#Ian Medley

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Laurie Johnson film and Television Composer Passes away

Laurie Johnson film and Television Composer died today aged 96 here is his obituary thanks to the BBC news website we of course used his classic theme from the TV series which ran from 1977 to 1983 on ITV network for 6 series for a sequence in the Tolerance film

Where we see Robert in a montage of shots doing his dream job at the UCI cinema you can read the post by clicking here Laurie Johnson: The Avengers theme composer dies - BBC News

We will be covering the professionals in a future blog

Pictures

1)The Professionals title card

2) and 3) David Smith in the Tolerance film as Robert doing his dream job in the UCI cinema screengrabs taken from the Tolerance film with thanks to Ian Medley

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from bailey forman

Xmas came early this year 💕 Thank you @mrjoeiconis for letting me be apart of the most wonderful time of the year! Also, couldn’t have done it without the fabulous @johnsimpkins11 @jenashtep @cogrobs 🎅🏻🎄❤️ . . . 📸: @stephwes

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Mott the Hoople Live 1974 CBS ————————————————— Tracks: Broadway 1. All the Way from Memphis 2. Sucker 3. Rest in Peace 4. All the Young Dudes 5. Walking with a Mountain Hammersmith 6. Sweet Angeline 7. Rose 8. Medley: •Jerkin’ Crocus • One of the Boys • Rock ‘n‘ Roll Queen • Get Back • Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On • Violence —————————————————

Morgan Fisher

Dale Griffin

Luther Grosvenor “Ariel Bender”

Ian Hunter

Peter Overend Watts

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Ok...after several hours..here is (FINALLY) everything that happened in Act 2! :D

Cheers when there were 59 seconds left

Played the drowning theme when there were 10 seconds left

We were told to take out our phones during the I Am All of Me intro

Immediately everyone started cheering when I Am All of Me started

Someone screamed when they showed Maria during IAAOM

I've never heard What I'm Made Of before so I had to mumble along the words XD

Someone kept barking like a dog (going "hoo hoo hoo!"). Can't help but feel that's a reference to Snapcube ("That's so sick it makes me wanna bark like a dog!")

Everyone started screaming at the intro to Open Your Heart

The guitarist didn't do the riff during the instrumental break in Open Your Heart :(

Everyone screamed the second Knight of the Wind started

The audience sang the "woahs" at the start of KOTW

Everyone cheered when Sonic's Knight transformation was onscreen

Audience waved during the second "woah" bit

Johnny did a sword slash at the end of KOTW

Clap along at the start of His World

People cheered when Silver and Blaze showed up oncreen

I think someone screamed when Mephiles showed up

The cheers were deafening when Fist Bump started-

Cheers when Ian Jr showed up

Ian Jr showed up more than Gadget during Fist Bump!

Johnny straight up yelled "We fucking love you!!!"

Johnny fist bumped an audience member

Audience members in the front were jumping at the end of Fist Bump

Johnny asked "Do you wanna..." And the audience started finishing with multiple different songs names or quotes. My guess was "follow me" to lead into City Escape. The correct answer was Reach for The Stars

Wave-along during RftS

Everyone started waving around their flashlights during the end of RtFS

Sing along during Endless Possibilities

Johnny hit an E note at the end of EP

Johnny asked us to get angry for Break Through It All!

Got goosebumps when everyone screamed "you'll wake the beast inside!" and "Don't look down!"

The last chord of BTIA was discordant and dissonant but so cool!!

We're the loudest crowd yet, according to the guitarist-

It was someone's birthday so we all have them a birthday clap! 🎂🎁

Because it's Halloween they performed Pumpkin Hill! 🎃

Everyone started screaming at the start of Pumpkin Hill

Johnny said he wasn't comimg out until everyone stood up for Undefeatable

When everyone screamed "Face your fear" I realized just how much screaming is in the Sonic Frontiers soundtrack-

We totally broke the sound barrier at the end of Undefeatable. The crowd was cheering so loud!!

They were supposed to do the fakeout ending like in the 30th anniversary version, but because we were such a good audience they didn't do it

Everyone screamed the "woo!" during City Escape

Johnny went out into the audience for City Escape

I swear we broke the sound barrier during Live and Learn

I was convinced L&L would never end because Johnny kept shouting people out onstage! :)

Johnny said he wished tonight would never end and he got teared up earlier in the performance.

They played Green Hill as exit music while the credits rolled, and i heard some audience members singing to it.

While I am sad some of my favorite orchestral medleys got cut, like the Sega Saturn Medley, the Sonic 06 Medley, and the Sonic Colors Medley, I do realize that they clearly wanted to focus more on the rock section, what with the songs added. Overall I had an absolute blast and I hope a full video surfaces or I can find my audio of act 2!! So excited if/when it returns to Chicago!! 🦔💙

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Mike's Media Medley--August 2024

damn i just keep making these increasingly later huh. i have no free time babey

anyways, things i watched and played for the very first time in august 2024

movies (2024 releases)-- Longlegs, Cuckoo, Alien: Romulus, Dìdi

movies (non-2024 releases)--Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

games: Rocket League (2015), Fields of Mistria (2024)

Alien: Romulus

so i have a few mixed feelings on this. first im gonna say my biggest issue is that some of the characters spoke in incredibly heavy cockney accents and i literally did not understand a single word they said. thankfully some of them are not around for long

second, this movie is VERY interested in reminding you of the alien franchise. hey, you liked this line from aliens? here it is. you recognize this guy right? look at his face for several minutes. do you remember ridley scott's 1979 masterpiece, alien? i do. i sure remember ridley scott's 1979 masterpiece, alien. speaking of, ian holm's character is here, and his face has been deepfaked and allegedly this is with permission from his family but just. the whole thing feels incredibly wrong to me.

third, this is the second movie i have seen cailee spaeny in ever and i am just like. not feeling it. i think she had a better performance in Civil War but also her character in Romulus was way smarter and more likeable, by virtue of the fact that she didn't have much in the way personality-wise for me to get annoyed at and was mostly just there to do a lot of competent alien fighting stuff. which is fine, whatever, normally this would be Okay for an action-horror film

HOWEVER, david jonsson just absolutely blew everyone out of the water acting-wise. honestly one of my favorite performances of the year. his whole character brought most of the emotional core to the movie which is why i think it's kind of a shame cailee's character didn't quite uphold her end of that emotional core but i do think in the end her going back for him was sweet.

the set design and effects were very good, and so was the camerawork and editing. i know i just expressed annoyance with the 'do you remember alien?'isms of the movie but the set design is VERY reminiscent of alien and that's a boon.

the sexual violence was way more overt here and it culminates in the only (non-jumpscare) moment in a horror movie ive experienced where a mostly-silent audience audibly gasps or goes 'what the FUCKKKKK'. if you know you know

the movie is like. midway between Okayish and Just Fine, Actually. might watch it with friends on an alien binge. david jonsson carried.

