TV/Film/Music
Sweepea’s Drunk Quote o’ the Day
Jun 14th 2010
“The trouble with the world is that everybody is three drinks behind.”
- Humphrey Bogart
R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
Jun 1st 2010
I`ve been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn`t crawling around drunk on the floor.
–Dennis Hopper
[Quote from 2001]
LOST on Music Choice Channel?
May 19th 2010
So, there we were, just hanging out with the good old R&B Classics channel on Music Choice and I just happen to glance up from my laptop to see THE NUMBERS on the screen. Then we start paying attention and a few songs later, not right away, (leading to make me think I was just drunk and seeing things, a little Lost-out), and we see a DHARMA logo! Now I know that LOST is everywhere, but they don’t even do advertisements on these channels. Anyone have any others we missed??
Everyone knows The Commodores first hit single was, "108 Minutes Til I Get Your Love"
Unfortunately, we waited another 30 minutes for the numbers to come up again with nothing, but we did find this…
...And we just wanted to post these guys because that white guy is just the grooviest muthafucka EVER! Ohio Players, ya'll!
Classic Drunk: Veronica Lake
Apr 13th 2010
Sexy blonde bombshell Veronica Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman on November 14, 1922. Expelled from a boarding school, Lake had a troubling childhood. Her mother contended that Veronica dealt with schizophrenia, but no formal diagnosis has been reported.
1941’s I Wanted Wings was her breakthrough role. The film was a box office hit. Later that year she starred in Hold Back the Dawn. Her more popular movies were Sullivan’s Travels, This Gun for Hire, and I Married a Witch.
Lake was considered one of the biggest box office draws in Hollywood during the early 1940s. Years later, Lake would quip, “I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.” She became known for onscreen pairings with actor Alan Ladd. At first, the couple was teamed together merely out of physical necessity: Lake stood just 4 feet 11½ inches and Ladd was just 5 feet 5 inches tall. Veronica was the only actress then on the Paramount lot short enough to pair with Ladd, and they made four films together. More >
Rent It/Buy It/See It: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Apr 8th 2010
Let’s first give you the timeline. Last Thursday I received the Blu-ray of FANTASTIC MR. FOX in the mail from Netflix. Friday night, the wife and I huddled up on the couch and watched it. By Saturday afternoon I’d won an Ebay auction for the Blu-ray. Wednesday of this week, I had it in my grubby little hands.
I haven’t bought a DVD or Blu-ray in months, maybe even a year. I can’t even tell you the last time a movie warranted me spending any of my hard earned cash to own it. I have around 100 DVDs. I only own one Blu-ray and that was a gift. (It’s Family Guy: Something Something Something Dark Side in case you were wondering). I’m an avid Netflixer and I try to watch at least a couple movies a week, whether it Time Warner On Demand or Amazon On Demand. The point being is it takes something special for me to spend any real money on owning a film.
Long and the short of it is, FANTASTIC MR. FOX is everything I hoped WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE would be but wasn’t. It’s a seminal picture from one of the real auteurs of my generation. It’s a departure from his former work while still remaining a part of his oeuvre. While I don’t fault Spike Jonze completely, I still think he’s a genius and hope he keeps amazing me with his movies. His short, I’M HERE – A LOVE STORY is pretty fantastic, so I’m not too worried, but WTWTA was kind of a mess. It’s probably Dave Eggers fault. Let’s just say it was and move on. More >
Lou’s Album of the Moment: Broken Bells – Broken Bells
Apr 8th 2010
Who knew that back in 2004 when I downloaded DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, a seemingly innocuous mashup of Jay-Z’s Black Album with The Beatle’s White Album, that I was hearing what was to become one of the defining artists of the “New Millennium?” Who could have known that he would go on to rock the world with Gnarls Barkley and help create the biggest song of the decade as well as pumping new life into artists such as The Black Keys and Beck? It’s stories like these that make me love the internet. This kind of rise would’ve been impossible if he had just been passing his mixtape around to his friends.
Now, he’s moved on to partnering with James Mercer, the lead singer of The Shins and I couldn’t be happier. After being thoroughly underwhelmed with the new albums from Gorillaz and MGMT, it was nice to finally buy an album that I wanted to listen to a second and third time, and not because I was searching for something to like.
The album is simultaneously groundbreaking and not groundbreaking and that’s a good thing. They take their respective strengths and put them together and they fit perfectly. It’s just a great, relaxing ride. When my wife asked me why I liked it so much, all I could say was, “There’s nothing offensive about it. Nothing to not like. Just great songs that can be replayed and replayed.” I’ve done so five times since downloading the album yesterday and in an attempt to ween myself away from it gradually, I created a Broken Bells radio on Pandora so I’d at least have something else playing as well.
I can’t really pick a particular song that captures the feeling of the album, the entire album is that feeling, so I’ll just embed the Lala of the whole thing after the jump for you to check out yourself. Let me know what you think.. More >
Sweepea’s Drunk Quote o’ the Day
Apr 8th 2010
“Drink is the greatest wrecker of men since women was invented.”
– Jimmy Durante, in On An Island With You