Fox Searchlight – one of those “independent” film slates that corrupts the term “independent film” – has a networking and promotion site for independent filmmakers (of the real variety) called Searchlab. I love it when major players put up public interaction sites. The resulting comments are always a hoot. The comments on their “Why you should be on this site” explanation are especially great, with people flogging their new short films, posting casting calls for a Notorious B.I.G. picture, and this guy.
Hey if anyone knows any directores,producers or anything like that from FOX SEARCHLIGHT i have an idea about Napoleon Dynamite and it is another Napoleon Dynamite MOVIE!! and I think it would be very funny its called
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE:GOES TO CAMP!!
“BRILLIANT! The title makes me wonder what could possibly happen in this movie!”
Fred over at Occasional Fish snagged this meme, and thinking it was a pretty interesting experiment I decided to run with it. Here are the rules.
Go here and see what was on the top of the charts on the day you were born and every birthday thereafter. Learn just how astrologically-musically lame your life has been. If you want, add in your own favorite Hot 100 hit single of that year, wishing that your birthday had been cool enough to have that song be #1.
All right. I’ll bite. Of course, a lot of my answers wound up being the same as Fred’s – which is how I learned Fred and I were born somewhere around the same date a few years apart. So – show me how astrologically-musically lame my life has been.
1980: “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” by Pink Floyd
Favorite: “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” by Pink Floyd
1981: “Rapture” by Blondie
Favorite: “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield
1982: “I Love Rock n’ Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Favorite: Um, “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor, I guess.
1983: “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson
Favorite: “Down Under” by Men At Work.
1984: “Jump” by Van Halen
Favorite: Oh, Come on. “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.
1985: “One More Night” by Phil Collins
Favorite: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears For Fears
1986: “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco
Favorite: “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel
1987: “Lean on Me” by Club Nouveau
Favorite: “With Or Without You” by U2 (which has the same chord structure as “Numb” off of Zooropa. I always wanted to mash those two up)
1988: “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson
Favorite: “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns n’ Roses
1989: “The Living Years” by Mike + The Mechanics
Favorite: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Bill Joel
1990: “Black Velvet” by Alannah Myles
Favorite: “Black Cat” by Janet Jackson
1991: “Coming Out of the Dark” by Gloria Estefan
Favorite: “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” by PM Dawn
1992: “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams
Favorite: I don’t think I can possibly answer anything but “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-a-Lot
1993: “Informer” by Snow
Favorite: “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by UB40
1994: “The Sign” by Ace of Base
Favorite: “Stay (I Missed You)” by Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
1995: “Take A Bow” by Madonna
Favorite: “Kiss From a Rose” by Seal
1996: “Because You Loved Me” by Celine Dion (yeek!)
Favorite: “How Do U Want It/California Love” by 2Pac and a whole buncha other folks
1997: “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” by Puff Daddy feat. Mase
Favorite: Oy. Slim pickings that year. Ummm… I have to say… “Mmmbop” by Hanson.
1998: “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit’ It” by Will Smith
Favorite: “One Week” by Barenaked Ladies
1999: “Believe” by Cher
Favorite: “Smooth” by Santana feat. Rob Thomas
2000: “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child
Favorite: “Maria Maria” by Santana feat. The Product G&B
2001: “Butterfly” by Crazy Town
Favorite: “Ms. Jackson” by Outkast (“Forevah. Forevah-evah? Forevah-evah.”)
2002: “Ain’t It Funny” by Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule
Favorite: “Lose Yourself” by Eminem
2003: “In Da Club” by 50 Cent
Favorite: “Hey Ya!” by Outkast (horrible Grammy night performance notwithstanding)
2004: “Yeah!” by Usher feat. Lil John and Ludacris
Favorite: Geez. Talk about slim years. So it’s “Hey Ya!” for a second year in a row.
2005: “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent feat. Olivia
Favorite: “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani
2006: “So Sick” by Ne-Yo
Favorite: Ehhh… “Hips Don’t Lie” by Shakira
2007: “Glamorous” by Fergie feat. Ludacris
Favorite: No. I categorically refuse to pick one from this year. None of these songs are worth the headache.
2008: “Love in This Club” by Usher feat. Young Jeezy
Favorite: “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry – and even then, I’m disappointed that it’s not Jill Sobule’s song.
Here’s what I notice. The pickings get slimmer and slimmer as time goes on, and I honestly don’t think it has anything to do with my taste – but rather with the fact that it was unusual in the 80’s for a song to last more than 2-3 weeks at the top of the charts, while by the late 90’s you’re having whole years with practically 4 songs each on the charts. Hey, radio – variety is the spice o’ life, donchaknow?
I find that more and more, when I discuss the McCain/Palin ticket, I’m using the phrase “I don’t know what’s worse,” followed typically by the form, ”[situation a] or [situation b].”
For instance: I don’t know what’s worse, the idea that McCain may have only used a Google search to vet Palin or the idea that the staffer who told this to the LA Times might have been bragging about it to dispel the talk that John McCain doesn’t know technology.