60/100

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

i watched this with my mother, who was immensely frustrated by the conclusion of the movie but i really enjoyed it. i thought the whole idea of putting her character on trial because the only two options presented are 'murder' and 'suicide' and she was the only one in the house led to a lot of interesting introspection to be had. the child actor is one of the better one's i've seen (maybe even the best) and obviously sandra huller did great with such a subtle performance

i think generally the directing/editing were fine. good, even. they'd have to be with this movie being a slow burn. HOWEVER there were some parts that just felt weird and made me. laugh?? the kid discovering his father's body where they do that weird zoom-track shot made me legit laugh out loud because it felt like youtube video editing NWENFKJWNKJWN

also snoop is a good dog 10/10 for snoop

i DID like it but would probably not rewatch it as i think a big pull for this movie is the tension in whether or not she Did It, and knowing the conclusion i think would inhibit my ability to rewatch it even if i did greatly enjoy the character work

75/100

Cuckoo

i really truly did want to like cuckoo more than i did but i just kind of walked out going "that was okay"

this was the first time i'd seen hunter schafer in anything (except for the ballad of songbirds and snakes, but her character was really minor) and i thought she was fine. she acted decently, i just had a few more wishes from the script.

the entire atmosphere of the film, editing, directing, sound design, all of that is really good. the 'repeat' sequences are really chilling despite how simple they are in effect. most of my issues come from the script

i think, in some movies, not explaining much works really well in its favor, but with cuckoo which ends with the Main Guy heading the experiment as the villain, in his laboratory and at the hospital where the experiment is being held, with all these scientists with recordings of whats going on etc., it explains shockingly little about what's going on with the actual monster/aliens/mutants idk, which i would have greatly appreciated since the whole concept of them and their behaviors is like. Weird.

i did appreciate some of the moments between hunter's character and her little sister, especially that voice mail, but i do think that their development from estranged and awkward tense half-siblings to 'i'll die for you' at the end is kind of abrupt, would have appreciated seeing more of her sister as a real character throughout the movie.

the plot twist was cool though

overall, i think it's a good watch, it's not BAD by any means, i just wanted a bit more out of it. regardless, im glad to support movies like these at my local theater :p

65/100

Dìdi

i had to go to AMC to see this which sucked and i hated it

anyways. dìdi! i thought it was very unsatisfying in like, a satisfying way, existjng more as a snapshot of a real person's life in the early 2000s, and not as a story with like proper pay-off and all that. cuz like in a movie ur kind of expecting all these big dramatic moments to happen. his dad comes back. his grandma dies. he gets the girl. and some dramatic moments DO happen but not like big movie dramatic moments. its just a snapshot of a shithead kid's life and i loved that

like. the payoff to his whole deal with madi is just like. blocking her on AOL. there isnt like a big falling out with the skaters they just think he's kind of lame and also rude to his mom. there isnt really a huge fallout w fahad he just said something awkward and got phased out of the friend group. i found the whole thing worked really well for me but i would totally understand if it didn't work for a lot if people because yeah the MC is insufferable lmao, which is honestly the hardest part of watching the movie.

70/100

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

i would like to say first that although i am glad daniel kaluuya won his oscar for this lakeith stanfield absolutely shouldve gotten more recognition, he was the best part of the LA death note and he had such a presence in get out despite his minor role. and obviously he fucked so hard in Sorry To Bother You. so seeing him win for a movie that got this amount of buzz at the oscars wouldve made me super happy for him, but i love daniel kaluuya too and idk if i could pick between them for favorite performance of the movie.

anyways this is probably one of my favorite historical dramas i've ever seen. it is paced EXTREMELY well for something that could've gotten bogged down in trying to commit every piece of history to film as it could and while it definitely glosses over a lot of stuff / shortens the timeline of IRL events ie w the formation of the Rainbow Coalition, i think overall the movie does incredibly well portraying the tensions at the time and in between the characters themselves and god i hope hoover is rotting in hell

also speaking of Get Out. fuckign. Lil Rel Howerey made a cameo and between him Lakeith and Daniel it wouldve been a Get Oit reunion party NSIDNEIWNE

obviously go check it out if you haven't yet. good movie.

80/100

Longlegs

man i almost feel like i have to watch this movie again before i talk about it i feel like i had so much to say but i need a refresher NWIDJEK

the marketing for this movie was insane first of all. secondly, theres so much commitment to this like. wood aesthetic. so many shots are in buildings / hallways / rooms with lots of wood. speaking of shots this movie looks SO fucking good. i think if nothing else its a great atmosphere piece thats pretty to look at.

i would call it a thriller as opposed to a straight up horror and as someone who loves the Ring I wish it gave me more of those vibes, with the MC trying to solve this strange supernatural mystery on a time limit, trying to dig up dead things, but i thought that what it achieved was Perfectly Functional.

i honestly truly dont know what i think of this movie i need to watch it again. im sitting between a "it was alright" score and a "it was good" score i think

67.5/100

bideo games

Fields of Mistria (2024)

this game has such a nice color palette ohg i need to play it again. some of the player character animations look a little weird and the controls are slightly Off but its fine. i want the pretty gay people on my computer

Rocket League (2015)

this game pissed me off so bad i hope it dies

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Super Bowl Sunday timeline

All times below are Eastern.

Super Bowl 2024 pregame coverage: CBS Sports will host seven hours of pre-game coverage on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.

11:30 a.m. ET: "NFL Slimetime": Hosts Nate Burleson and Young Dylan preview the game with NFL highlights, picks and interviews.

12:00 p.m. ET, "Road to the Super Bowl": NFL Films' annual sports doc takes a look back at the 2023-2024 NFL season. The one-hour film features more than 125 NFL players' and coaches' mic'd up moments leading up to Super Bowl LVIII.

1:00 p.m. ET: "You are Looking Live!": The story of "The NFL Today" takes a look back on 50 years of NFL studio coverage, including interviews with surviving original cast members Brent Musburger and Jayne Kennedy, as well as current TV personalities.

2:00 p.m. ET: "The NFL Today": Live from the Bellagio Hotel and Allegiant Stadium, fans will be treated to four hours of pregame coverage leading up to kickoff. Host James Brown will be joined by analysts Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Nate Burleson, Boomer Esiason and JJ Watt, plus lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones. Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Matt Ryan and Jason McCourty will provide additional commentary, along with Kyle Brandt and more.

Super Bowl 2024 kickoff and game schedule: Starting at 6:30 p.m., the San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs with musical performances by Reba McEntire, Usher, Post Malone and more.

6:10 p.m. ET (approximately): Post Malone is expected to sing "America the Beautiful", followed by the national anthem sung by Reba McEntire. Singer Andra Day will also perform her rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Actor Shaheem Sanchez will sign along with Day. (Sanchez will also perform the ASL version of Usher's halftime performance.)

6:30 p.m. ET: Super Bowl LVIII begins. Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are scheduled to call the game, with reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Jay Feely and rules analyst Gene Steratore. Armando Quintero and Benny Ricardo call the Network's SAP coverage in Spanish. 

8:00 p.m (approximately): The Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show will begin. Music sensation Usher will take the stage to perform a medley of his top hits.

2024 Super Bowl postgame coverage: When the game is over, the action continues with CBS' postgame coverage, including the presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners.

9:30 p.m -10:00 p.m. (approximately): Postgame coverage begins. "The NFL Today" team will recap the Super Bowl and Jim Nantz will present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winner of Super Bowl LVIII. 

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Dayton, OH — VoicePlay live performances

After spending quite a bit of time in Ohio the previous autumn, VoicePlay returned in July 2015 for a night at the Fraze Pavilion. The show was almost cancelled for inclement weather, but luckily the rain held off and the outdoor venue stayed dry.

Their opening act was Eleventh Hour of Kettering Fairmount High School, the host group for the Kettering A Capella Festival that VoicePlay had participated in the year before. These talented kids had also opened for the Sing-Off tour a few months earlier at the Troy, OH show.

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[NOTE: The videographer sings along a lot.]

Each performance of this blend of comedy skit and musical medley is always a little different. How much will the driver and passenger poke at each other's buttons? Where will the air freshener go? What song will Layne sing? Have a watch and find out.

