Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
Some dude bought Hammer Films a few years ago and is restoring the catalog in 4K – from the original negatives! I found the YouTube channel and watched a few trailers; these things are absolutely stunning.
Anyway, here’s an eight-minute video explaining the process. I understood some of it.
I think I’ve mentioned before that my dad drove one of these briefly. I would push both of my grandmothers down the stairs for one now.
Anyway, enjoy or don’t.
And I’m super-excited to see his take on Frankenstein, apparently something he’s wanted to do for years. Even if it sucks, it’ll be gorgeous. Available on Netflix November 7, you monstrous bastards!
Oh, and if you haven’t checked out his Cabinet of Curiosities from a few years ago (also on Netflix), you definitely should.
I’m all in on this one, mostly because the FF was one of my favorite comics as a kid. I mean, Ralph Ineson is Galactus? Come on!
We’ve discussed Pachelbel’s annoying Canon, one of the most loved and hated of works. Here’s a version I can almost get behind. This is played by some early music specialists (who are good when they stick to early music) in a way Pachelbel would recognize, and unlike the arrangement you usually hear, it actually moves along. On the other hand, the lush, syrupy version heard in waiting rooms, elevators, and businesses seeking an ambience of upscale exclusivity, is a 1960’s arrangement by the French conductor Jean-François Paillard. It doesn’t move; it just sits there and oozes. And it takes way too long considering it’s the same damn thing over and over. It’s a heavily romanticized take on a baroque piece, sort of equivalent to Muzak Beatles.
When the early music version was released, some purchasers angrily returned it because they wanted the jewelry store version.
While writing this, I was trying to remember what TV ads featured the Canon. I incorrectly remembered it as being in one of the Grey Poupon ads. A quick YouTube search revealed that one of those ads used part of one of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. When I arrive in the Great Beyond, J.S. Bach is going to KICK MY ASS. Because the Canon is still trash; it’s just way better trash when played fast.
Yeah, I’m a dork.
Out on 4/20, of course!
And also …
MJ was last year’s reluctant golden boy. I wore the record out, and love this video. He’s from Asheville, so my kid and I went to his record release at a record store and I saw him two nights at the Orange Peel.
Football season is over of course, but you can use these for any sport. It’s not like Latin had a real equivalent for “touchdown” anyway.
Sequimini, sequimini, facite ut pilam relinquat!
Pursue them, pursue them, make them relinquish the ball!
Illos repellite, expellite, compellite ad fugiendum!
Repel them, expel them, compel them to retreat!
Utinam vincamus!
Oh, would that we would score!
Volebamus atque volemus pilam trans metas deponi!
We have been wanting and shall continue to want a touchdown!
Those are from Latin For All Occasions, by Henry Beard, a Classics major who went on to co-found National Lampoon. For years people gave me books like that.
Here’s a bonus (under “LATIN AT THE AIRPORT”) that might come in handy as we enter the imperial era:
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Stand aside, plebeians! I am on imperial business!