So yeah, I finally saw “The Avengers” last night. Pretty good, probably the best Marvel flick since the first “Iron Man.” The big guy stole the show. Nice to see someone finally do the Hulk just right on the big screen. Cheers to Joss and Mark.
SMASH!
Neko sings Nilsson. Simply beautiful.
—Life on Mars?
As if the world needed any more proof of Screaming Females’ awesomeness, they turned a Sheryl Crow song kick-ass.
Today’s A.V. Undercover makes us happy. Thanks Screaming Females!
You’ve never heard “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain” quite like this. For their first album together in nine years, Neil Young and Crazy Horse have taken classic American folk music and reinvigorated these songs with muscle, radiance and a whole lot of electric guitar.
As for the song itself, Neil Young writes in the liner notes to Americana:
Written in the 1800s based on an old Negro spiritual, this song refers to the second coming of Jesus, and “she” is the chariot Jesus is coming on. Some interpret this as the end of the world. Others have said that “she” refers to union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones going to promote formation of labor unions in the Appalachian coal-mining camps. The Americana arrangement continues the folk process with a new melody, a new title and a combination of lyric sources.
Ti West (“House of the Devil,” “The Innkeepers”) and I had a quick Q&A at this year’s TromaDance Film Festival. Check it.
Vulcan Raven, Jack Skellington and Psycho Mantis are keeping an eye on the booze while we head to TromaDance!
I wish Google would leave the Social Network thing to others. When Google does what it does, and does it well, it changes the world. When it rides bandwagons, it’s irritating.
I’m not on Google Plus, and I suppose that I won’t be liking YouTube videos any longer.
Oh, go fuck yourself, Google. This is just as bad as companies forcing me to “like” something on Facebook before I can view whatever it is they want me to “like.”
Just let me thumbs up something, without forcing me to “upgrade” to G+, you dickheads.
The worst part of this? For a producer like me, I’m going to lose a crapton of potential upvotes for Tabletop, because the core of my audience is tech-savvy and may not want to “upgrade” to yet another fucking social network they don’t want or need.
I read the news today, oh boy…