Details:

title: Road Trip

original songs / performers: [0:50] "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Tiny Tim; [1:08] "Orinoco Flow" by Enya; [1:26] "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Quiet Riot; [2:35] "Big Shot" by Billy Joel; [2:48] "I Wanna Rock" by Twisted Sister; [2:57] "Voices Carry" by ’Til Tuesday; [3:14] "Shout" by Tears For Fears; [3:30] "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by War; [3:40] "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynyrd; [4:24] "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" by Chicago; [5:43] "We Just Disagree" by Dave Mason; [6:04] "Let It Go" by Idina Menzel as Elsa in Frozen (2013) ** see this dedicated post for original song links

written by: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Al Dubin & Joe Burke; "Orinoco Flow" by Eithne "Enya" Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin & Roma Ryan; "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Noddy Holder & Jim Lea; "Big Shot" by Billy Joel; "I Wanna Rock" by Dee Snider; "Voices Carry" by Robert Holmes, Aimee Mann, Michael Hausman, & Joey Pesce; "Shout" by Roland Orzabal & Ian Stanley; "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by Papa Dee Allen, Harold Ray Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, & Jerry Goldstein; "That Smell" by Allen Collins & Ronnie Van Zant; "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" by Peter Cetera & David Foster; "Let It Go" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci

My favorite bits:

road raging Eli

Tony's flickering eye movements at the first iteration of "Cum On Feel the Noize"

♫ "We'll get WILD, wild, wild…" ♫

Layne jolting awake on the beat

Geoff's little twirl as he flees the vehicle

Earl using the pretend aerosol spray as deodorant rather than his usual hairspray motion

Hey, Layne, look up there. ☝

Eli almost laughing at the different interruption

Trivia:

VoicePlay had been performing and tweaking this medley/skit since at least 2010.

They made a professional recording in front of a live audience during the 2014 Sing-Off tour.

Layne usually sings "Royals" by Lorde as his interrupting solo, but sometimes changes it like he does here in an attempt to make the other guys break character.

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As much fun as this medley is to listen to, it's even more entertaining to watch the boys perform it live, bopping around the stage and playing together.

Details:

title: The King Has Returned (Lion King medley)

original songs: "Circle of Life"; [1:51] "I Just Can’t Wait to Be King"; [2:29] "Hakuna Matata"; [3:16] "Be Prepared"; [4:39] "Circle of Life" (reprise)

written by: Elton John & Tim Rice

arranged by: VoicePlay

My favorite bits:

the rhythm section step-touching their way through the "Circle of Life" chorus

Tony and Eli gesture-bickering over which of them "mine" refers to during "I Just Can't Wait to Be King"

Earl's little Elvis groove at the beginning of "Hakuna Matata"

Eli and Earl bouncing across the stage in time with Geoff's little downward riff

Tony and Geoff's alternating Twist moves

the crunchy transition into "Be Prepared", and their emphatic stomping

Layne making a butt-smacking motion toward Geoff to go with the whipcrack in his percussion line

the two beats of silence after "Pay attention!"

Trivia:

This medley originally appeared on VoicePlay's 2012 album "Once Upon an Ever After"

"Hakuna Matata" was also included in the "aca-Disney" mashup they created for the 20th anniversary of Disney On Broadway, as well as in their "Aca Top 10 — Disney Sidekicks" countdown.

"Be Prepared" later appeared in their "Aca Top 10 — Disney Villains" countdown.

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[NOTE: The videographer sings along a lot.]

VoicePlay isn't exactly a boy band, but they certainly sound good singing these hit pop songs from across the decades. And they've got a few moves to go with those talented voices.

Details:

title: Boy Bands medley

original songs / performers: "ABC" by The Jackson 5; [0:36] "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles; [1:19] "My Girl" by The Temptations; [2:08] "Sherry" by The Four Seasons; [3:04] "YMCA" by The Village People; [3:37] "(You Got It) The Right Stuff" by New Kids on the Block; [4:00] "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys; [4:40] "Bye Bye Bye" by *NSYNC

written by: "ABC" by Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, & Deke Richards; "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by John Lennon & Paul McCartney; "My Girl" by Smokey Robinson & Ronald White; "Sherry" by Bob Gaudio; "YMCA" by Jacques Morali & Victor Willis; "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" by Maurice Starr; "I Want It That Way" by Andreas Carlsson & Max Martin; "Bye Bye Bye" by Kristian Lundin, Jake Schulze, & Andreas Carlsson

arranged by: VoicePlay

My favorite bits:

Geoff's slow realization that his mic is dying

the other four carrying on through "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" just fine, but knowing that the next transition could be borked

return of the bass right on time, but a third too low (Good recovery, dudes.)

Eli's little head tilt in the back during the chorus of "YMCA"

the crunchy transition from "Right Stuff" to "That Way"

Tony's fabulous pop timbre on the lead for the last two songs

"Everybody watch him drink that water." VoicePlay, modelling healthy hydration habits.

Trivia:

VoicePlay revised this medley and finally recorded a video for it in 2019 as the result of a Patreon poll.

This piece usually ended with "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction, but The Fraze didn't have a screen to project the visual gag that goes along with it, so the guys omited that part entirely for this performance.

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[NOTE: The videographer and her daughter sing along and yell a LOT.]

This video contains three separate numbers — Layne's drum solo, the "A Crimpella" medley of phonations, and an encore of "Don't Stop Believin'".

Details:

title: Layne's drum solo

written & arranged by: Layne Stein

Look at him go!!! 🥁

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title: A Crimpella

original songs / performers: [2:12] "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was); [2:25] "Witch Doctor" by Alvin & the Chipmunks; [2:32] "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; [2:37] "We Go Together" from Grease!; [2:44] "Motownphilly" by Boyz II Men; [2:53] "Imma Be" by the Black Eyed Peas; [3:01] "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard; [3:03] "Shoop" by Salt N Pepa; [3:10] "Jock-A-Mo" (aka "Iko Iko") by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford; [3:18] "Mahna Mahna" from The Muppet Show; [3:30] "Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin" by Journey; [3:51] "Goofy Goober Rock" from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie; [3:55] "MMMBop" by Hanson; [4:08] "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede; [4:10] "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock; [4:16] "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" by Neil Sedaka; [4:25] "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen; [4:42] "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga; [4:46] "Can't Get You Outta My Head" by Kylie Minogue; [4:52] "Limbo La La" by James Lloyd; [4:56] "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie; [5:13] "Wanna Be Starting Something" by Michael Jackson; [5:20] "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam ** see this dedicated post for original song links

arranged by: VoicePlay

My favorite bits:

the stomp sending Eli flying

everyone "watching" the UFO flyby and waving to it

the big wind-up before the others join Tony in rocking out

Earl's little chugging motions during Geoff's "ooga chaka" solo, that Layne then picks up for the next section

using the ♫ "goo-ood-byyye" ♫ as an actual exit line

Trivia:

This medley was part of their setlist for several years, including during the 2014 Sing-Off tour.

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title: Don't Stop Believin'

original songs / performers: [8:00] "Don't Stop Believin'"; [10:38] "Open Arms"; and [10:47] "Any Way You Want It" by Journey; [10:31] "Oh Sherrie" by Steve Perry

written by: all songs written by Steve Perry in collaboration – "Don't Stop Believin'" with Jonathan Cain & Neal Schon; "Oh Sherrie" with Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf, & Bill Cuomo; "Open Arms" with Jonathan Cain; "Any Way You Want It" with Neal Schon

arranged by: Layne Stein & Geoff Castellucci

My favorite bits:

the rare pairing up of Geoff and Tony & Eli and Layne during the first set of harmonies

Earl giving the camera a pointed look

Geoff's growl note as everyone but Earl drops out

the stacking of the polyphony section

Trivia:

Contrary to the cameraperson's assertion, Earl did not "mess up" the melody. That's how VoicePlay's arrangement goes. It's intentionally different from the original Journey version that she was probably expecting.

