In his “My Year of Flops” entry on Gus Van Sant’s remake of Psycho, Nathan Rabin wonders:
In what universe does artlessly spelling everything out qualify as an improvement over inference and subtext?
Sadly, I think that universe is called Hollywood.
Month: January 2008
And Easter will last until June!
Around the corner, and at the opposite end of the block, there’s a house that has — and has had since the beginning of this week — Valentine’s Day decorations up. It’s the middle of January, and Valentine’s isn’t until the middle of February. Apparently a month of Christmas wasn’t enough for some people.
Name that tune — if you dare!
This whole “time is relative” thing can get pretty annoying sometimes. On the one hand, I feel like I just got back from Florida a day or two ago. On the other, I feel like this was one of the longest weeks ever. And on the other…wait, I don’t have more than two hands! Whose –?! Ack!
Anyway, I obviously can’t think of anything more clever to say than this:
- “Freakshow” by Ani DiFranco, guessed by Chris McLaren
Life in the circus ain’t easy - “Over the Hills and Far Away” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Clayton
Many is a word that only leaves you guessing - “Veronica” by Elvis Costello
What goes on in that place in the dark? - “River Deep – Mountain High” by Ike and Tina Turner
When I was a little girl I had a rag doll - “Medicated Goo” by Traffic
My own homegrown recipe’ll see you thru - “Spooky Girlfriend” by Elvis Costello
I want to paint you with glitter and with dirt - “Fell in Love with a Girl” by the White Stripes, guessed by RichterCa
My left brain knows that all love is fleeting - “Sunday Morning Coming Down” by Johnny Cash, guessed by Kim
I’d smoked my mind the night before - “Pretty (Ugly Before)” by Elliott Smith
Sunshine, been keeping me up for days - “Man” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
And we’ve got the fever to tell
Guess the lyric, win no prize. As always, good luck!
And I’ll post the answers to last week’s sometime tomorrow, honest. Here are last week’s answers.
You might be Tom Cruise crazy too
You know, I’m not a huge fan of Gawker, but this goes a long ways toward redeeming them in my eyes.
Whither Scrabulous?
Oh…this is very bad news:
Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users.
Lawyers for toy makers Hasbro and Mattel say Scrabulous infringes their copyright on the board-based word game.
I play an obscene amount of Scrabble online using the Facebook application — and in fact see very limited use for Facebook beyond it. If Scrabulous should suddenly disappear, it would leave a large, tile-shaped hole in my being.
Link via Gerry Canavan, who’s not wrong that Hasbro/Mattel should “offer Facebook the opportunity for a license so they can get a piece of the action.” Like him, I’d always assumed this had already happened.