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John Hughes, and Friday things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, August 06, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE 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.

HALF WAIF plays KEXP.

YOLA virtually visits The Current.

KACEY MUSGRAVES previewed new songs on a podcast.

NATION OF LANGUAGE shares “This Fractured Mind.”

BIG RED MACHINE (ft Justin Vernon and Ilsey) shares "Mimi."

DAMON & NAOMI share “The Aftertime.”

 

THE BEATLES: Revisiting Revolver, 55 years later.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS, playing with the Killers and... Taylor Swift?

JEFF TWEEDY has launched a newsletter which will include unreleased demos.

GUN CLUB's Mother Juno: One of America's Great Unsung Punk Albums.

I WANT MY MTV: A Deep Dive Into the Early Years.

 

BRITNEY SPEARS seeks the immediate suspension of her father from her conservatorship.

SOUTH PARK's Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a new deal with ViacomCBS Inc. that will pay them more than 900MM over the next six years, one of the richest deals in TV history.

WHY DOESN'T THE ROCK Get to Make Out More Onscreen?

OVERLOOK, the series inspired by Stephen King’s The Shining, will not be moving forward with HBO Max.

STEVE MARTIN, on the banjo.

KATE BOSWORTH and director Michael Polish have announced that they are separating after nearly 8 years of marriage.

RYAN REYNOLDS pitched Disney on a Deadpool-Bambi crossover.

COBRA KAI has a Season 4 teaser online.

THE HUNGER GAMES: A prequel is headed into production next year.

QUENTIN TARANTINO revealed how he'd create a guaranteed "good movie" audiences will enjoy, and it involves casting Adam Driver as Rambo.

NU-METAL & TWILIGHT: The True Outsider Art.

 

A DOG and his shadow.

A BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY, made for walking.

HOW DO POISONOUS ANIMALS keep from poisoning themselves?

A POD OF DOLPHINS, off the coast of Sydney's Bronte Beach.

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Like Thursday following Wednesday, it's Thursday.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, August 05, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

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

DINOSAUR JR plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

PACHYMAN, the one-man dub reggae project of Pachy Garcia,covers Scientist for a Lagniappe Session.

TOM MORELLO, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & EDDIE VEDDER cover AC/DC's "Highway To Hell."

CHARLIE WATTS is likely sitting out the Rolling Stones' US tour.

SPECIALTY RECORDS: NME looks at the label that gave us Little Richard.

FOXING is profiled at Bandcamp.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Prince's bizarre, stitched-together marketing tool "Batdance."

 

RHIANNA is a billionaire. And it's not from performing.

MEGXIT: Emmy Award bosses are reportedly trying to get Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to make their Hollywood debut at next month’s ceremony — and even present an award.

DR. DRE's daughter claims she's homeless.

VAL KILMER's kids update his health condition.

JAMES GUNN on MARTIN SCORSESE on Comic Book movies.

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG: Pulled From the Toronto Film Festival.

WHY MATT. DAMON. can't be canceled.

KEN BURNS responds to criticisms around him telling stories about BIPOC subjects as a white filmmaker.

JEOPARDY: After all of those guest hosts, Alex Trebek's successor is probably an executive producer of the show.

ANNETTE: A musical ft. Adam driver, Marion Cotillard, and the music of Sparks has a trailer online.

MIAMI VICE had a dizzying array of guest stars.

 

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, Migrating.

A PUPPER and a camel.

IT LOOKS LIKE A FLAMINGO. It's not a flamingo.

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An only slightly wobbly Wednesday.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, August 04, 2021 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman shares "When You're Feeling Gray."

TY SEGALL dropped a surprise new album.

SHAME plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

BACHELOR visits World Cafe.

CHUBBY & THE GANG share "I Hate the Radio."

BITE ME BAMBI has a ska cover of The Go-Gos' "Our Lips Are Sealed."

LOCAL H covers Looking Glass's "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)."

 

SON VOLT: Jay Farrar talks about longevity and the lockdown.

THE STROKES: An oral history of This is It.

BLEACHERS: Jack Antonoff on how understanding grief, his hometown and "unearned hope" shaped his finest album yet.

CHARLES CONNOR, known for being Little Richard’s drummer who performed with other music greats including James Brown and Sam Cooke, has died. He was 86.

