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Playlist Challenge: By the Numbers Edition
This one is relatively easy. Name one song each from five different acts: solo, duo, trio, four-piece and five-piece. For bonus points, try to come up with songs (or at least performances), where all the music is played by the number of individuals indicated.
The Avengers Succeeds
Joss Whedon, the reigning alpha-geek of pop-culture storytellers has succeeded in a task that seemed nearly impossible: he’s created a superhero movie with seven different comic-book heroes that is hugely entertaining, mostly comprehensible, and provides a satisfying pay-off to the promises made by each of the previous movies.
Playlist Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten Edition
The rules: name five songs that you love, but that you can’t recall hearing even once in the last three years.
Movies That Speak to Me
The secret to gift giving is empathy. The perfect gift will feel like it was picked out with great care, as if telepathically (or empathically, I suppose) for the person who receives it. Every now and then, I come across a movie that, when I watch it, feels like the filmmaker has given me a gift, a movie that was carefully crafted to appeal to my own individual sensibilities and sense of humor.
These are the kinds of movies that help define a movie lover. The adolescent version of you will screen the movies for prospective girlfriends or boyfriends as a pass/fail litmus test.
The movies discussed in this post are not universally lauded by critics or massively popular. Some of them are polarizing. But (for whatever reason) they mean a lot personally.
Playlist Challenge: International Edition
Here are the rules:
Five songs from five different artists/bands from five different countries, none of which are the U.S., Canada, any of the British Isles, or Australia.
Review: Legend of Korra
The highly anticipated follow up to Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series officially debuts this Saturday, April 14, but the first episode is already available on demand through various service providers and through iTunes. I’m happy to report that it’s awesome.
Netflix alert: Best Worst Movie and Troll 2 now available to watch instantly
Browsing through Netflix last night, I discovered that Best Worst Movie is now available on watch instantly. The documentary details the making of one of the worst movies of all time, the so-bad-it’s-now-a-cult-sensation Troll 2. What’s even better, Troll 2 itself is also available.
Two Reasons Why Disney’s John Carter Might Not Be That Bad After All
You may have had the same reaction I did when you saw the trailers for the movie John Carter: somewhere between “Huh?” and “Well, that looks terrible.” Yet there may be some reason to hope that, despite the uphill battle the movie probably faces getting people to the theaters, this might actually turn out to be a pretty good movie.
I haven’t seen the film; this is not a review. But the more I read, the more interested I’m becoming, and there are mainly two reasons for that.
Lana Del Rey: The Meta-Discussion
Lana Del Rey’s music is the least interesting thing about her. In fact, Lana Del Rey may be the least interesting thing about Lana Del Rey.
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