VoicePlay had been performing this arrangement since at least 2009, when they were still going by 4:2:Five.

In 2016, they were the featured guests at Camp A Cappella, and recorded a video for this song with the campers.

They later recorded a full version of "Any Way You Want It" during the second round of their PartWork series.

For a couple years, Eli also sang with a Journey cover band called Raised On Radio in between VoicePlay gigs.

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Moonage Daydream will be released on triple vinyl on 31st March 2023.

Disc 1

Side A

“Time… one of the most complex expressions…”

Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix 1)

Hallo Spaceboy (Moonage Daydream Remix Edit)

Medley: Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud / All The Young Dudes / Oh! You Pretty Things (Live)

Life On Mars? (2016 Mix Moonage Daydream Edit)

Moonage Daydream (Live)

Side B

The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (Live) (featuring Jeff Beck)

The Light (Excerpt)*

Warszawa (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)

Quicksand (Early Version 2021 Mix)

Medley: Future Legend / Diamonds Dogs intro / Cracked Actor

Disc 2

Side A

Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (Live in Buffalo 8th November 1974)

Aladdin Sane (Moonage Daydream Edit)

Subterraneans

Space Oddity (Moonage Daydream Mix)

V-2 Schneider

Side B

Sound And Vision (Moonage Daydream Mix)

A New Career In A New Town (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Word On A Wing (Moonage Daydream Excerpt)

“Heroes” (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)

D.J. (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Ashes To Ashes (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Move On (Moonage Daydream acappella Mix Edit)

Moss Garden (Moonage Daydream Edit)

Disc 3

Side A

Cygnet Committee/Lazarus (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Memory Of A Free Festival (Harmonium Edit)

Modern Love (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Let’s Dance (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)

The Mysteries (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide (Live Moonage Daydream Edit)

Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix 2)

Side B

Word On A Wing (Moonage Daydream Mix)

Hallo Spaceboy (live Moonage Daydream Mix)

I Have Not Been To Oxford Town (Moonage Daydream acappella Mix Edit)

“Heroes”: IV. Sons Of The Silent Age (Excerpt) *

★ (Moonage Daydream Mix Edit)

Ian Fish U.K. Heir (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt)

Memory Of A Free Festival (Moonage Daydream Mix Edit)

Starman

“You’re aware of a deeper existence…”

Changes

“Let me tell you one thing…”

“Well, you know what this has been an incredible pleasure…”

Pre-order it here

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Ross & Squibb Distillery Honors the Repeal of Prohibition with September Release of Remus Repeal Reserve Series VII

Ross & Squibb Distillery Honors the Repeal of Prohibition with September Release of Remus Repeal Reserve Series VII Latest edition features a medley of five rare bourbons aged since 2007-2014 ST. LOUIS (Aug. 24, 2023) – Ross & Squibb Distillery Master Distiller Ian Stirsman announced the upcoming release of Remus Repeal ReserveSeries VII Straight Bourbon Whiskey this September. The…

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224: Hedge & Donna Capers // Special Circumstances

Special Circumstances Hedge & Donna Capers 1970, Capitol

I recently found this record on the street in Portland, Maine and I have to admit to rescuing it purely because I’d never seen a mixed-race ‘60s folk duo before. Special Circumstances is a lot better than I’d expected from a discarded folk-pop record—one mafia-related disappearance or Glenn Frey connection away from a Light in the Attic reissue, say. (We do get Bernie Leadon playing a bit of dobro, which is in the vicinity.) The husband-and-wife duo of Keene Hedges Capers and Donna Capers (née Carson) harmonize as smoothly as you could wish, and the instrumental credits are littered with session studs, including Flying Burrito Brother and pedal steel legend Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Carole Kaye on bass. Janis Ian also drops in to lend piano to Hedge & Donna’s rendition of her treacly number “He’s a Rainbow.”

The pop-leaning tunes (like “Rainbow” and “Sunshine”) aren’t the best use of anyone’s talents but they’re not especially grating,  and the album’s late pivot to gospel is more pleasant than enervating, but Special Circumstances punches its ticket with a run of sublime ballads on the a-side. Most of these songs are Capers originals, but their quality is really a testament to the pros who can make even pedestrian songwriting sound like the relieving warmth that radiates from a good stretch. On “Becoming” the players cup Hedge and Donna’s close harmonies and spiritual sweet nothings like a flower holding a pair of drowsing field mice. The soul jazz-tinted medley that follows (“Higher Country / Uhuru / Adunde”) is more ambitious, Donna’s lead vocal landing somewhere between Sandy Denny and Miriam Makeba as the mystical, minor key “Higher Country” dissolves into a series of African chants. The lazy stream from the title track to “Strawberry Malt” features some of the prettiest country-folk backing you’ll hear on any record from 1970. I’d happily stick these four songs up against nearly anything I’ve heard from the recent glut of b- and c-tier folk reissues.

Overall, Special Circumstances gets a pass from me for its becoming lack of overt commercial ambitions, and the easy craftsmanship nearly every part of it displays. It’s not perfect, but to my surprise it’s managed to grab my ear despite coming home amid a pile of records I actually paid for, even if I’ll probably seldom play the second side again.

224/365

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Happy Halloween from the Tolerance project-Halloween Special The Micheal Myers Saga

Introduction

On this spooky day I thought I would share something suitable detailed below is deleted scene from the Tolerance film that hit the cutting room which featured a famous face from a horror franchise that started in 1978 and is still going strong today. You can find the original trailer for Halloween by clicking here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ke9IPTIJQ&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=272&t=3s 

If you want to watch a video review of the original Halloween from Oliver Harpers You tube Channel click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuwz-X6VuA&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=295&t=26s

If you want to find out more about the making of the original Halloween film click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPvUaH5rJLk&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=269

To watch a video called What Happened To John Carpenter's Halloween? click here( What Happened To John Carpenter's Halloween? - YouTube

To watch a video called deconstructing John Carpenters Halloween 1978 click here (26) HALLOWEEN (1978) John Carpenter - Deconstructing - YouTube

If you want to watch a video that covers the Halloween Franchise as a whole but dont want to go down to the bonus material section at the bottom of the page click here (11) WTF You Need To Know: Halloween Franchise - YouTube

45 years of Halloween (1978)

This year marks 45 years since the release of the first Halloween film was released in 1978 this first article from people magazine where actress Jamie lee Curtis credits the filn with starting her acting career to read the article click here Jamie Lee Curtis Marks 'Halloween' 45th Anniversary with Touching Tribute (people.com)

This 2nd article highlights the best bits of Halloween 1978 to read it click here thanks to the coming soon website Halloween at 45: The Best Parts of John Carpenter's Slasher Classic (comingsoon.net)

Overview

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), with P. J. Soles and Nancy Loomis in supporting roles. Set mostly in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was a child. Fifteen years later, having escaped and returned to his hometown, he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis.

Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978. The film premièred in October, whereupon it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974).

To watch the orignal trailer for Psycho (1960 click here (2) Psycho (1960) Theatrical Trailer - Alfred Hitchcock Movie - YouTube and a trailer for Bob Clarks Black Christmas click here (2) Black Christmas (1974) - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

It is considered one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous instalments.

The Screenrant film website recently published this article on the preferred order you should watch all the Halloween films in read it by clicking here Watch All 13 Halloween Movies In This Order (screenrant.com)

Concept.

After viewing Carpenter's film Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters

To learn more about Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) click here (12) What Happened To Assault On Precinct 13? - YouTube

. In an interview with Fangoria magazine, Yablans stated: "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as The Exorcist."Carpenter agreed to direct the film contingent on his having full creative control , and was paid $10,000 for his work, which included writing, directing, and scoring the film. He and his then-girlfriend Debra Hill began drafting the story of Halloween.