 

BLACK WIDOW: Scarlett Johansson's Lawsuit Is Game-Changing, But May Be Legally Weak. Which makes Disney's initial response that she just wanted people to get COVID-19 (at a time when Disney has her film and Jungle Cruise in theaters) so very baffling.

ETHAN COEN of the Coen Brothers currently does not "want to make movies anymore?"

JENNIFER ANISTON is profiled by InStyle.

MATT. DAMON. on cleanup duty.

BRENDAN FRASER has joined the casts of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon and Max Barbakow's Brothers.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE would like to play other characters in any Harry Potter reboot.

THE SUICIDE SQUAD: Introducing the new crew.

 

YANKEE STADIUM SECURITY chases a cat around the field for nearly four minutes.

A CAT, watching Gymnastics.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... the Capybara.

PELICANS, trying to eat animals other than fish.

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A Steady Tuesday, Maybe.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, August 03, 2021 - 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.

LUMP virtually visits The Current.

PHOEBE BRIDGERS picks standout Tiny Desk Concert contest entries.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "My Limited Engagement."

THE BEACH BOYS have shared two unreleased songs including an unreleased a capella version of ‘Surf’s Up’.

THE BLOW covers 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love.”

GUNS N' ROSES cover the Stooges classic “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”

DOLLY PARTON used the royalties from Whitney Houston‘s cover of ‘I Will Always Love You' to invest in a historically Black neighborhood in Nashville.

BILLIE EILISH on where her new album finds her and her outlook on life, fame and performance.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Martika's goth-adjacent pop dirge "Toy Soldiers."

 

VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE has a trailer online.

REESE WITHERSPOON's Hello Sunshine has been sold for north of 900MM to a media company backed by the private-equity firm Blackstone Group Inc.

BILL MURRAY alks about the painting that stopped him from committing suicide.

KATHY GRIFFIN had successful lung cancer surgery.

JASON MOMOA is not a fan of being asked if he regrets starring in "Game of Thrones" scenes that featured sexual violence.

KIT HARINGTON believes he made the right choice to take a step back from acting and enter rehab after “Game of Thrones” came to an end.

MATT. DAMON. knows how to promote a movie.

 

WHEN YOU DROP YOUR GLASSES in the Orangutan enclosure.

BEARS know how to fish.

SNOOP DOGG covers the Equestrian event at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Another Monday, still juggling.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 02, 2021 - 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 Son Volt, Prince, urand Jones & The Indications, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has LUMP, Dot Allison, Magic Roundabout, and more.

SLEIGH BELLS shares "Locust Laced."

BLEACHERS: Jack Antonoff talks to BuzzFeedNews about recruiting collaborators.

ELVIS PRESLEY, who died 44 years ago this month, was not a drug abuser in the typical rock’n’roll lifestyle sense, a new book claims, but he was medicating to address a series of congenital illnesses.

PRINCE's ESTATE is now controlled almost equally by an aggressive, well-funded New York music company and the three eldest of the music icon's six heirs.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Simply Red's hubristic cover of the Philly soul classic "If You Don't Know Me By Now."

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Jungle Cruise tops the chart with 34.2MM domestic, not too far off pre-pandemic The Rock films like Rampage.  Then again, a 91.8MMglobal + streaming debut looks less than great against a reported 362MM negative cost.  The Green Knight places with 6.8MM which is a strangely goodshowing for a strangely strange film that's only going to be in theaters for three weeks.  M. Night Shyamalan's Old shows with 6.78MM on a 60 percent drop.  Below the fold, Black Widow made only 6.4MM, the lowest fourth weekend for a Disney-released Marvel title ever.  Stillwater, a movie boasting Matt Damon, made only 5.1MM.

EMMA STONE is reportedly considering suing Disney over the release of Cruella on Disney+.

GERARD BUTLER is suing Olympus Has Fallen's producers in a profits dispute over the original pic.

BOB ODENKIRK is going to be OK.

BRITNEY SPEARS' fourth topless shot stirs fan concern.

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG hs been pulled from its planned September 17 release.

GEORGE CLOONEY was caught in devastating floods that hit northern Italy.

TOM HANKS will have a small role in Wes Anderson's next movie (after The French Dispatch).

 

TEASING A CORGI, or paying homage to a Corgi?

A HUGE DOG couldn't stand puppies - until he met the right one.

CAT vs TURTLE: Who You Got?

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