damn.

 Music  5 Responses »
Sep 272005
 

Did you know that Elliott Smith’s “Thirteen” (one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I know) is a freaking cover? If so, why the hell didn’t anyone tell me? It was recorded by Big Star in 1974 or so. Incidentally, they also have a song called “I’m in Love With a Girl,” which is in fact not a song that Elliott Smith recorded but was probably his inspiration for writing that song.

Anyway, I’m totally dumbfounded. Also, I’m going to listen to Big Star, who I have heard of but never listened to, nonstop for the next week.

And if you read this thinking to yourself, “Jake sure is a moron, Big Star are a huge deal,” well, you’ll be interested to know that they have a new album, their first since 1993. Or you already knew that too, in which case I give in and admit that you are way smarter and more awesome than I am.

Addendum: they also recorded the song used as the theme to That 70′s Show. Big Star, you’re everywhere.

 Posted by JHW at 5:15 pm

Guaranteed better than the movie where Samuel L. Jackson wore a kilt for some reason.

 Etc, Movies, Writing  No Responses »
Sep 272005
 

the Next Great American Film: Snakes on a Plane.

I ask Agent the name of the project, what it’s about, etc. He says: Snakes on a Plane. Holy shit, I’m thinking. It’s a title. It’s a concept. It’s a poster and a logline and whatever else you need it to be. It’s perfect. Perfect. It’s the Everlasting Gobstopper of movie titles.

I say to Agent: “Tell me nothing else. Get me the script and put me on the phone with those lucky bastards at New Line Cinema!”

That is from the blog of one Josh Friedman, a screenwriter who is hilarious (Josh, if you check your stats, I’m available to consult on a movie about a blogger who… uh… okay, it needs a hook). Anyway, I have been going through the archives and it’s pretty good stuff.

Secondary link: an interesting article in the Post about the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise

Tito is certain that “San Andreas” was designed by “gringos.” “Don’t we gotta be some sort of gang-bangin’, PCP-sellin’ Mexicans who like to shoot? Isn’t that what people think?” he asks.

Brendan thinks that “a diverse group of guys, blacks and whites and Latinos” (“and some girls”), came up with “San Andreas.” “It’s gotta be made by people who know what they’re talking about, right?”

With the help of a tattoo artist, a screenwriter and a rap photographer from Los Angeles, “San Andreas” was actually developed in Scotland.

As far as I’m concerned, this is just another reason that Scotland is awesome, but I suspect the Post is aiming to make a different point altogether.

 Posted by JHW at 12:25 pm
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