There is an urban myth that the film at one point was supposed to be called The Babysitter Murders but Yablans has since debunked this stating that it was always intended to be called (and take place on) Halloween.[18] Carpenter said of the basic concept: "Halloween night. It has never been the theme in a film. My idea was to do an old haunted house film.

Creating a memorable villain and that famous mask

In devising the backstory for the film's villain, Michael Myers, Carpenter drew on "haunted house" folklore that exists in many small American communities: "Most small towns have a kind of haunted house story of one kind or another," he stated. "At least that's what teenagers believe. There's always a house down the lane that somebody was killed in, or that somebody went crazy in." Carpenter's inspiration for the "evil" that Michael embodied came from a visit he had taken during college to a psychiatric institution in Kentucky.There, he visited a ward with his psychology classmates where "the most serious, mentally ill patients" were held.

Among those patients was an adolescent boy, who possessed a blank, "schizophrenic stare." Carpenter's experience inspired the characterization that Loomis gave of Michael to Sheriff Brackett in the film. Debra Hill has stated the scene where Michael kills the Wallaces' German Shepherd was done to illustrate how he is "really evil and deadly".

Because of the low budget, wardrobe and props were often crafted from items on hand or that could be purchased inexpensively. Carpenter hired Tommy Lee Wallace as production designer, art director, location scout and co-editor. Wallace created the trademark mask worn by Michael Myers throughout the film from a Captain Kirk mask[53] purchased for $1.98 from a costume shop on Hollywood Boulevard. Carpenter recalled how Wallace "widened the eye holes and spray-painted the flesh a bluish white. In the script it said Michael Myers's mask had 'the pale features of a human face' and it truly was spooky looking. I can only imagine the result if they hadn't painted the mask white. Children would be checking their closet for William Shatner after Tommy got through with it."Hill adds that the "idea was to make him almost humorless, faceless—this sort of pale visage that could resemble a human or not."

Casting

The cast of Halloween included veteran actor Donald Pleasence and then-unknown actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The low budget limited the number of big names that Carpenter could attract, and most of the actors received very little compensation for their roles. Pleasence was paid the highest amount at $20,000, Curtis received $8,000,  Nick Castle who played the adult Micheal Myers in Halloween earned $25 a day.

In an interview, Carpenter admits that "Jamie Lee wasn't the first choice for Laurie. I had no idea who she was. She was 19 and in a TV show at the time, but I didn't watch TV." He originally wanted to cast Anne Lockhart, the daughter of June Lockhart from Lassie, as Laurie Strode. However, Lockhart had commitments to several other film and television projects. Hill says of learning that Jamie Lee was the daughter of Psycho actress Janet Leigh: "I knew casting Jamie Lee would be great publicity for the film because her mother was in Psycho." Curtis was cast in the part, though she initially had reservations as she felt she identified more with the other female characters: "I was very much a smart alec, and was a cheerleader in high school, so [I] felt very concerned that I was being considered for the quiet, repressed young woman

Jamie lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence who would return as Laurie Strode and Dr. Samuel Loomis.in later episodes of the Halloween Series.

Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Stroude would return in Halloween II (1981) Halloween H20 20 years later (1998) Halloween Resurrection (2002) and the three films in the Halloween reboot trilogy Halloween (2018) Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween ends.

If you want to know how Jamie Lee Curtis performances as Laurie Stroud in the viarous Halloween films are rated you might like to read this article by the ScreenRant website Every Halloween Movie Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ranked (collider.com)

This article from the Collider film website explains why Laurie Strode as played by Jamie Lee Curtis is not featured in every Halloween film Why Is Jamie Lee Curtis Not in Every Halloween Movie? (collider.com)

Donald Pleasence would play Dr. Samuel Loomis in 4 more films in the Halloween series. hHe would appear in Halloween II (1981) Halloween 4 the return of Micheal Myers (1988) Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 1989 and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995),

Pleasance died on February 2, 1995, nearly eight months before The Curse of Michael Myers was released The film was dedicated to his memory.

To watch 2 tribuites to Donald Pleasance click here (18) a Donald Pleasence tribute - YouTube and here (18) Halloween 6 Cast & Crew Tribute to Donald Pleasance - YouTube

The Collider website published an article rating Donald Pleasense's performances as Samuel Loomis in the Halloween sequels to read what they had to say click here Every Halloween Movie Starring Donald Pleasence, Ranked From Worst to Best (collider.com)

Nick Castle would only play Micheal Myers the once other actors would play the role over the next 13 films if you want to keep track of them all the Game Rant website produced this useful article telling you who played Michael Myers in each film you can find it by clicking here:  Who Played Michael Myers In Each Halloween Movie? (gamerant.com)

To watch a reunion with John Carpenter the Writer and Director of Halloween with the orignal Micheal Myers click here Watch Halloween’s John Carpenter Reunite With The Original Michael Myers Actor (yahoo.com)

To read an article about what Nick Castle thought was the most painful moment was about playing Micheal Myers in the orignal Halloween click here Halloween's Original Michael Myers Reveals 'Most Painful' Moment | SYFY WIRE

Music score creating that famous theme

 Instead of utilizing a more traditional symphonic soundtrack, the film's score consists primarily of a piano melody played in a 10/8 or "complex 5/4" time signature, composed and performed by Carpenter. It took him three days to compose and record the entire score for the film. Following the film's critical and commercial success, the "Halloween Theme" became recognizable apart from the film. Critic James Berardinelli calls the score "relatively simple and unsophisticated", but admits that "Halloween's music is one of its strongest assets". Carpenter once stated in an interview, "I can play just about any keyboard, but I can't read or write a note." In Halloween's end credits, Carpenter bills himself as the "Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra", but he also received assistance from composer Dan Wyman, a music professor at San José State University.

To listen to the famous main theme click here (18) John Carpenter - Halloween 1978 (main Theme) - YouTube

Halloween the novel

A novelization so beloved that it spawned a commemorative re-release in 2023, Curtis Richards’s Halloween hit shelves on October 1, 1979, almost one year after the film dropped in theaters. Telling the story of “the most frightening night of the year,” the novelization extends John Carpenter’s script and combines it, somewhat, with the events that would come in 1981’s Halloween II. (That movie still got its own novelization, though, as did Halloween III.) There’s a richer backstory in this for Michael Myers, with an opening that suggests he carries an ancient Druid curse cast that stems from Northern Ireland. Readers also get to experience some of Michael’s perspective along the way, so some might feel a bit more empathy for him—even if he is a knife-wielding maniac.

Halloween the Television version

If you had watched the original Halloween film at the cinema and then settled down to watch it again on its television premeire in America in August 1981 you would have seen a very different film.

In 1980, the television rights to Halloween were sold to NBC for approximately $3 million. After a debate among Carpenter, Hill and NBC's Standards and Practices over censoring of certain scenes, Halloween appeared on television for the first time in October 1981.[79] To fill the two-hour time slot, Carpenter filmed twelve minutes of additional material during the production of Halloween II. The newly filmed scenes include Dr. Loomis at a hospital board review of Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis talking to a then-6-year-old Michael at Smith's Grove, telling him, "You've fooled them, haven't you, Michael? But not me." Another extra scene features Dr. Loomis at Smith's Grove examining Michael's abandoned cell after his escape and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door. Finally, a scene was added in which Lynda comes over to Laurie's house to borrow a silk blouse before Laurie leaves to babysit, just as Annie telephones asking to borrow the same blouse. The new scene had Laurie's hair hidden by a towel, since Curtis was by then wearing a much shorter hairstyle than she had worn in 1978.[80]

To watch the additional footage click here(18) Halloween (1978) - TV Version Scenes - YouTube with thanks to Stacy Langenkamp

The Original Halloween film was also included on a Screenrant list of Franchises which peaked with the first film they said this about Halloween (1978)

John Carpenter's Halloween introduced the world to babysitter killer Michael Myers and is considered one of the most influential horror movies ever made. The movie became the first entry in the Halloween franchise, which now includes 13 films, with character backstories that became increasingly convoluted and contradictory. However, despite the criticism that later entries may receive, the original movie is largely responsible for the popularization of the slasher genre itself. It would act as the blueprint for countless imitation films about seemingly unstoppable lone serial killers.

