Movies

Just looking at random stuff tonight, but this is sad.

Poor girl doesn’t have a chance, 14 and wearing hot pants on Letterman. We all have a good sense of how this ends.

Here’s a link to a download of the new Bond theme song Another Way to Die, by Jack White and Alicia Keys for the upcoming Quantum of Solace.

I dig both these artists. I think if Keys starts to take more risks like this one she can have the Stevie-Wonder sort of career for which she hopes.

The song’s pretty intense from start to finish, but as it progresses the complexity of the songwriting really emerges. Bring in the horn section. Suddenly the harmonies start to become just a little discordant in an aggressive sort of way that hopefully helps the opening credits build excitement. Then Alicia riffs a little scat, trading musical phrases with Jack’s guitar. He’s always been so respectful of the power of the female vocalists he’s accompanied.

The hook in the chorus is catchy, but not super singable … i.e., this may be a hit song, but it won’t be astronomically popular as the tune on people’s facespaces, ringtones, and whathaveyou.

This post offers some great analysis, links, and even two song downloads to celebrate the abiding dude.

Gonzo, the new Hunter S. Thompson doc is out in Larryville today.  In honor of him and of alupa, I submit the following:

Thompson’s 9/11 response.

I can always look at the older pictures of hunter and imagine a crazy-old dude, younger pictures of him always kind of freak me out.

>компютри://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/gonzo/trailer/

But i just can’t say no.

Right now at Best Buy there is a $9.99 bargain-end-of-year-holiday sale on all kinds of really, really bad movies. The type of movie from your childhood. The type of movie that things blow up for no reason. The type of movie where there’s little semblance of a plot. The type of movie that you really wouldn’t want to pay more than $9.99 for.

I just purchased FOUR Sylvester Stalone movies packed together for sale for about $12.00. Tax included. That works out to about .025 cents per minute of bone-crunching, action packed, eye-rollingly lame dialog and otherwise wholesome goodness.

I would highly recommend checking it out, if for no other reason than to say you actually own a copy of Tango and Cash.

“Eye of the Dolphin.”

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/eyeofthedolphin/trailer/

Holy crap this looks bad.

Here is me. At Quik-E-Mart. Yes, that Quik-E-Mart. Yes, that is a Squishee in my hand. Yes, it was delectable.

Unfortunately they didn’t have duff beer, but they did have squishee’s (pictured) astroman comics, buzz cola, sprinklee doughnuts and krusty o’s cereal.

MST3K redux? Finally answers my question why there are no reruns.

I was just listening to Sound Opinions on Minnesota Public Radio and a caller said she “fracking” loves Lily Allen. I love that “fracking” is a common-usage cuss word. The latest issue of Wired uses “grok” matter-of-factly. In fact, this little blog program’s spell-check didn’t even flag “grok” as a misspelled word (though it doesn’t recognize “frack” yet). Am I the only one who thinks it’s cool that nerdy little TV shows and books (no matter how brilliant) with, I imagine, fairly small, niche followings can still influence language and culture the way they do?

Any other words/phrases you think should go mainstream?