#it’s so 1997 george of the jungle

[doctorjennifermelfi]

marius: (has spent literally the last 80 pages alternately talking himself into and out of pulling the trigger to alert the police while future papa in law is being mugged by the shadiest people in all of paris, eventually doing neither of those things and doing something else entirely)

enjolras: i know just the guy i could send to convince the marbleworkers and painters to make up their minds, if only he were here

[glycerineclown]

Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann profess their undying love reunite on the second-to-last episode of Busy Tonight (May 15, 2019)

[vanalex]

Brendan Fraser in George in the jungle [1997]

[jambos6]

I’ve been getting so many comments about Kronk being the only himbo in my Disney henchmen poll, so how about a poll of only himbos?

[akajustmerry]

are there any recent(ish) romcoms you’d recommend? so many of the newer ones i’ve seen are so bland 💔

hell yeah I do! here's a list of rom coms I think everyone should watch to appreciate the GENRE <3

Rye Lane

Leap Year (2010)

When Harry Met Sally

His Girl Friday

Top End Wedding 2019

Appropriate Behaviour

Broken Hearts Gallery

Destination Wedding (2018)

Watching The Detectives

The Half Of It

George Of The Jungle 1997

Ali's Wedding 2017

The Holiday

I Want You Back (2022)

Friends With Benefits (2011)

My Fake Boyfriend

Roman Holiday

Fire Island 2022

Sorry I know I included older ones but I'm sleepy and these are my favourites!!

[sotwk]

YAY FOR BRENDAN!

Brendan Fraser may finally be an Oscar-winning Lead Actor now (and SO WELL DESERVED; I have never been happier to see someone win that award in my life), but to those of us who have watched and loved him since the 90s, he will always be that gorgeous, loveable, goofy stud who gave us gems such as:

Bill from Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)

George from George of the Jungle (1997)

Adam Webber from Blast from the Past (1999)

Rick O'Connell from The Mummy (1999)

These are just some personal favorites that I 100% recommend! Brendan has had an amazing career with many more projects worth seeing!

[transatlantic-reads]

7th October 2024 - 13th October 2024

missed ballet class cause I had a sudden drop in blood pressure 😞 I get them sometimes, had one about a month ago too, but before that it'd been at least like, six months. they're not too bad symptoms-wise. but they do tend to completely derail my day when they happen. it's just really frustrating, I hadn't missed any classes yet and it really sucks that I didn't get a choice in the matter. oh, well..

I was meaning to watch The Fall on mubi with my sister, but when we tried it was raining quite a bit and I think it really messed up the video quality, cause it was unwatchable. we ended up putting on George of the Jungle, so at least we still had fun. it's a childhood fave of ours, even if watching it now I'm a bit appalled by the scientific inaccuracies (why are there an orangutan and a toucan in "Africa"??)

Things accomplished:

attended Japanese class

therapy session

made onigiri (only my second time trying, they were ok)

attended Criminology lecture on graffiti

got myself the coconut oil I was needing 👍

Things to do:

reapply for DSA

finish swapping clothes out for the colder seasons

...

📖: Re: Dracula, Valerian and Laureline by Christin & Mézières, Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda 📺: Only Murders in the Building, Dungeon Meshi 📽️: George of the Jungle (1997) 🎮: The Long Dark

[asongofsilks]

Starklings from 1997

Based on @sabedile-asoiaf 's post: What if ASOIAF was adapted when it was originally published?

(Disclaimer: all of these are hella American and mostly from stuff I watched as a kid in the 90s so I can't speak as to how realistic this would actually have been)

Edward Furlong as Jon Snow (age 20)

(you'll remember him as the kid from Terminator 2)

Ian Bohen as Robb Stark (age 21)

(anyone who recognizes this shot wins the 90s)

Leelee Sobieski as Sansa Stark (age 14)

Thora Birch as Arya Stark (age 11)

(I'm not sure if she is quite 11 here since she wasn't actually in anything famous in 1997, but it's around that time and was too deliciously in-character for Arya to pass up)

Liam Aiken as Bran Stark (age 7)

(People at the time wanted him to be Harry Potter and frankly, I can't argue)

Here he is a few years later with red hair:

And a random kiddie from 1997 as Rickon Stark (yes, it's from George of the Jungle and no, i don't care)

Bonus: Hans Matheson as Theon Greyjoy (age 24)

BONUS bonus (drumroll please...)

Sienna Guillory (22) as 1997 Daenerys Targaryen!!

Okay, I'm cheating a little bit because all the following shots are from Helen of Troy which came out in 2003, but she still looks like a perfect Dany at 28, and she was acting in the 90s but didn't get any major parts. She would totally have been 1997's Big Breakout as Dany!

(Here is a shot of her from the 90s for comparative purposes)

(By the way, anyone wanting to do this for the 70s so we can have Sissy Spacek Dany?? Or is it just me)

[tink-mov]

George of the Jungle (1997, dir. Sam Weisman)

The first week of a year still counts as holiday time, right? So I wanted my second movie of this year to be a quite classic guilty pleasure (even though I don't think someone has to feel guilty about liking a movie).

So here is No. 2, George of the Jungle! Why has no one told me about how well this movie aged? At first I couldn't decide whether i'd like to use this gif or one of George's sexy smexy little dance in Ursula's dress.

Honestly, as much as I adore Brendan Fraser it is truly a shame I didn't watch this movie earlier. It feels ridiculous to try writing anything about it, there are various amazing posts analyzing how this movie doen't look down on its female lead and how its a prime example for a reversing of the male gaze. Just imagine I wrote down some intelligent stuff here.

