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Dean Martin
Oct. 23rd, 2012 08:00 am
If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let ‘em. That’s how I got here, you know.
-- Dean Martin
( Hear more! )
If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let ‘em. That’s how I got here, you know.
-- Dean Martin
( Hear more! )
Dean Martin
Oct. 23rd, 2012 08:00 amIf people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let ‘em. That’s how I got here, you know.
-- Dean Martin
( Hear more! )
All the buzz for the new double-oh-seven flick is killing me. I may have to work up some pluck and energy to go out and see it, after all.
_ _ _
After the promise of Casino Royale and the anti-climax of Quantum Of Solace, the question was whether he (or new director Sam Mendes) would be able to bring anything fresh to a series that has been running for half a century. The answer is, yes, absolutely. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.
[...]
Craig again impresses as Bond. He switches without fuss from Roger Moore-style self-deprecating comedy (adjusting his cuff links in action sequences) to the darker, more intense scenes which focus on Bond’s childhood traumas. The film, one of the longest in the recent Bond canon, occasionally becomes repetitive. The plot doesn’t really stack up and the Sam Peckinpah-style finale, in the Scottish Highlands, initially seems a little self-indulgent given all the shootouts and chases we’ve already seen. However, the film ends with an emotional kick that you don’t often find in Bond. It also shows the way forward. At the age of 50, there is no sign at all that Bond is finished yet.
-- ONTD
_ _ _
After the promise of Casino Royale and the anti-climax of Quantum Of Solace, the question was whether he (or new director Sam Mendes) would be able to bring anything fresh to a series that has been running for half a century. The answer is, yes, absolutely. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.
[...]
Craig again impresses as Bond. He switches without fuss from Roger Moore-style self-deprecating comedy (adjusting his cuff links in action sequences) to the darker, more intense scenes which focus on Bond’s childhood traumas. The film, one of the longest in the recent Bond canon, occasionally becomes repetitive. The plot doesn’t really stack up and the Sam Peckinpah-style finale, in the Scottish Highlands, initially seems a little self-indulgent given all the shootouts and chases we’ve already seen. However, the film ends with an emotional kick that you don’t often find in Bond. It also shows the way forward. At the age of 50, there is no sign at all that Bond is finished yet.
-- ONTD
All the buzz for the new double-oh-seven flick is killing me. I may have to work up some pluck and energy to go out and see it, after all.
_ _ _
After the promise of Casino Royale and the anti-climax of Quantum Of Solace, the question was whether he (or new director Sam Mendes) would be able to bring anything fresh to a series that has been running for half a century. The answer is, yes, absolutely. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.
[...]
Craig again impresses as Bond. He switches without fuss from Roger Moore-style self-deprecating comedy (adjusting his cuff links in action sequences) to the darker, more intense scenes which focus on Bond’s childhood traumas. The film, one of the longest in the recent Bond canon, occasionally becomes repetitive. The plot doesn’t really stack up and the Sam Peckinpah-style finale, in the Scottish Highlands, initially seems a little self-indulgent given all the shootouts and chases we’ve already seen. However, the film ends with an emotional kick that you don’t often find in Bond. It also shows the way forward. At the age of 50, there is no sign at all that Bond is finished yet.
-- ONTD
_ _ _
After the promise of Casino Royale and the anti-climax of Quantum Of Solace, the question was whether he (or new director Sam Mendes) would be able to bring anything fresh to a series that has been running for half a century. The answer is, yes, absolutely. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.
[...]
Craig again impresses as Bond. He switches without fuss from Roger Moore-style self-deprecating comedy (adjusting his cuff links in action sequences) to the darker, more intense scenes which focus on Bond’s childhood traumas. The film, one of the longest in the recent Bond canon, occasionally becomes repetitive. The plot doesn’t really stack up and the Sam Peckinpah-style finale, in the Scottish Highlands, initially seems a little self-indulgent given all the shootouts and chases we’ve already seen. However, the film ends with an emotional kick that you don’t often find in Bond. It also shows the way forward. At the age of 50, there is no sign at all that Bond is finished yet.
-- ONTD
A new song of Miley's has made it onto my friends page: "Lilac Wine". I was not familiar with the song, and although I suppose it shows off her vocal range as much as any song that I have heard her do, I cannot say that I am really fond of the number. It's still worth copying and pasting and listening to, though.
(Source: ONTD)
( Pictures! )
(Source: ONTD)
( Pictures! )
A new song of Miley's has made it onto my friends page: "Lilac Wine". I was not familiar with the song, and although I suppose it shows off her vocal range as much as any song that I have heard her do, I cannot say that I am really fond of the number. It's still worth copying and pasting and listening to, though.
