Am I the only one who didn't know this was originally a movie? It comes on tonight on one of the Encore stations. I'll obviously have to watch the thing.
Friday, July 31, 2009
They Might Be.. What the?!!
Am I the only one who didn't know this was originally a movie? It comes on tonight on one of the Encore stations. I'll obviously have to watch the thing.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Copy-edited speech
At the risk of contributing to this odd national movement to keep Sarah Palin in the headlines (I'm talking to you, Shatner!), I thought this was quite amusing, particularly her apparent inability to tell the difference between Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
76 is the new 68, unless it's the new 57
Caught the Nelson, Mellencamp, Dylan show last night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Great atmosphere and a perfect evening for this kind of show, although the $9 beers dampened my spirits a bit.
Nelson was great, as always, cramming 20 songs into 60 minutes. He was in fine voice and playing well. He has really become a kind of twisted jazz soloist over the past 20 years. His lines are strange but beautiful- one of the underrated greats on the instrument.
Mellencamp, the youngest buck at a mere 57, put on a very entertaining show. After the sound was adjusted during the first couple of songs, the band sounded fantastic. Lots of hits (Hurts so Good, Pink Houses, Small Town, Check it out, Rain on the Scarecrow, Paper in Fire) and a few from the new one, which were good enough to make me want to check the album out. Pretty intimidating to be sandwiched between two legends, but he and the band really pulled it off.
Dylan. Well, Bob was Bob. Great band, very rough vocals, and sketchy song selection. With Dylan, it is more like a trip to Mecca or the Vatican. You do it because you should. I don't know exactly how entertaining it was, but I love and respect the guy for doing it how he's doing it. Highlights were a pretty ripping version of Highway 61 and my favorite from Love and Theft, Tweedledee Dum and Tweedlede Dee.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
74 is the new 40
Leonard Cohen is one of those guys I gave up on ever seeing live several years ago. I was pretty excited when he embarked on a tour last year that has met with critical raves and resulted in the excellent 'Live in London' album. Still, it looked like the tour was going to finish without me getting a chance to see him. Until........it was announced yesterday that he will be playing in November in DURHAM at our (relatively) new Performing Arts Center, just minutes from my place. Tix go on sale next Friday- wish me luck. Any of you other bastards want to come see history?
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Kind of neat
iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.
You can download the font here.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I Want To See This
It's been a slow summer for must-see movies, but I do want to catch this one in the theater.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Speaking Of British Sitcoms
Anybody heard of The IT Crowd? I've only caught a few episodes, but the basic idea is that two IT nerds, relegated to the basement, fuck with (and suffer the indignities of) everybody in their building, including their clueless manager, Jen.
The Latest in Retro
Bastardo Heroes Cheap Trick are releasing their latest album, coincidentally titled 'The Latest,' on the thought-to-be-extinct 8 Track format. It seems pricey at $30 (vinyl is $20), and I don't have a player, but you can buy it here.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
*&%# Neighbor
Since we've returned from our Summer Sojourn 09 (WA, ID, Vancouver BC, NY, DE), we've had a run of bum luck. Caroline's Prius wouldn't start yesterday after sitting idle for almost a month (guess those batteries need chargin'); I'm suspicious that our AC isn't working correctly; and worst of all, our neighbor is attempting to chop up a rather large tree in her yard with an ELECTRIC CHAIN SAW. Which, instead of a manly noise of destruction, makes a whiny yelp of a sound, and has been for the past two hours. Shit.
Behind The Scenes Of The Shining
Stanley Kubrick's then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian, was allowed to shoot behind the scenes on and around the various sets of The Shining. That footage was then edited into a 35-minute documentary called The Making of the Shining, which is a rather ambitious title for what this actually is, but it's worth watching just to see Jack Nicholson get in character before the "Heeeere's Johnny!" scene.
Who's your favorite bastard?
