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We are immediately thrown into a song, Summer Nights from Grease. The girls are begging Mercedes for all the details on her summer romance with Sam, and I call bullsh*t. We’re in January. Mercedes has been sitting in the Glee club with them since the first day of school in September. Then again, it is no secret Mercedes is completely disposable to the Glee club. They probably forgot she exists altogether. Even Tina, who may or may not be a selective mute, got to talk about her boring romance with Mike a few hundred times this season.
Quinn and Santana have decided they are way too cool for this number. Quinn sits there, doing nothing, and Santana shoves the girls, making them fall in a domino effect. Side note: I hate to do this, because I love the costumes on this show, but what the f*ck was the wardrobe department thinking here? As I said, it is January at this point- in Ohio- and some characters are dressed for spring. Amber Riley looks really beautiful here, though.
The boys ask Sam about the summer romance. Kurt starts singing, but- surprise!- he’s with the girls. Hahahaha. It’s funny because gay guys are actually female. There is a weird split-screen composition between Mercedes and Sam, and Sam actually flinches, as if he suddenly sees a big black mirage to his right. I am almost completely sure this wasn’t intentional, which makes it funnier.
Like a dinner in the Great Hall at Hogwarts, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 gives you plenty to chew on. But unlike the delicious and special Butt-Crumpets, Dangly Beef and Twinkle Taters that the students get, you will be served an overall satisfying experience but with a couple dishes leaving you cold. But don’t get me wrong. Go see it. The good more than outweighs the bad and I probably would not have a bad thing to say about it if I hadn’t invested 10 years in these movies and felt they owed me.
Before I get into it, I want to show you the sweet 3D glasses they gave me. Harry Potter style. And before I get into the spoilerific stuff down below, you can take a look at them. You won’t get this kind I don’t think because I’m special. And if you do get them when you go it is probably because they felt sorry for you. Oh, and by the way, the 3D didn’t hurt anything and there wasn’t a bunch of stupid “look this is 3D here comes some Wizardly Dong shooting straight at the camera” junk. It was just a little different.
Harry Potter 3D Glasses! I'm a nerd!
Now the Spoilers!
Hello there, dear reader, welcome to this little review of mine.
First off, I am in no way a music critic, or even qualified to write this. (If I needed qualified people I would ask for them! — Ed) I am simply a music lover and writing about things I do or do not like, so keep that in mind.
LCD Soundsystem, I won’t give you a Wikipedia rundown of their history or anything, just get right into the music.
First off we have LCD Soundsystem (Self Title)
The album starts strong with Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (a personal favourite) and finishing with a brilliant dance number called Yr City’s A Sucker on the second disc. Is the album perfect, no, not by any means. For a first release though, it’s brilliant.
Favourite tracks from it are Daft Punk Is Playing At My House, Disco Infiltrator, Tribulations, Losing My Edge
Tracks you may want to avoid; Thrills and Tired.
I won’t do the rating system, because trying to give a numeric value to whether you like something or not is stupid. I’ll just say it’s more than worth giving it a listen.
The second album is Sound of Silver
Again, starting strong with Get Innocuous! and staying strong through the end, Sound of Silver is a damn fine album. While I don’t find it as good as the self-title there are four tracks that make any fault with the album moot, Someone Great, All My Friends, Sound of Silver and New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down.
I’m not a huge fan of Us v Them or Watch The Tapes, those are really what bring the entire album down for me, but the rest is strong.
Again, this is another you should give a listen to if you’re into dance music.
The final studio album we have is This Is Happening
Okay, so, there’s two words I have to sum this album up; Holy. Shit.
Good lord there is not a bad song on this. This album may be as close to perfect as possible. Starting off with Dance Yrself Clean, a brilliant track, and finishing with Throw (if you didn’t buy it through iTunes) this album is constantly strong.
Tracks of note are Dance Yrself Clean, You Wanted A Hit, Pow Pow and Drunk Girls. The transitions in Dance Yrself Clean alone are enough of a reason to buy it, let alone You Wanted A Hit. This is LCD Soundsystem’s strongest and final, and what a swan song.
There are a few non-studio remix/cover albums as well such as A Bunch of Stuff EP, Introns, 45:33, 45:33 [Remixes], as well as the single Bye Bye Bayou.
45:33 is particularly interesting because of the song by the same name. It is a 46:05 long remix and mix of new and old from the LCD Soundsystem library. I, personally, find it great to fall asleep to.
Overall, if you’re looking for something new, or you enjoy dance music, give LCD soundsystem a listen. You won’t regret it.
Here’s a sample for you to enjoy
So I was cynical when I started watching the show. Sure, the coaches picked their teams based on voice only, but then they had to pit their own team against each other. So I assumed it was going to be a trick and they would put the uggos up against the good looking people and kick out the uggos. And I was half right. Find out what happened after the jump!
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.” – Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty
I was once told that the mark of a real actor is the ability to deliver any kind of line whether it’s Shakespeare or a Tidy Bowl commercial. Rutger Hauer is one of those actors. That line is one of my favorite movie quotes but without Rutger Hauer the character Roy Batty would have been just another B-movie cliche. That one line explains everything about Blade Runner and there’s not a lot of actors that could have pulled it off. I guess that’s why I applaud Rutger for taking on Hobo With a Shotgun. It’s not a Tidy Bowl commercial but it is pure Grindhouse even more so than Machete.
Machete , directed by Robert Rodriguez, was one of the five fake trailers made for Grindhouse that subsequently became a movie. Hobo With a Shotgun was the winning entry in Rodriquez’s 2007 SXSW Grindhouse Trailer Competition. It’s obvious that there is a lot of over the top talent waiting to make trashy films out there; Check out Maiden of Death or The Dead Won’t Die on YouTube. The creators of Hobo With a Shotgun: Jason Eisner, screenwriter John Davies and producer Rob Cotterill found themselves with a miniature hit on their hands. In Canada it was included with the five original fake trailers and the popularity on YouTube soared. I admired Robert Rodriquez for getting Machete financed, Hobo With a Shotgun gives me hope that real people can still make movies too.
This is what happens when you're raised by Eric Bana in the woods.
What would your life be like if you’ve never seen a television or even a light bulb? I don’t really know but even if you were raised in the dark you should have enough sense not to flip the switch on that little box. If you’ve played any type of game at all you know that THE BIG RED BUTTON is bad. Hell even the Greeks were sitting in the theater shouting down Pandora before she opened the box. There wouldn’t be a movie if it weren’t flipped though so in Hanna, directed by Joe Wright, Saoirse Ronan flips the switch and we’re off on a killing spree.