My sister was recently listening to this song on Sirius XM and it suddenly occurred to her that Coldplay’s front man, Chris Martin, kinda sounds like Randy Newman.
Here’s the song in question, Everything’s Not Lost:
Now here’s Randy Newman’s Losing You (ha!) from Toy Story 3:
My concern over her revelation is that the two will be forever connected in my mind, like that picture above. Just like when I realized Shakira sings a lot like Kermit the Frog…
When I began working on this post, I honestly thought I’d be hard-pressed to find even five Actors! that starred in multiple comic book film adaptations. What I found was quite a closed-circuit community of future Comic Con mainstays. I’ve opted to showcase the plethora of Actors! that have played in three (!) or more characters featured in paneled ink. The double-dippers are all after the jump.
Chris Evans
Johnny Storm - Lucas Lee - Jensen - Captain America
Clearly the king, Chris Evans has been in fantastic four comic adaptations: Fantastic Four, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Losers, and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Ryan Reynolds
Hannibal King - Deadpool - Green Lantern
As Hannibal King, Ryan Reynolds did not belong in Blade: Trinity, even though King was in the Blade comic books. It’s just that Blade: Trinity didn’t need to be. Strike two came in the form of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Wade Wilson, the merc with the mouth, without a mouth?! And though the studios were underwhelmed by Green Lantern’s opening weekend box office performance, I didn’t think it was too bad. I guess you could say that it’s his first superhero film without a colon that didn’t suck ass.
Michael Fassbender
Stelios - Burke - Magneto
Surprise, surprise, surprise. I didn’t realize Michael Fassbender wasn’t a comic book rookie in X-Men: First Class. He was also in 300 and Jonah Hex. Also, he was the guy that held up the wrong fingers in that underground bar in Inglourious Basterds. That scene still beats Magneto facing retired Nazis, but it’s not far off.
Scarlett Johansson
Rebecca - Silken Floss - Black Widow
It’s about time to get a lady on the list, and who better than the former Mrs. Reynolds. Prior to being in Iron Man 2, she was in Ghost World and The Spirit. Yes, both of those were comics.
Bruce Willis
John Hartigan - Tom Greer - Frank Moses
He’s played an aging cop in Sin City, a FBI agent in Surrogates, and a retired CIA agent in RED. I dare you to call him old.
Morgan Freeman
Lucius Fox - Sloan - Joe
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are fantastic, and he played his part well (everything after God is a cinch). I probably shouldn’t have included Sloan, his character in Wanted, because he wasn’t in the comic book, but eh. Oh yeah… he was also in RED.
John Malkovich
Professor Sandiford - Quentin Turnbull - Marvin Boggs
You probably didn’t see Art School Confidential (neither did I), but it was a graphic novel. Actually, you probably didn’t see Jonah Hex either. RED, you probably seen. And not only on this list twice before.
Tommy Lee Jones
Two-Face - Agent K - Colonel Chester Phillips
I tried to forget Batman Forever, but as the title suggests, it’s forever in my head. Maybe I need one of those neuralizers, like in Men in Black 1 & 2, or perhaps some super-soldier serum, like in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Michael Clarke Duncan
The Kingpin - Manute - Kilowog
Daredevil, Sin City, and Green Mile Lantern comprise Duncan’s resume. People complained about him playing The Kingpin before Daredevil came out; people complained about Daredevil after it came out.
Brandon Routh
Superman - Todd Ingram - Dylan Dog
I thought Routh did a great job filling in Christopher Reeves’ iconic red boots, which sounds weird to say, but he did. He was a good choice. Too bad Superman Returns’ director, Bryan Singer, made some other strange decisions like giving Supes a kid and having him throw a Kryptonite island into space. So there won’t be a sequel to that version, but at least he wasn’t typecast. He was great as super-vegan Todd Ingram in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and even though Dylan Dog: Dead of Night was an Italian comic book, I still count it.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
The Comedian - Clay - Jeb Turnbull
You might not know Morgan by name, but you likely know him by gravelly voice (or when I’ve written about him before). He played a great psychotic hero in Watchmen, the cool as a cucumber leader in The Losers, and based upon the limited images online, a very small role (yup, he dies) in Jonah Hex, which again, I haven’t seen.
Jaime King
Jade - Wendy - Lorelei Rox
The only other lady on the triples list, King could be King Chris Evans’ queen because she technically played two characters in one movie. She was Jade in Bulletproof Monk, twins Goldie and Wendy in Sin City, and Lorelei Rox in The Spirit.
This concludes this portion of the show, although I should hand out two special awards.
The Un-S.H.I.E.L.D.ed Eye Award goes to:
Colonel Nick Fury
You see this guy everywhere… well, at least in the Marvel Studio produced films. He’s been in Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor. He’s somehow in Captain America: The First Avenger, and he will definitely be in The Avengers next summer. He’s signed on to be in at least nine movies, giving him a decent list, but the patch catch is this: he’s always Nick Fury. But I almost forgot… he was also in The Spirit as this guy that loves eight of everything:
The Octopus
(SIDENOTE: Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson appears in all the Marvel films too, but alas, he is not in any comic books.)
The Hitchcock Walk-On Award goes to:
Stan Lee
(Who else would it have been?)
Twenty-two more double-dippers can be found by clicking here —->
This book was obviously produced with tongue planted firmly in the toilet:
But I don't wanna... there's tigers...
