This post is currently down for maintenance.
40 Favorites: #4
Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner. Leigh Brackett. Max Steiner. Howard Hawks. Lauren Bacall. Humphrey Bogart.
Some films with such a pedigree end up as perceived if not actual failures. On The
Big Sleep, released by Warner Bros. in 1946, everything went right — at least judging by the end result, never mind this oft-circulated anecdote:
I Want to Punch Blogger in the Face Again,
Repeatedly, and This Time with a Cestus
Now, I'm not a violent person, but just as it did a couple of months back — and has frequently since, without me bothering to post about it — Blogger is really priming
my pugilistic pumps.
The closest I can come to acting on this impulse, of course, is ramming my fist into my laptop screen, which beyond giving me a very brief stress release will solve exactly zero problems and could in fact create an extremely big one. I don’t want to buy a new computer.
After believing I'd found a way to work around at least some of the quirks of Blogger's new editing interface — like having a smaller Normal size for the Georgia font than it used to, while Large is still much bigger than the old Normal — by pasting in HTML from old posts as a base for new ones, I went ahead and proclaimed that a new round
of blogging was underway. Ha!
Mad "Boy"
I'm a sucker for mash-ups, inventive arrangements, and the Mad Men theme. So
yay for the self-proclaimed "bunch of film/music nerds" behind Live Music Videos who've performed said theme (actually just an excerpt of the RJD2 track "A Beautiful Mine") "with a twist" — namely, by using it as instrumental backing for the pop standard "Nature Boy". I don't know if it ranks up there with Eminem's appropriation of Dido's "Thank You" for "Stan" or David Bowie and Bing Crosby's legendary "Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth" medley; at the very least, though, it's a thrill to hear the theme performed acoustically, and I look forward to more from this ensemble.
Kindred Posts: End Notes • Mad/e Men • Parodies Found • Muppet Monday • Sisters Go Bangles