Rolling Stone's
500 Greatest Songs of All Time

...and Love Will Tear us Apart is only #179?



Regardless, all things considered, it's a pretty good list

Happy Anniversary, Baby!

August 20, 2006

Stuff That Makes Me...

Happy:

• Canada's rowers
• Canada's female wrestlers

Movies like this one that aren't afraid to offend:



Dana Stevens of Slate brings up a good point :

In her review in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis points out that the Les Grossman character that Tom Cruise plays, a grotesque caricature of a vulgar Jewish movie mogul, is arguably the most offensive thing in the movie, amounting to a kind of "Jewface." Maybe it's because Stiller himself is Jewish, or maybe it's just that Tom Cruise was so unexpectedly hilarious in that role, but that one rolled right off my back.

As has been said countless times, this movie is making fun of HOLLYWOOD --not Jews, blacks, or those with intellectual disabilities. Besides, in my book, any flick that can rehabilitate Tom Cruise's image is a towering achievement.

Sad:

• The Conflict in Georgia --where the hell are the anti-war protesters that turned out in their thousands and hundreds of thousands to protest the Iraq War? Code Pink? A.N.S.W.E.R.? Bueller? Bueller?... oh, this isn't American aggression, is it? In that case, as you were, peace activists.
  
  

This trailer

Bill O'Reilly is not funny. He is the King Midas of not funny. Everything he touches becomes not funny. Anything within a 10 yard radius of him is automatically not funny. Anything he even considers remotely funny is automatically not funny. Ergo: This movie is not funny.

• George Lucas : How can we explain what happened to this guy? how can we explain his latest cinematic abominations? I have a theory that, although once a pioneering visionary, George Lucas’ evolution as a storyteller has been shaped both by the birth of his children and by his gradual poisoning through the ingesting of large quantities of lead and aluminum over two decades…. Something which drove him mad and turned him into the megalomaniac he is today.