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It was more stay than cation, tbqh.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 07, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.

NEW RELEASES; Paste will point you to the Front Bottoms, Chris Farren, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Ride, Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone, and more.

THE PRICE OF POP FANDOM: Concerts become increasingly unaffordable. They are "more like a summer vacation: something you plan for, save for and splurge on, chasing the promise of a lifelong transcendent memory."

12 GREAT Pee-Wee Herman Musical Moments.

THE O.C. Made Indie Mainstream.

JOHN GOSLING, former keyboardist for The Kinks, has died at the age of 75.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Barbie threepeats atop the chart with 53M domestic as it nears a billion worldwide. The Meg 2 places with 30MM.  Oppenheimer shows with 28.7MM as it closes in on 500MM worldwide.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is fourth with a 28MM debut, with a 42MM haul since Wednesday against a 70MM budget. Talk To Me, with a 42 percent drop, is setting up to be one of A24's biggest grossers ever.

BARBIE has no sequel in sight.

ELEMENTAL has weathered the storm?

WARNER BROS claims it has saved 100MM during the strikes.

JAMIE FOXX apologized to the Jewish community after being accused of anti-Semitism.

BILL COSBY faces another sexual assault claim.

THE WARRIORS is Lin-Manuel Miranda's next musical adaptation.

MATTHEW BRODERICK comes to terms with his legacy being Ferris Bueller.

RISKY BUSINESS at 40: The Movie that Made Tom Cruise ‘Tom Cruise.'

MARK MARGOLIS, the prolific actor whose simmering air of menace as the fearsome former drug lord Hector Salamanca in “Breaking Bad” transformed the innocent ding of a bellhop bell into a harbinger of doom, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 83.

 

MONKEYS, testing out the frog.

A DUDE sleeps with six dogs, four cats, and a pig.

A FAMILY OF DUCKS, shopping at the record store.

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It's not just sentimental, no, no, no.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, August 03, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

KarlSTAYCATION WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."  BONUS: Molly Ringwald's post-MeToo re-evaluation of the films that made her career.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED has Mitski, Irreversible Entanglements, Sally Anne Morgan, and more.

HAND HABITS plays KEXP.

LOW CUT CONNIE plays WFUV.

BUDDY & JULIE MILLER return with "Don't Make Her Cry," co-written with Bob Dylan.

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO covers Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It with Mine.”

THE REPLACEMENTS: Tim is getting the super-deluxe treatment.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH remembers PAUL REUBENS.

WHEN RUSH met the Manic Street Preachers.

LIZZO is called arrogant, self-centered and unkind by a director.

 

THE STUDIOS & WRITERS are getting together to discuss resuming negotiations.

MORE A-LISTERS are contributing to the SAG strike fund.

LEAH REMINI is filing a lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige

OPPENHEIMER: Why you may have trouble with the dialogue.

BARBIE is postponed in the Middle East.

WONDER WOMAN 3 is back on with Gal Gadot working with James Gunn.

BLUE BEETLE: Cronenberg for Kids?

JESSICA CHASTAIN on her first Emmy nomination, taking charge of her career, and the strike.

 

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A DOGGO, left to his own devices.

BUNNY said no phone.

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We'll see how the rest of the week goes. So little "news."   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, August 02, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

FATBOY SLIM: When your "Weapon of Choice" is Walken.

MARGARET GLASPY plays a micro-concert for The Current.

WILCO returns with "Evicted."

SEMISONIC returns with "The Rope."

PETER GABRIEL shares "Olive Tree."

U.S. GIRLS & BOOTSY COLLINS cover Leon Russell's "Superstar."

THE HIVES shares two new tracks.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER shares "20 Years And A Nickel."

HURRY shares "Something More."

SINEAD O'CONNOR, remembered at The New Yorker.

LIZZO was accused of sexual harassment and weight-shaming by former dancers.

LENNY KAYE celebrates 50 years of Nuggets.

 

ANGUS CLOUD, the actor best known for portraying Fezco, a lovable drug dealer on the show "Euphoria," has died at 25.

