Month: August 2009

Friday various

  • I think it’s great that Monty Python is being honored for outstanding contribution to film and television, and I hope some or all of the show is recorded and made available. But I can still remember when Python reunions were rare events, and a little part of me kind of misses that. That said, when I read the award ceremony would be held in New York, I absolutely did wonder about the possibility of getting tickets. (Unlikely, I know, and probably just as well. That’s the evening of my sister’s wedding rehearsal — which, as a groomsman and her brother, I should probably attend.)

  • Speaking of comedy reunions, the Kids in the Hall are get back together again…for a murder mystery miniseries? It sounds interesting if nothing else.

  • Remaking Yellow Submarine? In “that creepy 3-D motion-capture technology” used in The Polar Express and Beowulf? Okay, Robert Zemeckis needs to be stopped.

  • So you say you’ve never read Bradley Denton’s award-winning SF novel Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, and you’d like to do so before the movie version comes out? Well, Mr. or Ms. Hypothetical-Type-Person, you’re in luck: Denton is making a free, Creative-Commons-licensed copy available at his website. (And at ManyBooks.net.) It’s been years since I read the book, but I remember being pleasantly surprised at the time. I think it’s time I re-read it.

  • And finally, ladies and gentlemen, the Batman fish. Whatever happened to the gilled crusader? [via]

Random 10 8/21

Last week. (Although I’ve been posting so little recently that you barely need to scroll down.) This week:

  1. “Little Earthquakes” by Tori Amos, guessed by Occupant
    We danced in graveyards with vampires till dawn
  2. “Kiss Me Til it Bleeds” by Nina Gordon
    He’s a Saturday night and Sunday morning rolled into one
  3. “Sympathique” by Pink Martini
    Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre
  4. “Wonder Wheel” by BomberGirl and the Mechanic
    I wonder how I will get her back into the skies
  5. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band, guessed by Occupant
    He was in a bind ’cause he was way behind
  6. “If You Change Your Mind” by Rosanne Cash
    You know where you’ll always find me
  7. “Teach Your Children Well” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, guessed by Betty and Occupant
    They seek the truth before they can die
  8. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears, guessed by Occupant
    When they do I’ll be right behind you
  9. “The Sh*t Song” by Loudon Wainwright III
    And a weaker bathroom light bulb just might take care of it
  10. “Wig in a Box” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, guessed by Kim
    Suddenly I’m Miss Midwest Midnight Checkout Queen

As always, good luck!

Random 10 8/14

Last week wasn’t the greatest showing — three out of ten — but there’s always this week, right?

  1. “Another Lost Summer” by Blanche
    The love I planned to sing about never came along
  2. “Got that Vibe” by Afrika Bambaataa (feat. King Kamonzi)
    Fight the great evil and all the envy
  3. “What a Diff’rence a Day Made” by Dinah Washington, guessed by Occupant
    It’s heaven when you find romance on your menu
  4. “Where I Find My Heaven” by Gigolo Aunts
    Hey Monday mornin’ is only for the brave
  5. “Sunny Afternoon” by the Kinks, guessed by Occupant
    He’s taken everything I’ve got
  6. “Rock, Paper, Scissors” by April McLean
    I don’t expect you to get it at all
  7. “Life on Mars” by David Bowie, guessed by Occupant
    From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
  8. “I Gotcha” by Joe Tex, guessed by Occupant
    You shouldn’t have promised if you weren’t gonna do it
  9. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by the Beatles, guessed by Clayton
    You were perverted too
  10. “Luna” by Smashing Pumpkins
    What moonsongs do you sing your babies?

Guess the lyric, win no prize! Good luck!