So off to the next one.

[redfurrycat]

🎬List of Movies🎬

So, @scottishaccentsareawesome, I thought it would take me at least two days to make a list, because I wanted to list them chronologically, but I had WAY. TOO. MANY. MOVIES. ALREADY?????!!!!!!!! I had to stop! :O

So there you go. Below the cut. I am so so SO sorry... xD

Star Wars: Episode IV – Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser)

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott)

Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino)

Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)

Pretty Woman (1990, Garry Marshall)

Hook (1991, Steven Spielberg)

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993, Stuart Margolin)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Stargate (1994, Roland Emmerich)

Batman Forever (1995, Joel Schumacher)

Crimson Tide (1995, Tony Scott)

Jumanji (1995, Joe Johnston)

Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)

Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma)

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996, Baz Luhrmann)

George of the Jungle (1997, Sam Weisman)

Home Alone 3 (1997, Raja Gosnell)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, Steven Spielberg)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999, George Lucas)

The Mummy (1999, Stephen Sommers)

Meet the Parents (2000, Jay Roach)

X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000, John Woo)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001, Chris Columbus)

Jurassic Park III (2001, Joe Johnston)

Kate & Leopold (2001, James Mangold)

Ocean’s Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh)

The Princess Diaries (2001, Garry Marshall)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)

The Mummy Returns (2001, Stephen Sommers)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus)

Ice Age (2002, Chris Wedge)

Maid in Manhattan (2002, Wayne Wang)

Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi)

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, George Lucas)

Sweet Home Alabama (2002, Andy Tennant)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)

The Tuxedo (2002, Kevin Donovan)

Treasure Planet (2002, John Musker/Ron Clements)

X2 (2002, Bryan Singer)

Johnny English (2003, Peter Howitt)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski)

The Haunted Mansion (2003, Rob Minkoff)

The Last Samurai (2003, Edward Zwick)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)

National Treasure (2004, Jon Turteltaub)

Ella Enchanted (2004, Tommy O’Haver)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuarón)

Meet the Fockers (2004, Jay Roach)

Ocean's Twelve (2004, Steven Soderbergh)

Spider-Man 2 (2004, Sam Raimi)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich)

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004, Garry Marshall)

Troy (2004, Wolfgang Petersen)

Van Helsing (2004, Stephen Sommers)

Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)

Guess Who (2005, Kevin Rodney Sullivan)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Mike Newell)

Just Like Heaven (2005, Mark Waters)

Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005, George Lucas)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Andrew Adamson)

V for Vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)

Da Vinci Code (2006, Ron Howard)

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006, Carlos Saldanha)

John Tucker Must Die (2006, Betty Thomas)

Mission: Impossible III (2006, J.J. Abrams)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006, Gore Verbinski)

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner)

Enchanted (2007, Kevin Lima)

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, Jon Turteltaub)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates)

Ocean's Thirteen (2007, Steven Soderbergh)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, Gore Verbinski)

Spider-Man 3 (2007, Sam Raimi)

Transformers (2007, Michael Bay)

27 Dresses (2008, Anne Fletcher)

Australia (2008, Baz Luhrmann)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, Andrew Adamson)

The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008, Rob Cohen)

What Happens in Vegas (2008, Tom Vaughan)

Angels & Demons (2009, Ron Howard)

Avatar (2009, James Cameron)

Bride Wars (2009, Gary Winick)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, David Yates)

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009, Carlos Saldanha)

The Proposal (2009, Anne Fletcher)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Gavin Hood)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, David Yates)

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Killers (2010, Robert Luketic)

Knight and Day (2010, James Mangold)

Letters to Juliet (2010, Gary Winick)

Life as We Know It (2010, Greg Berlanti)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010, Michael Apted)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011, David Yates)

Johnny English Reborn (2011, Oliver Parker)

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011, Rob Marshall)

Real Steel (2011, Shawn Levy)

Thor (2011, Kenneth Branagh)

X: First Class (2011, Matthew Vaughn)

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012, Steve Martino/Mike Thurmeier)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Peter Jackson)

Pacific Rim (2013, Guillermo del Toro)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013, Peter Jackson)

Thor: The Dark World (2013, Alan Taylor)

When Calls the Heart (2013, Michael Landon Jr.)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014, Peter Jackson)

Transcendence (2014, Wally Pfister)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, Bryan Singer)

Jurassic World (2015, Colin Trevorrow)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015, Christopher McQuarrie)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015, Guy Ritchie)

Ice Age: Collision Course (2016, Mike Thurmeier)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates)

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017, Joachim Rønning/ Espen Sandberg)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017, Taika Waititi)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018, David Yates)

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018, David Kerr)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, J. A. Bayona)

Ocean's Eight (2018, Gary Ross)

Code 8 (2019, Jeff Chan)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019, Simon Kinberg)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022, David Yates)

Jurassic World Dominion (2022, Colin Trevorrow)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski)

[kylekozmikdeluxo]

Something Uneasy in Paradise

Preamble...

"There's always a breeze. The sunsets are beautiful. Palm trees are everywhere- Get away to paradise, call 1-800-

I'm wrapped in the beauty of the paradise, I'm outside this hotel, by the water... I hear a familiar kind of music... There's a vibe to it, an almost inexplicable one, I feel... Actually, I think I remember hearing this... Somewhere... It's kind of ominous, actually... Uh- You know, it's almost like this is a commercial. An artificiality that I'm somehow existing in... A commercial void of sorts. None of this is actually happening...

