I have to admit I’m rarely surprised anymore, even though I do run these Hibbidy-Wah?! posts fairly often.
But you have to realize, there is a big difference between finding out they make moustaches for cars, and finding out Jennifer Mee, who is more famously known as Hiccup Girl, has been arrested for murder.
I’ll let this Florida newscast fill in the rest:
He doesn't look at all like the stalking type...
Can music stalk you?
This was a question brought up by my friend Chris. You see, within one week (six days actually), he encountered not one, not two, not three but three songs by Roger Miller. I was not aware I was aware of him and his music, and neither was Chris, but for some reason, he decided to investigate.
On Tuesday, during an episode of the excellent Raising Hope (which was originally called Keep Hope Alive – a much funnier name), there was a song featured as a recurring joke. It was called, Do Wacka Do and it went a little something like this:
Then on Friday, while he was oot n’ aboot (that’s Canadian for “out on the town”), he heard King of the Road, a tune we were each already familiar with, but did not know the performer:
Then on Sunday, while watching the excellent Jackass 3D (which should have been called Keep Johnny Knoxville Alive), a bit was built around this ditty called You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd:
So can music (or in this case, musicians) stalk you? All I know is it’s happened to me before.
A (Not So Artistic) Literal Wedding Train
I didn’t ever intend this blog to contain a lot of music-related posts, but I can’t help it. Music is everywhere. In movies. On MTV TV. In my car. Which I am in. A lot. For work. Not to live.
So this post will be about a quick train of thought about a few songs that occurred at – you guessed it – a wedding.
First came this song:
We couldn’t remember who sung Wind of Change, and the ambient noise was too loud for Shazam took do its job, so I had to do it the old fashioned way. I Googled it.
Turned out to be by the German band, Scorpions, and it was released in 1990, which was later than I had expected. We also found out Scorpions had also performed the song, Send Me an Angel.
We confused it with this version by Real Life:
(SIDENOTE: The above version is from 1983. There was also a 1989 edition if you’re interested. We didn’t know the Scorpions‘ tune of the same name at all.)
The other mixed-up train of thought occurred when we thought Nights in White Satin (which I always thought was about knights that wore satin armor in protest since I never really listened to the words) was by Procol Harum.
Nope. It was by The Moody Blues. Procol Harum’s most famous diddy was A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Coinkydinkily, they were both released in 1967, and their videos are after the jump.
Before
For whatever reasons between then and now, I was never a huge Michelle Pfeiffer fan. Audiences saw pretty and pensive Actor!; I saw someone that reminded me of someone in my life I couldn’t quite stand.
So that catches us up to now. Having recently gotten into Netflix (as opposed to buying everything on DVD that I planned on seeing), I’ve found myself on strange viewing tangents.
Recently, I’ve gone from a documentary on Ozploition (Not Quite Hollywood) to a film featured in that doc (Dead End Drive-In) to a poster featured in that flick (Into the Night) to becoming a fan of its star and ingenue, Michelle Pfeiffer.
With that film, I was finally able to see what the American public (and People Magazine) always saw in her, and I decided to see all the early works in her filmography. So I started with Grease 2, and that means I bore witness… to this:
Song-writing aside – and believe me, the music was completely Crisco bacon-fat in a coffee can to Grease – I’m amazed she had a career at all after, ugh, Cool Rider.
And that’s speaks volumes to her skills as an Actor! I may even be so kind as to eliminate the sarcastic italics and !
After
SIDENOTE: The only song worse than anything from Grease 2 is Everything is Food from Popeye (only watch if you hate yourself):
There have been a lot of these made over the [choose your own increment of time passed]*, and I only present this one to you because of the awesome [choose your own segment of the following video]**.
(via Screen Junkies)
*I chose “months.”
**I chose “ending.” I mean, c’mon… Troll 2 and The Room?! It gives me a [choose your own physical reaction].
It doesn’t happen often, but today I have some words of advice:
If you live in Detroit and you’ve had your house broken into twice, do not watch Detroit 1-8-7… it gave me a nightmare.
Luckily, I was able to fall back to sleep, but from now on I’m sticking with something positive, like MTV’s World of Jenks or The Buried Life. Here are the theme songs to each of the shows:
I’m sorry, but I am not going to apologize for having any of these songs on the list. Wait. Does that work?
Anyhoosiersshouldneverbemadeintoamusical, here are A Handful Of songs I enjoyed that were sung by characters in movies that were not musicals. Agree or disagree in the comments (Jeremy!)…
This song was actually written by Beck (I’m not sure if the actors performed it), so there’s that. And the movie is kick-ass (not to be confused with Kick-Ass), so double win.
This movie originally came out in 1984, and I guarantee more people know John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band’s song than the flick itself. Actor! Michael Paré would go on to make tons more B-movies. He would also co-star in TV’s The Greatest American Hero, believe it or not.
Okay… this wasn’t a song originally made for the Coen Brothers’ film, but I still have to include the remake of Dick Burnett’s classic.
Letters to Cleo front woman, Kay Hanley, performed all the eponymous rock group’s songs, and you have to admit the song’s as catchy as chlamydia herpes syphilis a smile. Also, take notice of the clever countdown in the chorus (6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)…
The group might have almost been called The Oneders, but real-life rock group, Fountains of Wayne, did a great job at capturing the pop hit feeling of that era. They proved their pop hit chops again a few years later with their own overplayed catchy hit – Stacy’s Mom.
Pure pop perfection.
If I ever saw this in a grocery store, I’d punch it.
Who am I kidding? I’d run.
If I ever saw this on the road, I’d punch the gas.
Who am I kidding? I’d get run off the road.
Sometimes the TripleDoubleU has too much goodness to handle.
Cats in hats are so funny! Somebody should make a book like that stat!
(SIDENOTE: Also acceptable as “funny” – cats in baseball jerseys, cats using turntables, and cats dancing.)
Basically, it’s a game in which someone takes Kanye West’s Twitter messages and adds “Liz Lemon” to them, as if he were on 30 Rock. Not all of them are golden, so some of the better ones can be found here and here. The actual Twitter page can be found here.
It’s the perfect tool for the times you want to be a passive smart ass. For my example, click here.
Wino Smurf, er, Champagno Smurf?
This one’s a quick one. My friends and I were at a concert. We were drinking a craaaazy amount. Oh. And we were all Smurfs. We were in cartoon form, but we existed in the real world, à la Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Or the upcoming Smurfs movie. But cel animated. Not CGI*. Thank you.
Barfly Smurf
*yes, you better Smurfing believe this is happening…
(SIDENOTE: But then again, CGI could look like cel animation. Take a gander at this Roger Rabbit 2 screen test. He’s 100% computer generated.)
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