It’s September and that means the new fall television season is upon us.  This year I’m introducing a new weekly column to the site called The Week In Review (unless I can think of something better).  It’s going to be a tv focused post once a week re-capping what I watched that week and brief thoughts on the new episodes and the direction of the shows.  They’ll be short and to the point.  And like I said they’ll be short musings almost based on single episodes.  Not full blown reviews.  Of course we’ll be doing reviews of as many new shows as possible (using the standard 3 episode rule), but this way I can constantly update with thoughts on how older shows are faring in my eyes.

These Week In Review posts will also be meant to be interactive.  I want people to react to what I’m saying about these shows in the comment and we can have a real discussion about these things.  I warn you I watch a lot of tv.

In other news I am sorry for the slight lack of updates lately.  I’ve been focusing a lot on the re-design and thus it hasn’t left much time to read/watch things to post about.  But I’ve got 2 great posts coming soon and hopefully some more content will get written this weekend.  Oh and also the re-design is gonna kick some ass.

Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands of all time and they’re great in concert as you can tell from the last Great Concerts post.  This week they’re playing NYC and I’ll be there.  So this week I’ll be seeing them 3 times in 4 days and re-counting every show right here on this site.  So happy Pearl Jam week on Media Decay.

PS one of the main computers I use for material for this site died on me and is in the process of being replaced so a few planned articles have been held up, like our next Great Concerts posting that’s way overdue.

Just a quick notice about some changes going on around here.  The biggest is that unless people come and really say they are enjoying and want me to keep doing them, The Real World D. C. recaps are being stopped for now.  I know it’s always annoying when a site stops a feature you like but they don’t get a ton of traffic and there’s no real revenue brought in from them and they take forever to do.  Seriously the average Real World recap takes me about 3 hours, and I’d much rather be using that to write about several things instead of one recap.  If you happen to be a fan of the recaps though let me know and I’ll continue them.  I’m all about you guys.

Second I’m currently working on a complete site re-design that won’t launch for a very long time still, but it’s being worked on.  So you might see posts titled or tagged differently, that’s why, it’s so they’ll look better when the redesign is ready.

Finally we have a great new advertiser.  This one is for all the musicians out there.  It’s Tunecore.  They allow you to sell your music through all the big sites like Amazon and iTunes.  We even have a special discount if you use the link below:

Merry Christmas I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight

We’re going to be putting out a list of suggestions for holiday gifts for you and those you care enough about to give gifts to in a few days but we still need input from you. Comment below with some of the things you want this year and if it’s cool enough it’ll make the list. What’s some awesome stuff that’s come out recently (or ever if it’s really cool) that you’re salivating over?

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So two little bits of site news.  I’ll get the first out of the way quickly: I’m going to be adding a ton of old concert and movie reviews from my livejournal to the site over the next few weeks, but since it’s mostly old material I won’t be publicizing any of it on Twitter, etc.  So there will be a ton of new old stuff, just so that you guys have more stuff to check out.

Now onto the important piece of business: we’re starting a new article series about the best TV episodes of all time.  And we’d love to have your help.  Just leave a comment on this post with the name of the show and the name of the episode or a few of your favorites and we’ll see if they make our final judgement.  If you can’t find the name of the episode try to give us a general idea of it, like the plot, any memorable guest stars, what season it was in, or if you happen to know the exact episode number and title that would be great.

This will probably be a monthly series and will probably start later this month.

Where have we been for the past few days? Well like I said in our previous bit of site news we had some style things that had to be worked out. In doing so I managed to find that a piece of our site has stopped functioning and was making the site basically broken in every single browser except Firefox (or at least the most recent version for windows). You see because that’s how I typically view the site myself, I had no idea exactly when the site broke or how and it was broken in quite a weird manner. Here’s what happened and how I fixed it. Also the other changes I made.
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We’re going to be taking a few days off from any heavy posting, but we’ll be back with a much improved site. And we’ll still have about a post a day.

However we need some help. Leave us a comment with what you’d like to see and how we can improve the site for you. Any input at all will help us out. Let us know what’s working for you and what’s not.

Some of the things already in the works:
-More independent media coverage (smaller bands, indie films, etc.)
-Some fixes to the some style issues
-More posts per day about more topics

Things we need help with:
-Contributors – I cannot stress how much we need some more writers. It’s such an easy process and you can get a lot out of it. Just use the contact page to get in touch if you’re interested.

-Send us your stuff, or someone else’s stuff that you wanna see on here. We can’t cover independent stuff unless we get it. Got a kick ass band who happens to have a new EP or album out? Send us a link to it. Made a film? We wanna see it. Wrote a book? Drew a comic? Wrote the next great screenplay? We want to read them. You get free press for your work and we get content. Win/win. Just contact us using the contact page. We won’t guarantee a good review but you can be assured if we love it we’ll sing it’s praises all over the net. And we won’t share your work with anyone (unless you want us to).

-Comment & Share This site is meant to be a discussion. If you agree with something we say or don’t then please feel free to say so in the comments section. We’ve made it super easy. You can just type a name, e-mail, and your comment. No sign up or login required. Or if you have an IntenseDebate, Twitter, or OpenID you can use that to login. You can also just sign up for a MediaDecay only account under the login boxes at the bottom of the sidebar. Or click here. Also sharing our pages on digg, twitter, stumbleupon, or any of those sites really helps us out big time. There’s buttons on the bottom of every post to do it easily. Also if you’re on Twitter follow @MediaDecay for all the latest goings on.

We want this site to be bigger, badder, and better and it’ll get that way through our hard work and some help from our friends (you guys). So let’s get started.

I’d like to officially welcome you to Media Decay! This site is about everything in your media life.  There’s a lot of stuff floating around out there and I know there are actually people with lives out who are too busy to watch every tv show, go to every movie, listen to every album, read every book, script, and comic, play every video game or see every concert.  That’s gonna be the job of the people writing this site.  We’ll ingest as much as we can and offer them back in 2 styles: Recommendations & Reviews.

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