But, I can't put my finger on it. Something about this is very familiar...

The late 1990s...

As a kid, I went to the cinema quite frequently. My father took my sister and I to, almost, virtually- every family movie that was out at the time. We saw plenty of Disney films, and we saw plenty of live-action family movies, back when they used to make those regularly. We saw many animated films, too. Some of my earliest moviegoing memories are for films like THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME in 1996 (possibly my first cinema trip as a wee bairn), and then 1997 - HERCULES, FLUBBER, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, and THE BORROWERS.

I actually saw THE BORROWERS twice in the theaters, believe it or not. If I remember correctly, it was because my sister had gotten sick halfway through the movie, and we had to leave. Then we went back, to see the whole thing. I'm guessing my dad got a refund that night, but he took us again to see it... And I remember I was dreading it...

Why? That sounds so absurd. Wasn't that some harmless family movie with John Goodman in it? Because, when you're a young autistic kid in the '90s, in a movie theater with a big screen and everything's louder than it usually is, and you have all these sensory issues... Things are 10x more intense to you... There was a scene where the little people in the movie (it's based on the story THE BORROWERS ARRIETTY, which Studio Ghibli later adapted into a 2010 animated feature, released in America as THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY) get chased around by a vacuum cleaner. And I remember it was *terrifying* to me. I remember the vacuum cleaner just trucking abruptly up at the screen, engulfing the whole thing- I already didn't like the sounds of vacuum cleaners when I was a kid, and again - dealing with a lot of my sensory issues, you could imagine how much that frightened me in the theater. I remember I closed my eyes when I saw the movie the 2nd time. But then once that scene was over, I remember getting through most of the movie just fine. I don't remember what really happened in it outside of a few scenes here and there...

... but I do remember, when I was in kindergarten in late 1997/early 1998, sometimes they'd have us in the class draw a "picture story" of sorts. At the time, I was still a little shook by that scene in THE BORROWERS, and... Well, this is kind of a weird thing I'd like to bring up. I used to do this thing as a child where I would re-enact or rewrite a scene from a movie that I saw, sometimes it would be a scary scene that kinda stuck with me. I would draw the scene, it was kind of my way of processing what I had seen... and weirdly, in turn, it kinda helped me become the writer that I am today. Not just of these tumblr blogs and various animation writings, but also of the stories that I've been writing for years that I'm trying to turn into things I want to release (comics, animated movies, etc.), and the webcomic that I'm currently working on that's in beta form. It's like I kinda learned through understanding movie scenes and just how they played out, and recalling them from memory and then writing them down on paper or drawing a "picture story" of how it happened... and I remember one of my teachers in my kindergarten class was wondering, "Kyle, why are you drawing pictures of people being chased by a vacuum??" And it was just sorta like, "Oh, it was in THE BORROWERS movie!" I'm going on and on and on and on about this John Goodman movie that I've only seen that one time, all the way through, in the theater. I'll have to look it up, haha.

So yes, to reiterate: I am autistic. As a kid, I had a lot of sensory issues when it came to loud noises, or... even in the movie theater, even though I liked going as a kid (and later came to LOVE it as an older kid, preteen, teenager, adult, what-have-you!)... Early on, when I was like 5, 6, 7 years old, I was a little... Unnerved, in some ways at what I would be seeing? Like it would be a little much for me? But I could never could articulate why, and I never bothered to at the time, I was already afraid of other benign things as a child that... Whenever I told people about them, they'd be like "How come you are afraid of THAT? What's so scary about THAT?" Not mockingly, but a little caught off guard. I just couldn't say why it was scary, whether it was a commercial or it was a logo with a weird jingle or anything like. I wouldn't protest going to the movies circa 1998, I did enjoy going, but there were some things where I was like "Hmmm, I feel kinda weird."

So, it's the late 1990s... All the theaters that are the closest to me are National Amusement theaters. They were a theater chain that was bought by Rave Motion Pictures in the late 2000s, and then they'd be bought by Cinemark. They're pretty much all Cinemarks now in my area, at least the ones that are still standing. I'm pulling this from my file cabinet brain, most of this was/is being written as I'm thinking about it, without doing the research that I normally do. Please bare with me- I barely write like this, but I'm in a flurry right now, I'm quite excited about something so minuscule, we'll get there!

So National Amusements used to operate these multiplexes in my home state called Showcase Cinemas. Most of my childhood moviegoing experiences were at Showcase Cinemas. National Amusements theaters had their own sort-of, like any theater chain would, they had interstitials, bumpers, they had commercials and they had what I recently learned were called "snipes". I never knew what the proper term for them was. So, in 1995, National Amusements created a snipe that really stood out...

It was a sort of sequence where it was like a neon cinema with Art Deco touches, and to kid me... This was very "alien", in a way. There was something very alien about it. It's not that it "scared" me, it was weird in a way, like I was still processing the world around me... and now I'm watching this in a dark room, and it's like... Something very strange about it. I got this with a lot of logos as a child, I got this with a lot of commercials and still title cards and such, it was very unusual feelings... I will elaborate.

One thing that cropped up on the Internet, in the early-to-mid 2000s, in some circles tucked away in parts of the world wide web (showing my age by saying that phrase) was this unusual sort of thing... There were people, admitting on message board forums and such that they were afraid of production company logos, of the motion graphic variety...