But I think the best part is this unembeddable video (at least for WordPress) featuring Samuel L. Jackson reading it. Totally worth checking out.
Also totally worth checking out is this song by Is Tropical called The Greeks featuring kids destroying other kids in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It’s probably more fun/questionable than the above book:
I caught a portion of this story on CNN one night while I was at the bar (where else would I be). And there’s tonstens of videos of this “couple” on YouTube (unfortunately a lot of them are mocking the lovebirds):
Sightings of them walking along roadsides in New York are so common, they even have a Facebook page.
What’s amazing to me is that he’s been devoted to her for 25 years, and she hasn’t changed a bit.
This MF’n FM commercial drives me almost up the wall when I’m driving. I’ve been trying to record it to share with the masses for a while now, but I’ve finally caught it and bottled it up to torture you. I missed the first oolong, but I certainly got the rest, as well as all the goji pears, if that’s how you even spell it.
Fuck you, Sobe. Fuck you hard. Except for this. This you did all right.
(SIDENOTE: I know Piccolo’s name is not Goji Pear, but Oolong is definitely right.)
Millions of Americans are probably more than ecstatic to join in the schadenfreude that is the defeat of LeBron James and his Miami Heat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, so I’m taking on my biggest challenge yet. I am going to be In Defense Of one of the most indefensible players in all professional sports. So where to begin?
The Beginning
LeBron James was born in Ohio and he played for a team from Ohio. So that’s something.
Even though he was drafted?
Um… from 2006 to 2010, he lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to the appearances in the playoffs. In 2007, he took them all the way to the The Finals, the team’s only appearance. That’s pretty good.
Wasn’t that the season that one ref got busted for fixing games?
The Betrayal
When “The Decision” was made to switch teams before this past season, James took a lot of heat for the way he went about it. He has since apologized for that course of action, and even though some may have viewed it as coming a bit too late, he still did it. Remember, he didn’t have to do it at all.
All the people that were rooting for me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal, but they have to get back to the real world at some point.
Taken out of context, it can come off as pretentious and douche-y, but he even had to clarify this. And he didn’t have to:
Basically, I was saying, at the end of the day, this season is over and with all the hatred not only myself, everyone else has to move on with their lives as well. They have to move on with their lives and their day-to-day, good or bad, and I do, too. At the end of the day, I’ve got to move on with my life. So it wasn’t saying that I’m superior or better than anyone else, any man or woman on this planet. I’m not.
Let’s think about his decision in real world terms:
He was 25 years old
He was presented a chance to play with a team that has won a championship
That team is managed by Pat Riley who has 6 championships under his belt (one as player, five as coach)
Everybody’s mad at him because he’s a Midwestern kid that turned his back on the Midwest and made a big deal about it. He got cocky. That’s really the root of it all in a nutshell.
I heard one reporter state that when James first returned to face the Cavaliers in his new uniform, the fans could have affected his game much more by giving a standing ovation – not booing. He would have regretted his choice, potentially, rather than feed his drive to prove every one of his old fans wrong.
It’s too bad his first film has been postponed, a comedy entitled Ballers. They claim to still be developing the script, but perhaps their reconsidering just the title…
Bawlers
(There’s more Nike commercials featuring The LeBrons after the jumpshot…)
My friend Jay works with a bunch of middle-aged shop guys (please take that as a euphemism), and as is common practice amongst those in that industry, the loony bin rejects spew a bunch of bullshit out of their mouths (so much for any euphemisms).
Every so often, Jay asks me to check out the validity of comets heading towards Earth, or if there really are three-breasted women doing porn. And I do – often in the name of Drunken Recollections. This latest effort is to get to the bottom of whether Rihanna’s song Umbrella is about how she sold her soul to The Devil.
This video is even long for my tastes, but I recommend checking it all out for curiosity’s sake (or jump to about the 4:30 mark):
That’s some heavy crazy analysis. This one sees Satan in another place (his “semen” I guess):
And click here for a complete breakdown of the lyrics.
So What Do I Ultimately Think?
If someone can analyze the hell out of a video (so to speak) and find images of the occult, or the Illuminati, or whatever, then someone making a video could have just as easily put all those things in there. Does it mean Rihanna or Jay-Z are Satanists? Who cares. Worshipping Baphomet at least makes more sense than worshipping Xenu…
…and for the record, let’s not bring this up again when drinking, Jay. It’s kind of a buzz killer.
Because I’m kind of afraid.
That post title up there might be misleading. Blues sounds like a variation of blows and by no means do I want anyone to confuse the two.
On the contraire, I want people to start equating the phrase Electric Blue with things that are awesome beyond words, such as the song Electric Blue by Icehouse:
(SIDENOTE: John Oates of Hall &, um, something, co-wrote the song with the Australian band, and apparently once stated that if Icehouse didn’t release it, his band would have. Thought you’d like to know, so you’re not Out of Touch…)
One thing bothers me about this song though… I feel like it was in a movie, but I can’t find anything that states it was.
My best guess is this movie:
Kim Cattrall's finest performance
Or this movie:
Booger's finest performance
Mannequin is the more likely option, since it was released in 1987 (as was Electric Blue); Better Off Dead was in 1985. But then again, Starship’s Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now was Mannequin’s signature tune.
I’ll wager $2 that John Cusack’s saxophone solo in Better Off Dead is so imprinted as an earworm in my brain, that any sax solo trudges up comparison and memories.
Or Electric Blue simply sounds like all music at that time. Who knows…
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