Mike Score making a very angry phone call about this post

Like are we really assuming that the band that contained multitudes such as “that one song was too hard on Reagan” and “Somebody Put Something in My Drink” was across the board “cool”

The challenge now is diversifying the reading pile, which are mostly board books since they, at nearly two, are liable to tear up less sturdy ones

I’d settle for merely a full-time job at this point!

What I always wanted them to do—and I think, at one point, considered—was a CD box replicating all the singles like those Duran Duran sets; B-sides/edits/mixes/etc. I don’t know how badly I need outtakes and what have you

And with only weeks before a Bedtime Stories reissue with, uhh, some stuff. It’s…certainly something

j/k—wait til you read what he says on The Dark Knight!

I must admit, I’m intrigued by deeming his run “a Top 10 hit in six different decades” without an asterisk (because it’s the same song it was in 1984). But I don’t make the rules. (There’s entirely a chance they find something to release for the biopic next spring and that “asterisk” goes away)

We’ve gotta will “Zaireeka” into common verb status

Sorry those are all white guys but I could do a TED talk about them collectively, so

(2/2)
-John Mayer (ok but the major label debut turns 25 next year and you can trace a lot of guitar action/some Dead revivalism to him)
-Phil Collins (the one British frontman of the 80s who most deserves it solo, slightly over Peter Gabriel)
-Tears for Fears (plenty of influence)
-Weird Al (duh)

Right! I believe Joe Don Baker plays a villain in one of the Dalton films, then a CIA ally in GoldenEye. It was so nicer when continuity wasn't such a burden to viewers!

Just as long as you get to make folks like me happy with what *you're* doing!

I can only imagine how it must be making you feel to see all this

Which is totally a function of remembering the character’s placement in the books well, but forgetting that when he’s played onscreen by Dr. Loomis, Kojak and the criminologist from Rocky Horror in rapid succession (and, I guess, sent up by Mike Myers), it’s not quite the same gravitas

It does that unforgivable thing a lot of franchise pictures do now, which is assume the lore in our world has accumulated value in the film world. (Star Trek Into Darkness did this too, having a villain reveal their real name only means anything to seasoned viewers)

That’s why Skyfall hit so hard at the time, because it was openly hitting the fourth wall in a way it hadn’t in a while asking “what’s the whole point here” and sort of answering “not sure, but it’s fun ain’t it?” Which then it kind of disproved doing excessive continuity

President Dril

I’m about 40% through a Bond rewatch and what’s struck me the most is how *hostile* the early movies are to continuity. Felix Leiter is always played by a different guy, so you don’t know it’s him until someone says so. (Same for the villain Blofeld, which gets explained but undercuts his gravity)