Where am I? What is this place? Why is it so... I can't define... It's like it... Never ends...

These particular logo graphics were from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Sometimes they'd be as short as 4 seconds, seen at the end of a TV show after the credits rolled. Sometimes they'd be intros on home video releases. On the off chance, they might also be theatrical movie studio logos, but more often than not - in my experience - it was usually applied to television production company logos and home video division logos. More so television, given that home video came about in the mid-1970s but really became ubiquitous in American homes by the end of the 1980s.

A lot of people are absolutely baffled when they come across a word like "logophobia" or they come across the idea of somebody being afraid of a production company logo when they were a child. A lot of people ask, "Why?" Like, why is there a documentary (THE S FROM HELL) about it that was directed by the guy who did ROOM 237? What is this "phenomenon"? Are you all a bunch of wusses? I see it crop up from time to time, and it eventually clicked for me over the years... The director of that S FROM HELL film, Rodney Ascher, he really scratched an itch that I was sort of looking for as someone who was unnerved by benign things as a child.

Via Chris McGovern's The Glass Blog:

Well, just because I was sort of fascinated by it... I certainly got this really visceral memory of being 3 years old, parked in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours, being sort of confused and baffled by these little pieces that were exposed between the cracks of the TV shows. I certainly didn’t have the language when I was 3, but I think what I was seeing was the machine code underneath the TV! [laughs] And maybe this was the window between GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and BEWITCHED, where for a minute there was a gap, and I could see in that gap this kind of cold robotic machinery behind the TV shows.

So, what is THE S FROM HELL? It was a documentary short that was made in 2010, and I believe it screened at one of the film festivals. Sundance? Telluride? Maybe. Ascher contacted people who saw the 1964 Screen Gems logo as a child. These people said that the logo scared them when they were little, and they described what it is about the logo that frightened them in the 1960s and 1970s... Whether it was the strange modern design of the logo, or it was the strange synthesized jingle by Eric Siday. Logos back then used a lot of futuristic and even avant garde imagery and sounds, as they were more in the world of graphic design than they were the fine arts or traditional art. It's a fascinating film because you're hearing, firsthand, from the people, hearing their voices talking about what scared them so much about these logos. Ascher uses a variety of footage and imagery to convey those abstract fears, it's actually a pretty interesting watch. It's almost like an "I feel seen" sort of thing, and while I didn't grow up in the '60s and '70s and experienced that particular logo. Or, another well-known logo that apparently scared the heck out of kids back in the day, the Viacom from 1976. Much like the "S from Hell", it's nicknamed the "V of Doom". Other logos have been given such monikers, too.

Being someone who is autistic, someone who was unnerved by various benign things, sounds and jingles and commercials and such- It's like, WOW, it's not so far-fetched after all! Even neurotypical children were scared of these things. I've read multiple explanations that really made it make a lot of sense. One person said they were akin to weird jumpscares, they came out of nowhere, were unusual, made an impression for 4 seconds, and then disappeared after that. This was, to this person, exacerbated by the janky editing and broadcasting means of the '60s and '70s... And made even worse by intermittent Emergency Broadcast System tones, the Cold War going on, and the possibility of a real cataclysmic event happening... While you were watching TV one afternoon.

Another interesting way of looking at it was being a kid and not having a concept of what a logo is, or what even a corporation is. That's especially interesting for a logo, a motion graphic without a person or any sign of being in it. Usually it was against like a solid or gradient color background, and it was usually just be text and shapes and objects forming up the design of a logo. Like, the Screen Gems logo. A dot with two wrapping parallelograms around it, forming an "S". And the Viacom logo from 1976 is just two shapes forming a "V", with the words a "A Viacom Presentation", usually the music was synthesized or very bombastic or very loud or very... Again, alien. In a way. Much like how I thought the "snipes" in the movie theaters kind of were. It was like "What is this? What does this all mean?"

In the podcast Podcast: The Ride, the hosts brought up this phenomena as well. One of the hosts was talking about the Walt Disney Home Video logo from 1978, the "Neon Mickey" logo, and he had said...

-you know that scary, when Disney started putting out VHSes, and there's that like laser Mickey, do you know what I'm talking about? It's like a neon outline, that is so frightening, although I'm just one of those people who was scared of every VHS logo that ever existed... Definitely. And anything like that, those- just- frightening company logos. Always. Which were often, would have some just weird sound, like [noise]… And I- I just didn't know, I was three years old I didn't know what they were. Like, why'd, how come when I watch a movie, there's all these things?"

That's a GREAT way of putting it, and what I couldn't even begin to articulate as a child describing benign visual media that bugged me.

But yes, looking at it... There is no "human" element, in a way, in one of those logos. For me, it was like being transported into a surrealist space for about 5-10 seconds. That space didn't make any sense when I was five years old, it's almost like you were in a void. It was the weirdest thing. When you don't know what any of those things are supposed to be, when you don't know- There's no person, no human, it's a little bit strange and surreal.

It's kind of like how people say, when they were kids, that a surreal scene in a movie bugged them. Maybe a Disney film like DUMBO, or the Heffalumps and Woozles scene in WINNIE THE POOH AND THE BLUSTERY DAY. All that kind of nonsense in a weird, random void. That can be terrifying and unnerving for some out there, and I feel that's kind of similar with logos. The weirdest thing, though, is that as a kid? Scenes like those didn't bother me at all! I was mesmerized by "Pink Elephants on Parade", "Heffalumps and Woozles" as well- Maybe because characters were present? I couldn't tell you, but they lit my creative fire more than made me want to fast-forward.

