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National Music Appreciation Day

We are pleased to join the celebration of National Music Appreciation Day. Oh, you haven't heard of this - well it's a new holiday (mark your calendars for May 10th from now on). Well, the truth is we just invented it today because what the world needs now is more music (and love and Coca Cola, but none of that diet crap though). And we were bored.

We've chosen to celebrate this holiday by paying tribute to America's most profound musical impresario - Weird Al Yankovic. It's hard to quantify the impact that this singular genius has had on popular culture over the past three decades. He has managed to lampoon the MTV generation, rap & hip hop and even country music legends and produce many songs that are in fact superior to those he was mocking.


Weird Al

Whenever we're down we know what to do - we can crank up our Napster playlist or pop in a query for Weird Al on youtube and we're transported to another realm of existence with such hits as:
  • Amish Paradise (based on Gangsta's Pardise)
  • Don't Download this Song
  • EBay (based on I want it that way)
  • Yoda (based on Lola)
  • Couch Potato (based on Lose Yourself)
  • White & Nerdy (based on Ridin)
  • Another One Rides the Bus (this is pretty obvious isn't it?)
  • I lost on Jeopardy (based on Our Love's in Jeopardy)
  • Party at the Leper Colony
  • Eat It (based on Beat it)
  • Living with a Hernia (based on living in America)
  • Genius in France
Weird Al has virtually invented the modern art of "Mockumusic" And of course no tribute to popular music or Weird Al would be complete without experiencing 'Weasel Stomping Day' and 'Stuck in the Drive-In' first hand...



Who doesn't want to stomp Weasels?




This Epic song captures the essence of modern America and may well represent the longest mockumusic hit ever recorded. It is the Bye Bye Miss American Pie of our generation.

Truly great music not only tells a story - it also tells a joke - but of course that isn't quite the same as music that is a joke, like anything Christina Aguilera might happen to sing. In that spirit, we were thinking of some new songs that Weird Al might choose to make fun of:
  • Undead - based on 'Alive' by Pearl Jam
  • Crash into You - based on 'Crash into Me' by Dave Matthews
  • Diarrhea, Diarrhea - based on 'Maria, Maria' by Santana
  • Magneto's Hat - based on 'Magnificent' by U2
  • How Far is Heathen - 'Heaven' by Los Lonely Boys
  • Dumb Song - based on 'Love Song' by Sara
  • Clean Coal - based on 'Atomic' by Blondie
  • DorkyTown - based on 'Funkytown' by Lipps Inc.
  • Already Done - based on 'All Night Long' by Buckcherry
  • Madoff's Got Nothing - based on 'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits
  • My Closed School - based on 'My Old School' by Steely Dan
  • Washing, Spinning, Drying - based on 'Sitting, Wishing, Waiting' by Jack Johnson
  • Pooh Nation - based on 'Zoo Station' by U2
  • You're Really Old - based on 'Fields of Gold' by Sting
Happy National Music Appreciation Day !


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Summer Movie Blockbusters - 2011

The nights are getting shorter, the weather is getting warmer, Charlie Sheen is getting crazier and Osama Bin Laden is now on a seafood diet (or on something's diet) - all that adds up to Summertime 2011 ! And one of the best parts of our Summer each year is anticipation of the year's greatest movies or least the most entertaining ones - which tend to get packed into the two to three month window between late May and Mid-August.

It's time for this year's crop of Summer movie blockbusters. Since they haven't been released yet it is a bit of a guessing game as to which movies will actually dominate the box office but we're willing to apply our intuition and predict what we think will be big.

The creative team behind Super 8
Blockbuster Prediction 1 - Super 8
Top on our list is the much anticipated "Super 8." It's a sci-fi classic waiting to happen - directed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Dakota Fanning's little sister, Alice - it's alien meets Ohio flick in the best tradition of the genre.



These kids were making their own movie before it showed up...

Now this doesn't appear to a cuddly E.T. type of situation - it looks like we'll be getting more War of The World's / Battle of Los Angeles with this action thriller. For those of us who live near Wright Patterson Air Force Base - we always knew they were shipping aliens here from out west - now we have the proof!

Next on our list is...

Blockbuster Prediction 1 - Cowboys & Aliens
This movie comes out after Super 8 and indicates a trend we will be witnessing throughout the Summer. Many if not most of the big releases are going to be sci-fi films - it makes you wonder why the sy-fy channel changed its name and decided to focus on men in tights instead of fiction. Anyway this movie, directed by Jon Favreau (both an actor and director - directed the Iron Man films) highlights a powerful cast including James Bond in exile (Daniel Craig), Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwell.



It is supposed to take place in Arizona but was filmed in New Mexico

There's something both exciting and dangerous about mixing genres like this (we just watched a flick called Aliens versus Ninjas the other night, not a pretty sight) - but with Steven Spielberg behind the scenes on this project and veterans like Harrison Ford in front the screen we're confident it will work out well.

The other sci-fi blockbuster contenders for this Summer include:
  1. X-Men First Class (X-men as the original rat pack working for JFK)
  2. Rise of the Planet of The Apes (digital chimps are better than monkey suits)
  3. Apollo 18 (why no one wants to go back to the moon)
Some other Notable Releases include:
  1. Fright Night (a remake of the 1985 classic with Colin Farrel and Doctor Who's David Tennant)
  2. Pirates of the Caribbean something - we don't really know which one this is and figured we had to list it but c'mon - talk about beating a dead horse (a.k.a. Keith Richards)...
  3. Hobo with a Shotgun - It seems impossible that people won't want to see a movie with a title like this, right? Rutger, you've come a long way since Bladerunner.
  4. The Beaver - Again a title that's hard to ignore. What's even better; this is a movie where a crazy man (Mel Gibson) plays a crazy man. If only this movie had Charlie Sheen in it...
  5. Cars 2 - They probably waited too long for the sequel, Paul Newman has been dead how long now?
  6. And yes - we are merely going to ignore Transformers whatever the number is and hope it goes away.
  7. Glee Live 3D - just kidding.
So there you have it - what's going to be big and what looks interesting for Summer 2011.


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