Looks like someone got the Tigris and the Euphrates mixed up with the Nile.
Next we'll be told that "a staffer downloaded this from the Internet."
"Every revolution tends to become the tyranny that it overthrew"
Monday, January 31, 2011
Fox News fails at geography
Yeah, this is on everyone else's blog today. Fuck it, it's too damn funny not to post. Notice anything wrong with this picture?
Looks like someone got the Tigris and the Euphrates mixed up with the Nile.
Next we'll be told that "a staffer downloaded this from the Internet."
Looks like someone got the Tigris and the Euphrates mixed up with the Nile.
Next we'll be told that "a staffer downloaded this from the Internet."
John Barry dead at 77
Film composer John Barry has died at 77:
Chicago Tribune
There are three film composers who have had the greatest effect on me. The first was Ennio Morricone, partner in crime with director Sergio Leone, who remains one of my favorite directors. The second was John Williams, who wrote several ear-catchers up until Star Wars (Episode 4). But it's The Empire Strikes Back that's my favorite. Unfortunately, the best of all the Star Wars films doesn't do his soundtrack any justice; they sliced and diced his cues horribly. Watching the film and listening to the soundtrack remain separate experiences for me.
And the third was John Barry, who scored 11 James Bond films.
Dr. No is credited to Monty Norman. The question of who wrote what has been the subject of debate and litigation for years. Here's the entire list, cribbed from Wikipedia:
The first eight I like. The rest I could care less about. Thunderball and You Only Live Twice are my favorite scores. Goldfinger is overrated.
Legend has it that Tom Jones almost blacked out from lack of oxygen on the final note of Thunderball. Great stuff.
Midnight Cowboy wasn't too bad.
I glanced around YooToob but couldn't find decent copies of any of the other opening credits. Fuck it. Check someone else's blog.
Chicago Tribune
There are three film composers who have had the greatest effect on me. The first was Ennio Morricone, partner in crime with director Sergio Leone, who remains one of my favorite directors. The second was John Williams, who wrote several ear-catchers up until Star Wars (Episode 4). But it's The Empire Strikes Back that's my favorite. Unfortunately, the best of all the Star Wars films doesn't do his soundtrack any justice; they sliced and diced his cues horribly. Watching the film and listening to the soundtrack remain separate experiences for me.And the third was John Barry, who scored 11 James Bond films.
Dr. No is credited to Monty Norman. The question of who wrote what has been the subject of debate and litigation for years. Here's the entire list, cribbed from Wikipedia:
- Dr. No (1962) — James Bond Theme used on main and end titles and Bond's arrival in Jamaica
- From Russia with Love (lyrics by Lionel Bart) (1963), Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Song in a Motion Picture
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Thunderball (1965)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
- Moonraker (1979)
- Octopussy (1983)
- A View to a Kill (1985), (Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture & for Best Original Song - Motion Picture)
- The Living Daylights (1987)
The first eight I like. The rest I could care less about. Thunderball and You Only Live Twice are my favorite scores. Goldfinger is overrated.Legend has it that Tom Jones almost blacked out from lack of oxygen on the final note of Thunderball. Great stuff.
Midnight Cowboy wasn't too bad.
I glanced around YooToob but couldn't find decent copies of any of the other opening credits. Fuck it. Check someone else's blog.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Our Wacky World—1/30/2011
A woman has filed a $1 trillion lawsuit against Diddy (real name: Sean Combs), alleging that he caused 9/11, put her child in the hospital and stole a poker chip worth "100 zillions of dollars."
A retired Maryland cop has filed a $17-million lawsuit claiming that his superiors forced him to shave in front of colleagues ahead of a visit by President Obama when he was running for office back in 2008, an incident that caused the officer “tremendous humiliation, embarrassment and mental anguish”A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid cellar for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house
Woman charged for keeping more than 100 dead cats in a freezer says she is being persecuted because she practices the Wiccan religion
LaCrosse Tribune
If you've been on the lam for over 30 years don't get a driver's license in your real name
CNN
"Drug cartels go shopping for their war weapons here in Arizona."
Woman charged for keeping more than 100 dead cats in a freezer says she is being persecuted because she practices the Wiccan religion
LaCrosse Tribune
If you've been on the lam for over 30 years don't get a driver's license in your real name
CNN
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