I came across a website when I was 12 years old called "KRS Logos", and this site had quite an impact on me. It was like one of those old fortunecity sites that was put together by like maybe 5 or so boomer to Gen X-aged adults, sort of reminiscing about old logos and bumpers; what kind of animation techniques they used, how long they had been used for, what year they first appeared, it was a site I believe was constructed in 2000 and routinely updated up until 2006. I was visiting the site for the first time in 2005-06, and it was being updated with new logo descriptions and such, even though the site looked like it was from 1998.

Sure enough, I found a category on one of the logo pages that was called "Scare Factor".

There were logo descriptions, method of animation used, if the logo was rare or easy to find (rarity would be caused by what's known as "logo plastering", when companies replace the old logo with a later one on reruns), etc.... So the final one was called "Scare Factor", and it was totally the opinion of the five to ten people who made the site and those that they were in contact with on these logos. It'd be like None, or Low: It's a little unnerved. Median: This can be a little bit scary, or there was High: This is terrifying, the weird animation, the loud synthesized jingle, the weird everything- and there was NIGHTMARE. Viacom 1976 and Screen Gems 1964 made it into "Nightmare" territory on that old site, along with the 1978 WGBH Boston logo and a Simitar logo from the '80s. It was very interesting how there was a whoooole forum dedicated to that sort of thing... But then over time, I feel like random kids took control of everything and turned it into the CLG Wiki and then... Oooh, the harmless Nick Jr. logo from 2007, that's SCARY! This is like a 13-year-old kid who says this, and I highly doubt that happened. When most of the scare factor descriptions on the old site were written by adults describing how they reacted to the logos back in the day, it all got lost in a flurry of kids going "Oh my god, the cute Nick Jr. logo from 2006 is the scariest thing I've ever seen!" I'm trying not to make fun, but I feel a lot of people looked at the logophobia thing and were like "What the hell is wrong with these pansies??" And, for a little while, it made me afraid of how to articulate these unusual past fears as an autistic person, and these cynics used a lot of ableism, too. So that did not help.

I will talk about a logo that scared me as a child, and a commercial as well... Like, actually bugged me.

Those who know me well for my Disney VHS collecting side-hobby will likely be shocked when I say it...

The 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo...

I have no idea what exactly it was that bugged me about this logo when I was a young kid. I eventually got over this fear when seeing the logo for the first time in years at roughly age 8, unprompted and out of nowhere may I add (hah!), and then it was like "Okay, that's nothing. I was afraid of that?"

But, it had to have been... The low note of the synthesized jingle, the black background, and the red lettering against said background. Now, its counterpart, the Walt Disney Classics logo used from 1988 to 1994? Which opened the same exact way with that still image of Sorcerer Mickey?

That didn't bother me AT ALL... That had less ominous music, a bright background, a diamond behind the text, silver to golden lettering, etc. Much better! Way Disney-er sounding than that other logo. I didn't dread that logo as a wee one, but the standard WDHV one? Nope, uh-uh.

But if you step back for a second... These logos are kind of bizarre, at least for Disney... It's a motionless still image of Mickey Mouse. Disney, known for... ANIMATION, Mickey Mouse, an animated character... And yet he's but a beautifully-rendered still image in both of these iconic logos. Maybe *that* contributed to it, too? A motionless character? Certainly unusual, equally unusual was the first-ever Disney home video logo with the multiple neon outlines of Mickey's shape... Talked about by Podcast: The Ride up above. I never saw that one as a child, I had only discovered it once I came across the old KRS Logos site and found VHS tapes with it on there... I wonder if *that* would've frightened me at age 5.

So yes, to a kid, especially an autistic person such as myself, you can get weird feelings out of a simple picture. The weird thing is, I grew into majoring in graphic design and I make that kind of art a part of what I often to do, be it comics or any other kind of design that I often do. Maybe it's all rooted back in these logos and interstitial works and little things inbetween the media that I watched as a child, that it all made that much of an impression.

Now before I go on, here's a 1995-ish commercial that frightened me as a child... I dread this one...

Yeah, you can see why little autistic me *hated* this thing... Serene paradise imagery, then a wham-fucking-cut to AHHHHHHHHH! The way it was shot, quickly zooming out from a screaming guy's mouth, made it all the more worse... It's a funny idea, and I appreciate the commercial's gag now... But 3-year-old me in 1995? "Nooo, not the Honey Pinch Me commercial!"

So, back to the logos-

The visual component is one thing, the music is another...

I already talked a little bit about how the rather odd music of the 1986 WDHV logo didn't sit well with me as a child, but I can't quite adequately describe what about it was so... Unsettling to me. Maybe if that music accompanying a colorful logo or a logo that wasn't red on a black background with a still picture of what should be an animated cartoon character, maybe I'd have received it a lot differently?