Catchy Tuesday
The Weakerthans, a Canadian band I learned about courtesy of NPR's All Songs Considered.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
My Mustang
This, my friends, was my first car. Not the same kind of car as my first car, but the actual one -- we sold our '66 Mustang convertible to the man in the driver's seat.
Damn, she was sweet, and oh, how I abused her! We would go out biscuit doughing* in this car, just to get angry people to chase us. This car had a Pioneer sound system that disturbed neighborhoods I wasn't even driving through, and had a modified 289 engine that would fly. It's where I first jammed The Sex Pistols, Killing Joke, Oingo Boingo, The Smiths, Gen X, Billy Idol, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cramps, King Crimson, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Flock of Seagulls and many others.
Its windshield was once smashed by a redneck with a tire tool who I had fucked with on the hallowed grounds of Harding Academy. And one perfect night in late summer of 1985, I was driving around with the top down, listening to ZZ Top with an adult friend who tried to impress upon me the specialness of what we were doing. I didn't get it then, but now I do.
Ah, youth is wasted on the young!
*An activity that involved throwing biscuit dough at the windshields of cars driving in the opposite direction, to invoke outrage that would cause targeted cars to try to catch us. Some chased, but never did catch us, not even the cop car we once inadvertently hit.
Bruno - Swing and a Miss
I think SB Cohen misread the level of American homophobia in this film. Maybe 10 years ago this movie works, but today it really doesn't: he simply can't find effective butts for his jokes.
In Borat, the humor is clearly at the expense of the people who are outraged at his character. In Bruno, his targets are surprisingly tolerant of his over-the-top, in-your-face fagness. He gains some traction in the middle east and at a supposed ultimate fighting cage match, but in his encounters with real people, he has to create the humor himself -- his victims do not do him the favor of supplying the humor the way they did in Borat.
Bruno is an editor's nightmare: 20 minutes of good film and a 90 minute film to make. It's at best a renter, and probably disappointing even as that.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Big Star Story, Behind The Scenes
Check it out! This documentary about a criminally overlooked Memphis band appears to be actually happening.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
As if you cared...
For The Punters that are still paying attention, new Bob, Neko and Ian MacLagan are out there. Neko looks best in her underwear, so her pic gets posted.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
One More
The wife and I were discussing the previous posts about things that scared the bejesus out of us as kids, and she brought up this one, the trailer for Beyond The Door, which inexplicably ran during prime time. Somehow I missed it, but it's pretty scary now.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Spreading the Awkward
Firmly in the grasp of the Friday f.offs, I've spent the last hour laughing at the awkward family photos of strangers. Some of it reminds me of the old douche bag hall of fame, where the captions add to the fun. Check out the Awkward Family Photos blog sometime when work is too much like work.
Catchy Friday
Not the type of thing we usually listen to on Fridays, but you can't deny that its catchy.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Speaking Of Bigfoot And Terrified Children
This series, particularly this episode, scared the living shit out of the eight year old me. Anybody else watch In Search Of when we were kids?
Another episode, which led me to believe that I only had a few years to live, can be found below ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Imaginary Monsters
This scene from The Legend of Boggy Creek scared the living hell out of me when I was little, haunting the late night bathrooms of my youth. To see it now, I can't believe it's the same scene. My memory and youthful imagination had the creature dramatically crashing through the window, hairy arms grasping for the fellow on the pot beating an absurd retreat. It makes me wonder what other movies, stories, situations and grade school teachers that I remember as horrifying were actually nothing.
Happy Canada Day!
I know most of you Bastards are xenophobes, but maybe Andrew has time for this- the western half at least.
Control
This was hands-down the best music biopic I've ever seen. Not that there are any others that are good (maybe 'Buddy Holly Story' and 'I'm Not There'). I can't say I know much about Joy Division, but the kid who plays Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) is spot on, and the music is great. It is, of course, very dark and I won't spoil the ending, but... they didn't change it for Hollywood.
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