| All Music All the Entry |
[Jun. 20th, 2008|02:42 pm] |
I like the new Coldplay album quite a bit, especially second single "Viva la Vida."
"Chinese Democracy" is actually pretty good, amazingly enough (torrents widely available).
Falco "Re:Loaded" is my favorite mashup album in quite some time.
There are quite a few other excellent mashups out there right now, though, so by all means, do _not_ search for "SF Bootie" if you do not want to find any of them.
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Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" (which, is that menstrual in meaning?) is going to be one heck of an annoying song of the summer should that come to pass. I far prefer the idea that "Viva La Vida" will overtake it, preferably very soon. |
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| Leona Lewis and the Venture Bros. |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|06:47 am] |
For whatever reason, I really like the Leona Lewis single "Bleeding Love". It reminds me very much of pre-"This Fire" Paula Cole, which was fairly excellent stuff.
Also, should you have lots of money to spend/waste (and by this I mean that I did and thus did this myself), there is a set of, no kidding, 14 Venture Bros. Shirts available for the low low price of only $250.00 available here:
I can not imagine this will go over well when my wife reads this, but there one has it. It was, alas, a no-brainer, and I will not be spending any money on Amazon this month (or next, and perhaps the one after it). |
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| 30 Rock is the new Arrested Development |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:45 pm] |
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I figured this out in the season finale when Alec Baldwin says "Rome wasn't built in one day" and the Christian fundamentalist politician says "You have no proof of that!" in the deep background. Easily the funniest smart show that isn't on cable (which is to say it is still not South Park) |
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| South Park |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:37 pm] |
Yeesh! It is exactly like the Simpsons was in their best seasons, which is to say about 14 seasons ago. They take a basic premise and then just go 14 worlds of weird away in whatever digression Trey feels like. The episode that precipitated this, by the by, is "Britney's New Look" which feels just so so wrong on so many levels. That a paparazzi would recognize that Kyle is not Britney by saying "She doesn't have a camel-toe" is, um.
That there are "Frankenstein" and "Wicker Man" references within 5 minutes is absolutely amazing. Trey is much smarter than people realize - perhaps the smartest person working in television. Keep in mind that, like Sorkin with the "West Wing", he writes the damn thing himself.
Except as regards smartest people working in TV, see above. |
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| Music Update |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|09:30 am] |
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I know it's been um, 17 weeks, which tells you exactly how enthusiastic about the song I have most loved since Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" - and it is another pop track. I know that my level of estimation will take a beating for this, but the track is "Little Miss Obsessive" by Ashlee Simpson. In all fairness I love it profoundy probably because of the Timbaland production which is beyond incredible. My heavens, though, is it wonderful. I haven't listened to a song on repeat this often since "Possesion" by Sarah McLachlin back about 12 years ago. That is interestingly because with the exception of "Never Dream Alone" I really don't like the album very much. |
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| Harry Potter five movie-wise |
[Dec. 22nd, 2007|10:56 am] |
So it is better than the book which is interesting and kinda great (incidentally the only of these films to be better then the source material other than Cuaron's entry at about book three which was fantastically weird enough to be different than the book, if not better). I think, maybe, hiring a no-name director, er, David Yates, was the best thing this series could possibly do because, let's face it, J.K. Rowling's ideas and characters were always miles better than the prose.
I kinda hope Yates directs the last two. There is a lot of difficulty, in terms of even if this episode has people standing on boxes next to Daniel Radcliffe in order to make hime look smaller which is kinda silly for 15 year olds which I have cousins that were 15 and were about 7 inches taller than me, they need to make 20 year olds look like 16 year olds. I'll let that one go.
I can say that I think the concept of "Tonks" and as her appearance in the film, there is no such thing as more sexy than that with the exception of my wife, of course. Holy Smokes.
That she [SPOILERS} dies [SPOILERS] in the last volume really makes me bitter about the series.
She was easily my favorite character, not just in the series but possibly ever in fiction and so for her to die regardless of precedent* was unfair.
I love you and goodbye for a long long time.
*Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary are the obvious "this" - women sin and then the die, except Tonks _didn't DO that_. It counts as an unfair character death similar to Wesley in _Angel_. Which Joss admits would not have happened should the show have not ended.
Again, Love. |
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| Hip Hop Covers by people you wouldn't expect |
[Nov. 8th, 2007|06:09 am] |
Or maybe you would if you knew the people involved. I'm referring to the excellently weird covers of Baby Got Back and Straight Outta Compton by Jonathan Coulton and Nina Gordon respectively.
As I've now listened to these a bunch a times whilst linking etc, and I'm sorry that the latter is a link to a youtube video, but I can't find a legal link, I like that latter very much more than the former. Nina Gordon, however, just sort of turns my crank, so your mileage* may vary.
Oh, and also, I can't not edit this to include the awesome Alanis cover of My Humps, which is just a really funny video, as well as kinda a great version of that song. Mind you, I'm seven months late on all of these, I think.
Kisses.
* I was considering attempting to change the culture as it were by moving mileage into millage, which is much more likely of a phrase for me, but everybody would almost certainly think I just suck as a speller. In any case - all future usages here mean that you millage may vary, spelled exactly correctly as such. |
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| Tegan and Sara - The Con |
[Jul. 28th, 2007|09:55 am] |
Yeah, The Con is at least as good as you expected it to be, which isn't much, but it is fucking great, so there is that for you.
I watched Oliver today in its entirety for the first time in at least 20 years (I suspect the total is closer to 29 or so) and it is really pretty god-damn awesome in a lot of ways.
How the cynicism of it missed me the first couple of billion times around I am not sure (similar to how I missed the greatness of T.Rex previously though heaven knows I had listened to it previously). But it is great, forgiving Ron Moody's performance as Fagan as both unspeakably villainish and also Jewish. That part does bother me a fair amount. But, his "I think I better think it out again" is funny as all get out if one can just assume that he's a jackass villain as opposed to a stereotypically Hebrew one, which he is, and which my father pointed out, only Mel Brooks is allowed to make fun of at this point. This is fair, though unfortunate, humour-wise, as genocide does precede humour.
I am depressed thinking of this, but I did think about Joss Whedon's observation (though should the writer of this observation find this blog, I am more than happy to correct as I adore all of Angel's writers and know them name-wise) about how memorizing Rogers and Hammerstein's lyrics for lawyers was a brilliant idea both in terms of having, no doubt, observed it, and in practice.
Last thought: "The Con" really is great on a lot of different levels.
If you've ever like Tegan and Sara's work previously, jump onto this album, I think, and you shall be pleased. It is goofy/weird and it has synthesizers, which I admit is strange, but I _love_ it. |
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| Musical musing |
[May. 25th, 2007|07:12 am] |
This morning (from about 4:45am) was spent listening to music and thinking on it, and I really don't have any real revelations, though I do think that Paul Simon is, if it is possible, under-rated as a lyricist. Boy, are the lyrics on "Bookends" very good from beginning to end.
But a revelation of sorts, though not self-generated, alas, came when I stumbled upon the video for "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" discussed here earlier by Snow Patrol and Martha Wainwright. For reasons having to do with falsetto voices, I assumed Martha Wainwright would be, perhaps, cute. In fact she is not cute - she is hot. That is interesting in my opinion.
Also, she is either _very_ tall, which is to say slightly taller than I am, or there is some interesting camera trickery going on because Gary whatever from Snow Patrol is, according to Wikipedia, at least, 6' 4" and she comes up above his chin.
Edited later to add. More musical reasearch done. I kinda like Rufus more now that I've listened to more of his songs. His "Across the Universe" cover is fantastic*; better than the Fiona Apple one; and he has decent song-writing skills. We shall see how this musical detour goes . . .
* If you know a fair amount about music, which is about where I am, then you will particularly like the Gibson Les Paul jangly sound used on the second and third verses. That it is fairly subtle is, in itself, a sort of genius. I guess it is sort of music for people that _really_ like music, or that _really_ liked that song very much. |
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