I know, I know, the Beatles were better at the music, the Beach Boys were better at major sevenths, Chuck Berry was better at the lyrics, and Little Richard was better at falsetto. Carl Perkins was better at being down-home, Billy Lee Riley was better at crazed-cat rockabilly, Buddy Holly was better at bringing pop into [...]
Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
Elvis is still the King!
Posted in Celebrities, Elvis, Movies, Musicals, Performers, Religion, Satan's Favorite Bands, Soul Music, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Haunted House of Horror
Posted in Albums, Bands, Celebrities, David Bowie, Ghosts, Movies on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is one of those films that you know kind of sucks but you still have to see. I usually hate spoilers, but I just have to say it: Frankie Avalon gets stabbed through his dick in this movie! There is a crotch stabbing, and the Big Kahuna gets it! And you also get to [...]
Beverly Garland RIP
Posted in Los Angeles, Movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Obituaries, Television on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Beverly Garland died this week. The press remembers her mostly for her television work, and as a Roger Corman B-movie actress.
I remember her as both! Who can forget Swamp Diamonds on Mystery Science Theater 3000?
And let’s not be hasty and forget Gunslinger!
Milk and Sylvester and Neil Young!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Electronic Music, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Songwriters, Soul Music on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw Gus Van Sant’s Milk last night. Of course it was great and moving and sad and informative. And of course Sean Penn wowed us with his performance, even though we already knew it was going to be good.
But amidst all the drama and sadness and history, I got a little nugget of [...]
Sarah Palin and the Fabulous Stains
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Movies, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, tagged Diane Lane, Sarah Palin, the Stains on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I watched McCain’s concession speech last night, which was actually a fantastic and warm speech. Say what you will about the ugly campaign McCain ran, and his warmongering attitudes toward foreign nations, his lust over offshore drilling, and his crummy voting record. I think this dude is still the man he was eight years ago [...]
RuPaul stole my idea!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Other Stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Songwriters, tagged drag queens, Montana, RuPaul on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every good idea deserves the disappointing crush of learning you weren’t the first to think it. And I got that sudden jolt tonight after watching an old Project Runway with RuPaul on it and doing a little research into his/her film career. I’d always thought my drag queen name would be “Rachael Tension.” But it looks [...]
Paul Newman RIP
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Comedy, Movies, Obituaries, Performers, Personal Shit, tagged actors, Obituaries, Paul Newman on September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the best actors in filmic history died today. Paul Newman, the other guy from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the guy whose star shone so brightly that even Tom Cruise looked like Oscar material when standing beside him, finally lost a battle with cancer.
You’ve got to give credit to Paul Newman not just for his good-natured humanitarianism [...]
Marat/Sade
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Love, Movies, Musicals, Personal Shit, Politics on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a fantastic film, one of my faves, an adaptation of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, the Peter Weiss play that provided Arthur Lee of Love for some of the lyrics for “The Red Telephone,” as you [...]
…and Elvis covered the Bee Gees!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Movies, Performers on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The King never ceases to amaze me. Not only did he cover the Beatles, but he even covered the Bee Gees! Here he is, doing “Words.” And a damn fine job he does of it, too.
Elvis covered the Beatles!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Movies, Performers, The Beatles on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe all y’all Beatles/Elvis fans knew about this, but I think it’s pretty damned amazing that Elvis Presley covered the Beatles’ “Get Back” in 1970.
Maybe this was Elvis’s spoils of war moment–he’d finally outlived the Beatles as a force of rock, even if he was far less relevant than they were [...]
