A few things

1 - I think that my Halloween theme will be Halloween cliches and tropes. I want to see your awful Dracula costumes, your green wicked witches, your randomly sexy for no reason anything. I think I'm gonna be a pirate. Feel free to blow off the theme if you want. Just dress up!

2 - I wrote up the crazy mess that is The Hobbit movie over at Pop Bunker. Check it out: http://www.popbunker.net/2010/09/hobbit/

3 - I should get my pretty new shiny tomorrow. Hooray!

4 - Please remember I have two concerts at Benaroya Hall coming up on the 16th and 17th. The Saturday show is in the afternoon and the Sunday show is in the evening. There will likely be pumpkin beer after the Saturday show for me.

What else, what else... There was something else but I can't remember. I'll remember later, I'm sure.

Updates and entertainment

So, the first week of Fall TV is over. All in all, I was surprised. There were a few bigger surprises than others.

The Event - Geeze, guys, how much jumping around in the time line do you need to do? A lot of vague followed up by some more vague isn't really a mystery I'm interested in following.

The Undercovers - A lot of fun. I really recommend this. We'll see if the chemistry can keep things interesting. Since this is JJ Abrams, I'm sure there will be some sort of longer term plot at some point, though if this stays at all in the vein of Scarecrow and Mrs. King or Moonlighting, I'll be happy.

Chuck - Solid, all around. I'm pretty happy with this show. It keeps things interesting by continuing to change things up.

Hawaii Five-O - I had heard bad things about this and while some of them are dead on, this isn't a bad show. It is /very/ popcorn and Hollywood action but that doesn't make it a bad show. I'm hoping that we get a little more the Grace Park's character than 'Hey she's hot' soon, though.

Smallville - I didn't predict this. I was going to watch for the cameos (Terri Hatcher is going to be Lois' mom!) but they managed to put out a pretty solid season opener. Clark is still a little whiny for me but everyone else is strong enough that it works. They've done a great job working around the lack of Michael Rosenbaum so far.

The Walt Disney Company announced this morning that Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy will be available on November 22. I cannot wait. Everything I've heard is awesome.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Captain America: http://io9.com/5648452/captain-america-gallery/gallery/11

Mark Ruffalo says the Hulk won't be purely CGI in The Avengers - the monster will partially be rendered using motion capture based on him.

Black Widow is seemingly getting her own movie spinoff. I'm markedly neutral on this news. Widow was much better than I thought she would be in Iron Man 2 but she wasn't scene stealing good, either.

The casting call has gone out for Edward and Bella's half-vampire daughter Renesmee. Good luck?

A one Mr. Moffat on River Song: ""That's absolutely coming. You're going to find out very soon, and that means we have to do it next series, really… The critical thing here is I want to explain who she is, not explain away who she is."

Oh my.