(Source: ONTD)
( Pictures! )
(Source: ONTD)
( Pictures! )
Let's Take a Trip Through Space
Mar. 25th, 2012 09:39 pmWhile other videos have mostly focused on the nighttime Earth rolling by, photographer Alex Rivest wanted to highlight something new. He enhanced publicly available data from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to focus each shot on the background moving stars. The result is enough to make any backyard stargazer incredibly jealous.
“As someone who tries to get away from light pollution to look up and get lost under the stars (I always take star time-lapse movies whenever I get away from the city lights), I am fascinated by what the stars must look like from space,” Rivest wrote in an email to Wired Science. “This particular track, to me, made it feel like one was taking a stroll in low earth orbit, watching the stars.”
-- Adam Mann at Wired.com
Let's Take a Trip Through Space
Mar. 25th, 2012 09:39 pmWhile other videos have mostly focused on the nighttime Earth rolling by, photographer Alex Rivest wanted to highlight something new. He enhanced publicly available data from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to focus each shot on the background moving stars. The result is enough to make any backyard stargazer incredibly jealous.
“As someone who tries to get away from light pollution to look up and get lost under the stars (I always take star time-lapse movies whenever I get away from the city lights), I am fascinated by what the stars must look like from space,” Rivest wrote in an email to Wired Science. “This particular track, to me, made it feel like one was taking a stroll in low earth orbit, watching the stars.”
-- Adam Mann at Wired.com
Lonesome Miley
Jan. 23rd, 2012 01:41 pmMiley does a Bob Dylan number.
Miley covers "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with all of the mournfulness and dusty sentiment that the classic Dylan song requires, pouring her heart into the track and giving the legend his due instead of simply covering the track and moving on. (It's hard to top the Shawn Colvin version, but Miley comes dangerously close.)
It takes not only guts but cojones the size of wrecking balls to cover Bob Dylan, and Miley rose to the occasion and not only proved that she's capable of genres beyond pop but that she thrives vocally in a folk/ country environment.
-- ONTD
See, I don't know if she can be a pop diva and continue to rake in the big bucks of a Lady Gaga, but I think she may be able to do something more: leave behind an impressive body of music that is more artful than bubble-gum popular, if she will dedicate herself to that. After all, I am sure she is rich enough that even her grand children will be able to live lives of ease and luxury without having to work a day. She just has to be okay with not working the big stadiums, but lighting up the classier venues, singing more for posterity than for mega-fame, being more concerned about taste than with exciting the masses, working on her art rather than her divahood.
Miley covers "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with all of the mournfulness and dusty sentiment that the classic Dylan song requires, pouring her heart into the track and giving the legend his due instead of simply covering the track and moving on. (It's hard to top the Shawn Colvin version, but Miley comes dangerously close.)
It takes not only guts but cojones the size of wrecking balls to cover Bob Dylan, and Miley rose to the occasion and not only proved that she's capable of genres beyond pop but that she thrives vocally in a folk/ country environment.
-- ONTD
See, I don't know if she can be a pop diva and continue to rake in the big bucks of a Lady Gaga, but I think she may be able to do something more: leave behind an impressive body of music that is more artful than bubble-gum popular, if she will dedicate herself to that. After all, I am sure she is rich enough that even her grand children will be able to live lives of ease and luxury without having to work a day. She just has to be okay with not working the big stadiums, but lighting up the classier venues, singing more for posterity than for mega-fame, being more concerned about taste than with exciting the masses, working on her art rather than her divahood.
Lonesome Miley
Jan. 23rd, 2012 01:41 pmMiley does a Bob Dylan number.
Miley covers "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with all of the mournfulness and dusty sentiment that the classic Dylan song requires, pouring her heart into the track and giving the legend his due instead of simply covering the track and moving on. (It's hard to top the Shawn Colvin version, but Miley comes dangerously close.)
It takes not only guts but cojones the size of wrecking balls to cover Bob Dylan, and Miley rose to the occasion and not only proved that she's capable of genres beyond pop but that she thrives vocally in a folk/ country environment.
-- ONTD
See, I don't know if she can be a pop diva and continue to rake in the big bucks of a Lady Gaga, but I think she may be able to do something more: leave behind an impressive body of music that is more artful than bubble-gum popular, if she will dedicate herself to that. After all, I am sure she is rich enough that even her grand children will be able to live lives of ease and luxury without having to work a day. She just has to be okay with not working the big stadiums, but lighting up the classier venues, singing more for posterity than for mega-fame, being more concerned about taste than with exciting the masses, working on her art rather than her divahood.