Interestingly, the music *does* show up somewhere other than a WDHV logo on an American-released VHS tape... On 2nd and 3rd sets of pressings of the original 101 DALMATIANS VHS from early 1992, this really weird- what sounds like an extended version of the music or a possible alternate/unused recording of the jingle plays over the film's Buena Vista title card right after the movie ends, and segues into a cut-in-half WDHV logo. No "HOME VIDEO" below, just the red "Walt Disney", and the Laser font text below detailing what's to come in the ensuing previews. I remember feeling less unsettled and more... Why's this music here? Whenever this cropped up when 101 DALMATIANS ended. I had the 3rd pressing where the end of the movie went straight to the logo w/ the weird music over it, 2nd set of pressings had a silent Buena Vista first (that's the way movie ended on its 1985 and 1991 theatrical re-releases, Disney would swap the BV title cards with their then-new Walt Disney Pictures castle logo), then the BV card with the music over it. On close inspection, the BV w/ the music and announcer looks to be a paused still-frame. It weirdly lacks any motion the proper version has, like one is from a film print and the other is a paused image. It's really weird! And that only happens on that one VHS release from 1992, a good 6 years after the logo was first created. You can't hear that alternate version of the jingle anywhere else, unless someone unearths it in the future...

I hope someone does, though! Because jingle music, maybe because of this logo and other intros of yore, is one of my hyperfixation-fascination things... Again, maybe because of how it made a weird impression on me as a child...

Over the years, it was discovered that the music Disney used in their iconic Feature Presentation "handwriting" ID (and also the gold lettering one that appeared prior to that) was a piece of production music, 'Great Ovation' composed by Steve Gray, which appears on a 1984 Bruton Music LP called 'Televisual'. Composed by a British individual, recorded by a band/orchestra, meant for one of many sorta-faceless music LPs of all-purpose music. Fascinating! There's just loads of it... Across multiple labels, the aforementioned Bruton, along with KPM, De Wolfe, Bosworth, Berry Music, Amphonic, etc. etc.

The original 'Great Ovation' conjures up images of a ritzy, extravagant game show, flashing lights everywhere and an announcer that could very well be the late Mark Elliot, who voiced the most common Feature Presentation intro for Disney and numerous other trailers/previews. I could easily picture it being on a show that came on during the mid-1990s, for sure. Something later at night. There's another track from the album that I have in my collection called 'Surprise Package', composed by Zack Laurence, it has that same overall mood. Like, I was somewhat blown away that this 4-second jingle was actually a 2-minute piece, sharing an LP with other similar pieces of music. The opening 4 seconds, however, fit perfectly with this kind of intro: The loud horn fanfare, drumming up excitement for what's to come. Like, did staffers at Disney sit down and listen to a ton of production music LPs and CDs before settling on this piece? Disney had actually used it before in the mid 1980s on a demo tape that laid out a holiday promotion WDHV would launch one year (might've been 1985 or 1986), but my question still stands? I'd imagine that's how the assignment goes- all this thought, into 4 seconds of music.

But hey, I was never alone! Defunctland just did a whole epic on the mysterious origins of the 4-note Disney Channel jingle of the early 2000s that everyone around my age has burned into their brains. This isn't some niche autistic thing anymore, it seems. (Maybe that's my internalized ableism talking.) Who's to say someone who worked on the 1986 WDHV won't share some history of the logo's creation? Motion graphics are, to me, a big deal in not only company identity, but also storytelling as well. To me, every good logo tells a story and makes some kind of impression, or at least conveys successfully what's in store whenever you see it... Disney's various print and motion logos, no different...

Starting in roughly 2016, I searched for music that I never knew the origins of, but suspected *could* be production music, and sometimes I won out. Walt Disney Home Video used a piece called 'Pageantry' on this one unique "Also From Walt Disney Home Video" bumper that appeared on the 1991 VHS of THREE MEN AND A LITTLE DAY, from composer Leslie Pearson. A set of bumpers that appeared on the 1992 releases of SO DEAR TO MY HEART and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST used 'Fanfare to the Modern Man' by Richard Hill. Both of these came from 1978 Bruton Music LPs. Someone at Disney must've gravitated towards them! On their own, they conjure up different images as well: 'Pageantry' creates a medieval scene in my head, what with its bugle horns, while 'Fanfare' - very obviously from a sports-themed collection - in its full form makes me think of a football game broadcast circa the mid 80s or mid 90s.

This search also answered some long-held questions I had with some Pixar work: The cheesy, flutey music that plays in the dentist's office in FINDING NEMO on one small scene, and also plays on the original DVD release's 2nd disc menu, is a piece called 'Rosery', composed by Jan Schneeberg and Boris Schoska. It comes from a 1973 Berry Music/Studio One LP, the entirety of it performed by the Manfred Minnich Orchestra. Now, on that same album is a track called 'Waltzing Flutes'. If you're unfamiliar with that one, it's the Krusty Krab Training Video music. Both media, coincidentally, set underwater! The episode in question aired less than a year before FINDING NEMO was theatrically released! FINDING NEMO uses another cheesy tune in one of the dentist's office scenes and on a DVD menu, 'Time for Romance' by John (Anthony) Helliwell, that first appeared on a Concord LP in 1972, it also used in the previous Pixar feature, MONSTERS, INC. It can be heard in Roz's office. Other bits of production music have been used in Pixar films, but one that came out of nowhere for me... The entirety of LUXO, JR.'s smooth jazz soundtrack is cribbed from Bruton Music's 1982 LP COUNTERPOINT IN RHYTHM, all of its tracks composed by Brian Bennett and Carlton Hall.

By the end of 2016, I had fallen in love with production music, and perhaps its rather blank-slate nature is one you can project so many images onto. When hearing the tracks that I now have in my collection, I could see scenes in films that don't exist, scenes that didn't happen - it's more than just some generic stuff to me. It's music made by people, but it's like that element doesn't belong in it - that the listener is the one making the music theirs in a way. It's almost like a void, in the same way a solid color background is on an old motion graphic logo...

