The interwebitubes have been all a-twitter (hah!) about the Disney-Marvel deal today (BTW, hats off to TechCrunch - they posted the first story I saw). A lot of folks have tried to wonder what the mash-up may lead to ... here are a couple of my favorites:
TechCrunch just posted an article where they copied in a thread from a Google Groups where ex-employees discuss why they left the Mountainview company.
For some reason ... I can't quite call it writer's block, because as this paragraph goes to show, I am still more than capable to typists' diarrhea. I think it's more like ... motivational issues. It's certainly not the lack of material.
Everybody sing along!
I have no choice but to remind you, nay beseech you, if you haven't already done so, to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the musical. Co-written by Joss Wheedon, and starring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillon, this is a hilarious and touching little project on the Interwebs. The Lady is already obsessed with the first song from Act I.
The three acts stream free until July 20th, after which it'll be available through iTMS, until the DVD comes out, of course.
What are you still doing here? Go! GO!
I've added a Twitter panel to the right, showing my last 10 tweets.
Testing the iPhone Typepad application. Looks interesting - plain text only(?) but it doesn't pull down my categories. Weird.
A musical revolution, that is ...
Allow me to explain ...
The 50's and 60's gave rise to blues, blues-rock, rock 'n' roll, and psychedelic ... which inspired (somewhat) the hard rock movement (via Cream & Led Zep), and Heavy Metal (via Black Sabbath). They, in turn, inspired arena rock and the whole "classic rock" period in the 70's.
On another front, the motown & R&B fads made more use of synthesized music in the 70's to ultimately create disco. The backlash to disco and arena rock was of course, the punk movement, which led to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. That in turn, led to thrash & speed metal, as well as glam, and hair metal in the 80's.
The world ultimately threw up against the excesses of glam & hair metal in the 90's by coming up with grunge, and alternative (for a brief period, there was Guns 'N' Roses, but they were but an aberrant blip on this timeline). Rappers found mainstream success with gangsta rap. By weird coincidence, the "diva" movement can be traced to the early-to-mid 90's. Pop culture, feeling a bit left out, came up with bubblegum-slut-pop, in the form of Britney & Christina. That whole morass of styles created and R&B explosion in the 00's, while grunge & alternative inspired a new legion of college, indie, and post-punk rock. Oh, and nu-metal too, I guess.
So basically what I'm trying to say is that in the last 7 or 8 years, there hasn't been (to my mind), a paradigm shift in musical innovation, as seen in previous decades. To quote a frog & a dog, "I hope that something better comes along" ... cos I'm bored!
And no, I have no interest in jazz. I equate it to somewhat better than elevator muzak.
I cannot believe I didn't know about this website until today!
These are the cartoons I grew up with. These are the cartoons I hope my nephew watches and marvels at. This is the reason I love Superman (and comic books in general) so much. I mean, just look at the scenery & backdrops and the art in general - Max Fleischer is a GOD!
This episode, in particular, was the first I ever saw. I think I must've been 5 or 6 years old, in Nigeria, with just a few cartoons and other video cassettes (now you know why I can recite the dialog to Star Wars episode IV verbatim) to pass the evenings. To a little boy, the whole "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, the man of steel ... Superman!" bit was a surefire way to hold my attention! This was also the first time I heard the phrase "This looks like a job for ... Superman!". Ooh, I got a shiver down my spine just typing that out!
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