June 30th, 2011 by J

Rules:
1. Put your iPod, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer, hit skip if you get the same artist.
3. You must write down that song name, no matter how silly it sounds.
4. Have fun!

If someone asks if you’re OK, you say…
“Lean on me i wont fall over” by Carter the unstoppable sex machine

How would you describe yourself?
“The Impossible dream” by Carter the unstoppable sex machine

What do you look for in a girl?
“Satellite” by Lena

How do you feel today?
“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” by Hayseed Dixies version

What is your life’s purpose?
“Du Hast” by Volkerball

What’s your motto?
“Live and let die” by Guns and roses

What do your friends think of you?
“Suppose you gave a funeral and nobody came” by Carter the unstoppable sex machine
(which is a little worrying)

What do your parents think of you?
“The Game” by the Levellers

What do you think about very often?
“Three little birds” by Bob marley and the wailers

What do you think about your first kiss?
“Peace sells” by Megadeath

What do you think of your best friend?
“Sinnerman” by Nina Simone

What is your life story?
“Not Fair” by Lily Allen

What do you want to be when you grow up?
“Countdown to extinction” by Megadeath

What do you think when you see the person you like?
“Patience” by Guns and roses

What will you dance to at your wedding?
“Easy” by Faith no more

What will they play at your funeral?
“Wild child” by lou reed

What is your hobby/interest?
“What you gonna do” by Plan B

What is your biggest fear?
“Sweet child of mine” by guns and roses

What is your biggest secret?
“Changes” by David bowie

What do you want right now?
“The Perfect Nanny” by the Gorillaz

What do you think of your friends?
“Lemon” by U2

What title will you give this post?
“Mustang Sally” by The Commitments

June 22nd, 2011 by J

In the next week or so I will start posting again and as such I am going through my movie collection. Why! well the other day i had to search for lists of films from each decade and In doing this i reminded myself of a fantastic cult film, Empire records.

Empire records was released in 1995. This at the time mediocre film received massive slating in the press and by the critics including a 24% “Rotten” rating on Rotton Tomatoes. The film itself cast some now very well known faces including Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane (dazed and confused, csi:miami), Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger.

It is however a great film, The plot is weak and basically about a record store that is going to go out of business and is staffed by a group of strange and emotionally inept teenagers. You can see where this is going…..

Despite this the film works and is annoyingly enjoyable, Possable one for the guilty pleasures section of your life. What makes this film good however is the soundtrack.

Being a record store the choice for the music score is limitless and they haven’t skimped featuring tracks from ‘The The’, AC/DC, Dire straits and Suicidal tendencies and many more. This combined with some actually good performances from the cast has made this into a cult film and definitely worth a Sunday evening.

There is however a second part to this movie and that is the Soundtrack that was released after the film. For some reason the studio decided to release a soundtrack with nothing good on it. The film itself culminates in a roof top band playing a song called sugar high written by Coyote Shivers and performed by himself and Renee Zellweger (on you tube)which is really good (it was the 90’s), Zellweger’s slightly raspy voice really brings something to the song, but on the album it featured Coyote Shivers version (on You tube) which apart from being sung higher and having less words, is awful.

Unfortunately the studio never commissioned a clean recording of the film version so fans have always been disappointed, This is no longer the case. Some clever chap/chapett has knocked together a No dialogue version of the original film song (Click here) which is brilliant and stuck it on youtube.

So enjoy everyone a bit of retro film for you.