Saturday, September 29, 2007
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XVIII: Death Proof and Dethklok are both bad-fucking-ass.
Death Proof holds up a LOT better when you haven't already been sitting in a theater for 2 hours. Now the seemingly endless dialogue flies by, and the whole thing is over before you know it. Plus, it has the single most satisfying ending of any Tarentino movie ever, and that's saying something considering the endings of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
On a side not, I have been playing the end theme, April March's "Chick Habit", almost nonstop since my dear dear friend DJ Lyxia hooked my ass up with both the English and French versions of it. So awesome.
In more recent music news, cartoon death metal band Dethklok released thier debut album this week. You know, it really says something about the stagnancy of the metal scene (or, if you will, metalcore in general) these days when a fictional cartoon band can put out a better metal album than most real, major-label-signed bands out there. Yeah, it's kind of a joke, but it's also REALLY goddamn heavy. And metal. Very, very metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.
So in short, death is awesome this week. Now, onto the Random!
1. The Black Dahlia Murder - I'm Charming
2. The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
3. Nada Surf - Paper Boats
4. Cradle of Filth - The Smoke of Her Burning
5. Obie Trice - Cheers
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Day the World Went Away
7. Kittie - No Name
8. Death By Stereo - Let Down and Alone
9. Hot Water Music - The Sense
10. Vertical Horizon - We Are
11. Sepp Vielhuber - Bier Her, Bier Her/Der Treue Husar
12. Aerosmith - Hole In My Soul (live)
13. Smash Mouth - Then the Morning Comes
14. Mineral - Lovelettertypewriter
15. Prince - Soul Sanctuary
16. Joss Stone - I Had a Dream
17. Children of Bodom - Towards Dead End
18. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
19. Handsome Boy Modeling School - The Truth
20. Dir en Grey - Garden
There's a whole lotta lame in this week's Random, but there's also some awesome thrown in there. Smithereens, Nada Surf (anyone who doesn't enjoy Nada Surf is a filthy Communist. There, I said it.), a lesser-known NIN single, some Oktoberfest drinkin' music, Prince, and some Japanese shock metal thrown in for good measure. However, I think the one-two knockout punch of late-90's Aerosmith/Smash Mouth (with a Vertical Horizon eye rake behind the ref's back) shoves this Random squarely into the category of FAIL.
Sorry iTunes, I think this is your first real loss.
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Death Proof holds up a LOT better when you haven't already been sitting in a theater for 2 hours. Now the seemingly endless dialogue flies by, and the whole thing is over before you know it. Plus, it has the single most satisfying ending of any Tarentino movie ever, and that's saying something considering the endings of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
On a side not, I have been playing the end theme, April March's "Chick Habit", almost nonstop since my dear dear friend DJ Lyxia hooked my ass up with both the English and French versions of it. So awesome.
In more recent music news, cartoon death metal band Dethklok released thier debut album this week. You know, it really says something about the stagnancy of the metal scene (or, if you will, metalcore in general) these days when a fictional cartoon band can put out a better metal album than most real, major-label-signed bands out there. Yeah, it's kind of a joke, but it's also REALLY goddamn heavy. And metal. Very, very metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity.
So in short, death is awesome this week. Now, onto the Random!
1. The Black Dahlia Murder - I'm Charming
2. The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep
3. Nada Surf - Paper Boats
4. Cradle of Filth - The Smoke of Her Burning
5. Obie Trice - Cheers
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Day the World Went Away
7. Kittie - No Name
8. Death By Stereo - Let Down and Alone
9. Hot Water Music - The Sense
10. Vertical Horizon - We Are
11. Sepp Vielhuber - Bier Her, Bier Her/Der Treue Husar
12. Aerosmith - Hole In My Soul (live)
13. Smash Mouth - Then the Morning Comes
14. Mineral - Lovelettertypewriter
15. Prince - Soul Sanctuary
16. Joss Stone - I Had a Dream
17. Children of Bodom - Towards Dead End
18. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
19. Handsome Boy Modeling School - The Truth
20. Dir en Grey - Garden
There's a whole lotta lame in this week's Random, but there's also some awesome thrown in there. Smithereens, Nada Surf (anyone who doesn't enjoy Nada Surf is a filthy Communist. There, I said it.), a lesser-known NIN single, some Oktoberfest drinkin' music, Prince, and some Japanese shock metal thrown in for good measure. However, I think the one-two knockout punch of late-90's Aerosmith/Smash Mouth (with a Vertical Horizon eye rake behind the ref's back) shoves this Random squarely into the category of FAIL.
Sorry iTunes, I think this is your first real loss.
