The Most Awesome Song You Will Hear This Year

The deal is, he's at the Pizza Hut (what?), he's at the Taco Bell (what?), he's at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

Reviews of Random Movies

Thanks to the magic of digital video recording and one-day solo business trips to New York, I've seen three movies worth commenting on.

Diary of the Dead

The latest George Romero zombie flick is a worthwhile addition to the series. As is traditional, the movie cost nothing, stars no one and never mentions the word "zombie." Although the story is set in Pennsylvania, it was filmed in Ontario. The gore is very good, perhaps most memorably when a feisty deaf Amish geezer reacts to being bitten by driving a sickle through his face and that of the zombie standing behind him. The requisite social commentary is how these kids today with their youtubes and their facebooks care more about capturing images than actually reacting to them. Stupid kids.

One, Two, Three

From 1961, this frantic Billy Wilder comedy stars James Cagney as Coca-Cola's man in West Berlin. The Iron Curtain humor seems nostalgically cute at this point, although it was very cutting-edge at the time (the Berlin Wall went up as the film was being shot.) Most importantly it shows how to properly make references: Cagney's office cuckoo clock plays Yankee Doodle Dandy and he later threatens to ram a grapefruit in Horst Buchholz's face. See Tarantino, that's how it's done.

Summer Hours

I went to the craziest place in New York: they actually charge money to project a movie, like you normally would watch on a TV or laptop, on a white screen. Weirdest thing I've seen. Don't think it will ever catch on.

Anyway, this is guaranteed to be the most mesmerizing French movie about estate law you could ever see. A great decaying country mansion, lush gardens, authentic Impressionist artwork, heartfelt emotions, eloquent conversations and how to avoid French estate taxes by donating articles to the Musee d'Orsay; the movie has it all. The only distraction is Juliette Binoche's blonde hair. Seriously, it's wrong. It's almost as distracting as when Xena appears as a blonde.

Yes

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Top 14 Covers of Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland 1945," At Least 9 of Them by Chicks In Their Bedrooms Playing A Guitar or Ukelele

1. beleam I could watch this all day.
   
2. thricedotted
   
3. Gizzard the wizard
4. cutemusicmaker
5. wuvablez
6. amccarty2562
7. lawlzbrytni
8. PippinMercury
9. CommonlyCliched
10. Jeff Magnum
    
11. deathfornoreason
12. The Humms
13. soybomb43
14. Greg Jehanian nails the essence of the song.
    

* Okay, so the title is slightly misleading. One is by the original singer/songwriter.

FlamingBaconLanceOfDeath!

I'm sorry, Elmer, but this knocks SpearAndMagicHelmet into a cocked hat.

Whatever that means.

Dancing Bear & a little of the old ultraviolence

I am not normally a hockey fan even though I come from North Dakota, but I have been watching the Boston Bruins the latter half of the season and into the playoffs. they have a legitimate chance at the Cup. One of the other great things about them is their Boston Bruins Hockey Rules commercial campaign. The Bear is cool. Who can't get behind a Bear doing The Robot and the cheesy song?



See the other three - "Date", "Tuck In" and "Hang Up" on YouTube by searching Boston Bruins Hockey Rules.

As an added bonus, here is the "MVP Shift" that made Milan Lucic a folk hero in Vancouver junior hockey that was written up in the Boston Globe last week. Hint, he is the guy doling out the hits.



I don't know what else says Canadian Hockey like frosted tips. This was 2007. Could have used a mullet, IMO.

Welcome to Natstown!

It has been a while since I saw something worth linking in SOSH. But this long thread on the hapless 4-15 Washington Nationals is fantastic reading. Highlights include:

• The TV ads showing team highlights feature a dramatic win on a game-winning walk and this one time where one of their scrub pitchers beat John Smoltz.
• Julian Tavarez might be their most effective reliever.
• After a long rain-delay they finished a home game in front of maybe 84 people.
• They had players wearing home jerseys that read N-A-T-I-N-A-L-S, without the "O."
• They race mascots of the Mt. Rushmore presidents between innings; Teddy Roosevelt did not win a single time last year.

I hope someone somewhere is writing a book about this awful, awful team.

Sing-along-a-global-financial-meltdown

Nine Important "Cold as Ice" Covers

1. Starsplash. Are you Ready? Are you Ready? If you can watch no other Cold as Ice, this would, uuh, be the one to watch.
2. M.O.P. is willing to sacrifice.
3. Hardcore Masif: That's three so far working the speedup and pitchshifting. Enough already.
4. Stingray and Sonicdriver: aaw christ more pitchshifting.
5. Who the hell are the dirty hippies in this one? Is that Billy Joel with them? WTF?
6. Nylon Tapestry never takes advice, and someday will pay the price.
7. Jerry Taft does a Shatneresque spoken word interpretation. Has this guy been on Law and Order? I thought everybody has. IMDB says he played "Guard" on "Murder, She Wrote." Close enough.
8. Kenny and the Captains gets points for the concept, but we'll subtract a mark for the half-assed effort.
9. Learn to make your own!
   

Oh...My...God!

I can die happy and this will speed the process. I must add this to my next PiiaB recipe.

Closest store to Boston that sells is a Stop & Shop in Riverhead, NY. 120-mile road trip?

Bacon Lip Balm is available from the web site, too. Would Bacon Lip Balm improve someone's chances of hooking up if wearing that?