Jeff Beck at 78.
Best Break-Up Song, College Years
An article about the late, great Rykodisc label sent me down the rabbit hole this morning and I arrived here. What a great song!
The Horror
I’ll see you there.
You Don’t Look So Good, Mom….
This looks fun. I don’t think Rami directed it, but is producer. I never saw the 2013 Evil Dead. May need to rectify that.
Confession Time
I got curious last summer about CREEM’s return as a quarterly and subscribed. The first issue felt like it was trying way too hard and I didn’t even read much of it. However! The second issue just arrived and I’m taking the time to check out some of the featured acts. It’s a lot of Gonerfest-type bands, but not all. Here’s a sampler …
A Bastard Christmas
Merry Antichristmas, Bastards
https://youtu.be/9qcr708w1HY
I bring you … Jazz Sabbath!
0:00 Fairies Wear Boots
6:03 Evil Woman
11:37 Rat Salad
16:03 Iron Man
23:11 Hand of Doom
30:20 Changes
36:06 Children of the Grave
Throw Money At It
I’ll be watching Glass Onion, on account of I liked the first one in the series. Netflix blew $450 million on two installments of the Knives Out franchise, presumably because the initial film cost $40 million to make, and did over $300 million box office.
Good luck recouping your investment!
Netflix also shelled out $1 billion with a “B” for The Rings of Power, which is Tolkien content from his sparse writing about the Second Age. I can’t imagine how much The Silmarillion would set them back.
Anyway, as a true Tolkien nerd I’ll say it’s comically off. Not just “hey we’ll edit George RR Martin a bit and Game of Thrones will really zip!” but “we’ll compress centuries of characters into shit that never happened or makes sense and people that never interacted and throw Weta Digital and 20 VFX houses at it.”
Supposedly the Tolkien estate signed off on it but it’s hard to believe. Maybe as a non-Tolkien story it’s fine for some people, but I wouldn’t know as I already know who the major characters are and bring all that baggage to it.
[n.b. I realize you all hate Tolkien, but I love his prose and his attention to detail, layers, and backstory. The Elven languages were created because he felt that gave a “whole cloth” feeling to the stories. For me, it works. I appreciated LOTR more after reading The Silmarillion.]
Pitch Meeting, as always, succinctly captures whatever the hell is supposed to be happening.
ABC
Which reminds me, I’m overdue for a Glengarry Glen Ross re-screening.