Remembering the season appropriately
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Last week I asked people to list the top 5 silly acts of the 1980’s
There was a little confusion between group and act. I also don’t think people got the idea of ranking them #1 most silly, #5: 5th most silly.
But none the less I got 80 votes. The ranking went as such:
For each vote you got a point
Then for each #1 you got 5 pts, #2 you got 4 pts, etc…
Below the cut are the 19/32 silliest acts (acts that got at least 2 votes, or 1 “most silly”)
In the comment field, I’d love to hear what people think of the ranking and if they’d like to see this expanded a bit.
But first, the acts that were considered Silly, but not silly enough to make the top 32:
A-Ha, ABC, B-52’s, Baltimora, Bananarma, Beastie Boys, Cameo, Cinderella, Dead Milkmen, Depeche Mode, Doctor & The Medics, Duran Duran, El Debarge, Elmo & Patsie, Europe, Eurythmics, The, Family, The, Flirts, Debbie Gibson, Glass Tiger, Go-Go’s, Haircut 100, Jefferson Starship, Jets, The, Kix, Kool Moe Dee, Cyndi Lauper,Huey Lewis & The News, Loverboy, Megadeath, Olivia Newton-John, Oingo Boingo, Ollie & Jerry, Pet Shop Boys, The Plastics, Quiet Riot, Right Said Fred, The Scorpions, Skid Row, Spinal Tap, Stray Cats, Stryper, T’Pau, The Talking Heads, Tiffany, The Time, Wang Chung, Weird Al Yankovic, ZZ Top
Do for a Christmas 2006 release to internet.
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Staring a bunch of Trek actors.
See the web page, see the trailer. Doesn’t actually look bad.
I admit to being a Weird Al fan. I think he is an amazingly talented satirist. Most people only recognize him for his song parodies. Eat it, Yoda, and Saga Begins come to mind.
Personally, I am a huge fan of his Style Parodies. These are original songs that just happen to sound like “A doo wop song” or “The B-52s” or “Devo” without satirizing any one song.
His newest album is due to hit the streets in just over a week. From what I’ve heard on it so far… it may be his best to date.
I discovered this last night when theferrett embedded the video for “White and Nerdy” (Lyrics here, should pop up in a different window)
{Spoilers behind a cut at the end of this post}
But this isn’t what brings me to post today. Oh, no no no no no.
In probably the most vicious thing he’s written since “One More Minute” or “You Don’t Love Me Anymore“, Al has made a statement about the music industry in “Don’t Download This Song”
The song is unbelievably powerful on its own. Style, lyrics, music. But that just wasn’t enough. Al brought in animator Bill Plympton. Plympton is the creator of the award winning “How to Kiss” and “25 ways to quit smoking” and ever disturbing “Your Face”
With Plympton’s often surreal and usually disturbing imagery the song reaches an even higher level.
Edit: This is the one thing that I was looking for on the original theatrical release. Theoretically, this now proves that the current theatrical release isn’t the one that I saw opening weekend in L.A. That being said… a good strong search of the web has told me a few things.
1) I didn’t imagine this scene
2) This scene was only shown in a few preview theatres before the major release… so it is understandable if its not considered part of the original widespread release
3) No one has been able to post an actual copy of the scene or photos of it which means.. Even Lucas may not have it anymore.
Here’s what I found
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From the site:
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/star-wars-lost-footage.html
From ely2b@aol.com:
….An entirely different group of people seem to recall seeing Luke at the chasm throw his grappling hook and miss the first time, then throw it again before swinging across with Leia.
And from the site:
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/star-wars.html
One persistent rumor is that the Star Wars CED contains a scene where Luke misses with the grappling hook the first time he throws it across the chasm in the Death Star and has to throw it a second time. I’ve checked about a dozen Star Wars CED’s for this scene and haven’t seen it, although you may want to check your copy (the grappling hook scene is 25 minutes into Side 2). This missing footage may have been present only in the 70mm theatrical print shown in nine theaters during the original May 25, 1977 release. More information on this is available in the Star Wars Compendium of Lost Footage.
Edit: and also from the site:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7908/lost_scenes.txt
Subtle changes to the film since the initial 70mm New York (Loew’s Astor Plaza) and Los Angeles (Gramann’s Chinese Theater) showings… (I must point out that these are from memory, and I have only been able to verify them by asking the people whom I attending my first showing of the film with, and they have concurred…)
1) When Luke threw the grappling hook, he missed the first time and had to try again.