MEGXIT: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry won't stay ‘silent' after their feud with the Beckhams.

ZACK SNYDER still wants to release his cut of Sucker Punch.

SIMON PEGG confirmed that he's making another film with director Edgar Wright.

THE 30 GREATEST STAND-UP SPECIALS, according to The AV Club.

WHO NEEDS FILM CRITICS when studios can be sure influencers will praise their films?

 

WHEN DOGGOS Collide!

CATS & DOGS, living together...

A BOBCAT hears the ice crack.

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I meant to do that.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, August 01, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday.

BAR ITALIA bring their post-punk, garage rock and even brit pop influences to World Cafe.

CAROLINE ROSE plays KEXP.

BARTEES STRANGE debuted "Homestead" at Newport.

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS shares "I Am a Wave."

STEREOPHONICS frontman Kelly Jones recalled the time his neighbor complained about the volume of his ‘Tom Jones records’, only to discover it was actually Tom Jones singing.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at "What's My Name?," the first of Rihanna and Drake's superstar duets.

 

PAUL REUBENS, the comic actor whose bow-tied, childlike alter-ego Pee-wee Herman became an unlikely if almost uncategorizable movie and television sensation in the 1980s, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 70.  And the tributes roll in.

LOKI: Season 2 has a trailer online.

SPY KIDS: ARMAGEDDON has a trailer online.

THE HAUNTED MANSION is another Disney bomb, btw.

QUENTIN TARANTINO wants BRUCE WILLIS one last time?

JAMIE LEE CURTIS says she would “be dead” if fentanyl was “easily” available during her past addiction struggles.

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA predicts a Golden Age of Cinema.

THE STRIKES: Reps for studios and streamers have reportedly expressed a desire to return to negotiations with SAG-AFTRA in a meeting on Friday.

JASON MOMOA has reinvigorated Shark Week.

 

IS THAT the Real Slim Shady?

A CAT, and Guinea Pigs.

TWO DOGS, one pool.

OUR BEARS ARE REAL, insists a Chinese zoo.

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Might go on staycation mid-week. We'll see.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, July 31, 2023 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Georgia, Bethany Cosentino, and more...

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has The Clientele, Bush Tetras, and more...

THE MUPPETS' ANIMAL joined MY MORNING JACKET at the Newport Folk Festival.

JASON ISBELL joins RHIANNON GIDDENS on "Yet To Be."

THE DECENDENTS: Milo had a mild heart attack, but is expected to make a full recovery.

BUSH TETRAS discuss the influences behind the first LP in 11 years.

JOHN LYDON warns of the dangers of AI.

TAYLOR SWIFT, causing an earthquake.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: It's a record last weekend of July at the cineplex.  Barbie repeats atop the chart with an estimated 93MM on a mere 43 percent drop, the best second weekend Warner Bros. has ever seen.  Oppenheimer places with 46MM on a mere 44 percent drop, the first R-rated move to gross over 10MM for 10 days straight.  Haunted Mansion likely shows with a 42MM debut.  Below the fold, note that Sound of Freedom is outgrossing the latest Mission: Imppossible domestically.  The laest from Tom Cruise is also lagging Indiana Jones 5 at this point in their respective runs, though that's likely because M:I 7 opened on a Wednesday instead of a Friday.

SAW X has a trailer online.

TNMT early reviews are solid.

PLASTIC SURGERY is booming during the Hollywood strike.

THE EMMYS are postponed.

KEVIN COSTNER's wife is moving out.

TINA FEY could take over SNL when Lorne Michaels retires.

DONALD & STEVEN GLOVER are writing the Lando Calrissian series for D+.

NICOLAS CAGE, on his cameo in The Flash, turning 60, and more.

 

THIS MISSION: IMPAWSIBLE might be my favorite.

CORGI Gone Wild.

MEANWHILE, during a downpour in the Japanese city of Nara...

A MANATEE dies from a sexual encounter with his brother.

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