The age-old adage goes "The thing about running is: Nobody else gives a shit about running." Cardio, it seems, is something my more active friends subject themselves to in order to become better at some other athletic activity (lifting, skiing, handball, dancing). Me, I just want to be a runner ( Read more... )

It's not often I get blown away by a music video (I've even heard convincing arguments that the Age of Music Videos are long gone), but I need to share this four-minute masterpiece:

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The song itself is in French, but the choreography and filming perfectly expresses the story on its own. (After a while I even realized that the title -- the despaired ( Read more... )

I was researching how to get hold of more of the Fantômas books when I came across an odd little tidbit of pop culture: A monotonous yet creepy song from 1933 called 'La Complainte de Fantômas', or The Ballad of Fantômas. It's even available on SpotifyHad it been five or six verses long it'd be a fairly listenable song, but no, it has TWENTY-SIX ( Read more... )

I suddenly got curious about the existence of comic-centric songs and the internet proved me right. The only problem with songs in various "Top X songs written about comics" lists was that A) Like Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man', they weren't actually written with comic book characters in mind, or B) Like Wings' 'Magneto and Titanium Man', they weren't ( Read more... )

Okay not all of them were subpar, I was happy every time I got a fourth-wall joke and a mellow Crosby love song - ANYWAY: I've watched all the Bob&Bing Road movies! Why oh why did they make that last one. Why did they replace Dorothy Lamour (who was still looking great!) with Joan Collins. Why.

I think Road to Utopia still is my favourite. Might ( Read more... )

I was so certain I'd watched To Have and Have Not years ago, but it kept nagging in the back of my mind, so I sat down to watch it yesterday - and no, I hadn't (a bit like The Big Sleep, only I've watched that several times and yet I can never remember it). As much as I love both Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, I have some trouble keeping the ( Read more... )

Elvis' religious music is probably the part of his discography I'm the least familiar with, but that song really stands out for me.

For completion's sake I'll mention some runners-up, though:

- (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame: So catchy and energetic, and I love that rhythm.
- We're Gonna Move: Maybe I'm influenced by how this song is a fun ( Read more... )

I also watched Pink Floyd: The Wall, which was more or less exactly how I'd expected: Uneven student film with some good music and absolutely astounding animation.

Gerald Scarfe does some completely amazing stuff!

Okay so Porco Rosso was cute and inventive like I expected it to be, but just not very satisfying from a storytelling perspective. It's probably my least favourite Hayao Miyazaki movie so far, but hey - the Ghibli animation alone was worth it. Not to mention the Roald Dahl reference ( Read more... )