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Because my bookmark folder labelled "Vspot List" is overflowing with news!
Karen O goes Country
Cue the Monotonous "La La La La La": She's Back!
History has been made as of this past Saturday at the "Beavis and Butthead" Comic Con panel, straight out of the mouth of its creator Mike Judge. According to the "Daria" facebook page:
Live from the "Beavis and Butthead" Comic con panel and Mike Judge just said Daria will be making a cameo on "Beavis and Butthead" this season. Judge says he likes Daria a lot and maybe he should do more with her. (<-- This was met with overwhelming applause!)
While I'm trying to forget "Beavis and Butthead" ever existed, being a 90s child unfortunately exposed to it waiting for Daria, this could be fantastic news. But what more could we possibly get out of Daria Morgendorffer now? She got through high school (and some of us wondering how the hell she got out of it in the first place), got a boyfriend and went to college... what more can we get out of the snarkfest that is my Halloween costume this year? (not kidding either) Let's hope Judge comes up with something really really good.
Elton John Biopic "Rocket Man"
It's been nine months since "Rocket Man" has been greenlit under the powers of John as executive producer and Lee Hall's screenplay know-how and from the sounds of this project.... pardon my French ... this is going to be super gay.
"“Rocketman will be a radically different kind of biopic. It will be as unique as Elton’s life, told in a non-linear and hyper-visual manner that will transport people through the many intense experiences, some wonderful, some not, that helped define Elton as an artist, musician and man.” says producer Stephen Hamilton Shaw to collider.com. It will not only be nonlinear (as John says to Entertainment Weekly it would be in tradition of Dylan's "I'm Not There" and wouldn't be opposed to having multiple people playing the rock legend. Cate Blanchett, anyone?") But John also announces that the movie will also have a "fantastical in the vein of Moulin Rouge" vibe. Um... yeah. gay.
The real question is: who should play this Rock God? For once, I'm at a loss. Hugh Jackman?
Lykke Li Covers Unchained Melody
Lykke Li can do anything -- from winning over late night hearts from playing Fallon and Letterman to catapulting her 2011 released "Wounded Rhymes" to #36 on the Billboard 200. #36? Sacrilege to those who believes that "Wounded Rhymes" deserves the end of the year award for Best album of the year. Outside of this impending controversy in December, let us all enjoy Lykke Li covering the Righteous Brothers for Australian radio triplej.
New Florence + the Machine tracks Live!
I never tire of my love for Florence Welch, simply because she lacks the ability to suck. So when stereogum put out the article, Watch Florence & The Machine Debut "Never Let Me Go," "Spectrum," & "Heartlines" At Creators Project, I want to love it despite I can't hear the music, the downside of poor acoustic youtube videos. I can definitely say that "Never Let Me Go" has me interested and simply cannot wait in the release of "Ceremonials" coming out next Tuesday. NEXT TUESDAY!! Get excited! This is one new album I shall actually buy.
So what does the all mighty stereogum have to say about "Ceremonials" in their Premature Evaluation? One comment really gets to me and has me worried for the album, "Big sounds, big notes, gigantic crashing orchestra noises on every song. Florence is not playing around on this one. There’s no false modesty, no restraint. I’m terrible at predicting stuff like this, but I can’t remember the last time I was this sure an album would be massively popular." Is this the return of the solid track-to-track album in the tradition of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "It's Blitz!"? And if this album is persistent, should we worry that Florence will eventually lose her sense of fun in her music if it is without "false modesty, no restraint" which seems everything but who she is in singing a cappella Disney songs and smiling that enigmatic grin? Who is the real Florence or should we simply take this over-ambition in "Ceremonials" and just go with it as sophomoric egotism.
New Collaboration for the Depp-Burton marriage
Depp and Burton is just one of those classic combinations, like peanut butter and jelly, orange and chocolate, pumpkin and cupcakes (had one Tuesday night, don't judge me!), in their eight projects they have done together and being best friends for 20 years (although at this rate we are good with calling this a marriage that will never end). It seems only reasonable after the impeccably horrid version of "Alice in Wonderland" they spurned out last year. It sounded fantastic in concept but the execution was poor. Should we expect this for... wait for it... a film revamp of 60s gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows?"
Part of me is crossing every limb on my body in the hope that it will not suck. IT WILL NOT SUCK, I tell you despite the fact that Depp and Burton have marked their graves somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd. So far, "Dark Shadows" has been in treatment and started filming just this past April, allowing Depp back into some gothic leeway as Barnabas Collins, a vampire patriarch in the crazy town of Collinsport, Maine. And it will not suck despite the fact people are tired of the movies Depp is putting out now.
Here is my list of expectancies
- First and foremost, there must not, under any circumstances, have anything CGI. Not even one sparkle on the vampires (which thank God, there will be none)
- Burton must stick to what made him great in the 80s -- Caligari-heavy angles and strong shadows in terms of aesthetics. (I didn't choose him for my Weimar film analysis for "Vincent" just for kicks) And by the early promo shown in Entertainment Weekly, it looks like he listened to my internal pleas.
- For vampires slowly becoming more and more blase in modern culture, writer Seth Grahame-Smith has the advantage of having "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter" to give the story something more witty with dark humor. But don't be surprised if the writing doesn't have the same fire as Burton-written projects -- or if Burton does end up adding scenes like how Howard Ashman wrote a few scenes that stuck out on "Little Mermaid" versus the rest of the movie by the film's real screenwriters. I look forward to this little battle. But please oh please Grahame-Smith, let Burton have a little influence, despite your current hold on pop culture.
I have zero problem with the story, because I know Depp can rock this role harder than Jonathan Frid's original role of Collins, or rather put a new spin on the character. That was one of the good things out of Alice in Wonderland is Depp's ability of bringing a deeper psychology to already-loved characters (Willie Wonka, Mad Hatter, J.M. Barrie). All in all, I can only pray to my alter every night in the hope that this won't be like their last few projects.Please don't suck!
Yoko Ono surprises tUnE-yArDs on stage
What could be better than covering a Yoko Ono song (which is a pretty tall order in itself) and realizing the activist is just back stage waiting to rock the stage with you? Ask Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs after covering Ono's "We're All Water" at Iceland Airwaves last Thursday. Garbus actually rocks this cover, although naturally I think all of Ono's music is written with beautiful intention (because she is such a beautiful person and such a pioneer for activism) but it takes someone with solid vocal cords to really pull the songs off. Ono's airy voice helps the contradiction, which is why I'm a fan (and the fact she made the sexy Sean with a rock legend -- one part of one of the greatest rock love stories of all time) of her more as a person than a singer. But Garbus... and this song... just... damn. It's spell-binding and almost wish the surprise was more jolting than it was.
Yesterday someone asked me 'Would you sleep with Yoko Ono?'
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Hahaha awesome.
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