So now along comes my revisiting of National Amusements bumpers and interstitial animated segments...

Now, before the neon "snipe" that I mentioned earlier...

... there was this thing...

I already had found, as a roughly 5-6yo kid, the big "policy trailer" snipe to be a bit weird and unnerving in a way, this was like an ominous prelude to that... I'm already in a very dark movie theater, a spacious environment, and this title card is an even darker theater. You can't see the exit doorways, not even an outline to indicate they are there, just the flashing "Exit" signs. The weird fakeness of the image (likely a digital rendering of a typical Showcase Cinemas auditorium circa 1989), the starry image looking almost cosmic - combine that with the neon stuff and futuristic city, like that was - again - very "alien" to me as a kid. And that music... It was kind of ominous, too. The idea of an emergency in a public place like that, having to run to another side of the building in doing so... That doesn't help, either.

Now over time, much like the Walt Disney Home Video logo, I got used to this and the longer snipe that followed, but early on you do get hit with that weird feeling... The autism experience is very unique in all of us, and for me, a trip to the movies at night in the in-your-face 90s was quite a trip early on. By 2000, I loved going, so as I got older, those weird feelings were becoming yesterday's news to me.

But those early, almost *primal* feelings - like a fear of the unknown, continue to fascinate me. Especially as I write and create stories, sometimes trying out the horror genre! I feel like modern horror works such as various indie games of the early 2010s (FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S) and analog horror (LOCAL58, GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT, etc.) tap into that sort of thing, and I found myself endlessly fascinated with those. They successfully transported me back to the mid-1990s, in a dark area that might've confused or bothered me, or a piece of media that did back then... I was uncomfortable watching or playing them... Job well done.

Lo and behold, I recently find out that the music that accompanied the "Exit" snipe for National Amusements... Is a French piece of production music titled 'Paradise Hotel', by Stephane Joly. This originally appeared on two KoKa Media releases in 1987 titled JINGLES, one was a vinyl release and the other a CD issue.

So now, instead of a dark theater with warnings about an emergency, I now hear what was the original intention: A sunset image in the tropics, by a hotel, some time in the late 1980s. You can feel the soul influences in the thing, too, I was initially *excited*. I had some shower thoughts that eventually all made it into this post, but then... Not too long after... The piece still seemed weird and ominous to these ears now...

Could it be the long association with a warning snipe? Or is it just that weird '80s synthiness that sometimes comes off as a little unnerving? Is it just a subconscious thing about growing up autistic in the excessive '90s, the very excess that I - an artist - now look at fondly? Why these feelings, that I'm 30 years old now?

I moved out of my home.

I had lived under one roof for 30 years, and now I have moved into an apartment that's a good 15-25 minutes away from where I used to live. I'm about half of a week into my new life there, and a lot still needs to be done to get myself used to the place, but also the looming fear of paying the rent, affording groceries, gas and STILL having the gumption to continue pursuing my creative endeavors and make many of them into sources of income... All millennial worries, right? I have other worries, too, which I won't get into, but it's created a lonely and horrifying anxiety storm sometimes. One of my greatest fears is giving up all of my passion and love of what I love, and sinking into a safety net of bland boredom. There are some days where I'm just too exhausted to let my autistic brain run the way it usually does, spontaneous and excited and finding creative things in life.

Perhaps this is all normal, but right before I moved in, when I started visiting my new apartment at nighttime, those weird feelings struck me. I'm by myself, it's lonely, I have other worries in life that I have no idea how I'm gonna solve, I fear my soul being crushed, etc.

I started feeling primal fear of the unknown. In the dark, like I was 5 again. I mean, I navigate dark basements just fine, but what's going on here? And that's when I came across the piece of production music, which otherwise would not have affected me this way in my adult life... It's like those old subconscious feelings, being a kid and a bit intimidated by the loud world around you, and not knowing what to even do about that. How to process that information. How do you tell your weirded-out parents about some inexplicable sound or image that bugged you?

And like the paradise that 'Pacific Hotel' paints- I'm literally relating an emotionally maelstrom time in my life to a 45-second piece of music that some French fellow composed in 1987 and likely forgot about the next day, anyways, like the paradise in 'Pacific Hotel', my own place should be a paradise, right? Where I can be independent and be me and flower into the me that I've always restrained or hidden my whole life... But there are possibly so many consequences awaiting once I open this proverbial Pandora's Box. It shouldn't be just that, but it likely is in my case. And then add in all the responsibilities and other issues I currently face, it is TERRIFYING.

... and sometimes I simply need a big break from all of these stresses, so I can recharge my creative batteries and reconnect with my best self... The world's already built against your average neurotypical who is merely trying to keep afloat, financially, it is ten times worse for an autistic person who suffers from anxiety. I'm only about a few days into this new chapter, and I have no idea what's ahead. Either that should be thrilling, or utterly terrifying.

I'm happy to have cracked another hyperfixation mystery, though. I'm happy that I made such progress in life, it's the stuff that I have to do to keep it up, ya know?

Facing fears, quite frightening in itself... Comics and art will resume, of course, once I get some aforementioned stuff sorted out (such as having suitable internet), but I had a *lot* thoughts these past few days, from when I started writing this based on a mystery I cracked (I initially intended it for my hyperfixation tumblr - titled @kylesvariouslistsandstuff) on some random interest of mine, to the ensuing nights in my apartment... Again, all largely spurred by some jingle that's 35 years old now and composed by someone I've never heard of before. But I heard the jingle a ton of times in the late '90s and early '00s, when visiting my local movie theaters... I currently work at one of those theaters...