Miley covers "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with all of the mournfulness and dusty sentiment that the classic Dylan song requires, pouring her heart into the track and giving the legend his due instead of simply covering the track and moving on. (It's hard to top the Shawn Colvin version, but Miley comes dangerously close.)
It takes not only guts but cojones the size of wrecking balls to cover Bob Dylan, and Miley rose to the occasion and not only proved that she's capable of genres beyond pop but that she thrives vocally in a folk/ country environment.
-- ONTD
See, I don't know if she can be a pop diva and continue to rake in the big bucks of a Lady Gaga, but I think she may be able to do something more: leave behind an impressive body of music that is more artful than bubble-gum popular, if she will dedicate herself to that. After all, I am sure she is rich enough that even her grand children will be able to live lives of ease and luxury without having to work a day. She just has to be okay with not working the big stadiums, but lighting up the classier venues, singing more for posterity than for mega-fame, being more concerned about taste than with exciting the masses, working on her art rather than her divahood.
Of Bob Dylan
Apr. 10th, 2011 08:35 am“I never saw myself as a folksinger,” he said. “They called me that if they wanted to. I didn’t care. I latched on, when I got to New York City, because I saw (what) a huge audience there was. I knew I wasn’t going to stay there. I knew it wasn’t my thing. ... I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
“Folk music,” he concluded, “is a bunch of fat people.”
He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated.
“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
“Whatever the counterculture was, I’d seen enough of it,” he wrote. He complained of being “anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent.”
Performing his message songs came to feel “like carrying a package of heavy rotting meat,” he wrote.
-- Maureen Down for The New York Times
Wow, so Bob Dylan is an other to join the ranks of the Ayn Randians! I cannot say that I feel especially betrayed. I never got into Dylan or folk music. I'm kind of a lefty in my politics, but when I listen to music, I'm more into that old time rock and roll, the kind of music that just soothes the soul, the music that sounds like clocks fucking - more entertainment than art or philosophy. I could hardly make out what Dylan was even singing anyway, and I guess it didn't matter.
“Folk music,” he concluded, “is a bunch of fat people.”
He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated.
“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
“Whatever the counterculture was, I’d seen enough of it,” he wrote. He complained of being “anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent.”
Performing his message songs came to feel “like carrying a package of heavy rotting meat,” he wrote.
-- Maureen Down for The New York Times
Wow, so Bob Dylan is an other to join the ranks of the Ayn Randians! I cannot say that I feel especially betrayed. I never got into Dylan or folk music. I'm kind of a lefty in my politics, but when I listen to music, I'm more into that old time rock and roll, the kind of music that just soothes the soul, the music that sounds like clocks fucking - more entertainment than art or philosophy. I could hardly make out what Dylan was even singing anyway, and I guess it didn't matter.
Of Bob Dylan
Apr. 10th, 2011 08:35 am“I never saw myself as a folksinger,” he said. “They called me that if they wanted to. I didn’t care. I latched on, when I got to New York City, because I saw (what) a huge audience there was. I knew I wasn’t going to stay there. I knew it wasn’t my thing. ... I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
“Folk music,” he concluded, “is a bunch of fat people.”
He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated.
“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
“Whatever the counterculture was, I’d seen enough of it,” he wrote. He complained of being “anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent.”
Performing his message songs came to feel “like carrying a package of heavy rotting meat,” he wrote.
-- Maureen Down for The New York Times
Wow, so Bob Dylan is an other to join the ranks of the Ayn Randians! I cannot say that I feel especially betrayed. I never got into Dylan or folk music. I'm kind of a lefty in my politics, but when I listen to music, I'm more into that old time rock and roll, the kind of music that just soothes the soul, the music that sounds like clocks fucking - more entertainment than art or philosophy. I could hardly make out what Dylan was even singing anyway, and I guess it didn't matter.
“Folk music,” he concluded, “is a bunch of fat people.”
He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated.
“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
“Whatever the counterculture was, I’d seen enough of it,” he wrote. He complained of being “anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent.”
Performing his message songs came to feel “like carrying a package of heavy rotting meat,” he wrote.
-- Maureen Down for The New York Times
Wow, so Bob Dylan is an other to join the ranks of the Ayn Randians! I cannot say that I feel especially betrayed. I never got into Dylan or folk music. I'm kind of a lefty in my politics, but when I listen to music, I'm more into that old time rock and roll, the kind of music that just soothes the soul, the music that sounds like clocks fucking - more entertainment than art or philosophy. I could hardly make out what Dylan was even singing anyway, and I guess it didn't matter.
