Month: May 2006

Because it wouldn’t be Friday without it:

  1. What are we living for?
    “Dead End Street” by the Kinks
  2. We were just young and restless and bored
    “Night Moves” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
  3. You know I’d give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind
    “I’m So Tired” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim
  4. Aozora wo kaketain desu
    “Kaze Wo Atsumete” by Happy End
  5. Chickens get a taste of your meat yes
    “Blood Roses” by Tori Amos
  6. I loved to watch her do her stuff
    “Main Street” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, guessed by Kim
  7. Fly through the revolution
    “Fly Like an Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band, guessed by Kim
  8. My attempts to please you were all in vain
    “Til I Fell in Love With You” by Bob Dylan
  9. But it’s different now, I’ve kissed you now
    “Falling” by Roy Orbison
  10. Me and my woman gonna slip off to bed
    “Louisiana Saturday Night” by Alabama/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, guessed by Kim

Guess the lyric, win a prize. Or not. Who can say? Life’s a mystery, ain’t it.

The two remaining from last week are #7 (“I’m Tongue-Tied” by The Magnetic Fields) and #1…which, funny enough, I don’t remember either. That makes two weeks in a row, huh? I’ve got to be better about where I write these things down.

For now, consider it an added #11 in this week’s lyrics. As always, best of luck!

Reading Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and Charles Burns’ Black Hole sort of back-to-back recently has reminded me I really want to get back into reading comics.

I need to figure out where I left off with some of my favorite monthly titles — mostly Vertigo stuff — and take a walk to one of the good comic book stores in Manhattan. (There’s, I think, one really decent store on Long Island, but it’s in Smithtown, the better part of an hour away.)

Seeing this, my first thought was of the Onion AV Club’s Commentary Tracks of the Damned and their “inevitable dash of pretension” category:

Ryan Schifrin, writer and director of the upcoming SCI FI Channel original movie Abominable, told SCI FI Wire that his movie owes a debt to legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.

My second thought was just to laugh:

“It’s modeled after Rear Window,” Schifrin said in an interview at the Saturn Awards earlier this month. “It’s about a psychotic yeti on a rampage. It’s a total creature feature. It’s a man in a suit; it’s not CGI.”

I forget…was it James Stewart or Grace Kelly who played the rampaging yeti in Hitchcock’s original?

I’m proofing a manuscript that’s currently in production. These are author proofs, so they’ve already been copyedited and are full of author queries. One of these queries is about the author’s mention of the song “Papa Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl, recorded by Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, there’s an extraneous space between Streis and and, making them appear as two different words, on two different lines. So the copyeditor left a query for the author, asking who recorded the song — Barbra Streis and…who else?

That I find this kind of thing amusing should tell you a lot about proofing manuscripts.