Halloween II the sequels and John Carpenters orignal plans

Even after John Carpenter's low-budget slasher movie grew into a massive hit in the years that followed its 1978 release, the director was hesitant about making a direct sequel. Still, he returned alongside his Halloween writing partner Debra Hill for Halloween II, but Rick Rosenthal directed.

To watch a video about Halloween II (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3N2ECEP7U

To watch a video called Halloween II Makes Michael Myers A Slasher Icon (80s Horror Memories Ep 8) click here (5) Halloween II Makes Michael Myers A Slasher Icon (80s Horror Memories Ep 8) - YouTube

To watch a video called Does Halloween II stand the test of time click here (5) Does Halloween 2 Stand The Test of Time? - YouTube

Following the 1981 sequel, the Halloween movies went into an entirely new direction, with Carpenter envisioning an anthology plan that would leave Michael Myers behind. Considering Michael Myers' death in the Halloween Ends ending, the next project in the Halloween franchise can follow Carpenter's anthology plan that started in 1982 by genuinely telling new stories outside of the core villain.

Rather than bring back Michael Myers to terrorize *Haddonfield yet again, Halloween III: Season of the Witch dealt with ancient supernatural rituals and science fiction while focusing on an entirely new cast and setting. The project was meant to transform the Halloween franchise into an anthology series, following a new story on Halloween night for each installment. Carpenter, who made the anthology plan with Hill, intended to leave Michael Myers in the rearview to develop fresh stories. Now that the story of Michael Myers has been on display for decades, the Halloween franchise can take another shot at Carpenter's plan to develop non-Michael Myers stories in the vein of Season of the Witch.

*To find out where the Haddonfield filming location is click here Halloween: Where Is Haddonfield? Filming & Movie Location (screenrant.com)

To watch a video about the making of Halloween III Season of the Witch click here (128) 10 Things You Didn't Know About Halloween 3 Season of the Witch Re-Uptoad - YouTube

Further reading

This article from the Collider website explain what made Halloween 3 season of the witch so differant from the other films in the franchise The Halloween Movie Without Michael Myers Goes Darker Than the Original (collider.com)

Season of the Witch has garnered a cult following, but it wasn't a success upon release, causing many to wonder why the movie left out Michael Myers. The franchise quickly brought back the killer, and he served as a mainstay antagonist for every subsequent sequel, remake, and reboot installment.

Michael Myers would return to the Halloween Franchise with the aptly titled Halloween 4 the Return of Michael Myers in 1988

To watch a video about Halloween 4 the Return of Micheal Myers click on the link below (43) 10 Things You Didn't About HalloweenIV - YouTube

To watch a video called WTF Happened to Halloween 4 the Return of Micheal Myers click here (43) WTF Happened to Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? - YouTube

To watch a video called Halloween 4 real slashers click here (43) HALLOWEEN 4 (1988) - Real Slashers - YouTube

Halloween The Tolerance connection

The reason for this deep dive into the Halloween series of films is due to this deleted scene for the Tolerance film that was first published in part 3 of my producers commentary for the Tolerance project Tumblr pages.

Deleted scene

Next up is a small extension to the Mr Grosenberg scene in the Job Centre. It is another of Robert's dreams. Perhaps the director felt that it slowed the story up too much, or it did not add anything or perhaps the fact that Grosenberg had a voice like a Helium balloon was enough!

Props list for this deleted scene includes Ski mask Overalls big knife

Robert is looking at Mr Grosenberg. Mr Grosenberg is looking bewildered at Robert’s face, but what he cannot see is Mike Myers standing behind him, wearing a ski mask and overalls, and holding a gigantic kitchen knife. Mr Grosenberg turns to see the knife looming down on him and he holds up his hands to protect himself, as the knife swings down at his fingers.

Bonus Material

A word about the bonus material anything that I haven't managed to fit into the narrative of my Halloween blog I have included here :

Documentaries

Halloween 5 The Revenge of Micheal Myers

To watch a video called Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Awfully Good Or Just Awful? Click here (43) Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Awfully Good Or Just Awful? - YouTube

To watch a video called WTF happened to Halloween 5 click here (43) WTF Happened To Halloween 5? - YouTube

This video details a version of Halloween 5 we never got to see with a differant killer other than Micheal Myers you can here about it by clicking here (13) Halloween 5: Jamie As The Killer - WTF Happened to this Unmade Horror Movie? - YouTube

Further reading

Halloween 5 the Revenge of Micheal Myers came top in a list on the What culture website in article called 10 bad movies that killed Horror Franchises you can read what they had to say by clicking here 10 Bad Movies That Killed Great Horror Franchises – Page 10 (whatculture.com)

Halloween 6 the Curse of Micheal Myers

To watch a video called Halloween 6 WTF happened to this movie click here (43) HALLOWEEN 6 (1995) - WTF Happened To This Horror Movie? - YouTube

To watch a defence of this film titled Halloween 6: Defending An Enjoyable Yet Messy Entry click here (43) Halloween 6: Defending An Enjoyable Yet Messy Entry - YouTube

Halloween H20 Twenty Years later

To watch a video called WTF happened to Halloween H20 click here

(11) WTF Happened To Halloween H20? - YouTube

To watch a retrospective review of Halloween H20 click here (11) The Story of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - A Retrospective - YouTube

Further reading

According to this article one of the moments in the Halloween Franchise came from Halloween H20 Twenty years later you can read about it by clicking here The ‘Halloween’ Franchise's Best Moment Led to a Major Showdown (collider.com)

This article from the Bloody Disgusting Horror website explains why Helloween H20 is one of the best horror sequels ever made to read the article click here 'Halloween H20' 25 Years Later: Horror Legacy Sequel Done Right (bloody-disgusting.com)

According to this article on the Collider website Halloween H20 had the best ending of any film in the Halloween series This Earlier Halloween Movie Has the Best Ending in the Franchise (collider.com)

Halloween: Resurrection

To watch a video called Halloween: Resurrection - Awfully Good Movies click here (43) Halloween: Resurrection - Awfully Good Movies - YouTube

Halloween 2018 Reboot

To watch a video called WTF to Halloween 2018 click here (43) WTF Happened to Halloween 2018? - YouTube

Further Reading

According to this article on the Collider website Halloween 2018 is the highest grossing Horror film of all time click here What Is the Highest-Grossing Slasher Movie of All Time? (collider.com)

Halloween Ends 2022

You can see the trailer for Halloween Ends by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mAWKyfj6c&  or watch a short review of the film by Oliver Harper which features on his You Tube channel by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmyW0uriBso&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=296&t=57s

Further Reading

the above link looks at the Halloween 2018 Reboot trilogy as a whole The Underrated Brutality of Rob Zombie's Halloween Films | SYFY WIRE

Unmade Halloween sequels a trio of videos that detail unmade Halloween sequels First this one titled Halloween sequels you never knew about does exactly what it says on the tin ha ha lol (13) The Unmade Halloween Sequels You Never Knew About - YouTube

A video detailing a Halloween and Hellraiser crossover (13) Hellraiser vs Halloween: Why It Went Unmade - YouTube

