Mike Score of A Flock of Seagulls may have said he ran so far away, but really he only walked down to the stop sign because his mom said he wasn’t allowed to leave the cul-de-sac. That’s why they had to use aluminum foil and garbage bag dresses to make the video in his basement.
Turns out it wasn’t the train. The rails were crazy.
The original lyrics of “For Those About to Rock” were, “For those about to rock, take a coat, please.”
You can get your Eyes Without a Face with the Face on the side, or you can substitute the face for cheesy grits.*
You don’t have to believe we are magic, it’s just highly encouraged, and would be a favor to Olivia Newton John because she kind of already told everybody we are.
“Another One Bites the Dust” was the inspiration for the TV show My Strange Addiction.
In Glenn Fry’s “You Belong to the City,” the saxophone is played by a California Raisin.
The greatest assumption-of-naked-swimming lyric to come out of the 80s is: “You just took for granted that I want to skinny dip” from the masterpiece “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” by Jermaine Stewart.
Your kiss may be on Hall and Oates’ list, but you know what the second thing is? “The sound of my victim’s cries.” Third? “Fried lips with honey mustard dipping sauce.”
*That one was blatantly stolen from Tom, inspired yet again from my iPod content.
I had a little peek of this season on YouTube to see if it was worth continuing the Super Friends posts and within 5 minutes Wonder Woman was tied up in her own lasso, Robin was hanging by his cape in a tree, and Batman was stuck in a barrel. So I figured the answer was yes.
I only hope it lives up to the first season. It has big shoes to fill, particularly considering this headline from the first season’s DVD:
Here’s some leftover examples of how the first season of Super Friends changed animation heroics forever:
I’m about 3/4 through reading World War Z. I’m loving this book and I can’t wait to see how it’s adapted for the screen. It’s making me contemplate what kind of person or circumstance may cause the patient zero zombie when the zombie outbreak inevitably happens in real life. Theories:
Booger eater
Cleaning the Gutters – strange things amass in those gutters between cleanings
Kristen Stewart, she’s a heartbeat (or lack of) away from becoming a zombie
Silica gel pack ingestion
Any person on My Strange Addiction – you can’t eat ashes and pillow cushions and not be one bite away from a walker
Someone finally waits too long to change a litter box
Skinny jeans and jeggings constrict blood flow to the brain, killing all but the wanting-to-devour-live-humans part
There’s got to be a worse consequence for running with scissors than just a simple impalement
Strobe lights
Somebody’s gonna make a wish and it’s going to be misinterpreted by the genie. Something like, “I want to live forever because I love food and never want to stop eating it.”
Grapples, I don’t trust them
One time, at a flea market, there was a bunch of boxes filled with toys. I was sifting through it, and I found a rusty saw. I think if I had hit the rusty saw end first, and not the handle, I may have been patient zero
Mega jet lag
We run out of things to fry, and people are the only thing left to try
On the right of this blog is an Amazon affiliate banner. Yes, it’s an affiliate link, but it’s also a little list of the things I’ve been watching at any given time, like a lazy, non-personal journal. It’s over that way ======>
But, I also like to occasionally talk about what I’ve seen, and so here’s some of the stuff I’ve watched over the last few weeks:
Things I Hadn’t Seen Before:
1. Downton Abbey. Everyone kept blabbing about how good it was, and it’s generally not my kind of thing, but if something’s good, and it’s taking a segment of the population by storm, sometimes I feel left out. So, Tom and I watched the whole first season (or “series” if you’re British) over a weekend. It’s pretty addictive. It caused a few tweets from me:
Although, I have to say, the second season is getting a little too far fetched for me (we’re watching it as it’s being shown on PBS). I feel like unrealistic decisions are being made by the characters for the sake of suspense and tension. And, quiet suppressed emotion really does drive me up the wall eventually. Just say what you’re thinking, for God’s sake! It reminds me of this Eddie Izzard bit:
2. REC Spanish zombies! I liked this movie. It’s only 78 minutes long, and you know what? It doesn’t need to be any longer. It has very good pacing, and considering the situation the characters are put it, things move swiftly, as they should. The movie was re-made in America – Quarantine – essentially shot-for-shot. I haven’t seen Quarantine, but I can’t imagine there’s anything in it that would improve upon REC.
3. The Public Enemy I’d never seen a James Cagney movie before. I thought it was time. Good lord does he have charisma. It was made in 1931, so it does have early film pacing, those kinds of awkward beats that seem like a play is being filmed, if that makes sense. Jean Harlow, who I love in Dinner at Eight, hasn’t quite gotten her style together yet. She reads her lines in of the strangest cadences I’ve ever heard. The DVD we watched had a whole segment featuring Martin Scorsese explaining why The Public Enemy is one of his favorite movies, and THAT I really loved.
4. Big Trouble in Little China I loved this so much. You know what the best thing about this movie is? The fact that the whole plot makes no sense but Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) has no idea what’s going on, either, and he just goes with the flow, so you do, too. Kurt Russell is so good in this movie. I found a compilation of Jack Burton being confused about what the hell is happening and it made me laugh all over again.
Things I Had Seen:
1. Spinal Tap The local theater showed this the other week, so I got to see if for the first time on a big screen. We own this movie on DVD. The DVD has commentary from Spinal Tap in-character and it’s hilarious. It’s like a second movie. There’s so many good moments in this movie. My favorite is the entire Stonehenge segment, but it’s just filled wall to wall with jokes.
