Ringo screaming “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!” at the end of “Helter Skelter” is probably the best thing the Beatles ever recorded, so any claim that he wasn’t vital to the band is laughable.
Just as a basic principle, I’d trust Cyndi Lauper’s opinion over almost anyone’s tbh.
If your chips aren’t crunchy, you’re probably in Britain, innit?
See, I buy tgat as Romeo and Juliet, but I just don’t see how an uncle usurping the throne and a ghost automatically Hamlet makes.
I still don’t get why people say The Lion King is Hamlet though—the only plot points they have in common is the brother usurping the throne and the king’s ghost visiting his son. That’s about it. There’s no thematic similarity—Simba grieves but isn’t depressed or driven mad.
There was a great article about this in The New Yorker a few months ago: there is essentially no research, no established therapy, no literature about accidental killers.
I still love “Mmmbop”, but “Penny and Me” by Hanson is just as catchy and harmonic, with a more mature sound. And if Devo qualifies as a one-hit wonder, then Hanson is surely the epitome of one-hit wonderdom.
The continued health and success of Donald Trump is proof positive that there is not such thing as karma.
How is it that I have apparently kissed as many people as Jameela Jamil or Manny Jacinto How.
I feel like this, in isolation, would be fine, especially if it were part of demonstrating that Nth Century Arabia was a enlightened, cosmopolitan place—but in the context of not being able to field enough Middle Eastetn extras to make up a crowd scene…
I’m sure that having to deal with Milo Yiannopoulos as a legal client gave the attorneys a sense as to what a nightmare it would be like to deal with him as a literary client—making it that much clearer that they would end up losing.
The Stairway to Heaven! The Bullet Train to Heck!
All I remember about Ashanti was that Mya was way better.
I think an important distinction is that westerns are fairly inexpensive films to make (Unforgiven, for example, cost $14 million in 1992). In order to turn a profit, massive projects like superhero movies need to make something like $400M apiece. There used to be “normal” movies like Ghost or Cast Away that could be…
I had literally never heard of this song before today (though was somewhat aware of the film). I couldn’t even make it through it once. What complete and utter dreck.
Do you know this one? It’s not explicitly pagan, but ends
I see your Pogues and raise you Chieftains featuring Elvis Costello.