to appeal to the fans of the current Iron Man movie franchise. Not only does it (not so subtley) introduce one of the big pieces to the upcoming movie but it gives us the Tony/Pepper relationship from the first two films that most mainstream fans are familiar and most comfortable with.

As first issues go Iron Man #1 is actually pretty good. I’m not sure it’s good enough to justify multiple issues a month at $41 (issue two hits stores in two weeks), but I’ll admit I did enjoy this issue. Gillen doesn’t quite have Stark’s voice right but the story plays out well even for those jumping on with the character after a long absence from regularly reading his title (like me). I was also pleasantly surprised by the art of Greg Land. Sure, the woman look porny as hell (it is a Greg Land comic), but I actually really like the look of his version of Iron Man’s current armor.

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