Make It Stop – Page 5 – Los Bastardos Reunidos

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 // 2 Comments

Is Nothing Sacred

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevtduydWGU

I don’t know if Wonka is public domain now, but no one needs this English understudy.

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 // 2 Comments

Girlfriends…

There are so many scenes I’ll probably never get tired of.

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 // 4 Comments

I Will Sell You The Brooklyn Bridge

So says The Unnamed Artist John Cleese, who will let this non-fungible masterpiece go for $69,346,250.50.

More here.

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 // 9 Comments

The Worst Thing You’ll See All Week

Mrs. Renfield and I were discussing bad 70’s TV shows, and I suddenly remembered laughing my ass off at this episode of CHiPs, where Erik Estrada et al. turn their forensic skills on solving death threats against satanic rocker, “Moloch.” They don’t go to any trouble to hide their inspiration for Moloch, who apparently is so revered that he can get away with one-song concerts. This is even worse than I remember, and I post with deepest apologies.

December 17, 2020 // 3 Comments

Content Farm

Disney pays like $15 million per half-hour Mandalorian episode, so it’s no problem to get all these actors back for new shows. More is better, right?

November 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Lady Gypsy

We can all relate.

October 19, 2020 // 3 Comments

More Light-Hearted Fare

On Hulu tomorrow.

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

Wait There’s More

Sorry.

This guy is a performance poet from the 70’s. I’ve never heard of him.

September 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

Ouch

They DO intersect, and someday I will prove it!

September 8, 2020September 9, 2020 // 8 Comments

Don’t Watch After Eating

I hate the songs of Jimmy Webb. He won a jillion Grammy’s, and he’s regularly named as a great songwriter by people who really should know better (Bruce Springteen and some others). At his best, his songs are merely annoying, melodically vapid, and oozing with gooey sentimentality (his songs for Glen Campbell: Galveston, Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get To Phoenix). At his worst, they are also pretentious (McArthur Park) and stupid beyond all description (Up, Up and Away, McArthur Park again). I once played Richard Harris’s original hit version of McArthur Park to my older son, who was certain I was playing him a comedy record. If you’re so inclined, above you can watch him perform what could be the worst song ever written with such bone-headed earnestness that you may find yourself wanting Anton Chigurh to walk up and do his captive bolt stunner thing on him. I didn’t even make it to the infamous “cake out in the rain” part (surely the dumbest metaphor ever devised). In a way it’s funny, but mostly not. My question to you bastards: am I incorrect? If any of you are Jimmy Webb fans, can you clue me in as to what’s good about him? Did he write some hidden gems I’ve never heard? Because based on his biggest hits, I don’t get his reputation as one of the greats at all.