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Take your big, black cow and get out of here.
Even though I hate the Farrelly Brothers' movies
(except Kingpin - which was okay), and am not a fan of Jim
Carrey, I am looking forward to one aspect of the upcoming Me,
Myself & Irene - the soundtrack. It's going to
contain a bunch of Steely Dan covers done by some pretty cool
cats. I've heard Brian Setzer's "Bodhisattva"
(which is pretty by-the-book), but what I'm really excited
about are Smashmouth's "Do It Again" (seems like a
natural to me), Marvelous 3's "Reelin' In The
Years", Wilco's "Any Major Dude..." and a fave
by a fave - Ben Folds Five doing "Barrytown".
Of course, there's shit like a new Offspring tune (which
sucks, well - like they do) and the return of Hootie.
But, hey, there's a new Foo Fighters tune on there, too - so
it seems like the plusses will outweigh the minuses on this
platter.
Speaking of minuses, I heard another recording artist speak out in favor of Napster: Offspring's Dexter Holland. What a maroon. And dickhead.
Favorite Song Of All Time This Week©:
"Dumb" - Nirvana
You know, everyone tells me that "I saw a bad
episode" whenever I try to watch TV shows people say are
good. Well, I've grown rather fond of David Duchovny
through his appearances on The Larry Sanders Show &
Howard Stern, so I thought I'd give last week's X-Files a
shot. I mean, he wrote & directed it and all.
What a smarmy, self-indulgent, unfunny, unscary waste of time
that was. And, watching it made me miss the first hour
of Take Me Home: The John Denver Story which seemed
to have everything Dave's crap show didn't: frightening
characters & situations and a real sense of surreality.
Far out, indeed!
Happy Birthday To Thee From LEE This Week©:
05/05/42 Tammy Wynette
05/08/40 Ricky Nelson
05/08/43 Paul Samwell-Smith
05/08/45 Keith Jarrett
05/10/46 Donovan
05/11/88 Irving Berlin
05/11/41 Eric Burdon
Favorite Album Of All Time This Week©: Open Road -
Donovan. Where is this motherfucker on CD?
You know what's another great record? Prince &
The Revolution's Parade. You know what's
another lousy movie? Under The Cherry Moon.
How many of you have sat through that more than once?
How many of you have sat through it once?
Kiss Me DeadLEE A Year Ago This Week©:
Dirk Bogarde, 78. Actor. May 08.
Dana Plato, 34. Actress. May 08.
Shel Silverstein, 66. Author, illustrator &
songwriter. May 10.
LEE On DVD This Week©: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
[Warner Home Video] Another I've been waiting for -
another they've done right. Fantastic widescreen
transfer*, impeccable music remix and some fine extras.
(*A note for you geeks: If any of you have the original
VHS of this film, you've probably noticed many problems with
seeing things you shouldn't - the chain coming up from the
bottom of it's container while Pee Wee's locking his bike, the
track under the street signs before the car goes over the
cliff, etc. Well, when I checked my old VHS copy after
viewing the DVD, I realized that the VHS isn't pan & scan
but full frame. These "errors" are corrected
when the film is properly cropped. I'm sure that you
don't really care about that, but fuck you - this is LEEmail,
not YOURNAMEHEREmail. Get your own goddamn mailing
list.) Anyhoo, the extras include running commentary by
Reubens and Tim Burton (with great anecdotes about locations
and supporting players), separate running commentary by Danny
Elfman and some great deleted scenes. Some of the extra
footage I had read would be on the DVD isn't, but with what
you get it really doesn't matter. A consistently funny
movie. One of the funniest. Ever. If you
haven't seen it in a while, do so. If you're waiting for
a great first DVD to push you over the edge, this is it.
Question Of The Week©: What's the worst movie with the best soundtrack? |