Based on the trailer, It seems like the Coen brothers are trying to merge No Country for Old Men with O Brother, Where Art Thou?. While that might sound like a snarky knock against the movie (it isn’t), I really do want to see it. I’ve been excited ever since Mike told me it was getting made.
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Gonna Go Back In Time
Per a conversation with Kelly on Friday night, there are many plot holes in Back to the Future that trump the argument about whether it would still be called Clara’s Gorge if still she didn’t die in it, or whatever that argument was. Cracked seems to be obsessed with this also, because here is a timeline of other plotholes followed by a video about strangeness in the movies:
Why ‘Back to the Future’ Is Secretly Horrifying — powered by Cracked.comAnd on the topic of Cracked.com, did anyone know about the loophole where some guy beat the system on Press Your Luck? Here is the video of him doing it from the article.
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Everybody Say Oh Yay-Yer
On a second watching, “Be-Weave” was not that funny. Here are a bunch of attempts to make up for that.
Via PRI’s The World, check out this retro-soul band from Australia called The Bamboos. Most of their songs are pretty good, but on their current album one of their songs is sung by a guest singer who calls himself King Merc. The story behind him is amazing (if it’s true): He was mistaken for a soldier of fortune and was imprisoned on a Pacific island stockade for 20 years where he passed the time signing in the prison church and listening to the only record available, Al Green’s “I’m Still In Love With You.”
While not on NPR or Amazon‘s top 50 Albums of the Year So Far, I have really enjoyed the “Home” by Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeros and “When My Time Comes” by Dawes.
How about that new Brandon Flower’s video? Not satisfied? Just want Killers? Well they played the White House Lawn for its 4th of July Party and did “God Bless America.”
More music that is on heavy rotation lately is Big Boi’s Mixtape For Dummies. It’s basically a bunch of previously released Outkast stuff mixed together to promote his new solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot, the Son of Chico Dusty.
I think Louis CK is hilarious, and the videos I’ve seen so far from his new show look equally as hilarious.
Sometimes movies go straight to video because studios can’t figure out way to market them. Videogum proclaimed “Operation Endgame” the best straight-to-video movie ever; with Adam Scott, Zach Galifianakis, Rob Cordry and a bunch of others, I really hope so.
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Classic Movie Updates
Just when I thought I would have to wait until 2015:
Thank goodness for people that are smarter than I am,
And just in case you missed it (cause Google Street View didn’t), Wayne and Garth are still trying to find Piccadilly Circus.
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TAMI Show
I first heard about the TAMI show (Teen Age Music International) from Little Steven and was really excited when it was finally released on DVD about a month ago. Then I watched it the other night and I can’t recommend it more. It features performance by: Chuck Berry, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Barbarians, Marvin Gaye, my girl Lesley Gore, The Beach Boys, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, The Supremes, Jan and Dean, James Brown and The Famous Flames and The Rolling Stones. It was recorded in ’64, so everyone involved is pretty young. Also, the sound is really good on all their live performances (no lip syncs, overdubs or backing tracks). In fact the house band is the famous Wrecking Crew, the session musicians that play on almost everything that came out of California in the 60’s. Terri Garr is a Go-Go dancer in the background and… sorry, I just really like this movie.
In other large music gatherings (and to make this post even longer), Lollapalooza finally announced their schedule and are selling single day passes. For once they put all the bands that I would pay to see on one day, Friday. Kevin has already mentioned that he will go on “whatever day the Strokes play;” who else is in?
Ps. Kevin/Mike, you are both better wordsmiths than me. Can we try to win this Strokes Stageside contest? It starts today!