One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate’s closest supporters as “keeping their fingers crossed” in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin’s potential pitfalls. Just over a week ago, Palin was not on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, the Republican said.
Example Two: I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that Sarah Palin tried to use political muscle to get books banned from public libraries or the fact that she was so clueless as to the politics behind such a move that she actually asked a librarian how to do it. (link via librarian.net) Apparently, she’s missed the fact that National Banned Book Week is sponsored by the American Library Association, and that librarians tend to be the most fervent supporters of the First Amendment in the entire country.
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
John McCain seems almost obsessed with not only proving that he’s out of touch—mixing up Sunni and Shiia, not knowing how many homes he has, etc.—but that his entire team is just as bad off. Such as McCain’s advisor who recently went on the record as saying that there is no such thing as an uninsured American.(Link via HuffPo)
Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”
If there is any great indicator that a vote for John McCain is a vote for More of the Same, it’s this page straight out of the Cheney/Bush playbook. The best way to solve a problem? Change the definitions of the terms, twist the truth behind the matter, and rewrite the laws to avoid counting the people you don’t want to have to face. With one pen stroke, millions of Americans who have valid concerns about their health and well-being will be simply erased from the dialogue without so much as a by-your-leave.
Meanwhile, Mr. Goodman fails to realize that emergency rooms are supposed to be just for that – emergencies. It’s not where you go for your annual check-up, or where you go to talk to a doctor about ways to correct your obesity, or where you go to your doctor to have your prostate/pelvic exam. And as for the government stepping in? Only after you’ve been bankrupted completely, and then it’s not really the government so much as the hospitals’ own insurance policies.
Emergency rooms are not health care – they’re for the treatment of catastrophic injuries and illnesses. Suggesting that they somehow automatically equal national health care is more than just misguided, it’s ignorant and villainous to the highest degree.
If I ever need a story that illustrated how one day the TSA will have us strip completely naked while security screeners giggle like rabid schoolgirls while snapping Polaroids, it has to be this one.
The Constitution bars unreasonable searches and seizures, Kates reminded the TSA supervisor, and scrutinizing a woman’s brassiere is surely unreasonable, she said.
The supervisor told her she had the choice of submitting to a pat-down in a private room or not flying. Kates offered a third alternative, to take off her bra and try again, which the TSA accepted.
“They tried to humiliate me and I was not going to be humiliated over this,” Kates said. “If I was carrying nail clippers and forgot about them, I wouldn’t have gotten so upset. But here I was just wearing my underwear.”
I think 500 adult websites just decided what their next video update is going to be.
Cracked.com certainly loves its lists. Every time it shows up on Digg or any other source, it seems to be for another list. Usually, they’re incredibly funny. This particular list, however, has some humor, but also has some pretty sharp insight into the nature of horror fiction. Eliza Skinner examines the real world fears behind 8 famous movie monsters. Among the insights?
At first glance, modern zombie movies seem to be about a fear of disease – most of them feature the “infected” type of zombies, not the “crawled out of a grave to dance with Michael Jackson” type. But the really threatening thing about zombies isn’t their crazy diseased eyeballs, it’s their sheer numbers.
McCain’s been riding high, convincing the American people that by simple virtue of his being a Republican, he’s better on the economy – even though McCain’s major backers are the investment bankers and stock gamers who put us into the mess we’re currently in in the first place.
But while McCain keeps selling himself as good for the economy and just like the common man, there’s obvious proof that he doesn’t know what’s going on with his own family finances, let alone what the common man goes through economically. See McCain’s Mansions:
And when quizzed about how many mansions he owns, what’s McCain’s response?
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”
In a crashing housing market and a recession spiraling rapidly into depression with the devaluing of the dollar imminent, do we really need the economy in the hands of a business-first Republican with more McMansions than he can remember? He’s got his – and he really doesn’t seem to care about people who can’t afford theirs.
Advice for living in a McCain administration: If you don’t have a stock portfolio worth at least five figures and you live near a levy – move.
The lovely and talented Elske McCain will join Popcorn Theater tomorrow at noon (EST) for a full hour of chatter!
The vivacious star of screen and smaller screen will be joining us to talk about a career that has seen her turning up in such films as Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Gimme Skelter, You’re Next 3: Pajama Party Massacre, Killer Biker Chicks, and the upcoming Jessicka Rabid. You can catch the show live at the episode’s page, and/or you can download it in mp3 form from blogtalkradio following the show. Help me kick off Popcorn Theater with a bang!
And if you haven’t added Popcorn to your blogroll yet, stop by the website where you can see news about who and what will be on each show, and catch episodes of the tv series uploaded for your viewing pleasure!
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on my film review show. Now, in addition to posts at Anvil & Sprocket, you can catch me on television (in a select viewing area) or YouTube (Vimeo, too) talking about flicks. And you can also take a look at Blogtalkradio.com, where this Friday at noon my new film talk show debuts.
And there’s a new website to keep up with all of this independent media – go and add glenspopcorn.com to your bookmarks. It’s basic at the moment, but I’m working on it – and for the moment, basic still means you can keep up with what’s going on.