Funny how the brain works, huh? I hope you're doing well tonight.

(Image credit: digital94086, iStock)

[nerdgatehobbit]

I was tagged by @ladytharen thanks!

Comfort movie: I’ve watched the Beauty and the Beast 30th anniversary special three times since it came out last month, so I suspect it’s speeding up the list.  Others include George of the Jungle (1997), Love & Friendship, and Cinderella 1997.

Comfort food: Roasted Brussel sprouts and cupcakes, even if only one of them is a typical comfort food.

Comfort clothing: Anything soft & fluffy!  I also have quite a few nerdy tees that I like wearing (Stargate, Star Wars, & Stitch are all well-represented).

Comfort books: Once on a Time by A.A. Milne and my Dinotopia collection (I’ve got the Gurney ones, both of Foster’s novels, and two of the junior chapter books)

Comfort game: As much as I like Dreamlight Valley (Mirabel next month!), I’m more likely to do some stuff on the Pokémon Masters app to unwind.

No pressure tagging @magic-owl @mylittleredgirl @bex-pendragon and anyone else who wants to do it!

[theinternetmoviedataband]

My 100 best movies of all time

As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.

To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was "no more than one movie per director". The second one was "don't get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down".

I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I'm too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)

BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME (with no particular order)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)

Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)

Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)

Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)

Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)

Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)

Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Judex (1963, Georges Franju)

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)

Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)

Singin' In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)

Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)

Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)

Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)

Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)

Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)

Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)

I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)

French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)

Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)

The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)

El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)

Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)

Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)

City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)

Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)

Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)

Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)

Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)

The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)

Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)

Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)

Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)

The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)

Copland (1997, James Mangold)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)

12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)

Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)

A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)

The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)

Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)

La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)

Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)

Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)

[designaday]

Ultimate Playlist: Men’s Names, G

Gandhi II by “Weird Al” Yankovic In the movie UHF, Al parodies commercials, TV shows, and film. This is a movie trailer that reimagines Gandhi as Rambo, putting the smack-down on bad guys and wooing the women.

George Of The Jungle by “Weird Al” Yankovic The theme to the 1967 animated TV series was written by Stan Worth and Sheldon Allman. Al covered it on his 1985 album “Dare to be Stupid,” and The Presidents of the United States recorded a version for the 1997 film.

The Killing Of Georgie (Parts 1 & 2) by Rod Stewart Stewart took some poetic license in the telling of this true story about a gay friend who was cast out by his parents, moved to New York, became very popular, but was inadvertently killed by a gang of thieves one night while walking home.

Georgy Porgy by Toto Playing off the nursery rhyme, the song suggests that the protagonist has chased away the girl he loves by being possessive of her.

Toss a Coin to Your Witcher by Sonya Belousova, Giona Ostinelli, & Joey Batey In world, this song is written by Jaskier, a bard, who is telling the story of how Geralt of Rivia fought a sylvan (half-man, half-goat), hoping to win over the common folk that don’t think highly of witchers.

Geronimo by Sheppard The song is using the custom of yelling “Geronimo” before doing a courageous act, like jumping out of an airplane. Gerónimo was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people who led breakouts from the reservations in the late 1800’s. U.S. Army paratroopers started the tradition of shouting his name inspired by the 1939 film of the same name. Of course, this was an english pronunciation of his actual name: Goyaałé, which means “the one who yawns.”

A Boat Like Gideon Brown by Great Big Sea Gideon’s boat is big and strong, but the singer’s father’s boat was second hand. His father always swore that one day they would save enough to get a boat like Gideon’s.

Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey Written by John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, and Anthony Newley, it’s the title song from the 1964 James Bond film of the same name. The lyrics, comparing the villain to King Midas, were inspired by a scene in the film in which the character Jill Masterson is murdered by “skin suffocation” (not actually a thing) after being painted gold.

Heir Gordon by Bruce Hornsby I couldn’t find an explanation for this song. The title seems to parody Air Jordan, and the lyrics seem like they are mocking a specific person, but if so, Hornsby is keeping that to himself.

Gulliver/It’s Hay Chewed/Reprise by Elton John Gulliver is gone, but his memory remains in this final track from Elton’s first album.

[carrutherst]

Pick your movie of the week: TV to Film (June 16-22, 2024)

A couple of years ago I did this category, but this time the focus is on animated children’s TV shows that were made into live action movies. So whether or not you’ve seen any of these movies or the shows they were inspired by, vote (via a comment) for one using any criteria you see fit to be our movie of the week: The Flintstones (1994) George of the Jungle (1997) Fat Albert (2004)

[ad-lucem-et-amor]

Movies to Watch - Sweetheart ed. (updated) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Brother Bear (2003) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Wish (2023) Wonka (2023) Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers (2023) A Christmas Story (1983) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) Live Action Lady & The Tramp (2019) Frozen 2 (2019) Tarzan (1999) George of the Jungle (1997) Divergent (2014) Looney Tunes Back In Action (2003) Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (2001) Sponge Bob Squarepants Movie (2004) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Movies We've Watched So Far Lady and the Tramp (1955) The Greatest Showman (2017) Christopher Robin (2018) Up (2009) Elemental (2023) The Book of Life (2014) Winnie the Pooh (2011)