Joel Keller

Ever had one of those days where you buzz around and your mind goes a mile a minute, as if you just spiked your dark roast with some Red Bull? I’ve been feeling that way for almost a week. I think it’s because I’m actually getting some sleep. I’ve been sleeping while hooked up to one of these machines (in fact, the very model I linked to) for the past month and, boy, do I feel like I’m shot out of a cannon most days. The only problem is, I’m now waking up at 6 in the morning because the quality of my sleep is so good. I guess I should start jogging or something…

Anyway, for those who were curious, here is my TV Squad interview with Barry Williams (he played Greg Brady, remember).

Here’s a fun feature I did on TV Squad last week: Five Biggest Cheers mysteries. Ken Levine, one of the main writers from the show, responds — very funnily, if that’s a word — on his own blog.

Of course, now that the writers are back to work, I’m back doing reviews of How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs and The Riches. You can find those under my TV Squad posts at this link.

If you were ever curious about what my fellow Squadders looked like, wonder no longer: here is a collage of our motley crew. Click on each picture for a profile.

Finally, I’m dipping my little toe back into the tech game after almost a two-year hiatus, with two articles on the Inc. Technology website:
When to fix your server yourself or call in support.
When to download a security fix.

I am not shy to say that despite the fact that I’m a straight male from New Jersey, I’ve always been a fan of Gilmore Girls. I started watching the show in season two, mainly because I had an unyielding crush on Lauren Graham and enjoyed watching her in whatever failing TV show she was in (her guest stint on NewsRadio is one of the first places I saw her, I think). But I was sucked in by Amy Sherman-Palladino’s funny, rapid-fire dialogue, the quirky characters she wrote for the idyllic town of Stars Hollow, CT, the buddy relationship between Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, and the difficult and frigid — but loving — relationship between Lor and her parents.

Anyway, after seven seasons — the last two of which were not as good creatively as the first five — the show aired its season finale last night. As with all the new episodes that have been on for the last year-and-a-half, I reviewed it for TV Squad. In short: I enjoyed the episode and thought the writers tied most stories up nicely, and the ones they didn’t tie up had satisfying conclusions. After such a bumpy season, it was a surprisingly understated and well-done finale. I’m going to miss the show, and I hope Graham (and Kelly Bishop, who plays matriarch Emily Gilmore) gets a chance to go to another show where she’ll show her skills and maybe get the Emmy voters’ attention. She sure as hell deserves it.

(UPDATE: I just found a blog entry I did about GG two years ago. It was in a “double-secret” blog I did in order to audition for my current job at TVS. It was good blogging practice, and I might have kept it up if, you know, someone didn’t decide to actually pay me to write about TV.)

For a number of reasons, I didn’t get to as many movies at the Tribeca Film Festival as I wanted to. For instance, I couldn’t get in to see either The King of Kong, a documentary about a man who sets out to set the world record high score on Donkey Kong, or Autism: The Musical, a doc about a group of autistic students trying to put on a school musical. Oh, well. I guess I can always find them on DVD in a few months.

Anyway, here are my final two Huffington Post dispatches from Tribeca:

Here are some blurry cell phone pictures I took at the ASCAP Music Lounge, a fun TFF event for industry people attending the festival. In the photos, singer Ben Lee closed out his show by leading a sing-along from atop the bar at the Canal Room.

Finally, here’s a review of the movie The Killing of John Lennon.

Click here for HuffPost’s Tribeca coverage.

Here are two HuffPost reviews I wrote about movies I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival:

Review of Lovesickness, a Puerto Rican movie about three painful but funny love triangles (the most recognizable star in the movie is Luis Guzman).

Review of Chasing 3000, a sweet family film that chronicles two brothers’ road trip from LA to Pittsburgh so they can witness Roberto Clemente’s 3000th hit in person. Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly, among others, are in this one.

More reviews to come later in the week…

Busy weekend for me, as I saw four… count ‘em… four movies at Tribeca this past weekend (three of them yesterday alone). Reviews of two of the four movies are already up on HuffPost:

Review of Jamie Kennedy’s documentary Heckler.

Review of the crime drama West 32nd, that explores the Korean underworld in New York City.

You can read HuffPost’s complete Tribeca coverage here.

A question for all of you who have been kind enough to comment here… why are all of you commenting on my first-ever post instead of the latest one? Is it because you’re reading down and that’s the last post you read before you decide to comment? Or are you trying to comment on a more recent post but it’s getting posted on the first one? I’m curious..

Anyway, for the second year in a row, I’m reviewing Tribeca Film Festival movies for The Huffington Post. My first review, of Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist is here.

Click here for HuffPost’s complete Tribeca coverage.