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A Handful Of… Actors Acting Like They’re Singing Singers’ Songs

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This little list occurred to me while I was drinking at lunch, and the video for Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al came on the telly.

It simultaneously made me think about other videos in which Actors! pretended to sing Artists! songs, and it made me happy that Chevy Chase is working again (Alison Brie and Community returns to NBC this fall).  Here are the ones I could think of.

Oh, and by the way… you can call me, Allison Brie!

  • Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al (featuring Chevy Chase)

  • Elton John’s I Want Love (featuring pre-Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr.)

  • Elton John’s This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore (featuring Justin Timberlake)

  • George Michael’s Freedom ’90 (featuring Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, pre-Pepsi commercial Cindy Crawford, Tatjana Patitz, and three male models I don’t care to mention… interestingly enough, this was directed by Fight Club helmer, David Fincher)
  • Fiona Apple’s Not About Love (featuring pre-everything Zach Galifianakis)
  • Milli Vanilli’s Blame It On the Rain (featuring Milli Vanilli)

Drunken Recollection… Whose Film Catalog Could You Get Stuck With?

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Does this tree get HBO?

This has been a question pondered by my friends and I for a while now.  If you were stuck on a deserted island, what Actor!’s film catalog would you want to have with you?

A few fine names were thrown around – DeNiro, Nicholson, Pacino, Dreyfuss…

Of course there was talk of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, and Hayden Christensen, but my choice came down to two people:

1) Bill Murray
2) Harrison Ford

"I don't see my name down there anywhere!"

With Bill, you get the (my) likes of these:

  • Ghostbusters
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Scrooged
  • Quick Change
  • What About Bob?
  • Groundhog Day
  • The Man Who Knew Too Little
  • The Royal Tenebaums
  • Lost in Translation
  • Broken Flowers
  • Get Smart
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Zombieland

Not to mention his earlier works like Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes, plus in between works like Ed Wood, Kingpin, Wild Things, Rushmore, The Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou, and Get Low!  And there’s even more if you get sick of these!  That’s quite a filmography!

"I don't see your name up there either, Garfield. I wonder if my earring is listed down below."

With Harrison, on the other hand, you get two of the Great Trilogy of Trilogies – Star Wars and Indiana Jones… (Back to the Future is the third, and don’t get your knickers in a twist – nobody counts Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)…

Here’s (my) Harrison’s list:

  • American Graffiti
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Frisco Kid
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Blade Runner
  • Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Witness
  • The Mosquito Coast
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Patriot Games
  • The Fugitive
  • Clear and Present Danger
  • Air Force One
  • and, uh, Brüno

Okay, so he sort of fizzles out, but even still… that’s a bunch of flicks I could repeatedly view.

But then, a new person showed up to the proceedings, and suggested we consider character Actors! (turned leads) instead of leads:

I thought that was a pretty good idea, so I changed my answer and picked an up and coming star, Sasha Grey:

"I starred in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, and you didn't. Hey Harrison, I think I found your earring."

Happy Find… Bieber Late Than Never

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I know this is old in TripleDoubleU terms, but I still have met people who haven’t seen it yet.  So here it is – Justin Bieber’s U Smile slowed down to a speed more suited to his fan base.  I have to admit that it sounds… how can I put this in Bieberese…

B U TIF L

This is also an oldie but a goodie.  Click here to watch.  You simply must.

So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Remake, Rinse, Or Repeat? Edition

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This So, Duh! Pop Quiz could be viewed as skewed toward personal opinion, but you’re wrong.  Basically, this is a list of 80’s movies, and you need to decide if it could be remade (REMAKE), if the thought of that happening makes you recoil (RINSE), or if a sequel would even be allowed (REPEAT).

Are there right and wrong answers?  You betcha.

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Worth 1002 Words… CarLashes Edition

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Eye Beams

Some alternates:

  • Volkswagen Mascara
  • Halogender Bender
  • Hood Winked
  • Hi Lights
  • Actual Blinkers

(via The Daily What, original here)

Hibbidy-Wah?! Snugarena!

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This kind of goes without saying… but what the fuck?!  I guess that is the translation of Hibbidy-Wah?!

I don’t want to give anything away, but if I bought what the gentleman happily opened at the 26 second mark, I’d go into a Snugarage…

Awful/Awesome Battle… I Dare You To Watch One And I Hope You Enjoy The Other

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If you can make it all the way through 35+ minutes of this, you will no doubt be rewarded with some humor, but you may also be rewarded much fatigue.

If you watch it in its entirety, please comment below, and point out which of the 100 ways to love a cat are the funniest.

I’ll admit it – I’ve only jumped around.  35 minutes is about 34 minutes too long for a YouTube video to me.  But of what I have seen, I chortled…

On the other hand, this show debuts as a midseason replacement on NBC, and it reeks of potential, if that’s a polite thing to say.  I know it’s four minutes longer than my usual liking, but after trying the above video out, it didn’t seem so bad.

Plus, Olivia Munn is purdy.

The only question that remains – if Perfect Couples premieres on Thursdays, does that mean my Parks and Recreation won’t be coming back?

The Sh– To Just Sh–ty… Avatar Re-Release

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Just as a reminder about how uninspiring and unoriginal (unobtainium, anyone?) James Cameron’s Avatar was, here’s a slightly different take on the recap:

The Shit

Pandora Radio

Navi from "The Legend of Zelda"

As a reminder:

As Ms. Swan might say, "He looka lika cat."

(SIDENOTE: Click here to understand Ms. Swan.)

Aang, the one, true Avatar

Now put it all together and you get:

Just Shitty

As uninspiring as the original...

Musical Musings… 80’s Songs That Throw Me Back

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I once read somewhere that olfactory memories are the strongest (I don’t remember the specifics because I didn’t smell it), but I’d beg to differ.  In my opinion, songs provide the greater capacity to throw you back, and here are some 80’s songs that do.

For starters, movie themes are cheats, and Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World is no exception, so much so that I also refer to it as the Real Genius song.  It always instantly conjures this image in my mind:

Everybody wants to butter the world.

For whatever reason, The Motels’ Only the Lonely always reminds me think of playing summer baseball.  My best guess as to the reason why?  I used to watch Casey Kasem’s America’s Top 10 (or some other show like that… I don’t remember because I didn’t smell it) before I’d ride my bike to the park.  As it is with most of these aural/cerebral connections… it’s best not to ask how or why.

I was only the lonely in right field.

This one’s an easy link up – Janet Jackson’s When I Think of You always makes me think of my first girlfriend, Brenda.  I was in the sixth grade; she was in fifth.  She was a cheerleader.  This was the song that her team (group?) performed to at the Pontiac Silverdome.  The odd memory attached to this?  The handled neon green comb I used to carry around with me to fix my spiked haircut:

It kind of looked like this, but more rounded and more neon green.

This one is a bit sentimental.  Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out always hurls me back to an early 80’s winter when I went ice fishing with my dad and his friends.

J. Geils Band’s Centerfold is about a man’s discovery of his childhood dream girl growing up and appearing in an adult magazine.  To me, it’s about summer camp and reading this:

My memory has just been sold... on eBay for $1.09.

Unfortunately, Bryan Adams’ Cuts Like a Knife also makes me think of comic books… except I was in college, driving around town in a burgundy Cadillac Brougham in a pony tail and trench coat, searching for back issues, listening to his greatest hits cassette, So Far So Good.

So far, so good, indeed.