Remember that movie where Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot? Yeah, me neither:
It even inspired a decent comment on YouTube:
. . . it’s fun to pretend he’s playing the same character as in Firefox. Why wouldn’t they give the job of stealing a Soviet superplane to the man who won an air war against a giant spider?
UPS letting me know my Rock Band pedal is out for delivery even though EA claims it still hasn’t shipped + a slab of Grateful Dead tracks. Along the same lines, this story made me smile as well, though I wonder if such a manager ever existed. It’s a great approach to teamwork that applies regardless of discipline.
Interesting to me for the bits they discovered in well-known songs’ master tracks:
Even a seminal punk band like the Clash yielded some surprises. Even wonder why the drums sound so good on “I Fought the Law”? Because there’s two drummers on it (or more likely, drummer Topper Headon recorded his part twice)—something that became clear when Brosius picked the mix apart. Thus, the drum parts you play in Rock band are a composite of those two original drum tracks. The Spanish backup vocals that you’re used to hearing on the middle verse of “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” originally ran through the whole song; and the parts are still there on the tapes—You can hear a little more of the Spanish bits on Rock Band than you can on the record
Congrats on living so long in spite of your winning personality. Of course, why I was expecting a higher level of discourse on a video game board is even more confusing than how someone in 2008 AD misses ancient Sparta.
must be high, because even GM couldn’t afford real celebrities for this Volt event.
Once wins Best Original Song at the Oscars last night (here’s the song in the movie) and today the soundtrack is the best overall selling album at Amazon. Cool. I still wish he didn’t always go to the falsetto when he needed something extra.
This might be enough for me to forgive them for what they did to me in Rock Band with “Electric Version”.
Streamed here. Join me in crushing their servers, won’t you? That video still weirds me out. At least it’s a semi-original spin on the Dylan ripoff.
My mom tells the story of kicking my grandfather, a cop, out of the room whenever they watched Dragnet because he’d constantly be yelling at the screen. I think I’m next for that treatment with Lost. The problem’s not really Jack, who’s Big Twist is that a well-to-do, masterful surgeon was a better person and happier wrecked on an island. Because I don’t think he was a better person. He seems to be a shrill, inconsistent jerk there too. I will admit I can’t stand his alcoholism is used to indicate this hero can’t cope with the normal world, the vodka-in-the-morning-OJ just a variation on Rocky Balboa’s raw eggshake.
It’s not the fact my first thought after parachuting onto an island, meeting the natives and being stabbed by the natives would be, “OWIE OWIE, THIS JOB SUCKS” instead of “I bet this ragtag bunch of idiots has at least three Proudfoot-class Human Prey trackers. Better make a dummy trail.” Or that one and a half of those trackers would consider it. And have to follow their instincts in private because they were born a woman and thus incapable of making decisions on the island. Even though they’re smarter and cooler.
It’s the appearance of the guy from The Wire. I don’t say it like that because I’m too lazy to IMDB his name, but because that’s what it felt like, like a young kid trying to make up a bedtime story, “And then the guy from The Wire showed up! And he had a Jet Ski! And you were there!” Just like when they hired Brian K. Vaughn as a writer. Like if you walked into the show planning room, there’s no paper on the wall listing “What Happened on the Island”, just a long list of “Things We Think Are Cool”. And they’re only 15 minutes ahead of me. I’m waiting for Craig Finn to be the pilot of the rescue boat. Or for them to hire Steven King to write an episode where Charlie hooks up with other famous dead musicians to cover all of Vampire Weekend’s Blue CD-R.
It makes me think of friends in NYC who try to drop their City Mouse Science in These Modern Times, when you have to say, “Yeah, it’s 2008. We have the Internet. I’ve heard that band too. Yup, I’ve known about that trend for 3 weeks now as well. Sorry.”
Damn you, chico, there goes Friday afternoon. Ladies and gennlemen, presenting Starlet Sea Anemone!