And lastly this one a Halloween film called Halloween Returns (13) HALLOWEEN RETURNS - WTF Happened to this Unmade Horror Movie - YouTube

Trailers

A collection of Halloween trailers can be found by clicking here thanks to Rotten tomato trailers (43) Every 'Halloween' Trailer (1978-2022) - YouTube

Notes

First of all thank you to wikipedia for a lot of the background notes including the Overview casting and concept notes Google images for the pictures thank you to following for the Halloween themed videos via Youtube Minty Comedic arts and Joblo Horror originals as well as the Collider and Screenrant websites for the various links to Halloween themed articles   

Pictures

orignal poster for Psycho 1960

Original Poster for the Bob Clark film Black Christmas 1974

Orignal poster for Assault on Precinct 13 1976

4CThe original Halloween film poster from 1978*

5 Halloween the bookcover from 1978

6Micheal Myers as he appears in the Halloween series

7Donald Pleasence as Doctor Samuel Loomis

8 Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode

9 William Shatner as James T kirk the inspiration behind the Micheal Myers mask

10The Halloween Soundtrack album

11 Orignal film Poster for Halloween 2

12 Orignal filmPoster for Halloween 3 season of the Witch

Tolerance film pictures

Actor Tony Green playing Mr Grosenberg

Filming the Mr Grosenberg scenes Tony Green and DOP Ian Medley

*According to this article on the slash film website film website the poster for the orignal Halloween film (1978) has a creepy hidden detail and it happened by accident to find out what it is click here Halloween's Original Movie Poster Has A Creepy Hidden Detail - And It Happened By Accident (slashfilm.com)

The poster for the orignal Halloween film also featured in a Collider film website article called the 25 best movie posters of all time ranked landed at number 13 in their list the poster they had this to say about the poster designed by Robert Gleeson

While it could sound like a bold claim, it may well be the case that horror movies tend to have more iconic posters than any other genre of movies out there. That's not to say all horror movie posters are automatically great or even good, but there are countless beloved ones. The blunt, strong emotion-heavy nature of the horror genre just translates well to bold, memorable images placed on posters, and the wonderful straightforwardness of the original Halloween's poster, for example, demonstrates this excellently.

A slasher movie classic that helped establish John Carpenter as a great director and Jamie Lee Curtis as a star, Halloween is all about a dangerous individual breaking out of a psychiatric hospital and going on a murderous rampage during the titular holiday. The poster uses one of the most recognizable icons of Halloween - a jack-o'-lantern - and pairs it with a hand holding a knife, all against a pitch-black background. The title's Halloween, there's a carved pumpkin, and a scary-looking knife. What more do you need to know?

[unproduciblesmackdown]

throwback to 2019's 12th annual joe iconis christmas extravaganza being the first time i was aware of the show ft. my interest already piqued via now nonzero familiarity with joe iconis &/or will roland & (almost, b/c of youtube videos) no familiarity with the xmas show in particular Yet but certainly open to it in post-bmc malaise, which it did help plenty with....& i think it was on twitter a clip of This Moment in the mister chestnut's christmas medley sequence that i remember being very struck & delighted by. the combination of the urgently energetic choreography of this classic Chestnut Jenny Macabee stack & the distinctive wailing AAAAA harmonizing speaking to me powerfully & now here we are today, what a treasure

[clnlbt]

Favorite Kpop Songs of 2023 (July-December ) Part 2

September

Hwasa - I Love My Body

Kim Sejeong - Top or Cliff

Eric Nam - Only For A Moment

Gemini - Know me Remix

Key - Good & Great

DPR Ian - So I Danced

Dynamic Duo x Lee Youngji - Smoke

Hwasa x Akmu - Bad Boy (Cover)

Jungkook x Jack Harlow - 3D

AKMU - Love Lee

TXT x Anitta - Back for More

EL7Z UP - Cheeky

XG - Puppet Show

Purple Kiss - 7Heaven

FT Island - Sage

FT Island - Broken

FT Island - Not Enough

FT Island - Rising Star

Riize - Get A Guitar

FT Island - Medley Dingo

Oneus - Baila Conmigo

Oneus - Simulation

October

Wheein - In The Mood

Hwasa - Chili

Jessi - Gum

DPR Ian - Don't Go Insane

Taemin - Guilty

Wheein x Hwasa - 17

Wheein x Chanhyuk - Play Ugly (Cover)

Wheein x Hwasa - rEALITY (Logos ver.)

Le Sserafim - Perfect Night

Young Posse - Macaroni Cheese

NewJeans - GODS

NCT 127 - Fact Check

FT Island - Because I Don't Know How to Love (2023)

FT Island - True Romance (Japanese)

[filthforfriends]

I was watching the camp masterpiece that is Dio’s Sacred Heart live performance. In the self indulgent spirit of heavy metal it includes a 5 minute drum solo by Vinny Appice and I just kept thinking “this sounds familiar.”

Drum solo at 29:14, or here’s just the solo. I’d highly recommend at least giving the medleys a try. Dio is criminally under appreciated. 🤘🏻

I realized it reminded me of our beloved Ethan’s drum solo! This makes sense because Vinny Appice is in the same “family” of musicians as Ethan’s favorite band, Deep Purple.

I also can’t post without acknowledging that Ian Paice of Deep Purple is one of the best rock ‘n’ roll drummers of all time.

So how might Vinny Appice and Deep Purple have crossed paths? Well early heavy metal and hard rockers were the original divas on a scope you can’t begin to understand without this: The 50th Edition of the Deep Purple Extended Family Tree.

Here is a version I made so you can see how Paice and Appice came to occupy very similar places in heavy metal music over the span of their careers.

[thesinglesjukebox]

TEDDY SWIMS - "LOSE CONTROL"

Harkening back to a time when music made you shake, rattle, and roll...

[3.79]

Will Adams: Must be love on the brain. Or maybe just water in my ear. [4]

Ian Mathers: When will The Black Keys be held accountable for what they have unleashed upon the world? [3]

Jacob Satter: "He began playing instruments including piano and ukulele, and watched YouTube videos of singers to help develop his vocal technique. [4][5]" -- Wikipedia [4]

Thomas Inskeep: Oh, yay: another big-bearded, face-tatted white boy who thinks he's somehow "soulful" because he heard a Stax record once. And much like Post Malone and Jelly Roll before him, throw him on the burn pile. [1]

Scott Mildenhall: A great audition: four chair turns and a message from Rag'n'Bone Man. All theatrics are plausibly deniable, but the vocal capabilities are conspicuous, with there never being enough of a song to intrude on them. A strong message to the detractors of treading water in the natatorial world. [5]

Nortey Dowuona: The history of soulful white boys is long and strained. The Righteous Brothers are one example, but they never got more than one big immortal hit (only one did: Bill Medley). There's Michael McDonald, Bobby Caldwell, Tom Jones, and, of course, Fucking Drake. Each time a soulful white boy appears, he does appear acceptable, but only up to a point. Once that point has been breached, his existence becomes an anchor -- not a boon -- receiving enmity and bitterness for both his success and his inability to possess the skill demanded from truly soulful singers. As time has gone on, the five-alarm church runs that once ran R&B have gone out of style with the youngsters, unless coated in patiently brush-stroked Autotune. Even though live performances are a crapshoot with many of them, their excellent songwriting kept them aloft. Sometimes, their voices were so pretty that their lack of range didn't bother us. Now, another soulful white boy who possesses the runs (with scalpel-level Melodyne on them) has risen to the top. The worst part is that his song is well-produced: done by Ammo and Julian Bunetta, a trained jazz drummer whose heavy-handed soul drums anchor the thin mix. The plaintive keys shuffle against the tambourines gently, as Bunetta's bass lopes below and follows the key of the keys. But the songwriting from Mikky Ekko drags down this fantastic effort, leaving a held-back guitar solo by Bunetta bashing its neck against the withholding mix of Serban Ghenea. If only Brent Faiyaz was writing this... [6]

