The thing to know about the launch of MTV in 1981, was that music videos were only just barely a thing at that point. True, MTV did not invent the music video any more than Facebook invented the social network or Microsoft invent the operating system. But by golly were they ever in the right place at the right time! Anyway, I’ve Keep reading →
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…
