Why? Because it’s a rainy day out there, and we’re restless and bored. And because, as a music blog rockin’ from way back when the blogs first started bloggin;, we cover Taylor Swift suspiciously little around here. It’s just that (gawrsh, you noticed?) we aim for a different beat from the usual media/culture site, especially when it comes to not reporting every award... Keep reading →
Unless this is your first time reading a music blog (how do you like it so far?), you should all be familiar with the Beatles’ A Hard Days’ Night. It’s the first movie the Beatles ever made, and it was all about – wait for it – what it’s like to be the Beatles. They scrounged... Keep reading →
In my latest side quest, I’ve taken to producing movie review videos for 366WeirdMovies. Which leads to some interesting connections back to my music interests here. Let’s detour for a quick recap:
So far for POD366’s Weird View Crew, I’ve covered some movies with a music crossover interest:
It’s time again to shame the re-made unremarkable. As Hollywood seems stuck in a perpetual cycle of remakes of reboots of sequels of remakes, so musicians spend a surprising chunk of their time re-performing each others’ work. Which makes sense; song-writing takes time, you know! In between penning out lyrics, sometimes it helps blow out the creative cobwebs if you jam out a song... Keep reading →
I was prodded to wonder the title question while working on another project for another client. More specifically, a movie review, in fact a movie which has rock n roll for a partial motif… and which could not resist taking a monkey shot at Liberace. The movie in question was released in 1999, some 12 years after his passing. It will come up a couple movies from now over at Keep reading →
Your humble blogger has a rare opportunity to tie together three of my steadiest, long-running gigs. First at 366WeirdMovies, I’ve been doing video movie reviews on their YouTube channel and I’ve drawn 1996’s Trainspotting as my next review, also with a post write... Keep reading →
Wouldn’t it be a giggle if all I did was celebrity gossip like all the other entertainment blogs out there? Well, actually, probably not. Even though I could add wit and snark to the pile of hot takes, I’d still be just imitating what others do. But just this once…
