The Musical Edition
He Won!! Yay!!
More on that later.
First I got sucked into watching the cheesy show on PBS Friday night in which old pop stars from the 60's sang their hits. Some it was sad (Chad and Jeremy looked sad) some weren't too bad (Petula Clark and Peter and Gordon) and some sounded really good and didn't too bad considering their age (that would be The Zombies, who did a great version of She's Not There). The non-musical portion of the weekend was taken up by the new Fantastic Four movie, which I liked except for the completely wrong characterization of Galactus as a big killer cloud. Oy. His name is Galactus and you couldn't do better than a CGI cloud? Aside form that, I found it entertaining but those of you not into comic books would probably be bored.
My netflix movie was Harold and Kumar go to White Kastle. Yes, it's a stoner movie and I've never liked those. Yes, its target audience is many years younger than I. And yet, I loved it. It was very funny, reasonably intelligent and actually had a message. And it was funny-did say that? I can forgive a lot if a movie makes me laugh-and just the beginning when Kumar is telling Harold that they are getting high night because he bought some herb and he wasn't going to smoke it all by himself (this, while he's in the middle of an interview for med school) made me laugh. I liked it a lot and you don't have to be a stoner or stoned to like it.
Now for the musical segment of this post. Yes, I got hooked on Britain's Got Talent. Specifically on Paul Potts, the unlikely opera singer who can really sing. I was on pins and needles all day Sunday waiting for the results to be posted...and he won! His final performance of Nessun Dorma was wonderful (no, he's not Pavarotti or Domingo but he is very talented amateur and with more training he could be even better). I was just glad he won-but really, who else could they have chosen to perform in front of the Queen?
If you want to see him, go to youtube and search for his name-the best posts are by myredroom-they are very high quality. Go look-you won't be sorry.
More on that later.
First I got sucked into watching the cheesy show on PBS Friday night in which old pop stars from the 60's sang their hits. Some it was sad (Chad and Jeremy looked sad) some weren't too bad (Petula Clark and Peter and Gordon) and some sounded really good and didn't too bad considering their age (that would be The Zombies, who did a great version of She's Not There). The non-musical portion of the weekend was taken up by the new Fantastic Four movie, which I liked except for the completely wrong characterization of Galactus as a big killer cloud. Oy. His name is Galactus and you couldn't do better than a CGI cloud? Aside form that, I found it entertaining but those of you not into comic books would probably be bored.
My netflix movie was Harold and Kumar go to White Kastle. Yes, it's a stoner movie and I've never liked those. Yes, its target audience is many years younger than I. And yet, I loved it. It was very funny, reasonably intelligent and actually had a message. And it was funny-did say that? I can forgive a lot if a movie makes me laugh-and just the beginning when Kumar is telling Harold that they are getting high night because he bought some herb and he wasn't going to smoke it all by himself (this, while he's in the middle of an interview for med school) made me laugh. I liked it a lot and you don't have to be a stoner or stoned to like it.
Now for the musical segment of this post. Yes, I got hooked on Britain's Got Talent. Specifically on Paul Potts, the unlikely opera singer who can really sing. I was on pins and needles all day Sunday waiting for the results to be posted...and he won! His final performance of Nessun Dorma was wonderful (no, he's not Pavarotti or Domingo but he is very talented amateur and with more training he could be even better). I was just glad he won-but really, who else could they have chosen to perform in front of the Queen?
If you want to see him, go to youtube and search for his name-the best posts are by myredroom-they are very high quality. Go look-you won't be sorry.
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