Get Ready Triple
Remember when I used to post a threesome of videos (usually music) every weekend without fail? No, me neither. Anyway, let’s have a trio of music videos that – wait for it! – are all the same song! I know! What am I thinking? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to determine which of the following performances is just so, so horrible it should never have been allowed to live… and yet… it’s wonderful. The Temptations – Get Ready It’s the version everyone knows! Rare Earth – Get Ready It’s white guys who sound like black guys but they’re performing like white guys! My mind: blown! The Brady Bunch Variety Hour – Get Ready I wonder… is this the performance I was referring...
Star Trek Continues
Star Trek Continues starts where the original series finished allowing fans of the science fiction series to experience some more adventures from that five year mission shamefully curtailed by short-sighted television executives. Pilgrim of Eternity is the name of the first episode and you can watch it here; Apollo – who you might remember from the episode Who Mourns For Adonais? – returns to wreak havoc on Kirk and the Enterprise. Star Trek Continues E01 “Pilgrim of Eternity” from Star Trek Continues on Vimeo. Excellently produced with great attention to detail; the set, sounds, lighting, costumes, and story do great justice to the original series of Star Trek. I imagine Gene Roddenberry would approve. Check out the website for details on the cast and crew as well as wallpapers and background information on the making of the new show. You can also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter. Like I...
The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)
Live commentary. Remember people: this is based on actual events. Really. I swear. Actually happened. With a little poetic licence. Mostly around the facts and the story and the people. Otherwise it’s all pretty close to the actual events that actually happened. An experiment in modern day. The sort of experiment that sees people wheel a car in and immediately start pressing buttons to make it turn invisible. I’m no experimental expert but I don’t think that’s the way an accredited laboratory would do things. At least they’re not taking safety for granted; everyone’s got a pair of shades. Teslas! Of course! If it can just get up to about 40 teslas then that should make it disappear. And it has! That’s real science there. Good stuff movie. Oh, it’s Maybourne from Stargate SG-1. An actual recognisable actor. Excellent. A modern diner and a hacker waitress. Naturally. So, we’ve got a ship from the past now in the present and it’s got lots of glowing, flashing, pulsing blue special effects all over it and people trapped in carbonite on it, plus one sailor with chewing gum on the bottom of his shoes. And what do the sailor from the past and the sheriff from the present do? Touch the glowing, flashing, pulsing blue special effects. Why? Training people! Who is training these people? You never touch glowing, flashing, pulsing blue special effects! The ship’s vanished and Maybourne’s gone too! Past sailor is now wandering around present town. Everything is strange! At least punks aren’t roller-skating past while listening to walkmans. Loud cars! A newspaper stand. It’s 2012! A modern diner again and the past sailor is there asking for Joe. Who’s Joe and why does he want a cup of him? He’s now asking for actual people and not coffee and there may be a descendant of one who’s not there now. He wants to pay for coffee but hasn’t allowed for inflation. Come on time travellers! You’ve got to allow for inflation! Hacker waitress now being told by other waitress that past sailor asked about grandmother. More importantly: hacker waitress answered the phone while driving. That’s dangerous. Don’t do that. Okay? Teslas! Effects! Sailor is in pain, bins fall over, cats and dogs living together. Downtown Chicago. Okay, now that was seriously quite cool. A ship appeared in mid air and crashed onto a skyscraper. A seriously quite cool part in the movie. I wasn’t actually expecting that. Of course, loads of people probably died and this will start a new government-santioned war against navies and the republican party will use the memory of this ship appearing to...
The Eurovision Song Contest Is Broken
For as long as I can remember I’ve been a fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. I recall, when I was young, being wowed by the spectacle and the amazing fact that it was a show being broadcast all over Europe, bringing so many different people together in a moment of continental hilarity. And in later years it was something special too; something that hit the nostalgia nodules of the brain just right, something different from all the usual crap on television, something gaudy and kitsch and unashamedly us. America couldn’t do this. This was Europe. Parties! People like parties! People all over Europe like parties! Not so long ago we had a party every year with people who wanted to sit through, eat, drink, and enjoy the Eurovision Song Contest. But now there are fewer people and less enjoyment. The competition is broken; it’s been corrupted by greed. Right now we’re at a point where the whole event is just a few years away from yet another in the long, long line of generic “talent” programmes designed to find the next star of limited interest, with practically nothing to distinguish it from some Simon Cowell-produced tedium. And that moment of continental hilarity has been usurped by one of political complaints and bickering. Here’s what’s wrong with the Eurovision Song Contest: 1. The Jury Vote It used to be just the national juries who voted. Then it was just the people who voted. Now it’s the jury and the people in a 50/50 split. And it’s not working. When the jury used to vote it was at a time when people would accept that there may well be people who knew better than they did. We accepted it as much for that reason as the fact there was no practical democratic way to do anything else. The problem with a jury vote is that the members of the jury may not accurately represent the will of the people and, quite often, this was exactly the case. Luckily, there was no internet on which to complain. A second problem with a Eurovision jury is that it’s very easy to fix results. Juries are corruptible. When the people voted we hit another problem which I want to address in my list of suggested remedies for fixing Eurovision. People vote for things they like but the things people like are borne out of the environment in which they live. People who hear nothing but folk songs will tend to prefer folk songs to disco. People who hear nothing but ballads might suffer a heart attack if subjected to thrash metal. People listen...
Movie Music Triple
Three music videos all pulled from movies that I both own and love. So you’re getting recommendations for good music and good movies in one go! You lucky, lucky bleeders! First off, something upbeat and fun, from the movie Go. Philip Steir featuring Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride Wherever there is injustice, you will find us. Wherever there is suffering, we’ll be there. Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find… The Three Amigos! The Three Amigos – Blue Shadows Finally, something that actually made me well up with tears just watching it again. If you see this film and can watch this particular scene without getting emotional… well, you just may be a psychopath. Aimee Mann – Wise Up From the movie...
Lounge Triple
Ah, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve played a little bit of old lounge music to friends or colleagues and been met with a stare that says “are you out of your mind?” Yes, some of it sounds like it could accompany long elevator rides but I still like it; it tugs at my nostalgia ganglion and releases warm showers of endorphins. But enough about my bizarre biological processes! Enjoy a trio of soft tempo lounge music tracks accompanied by videos appropriate to the era, all provided – also appropriately – by the YouTube account SoftTempoLounge. Seduction ’69 The Stockholm Scene Some NSFW scenes in this one The Pan American...
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