Tara Hillegeist: Oh, this is a very passably lovelorn piece of uptempo romantic angst, the kind that sounds like it could just as easily have dropped off the back of Cee-Lo Green's tour bus, circa "Fuck You." But it's not so passable that I can't help but have my main response to it all be "Wow, your man's such a tatted-up white lad, looks like he belongs on the set of a Guy Ritchie film, innit?" And now I've had that thought, I have to ask myself: when's the last time I heard something like this from someone who didn't, whose name wasn't T-Pain? And now I've asked myself that question, I have to wonder: should that question still matter? [6]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: This is a good time to admit that I always thought Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” was a terrible, plodding song. This sounds like a mellower, simplfied version of that. I find the almost-rapped verse kind of sweet, reminiscent of Ed Sheeran if he had a bit more soul, but then the guitar solo arrives and makes me feel disgust. It is not lost on me that this isn’t so far from Portishead’s “Glory Box.” The difference is that it all feels so rote, the elements already pre-packaged with an understanding of their meaning and import, and they don’t ever come together to bring the track to a greater whole. [4]

Hannah Jocelyn: Does nothing new in this type of song (except for the weird keyboard warble, which I'm not convinced is a good innovation because it sounds like "Dance Monkey (slowed + reverb)"), but the production from Julian Bunetta is phenomenal -- incredibly warm, but with enough muscle that what's probably just a drum loop from Splice sounds massive. Teddy Swims is very much in the Rag'n'Bone Man/Jelly Roll vein of gruff belters, but there's a warmth in his voice that prevents him from coming across like Mr. Roll or, worse, Oliver Anthony. [6]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: I get no enjoyment at all from listening to this. Every pained vocalization, every flanged guitar stab and demonstrative snare hit feels empty to me; whatever feelings Swims has do not survive transit. And yet, I feel a certain perverse respect for "Lose Control" despite all this. Perhaps it reminds me too much of the soul revival tracks that my high school pop ensemble teacher favored, the Fitz & The Tantrums-alikes that I dutifully jammed out to for four years. It's not a style that moves me at all anymore, but as I listen to "Lose Control," I can almost conjure bass tabs and keyboard charts to memorize and devote myself to (and can imagine the students of a semester from now who will be playing along to teenage takes on Teddy Swims' adult melodrama). [4]

Alfred Soto: The echo, horn blasts, and Soulful White Man vocal evoke a pop climate at least a decade past obsolescence, a reminder that a certain overstatement will always serve as a crutch. [4]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: This song makes perfect sense if you just picture the woman he’s singing about standing next to him the entire time.  [3]

Leah Isobel: This man said "problematic" like he's on the Tumblr dash in 2011. [1]

Katherine St. Asaph: Thoughts and prayers for anyone persuaded to fuck to this song. [2]

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Metroid; Other M - An Essay/Review

I consider myself a Metroid fan, even though I've only played two Metroid games. Those games being Metroid; Samus Returns and Metroid; Other M, today we'll be talking about the latter.

It is recommended you listen to the track from the game called Metroid; Other M - Piano Medley while reading this. I will also give you other tracks to listen to, it is also recommended to read on desktop or a laptop.

Story

Now I as a wee child in 2012 got a Wii along with Epic Mickey (warrants it's own essay), Super Mario Galaxy (also requires an essay), and Metroid Other M (I'll refer to it as Other M). So I will be writing this without bias or nostalgia.

Now this came out after Metroid Prime 3 (currently playing it atm) which portrayed Samus as a badass, which she is in every game. This game kinda does that decently, although the story is iffy it has a good message and TRIED to give Samus emotion and inner-thoughts.

Samus after recovering from the battle against Mother Brain, that happened years ago, heads into space when she gets a distress call from an abandoned Galactic Federation base called 'The Bottle Ship' where she supposedly got the call from 'the baby'. There she encounters her old team from the time she was at the federation, these people are: Adam Malkovich, Anthony Higgs, Ian Malkovich, James Pierce, K.G. Misawa, and Lyle Smithsonian.

Now I'm still salty after all these years about the whole cutscene in Sector Zero. Now if Adam knew they weren't immune to freeze rays, why did he shoot a freeze ray at Samus?? Also his sacrifice seemed somewhat forced, but I guess Sakamoto wanted to put Samus in a more vulnerable position. Another infamous scene is the cutscene before you fight Ridley where Samus is put in a vulnerable position and is saved by Anthony, I'm not gonna go further into this but you get where I'm going with this.

Now I'm not gonna go into full detail but this game was designed to have story and action at the forefront, and this has a lot of unnecessary story bits and cutscenes. Now I know Samus' voice is very robotic but this was developed in Japan first and it was probably due to Sakamoto overseeing both the Japanese dub and American dub, in Japan a more monotonous voice makes a hero more compelling.

If we were to get a switch port I'd say fix some of the unnecessary story and re-dub the whole thing.

Gameplay

Now let's talk about gameplay which has its problems but it has its good parts. I like the implementation of authorizing weapons instead of finding them like you would in other games. You also hold the wii remote horizontally.

Now the whole finding containers like the missle capacity containers aren't that necessary unless you are doing a 100% run since you won't be using them that often. Now I have a problem with all the controls being just on the wii remote, especially with how the dodge is also on the d-pad which you use to move Samus around.

There's also the implementation of first person by flipping the wii remote vertically, this allows you to refill your missiles and recover some health since the only way to recover full health is to get to a recharge station which also act as save points. Now when replaying this for my essay/review I almost hurt my wrist when desperately trying to recharge health when fighting a mob of enemies.

Gameplay isn't great but it is decent as decent can get.

The Flaws

Let's talk about the flaws in Other M. Most are well known such as the poor characterization of Samus, the faulty controls, the plot holes in the story, and some of the mechanics.

I already went over the story flaws and the poor characterization of Samus, so let's go over the flaws of the game mechanics. I went over the problems that arise when playing specifically with the controls being just on the wii remote. The wii remote is also small and can easily be flung out of your hand when trying to go first person. The walking sections of the game are very boring and slow compared to the other faster paced sections of the game, the bosses are fine except for the 2nd form of Ridley A.K.A the small fuzzy creature you encounter earlier in Sector 1.

The authorization aspect is cool but Adam only activates things you need when you are actively dying. The biggest example of this is in Sector 3 when you are actively burning alive when Adam activates the Varia Suit. So it's faulty, but it is a good concept.

The missle capacity capsules aren't even necessary when just playing the game unless you're doing a 100% run through. They're especially hard to reach as well until later in the game when you'll have to back track to get them. Another problem is the back tracking you have to do, you'll travel through all the sectors only to have to back track to get back to the main area then back to a different sector. It's just so unnecessary and tiring to have to go back to the main area just to be able to go to a different sector.

Anyways we're close to the end of this essay/review.

Should You Play It?

If you just want a Metroid game that's campy, you don't care about story, love fast paced action, and you can have a somewhat fun time then yes I suggest playing it.

If you care about story and 100 percenting it then this game isn't for you as you will be doing a lot of back tracking to 100% it and the story has plot holes.

This essay/review is to talk about the positives of the game as well as the negatives. It's a good game but it is shrouded by only the negative aspects of it. If you cannot access the game to play it yourself then I suggest watching a comment less playthrough of it.

This is simply my opinion and you can form your own from playing it or just watching a playthrough. But, at least give it a chance before judging it blindly. Thank you for reading, I'm always passionate about writing about the things I enjoy.