Tag: Music

  • Retro Movie Adventures: Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)

    Stylized image of Mary Woronov as Miss Togar. She is rendered in hot colors (reds, magentas, yellows). The background is a distorted image of The Ramones in two tones (black and blue).
    Some of the cast of Rock 'n' Roll High School, featuring Paul Bartel in a Ramones ringer t-shirt.

    Dumb fun, and almost no racist caricatures! PJ Soles plays a high school student. She was 30 when she made this, but she really manages to look like a teenager being played by a 35 year old.

    This poster is a little jankier than usual, but I think that fits the vibe of the movie.

    A fake poster for Rock 'n' Roll High School mimicking the poster for Superman.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Pavements

    Two versions of Pavement: the original band and the biopic version.
    Pavements movie bar.

    The best possible Pavement movie. A documentary of the band, but also of a jukebox musical about the band, and also about the reunion tour, and also about a Pavement museum, and ALSO a parody of traditional Bohemian Rhapsody style biopics, and ALSO a documentary about making the biopic. Everything is jumbled together, and it’s often hard to know what’s real. It’s refreshing to see a band movie that never pretends to be accurate.

    Today’s fake poster was pretty obvious once I found a picture of the band standing like they were in a lineup.

    A fake poster for Pavements mimicking the poster for The Usual Suspects.
    As a Blank Check fan, I had to add Griffin to the poster.
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  • A Manager’s Bleats – Beatles Anagrams

    Someone on twitter did an awesome silly thing where they re-titled James Bond movies with their anagrams. I thought it was a great idea, so I stole it to re-do Beatles albums. Here’s the first batch. I’m skipping the early Capitol hacked-up albums.

    Peep Lame Easels (Please Please Me)

    Peep Lame Easels (Please Please Me) album cover
    Featuring 300% more George.

    White Slab Teeth (With The Beatles)

    White Slab Teeth (With The Beatles) album cover
    Now with 50% less Ringo

    Aghast, Randy Hid (A Hard Day’s Night)

    Aghast, Randy Hid (A Hard Day's Night) album cover
    Now with 2400% more back-of-George’s-head.

    A Stereo Elf Slab (Beatles For Sale)

    A Stereo Elf Slab (Beatles For Sale) album cover
    Now with 100% more Ringo (nose only)

    The problem with Beatles anagrams is that their album titles are usually pretty short. Some of these would be under ten letters if I didn’t include “Beatles” in the name.

    The White Album is probably going to be super lame.

  • doctors who

    Alternate reality Doctor Who themes: