Addicted To Vinyl

I picked up Esquire Magazine’s 8th annual Meaning of Life issue over the weekend. Fifty interviews, one person from each state. I was sucked in by Clint Eastwood on the cover, and also seeing the names of Little Steven…..and Chloë Sevigny?
Inside the table of contents, Mickey Rourke.
Sold.
Side note: […]

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While assembling my next post, I came across video on Youtube of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reviewing Savage Steve Holland’s Better Off Dead at the time of it’s original release in 1985.

I guess I’m not surprised that they hated it, and it’s entertaining to watch them bash a movie that is now considered to […]

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Kelly @ Popdose is back with another winner in the Soundtrack Saturday series. Last week: Better Off Dead. This week: Empire Records.

I love this movie about a Gen X-run independent record store for a few reasons. One is the nostalgia factor. It definitely makes me think of high school — Class […]

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I was a bit under the weather last night, so I decided to skip out on previous plans, and stay in. Saturday night became movie night.
Up first was The Great Outdoors with John Candy, etc. I don’t think I’ve seen it since I saw it originally in the 80s. It still holds […]

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See, the problem here is that my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and, and uh, my grandmother dropped acid, and she freaked out and hijacked a school bus full of penguins, so it’s kind of a family crisis, so, come back later? Great.
As an uber-fan of Better Off Dead, […]

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I’ve seen several different perspectives on the passing of Don LaFontaine, but I liked my buddy Terry’s thoughts:
Don LaFontaine, the King of Voiceovers, passed away in Los Angeles on Monday at the age of 68. Don died of complications relating to a collapsed lung.
Don’s magical voice appeared on over 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 commercials. […]

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via Stuck in the ’80s:
A small American Baptist congregation outside Chicago is getting weekly lessons in “The Gospel of John Hughes,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
For example, with “The Breakfast Club,” Hudgins’ message is this, according to the Sun-Times: ” ”Don’t You Forget About Me’ says we are not forgotten. … But everyone’s forgotten on […]

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So I was catching up yesterday on about a month’s worth of Pop Candy, and came across the following link of greatness, brought to us by the fine folks at Stereogum.
It seems that Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen felt that Huey Lewis would have the goods to deliver a new soundtrack smash ala “Power of […]

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