Yep, The Glimmer Twins – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – have been approached by Johnny Depp to appear as Pirates in the 4th installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean”….. That should be interesting to say the least…. Maybe they’ll write a new song called, “Sympathy for the Pirate”……
Since it looks like everybody wants the return of Quiz-a-matic, the first new QUIZ will be up at 2:00 pm CDT this Friday – 09APR10….. Â That’s noon for you West Coasters……. I will review and post the rules as comments to this post prior to Posting the first quiz….. Â “The game’s afoot, Watson” ….. (who […]
“You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
Yep, the last Monday in January has been named “Bubble Wrap Day”…… Originally designed to be used as wallpaper, yes, wallpaper!….. Some of that late ’50’s futuristic look of the future due to the intense interest in space travel mixed the fear of nuclear Holocaust with the Cold War going on with Russia….. As we […]
There’s no kind of atmosphere – I’m all alone, more or less – Let me fly far away from here – Fun, fun, fun – In the Sun, sun, sun – I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose – Drinking fresh mango juice – Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes – Fun, fun, fun – […]
These tune sure bring back some memories. Ellie Greenwich, one of the most prolific song writers of the 60’s & 70’s, died Aug. 26 of a heart attack & pneumonia. She was 68. Here’s a list of only some of the songs she wrote: “Leader of the Pack” “Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?” […]
…… let me know when I can start watching the news again!…… I am so fed-up with all the coverage of “he who shall not be named”……. I did not realize there’s that many people on this planet who have no musical taste whatsoever….. I don’t even want to discuss my dislikes of this personality […]
12 Musicians That are (Surprisingly) Still Alive. 12. Fats Domino It’s been a long, long time since Fats was capable of walking up Blueberry Hill on his own. Fats is 81 years young, now. You know what his thrill was? Young blonde nurses. Meet Fats’ personal nurse Gina. 11. Della Reese Della must have been […]
……is GREAT!!!!!! Robo, MR Community member, picked up a copy of the newly released game for the Wii……. All the original Ghostbusters are present, as well as some of the other cast members of the movie – The caricatures look just like them, and, from what I can tell, they did all the sound bytes […]
Now that MR has an iPod, he needs a few podcasts to subscribe to. I imagine he’d want a blues one: a quick search turned up Murphy’s Saloon Blues Podcast. I have no idea if it is any good though. Here are some of the podcasts I listen to: Slice of SciFi Wait Wait… Don’t […]
What’s your take on the new Trek? I liked it for the most part. Once you get over the few contrived bits necessary for the plot, it is a fun adventure. The soundtrack bugged me though. It tried so hard to not sound like a Star Trek movie and yet had the similar instrumentation to […]
I know Sunn is our official MR Community Coroner, but I think you might find this all interesting….. I just finished re-reading all 56 Short stories and four novels of Sherlock Holmes…. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a great writer….. All of the stories read as if they were written today, not over a hundred […]
Well The Boys are coming back in 2009. Thanks to Dave TV in the UK. Check out these links http://dave.uktv.co.uk/library/movies/whatever-happened-red-dwarf-movie/ http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2008/09/19/new-red-dwarf-specials-confirmed/
Well, Oklahoma City stole Seattle’s basketball team, and, now the State of Oklahoma is sending in ground troops in the form of OU football players and fanatic fans for an assault on the University of Washington’s stadium….. I heard they had orders to bring the stadium back with them!…… Rumors?…. Maybe….. With my Seattle connections, […]
Tarn and I saw Hamlet last night put on by Seattle’s Shakespeare in the Park Company, GreenStage. (If you’re ever in Seattle and want some Shakespeare action, they do a great job!) One thing that I realized a while ago when seeing Hamlet in Ashland, was the 1983 comedy movie Strange Brew was losely based-on […]