Here’s the famous William Shatner performance at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards, which was nicely parodied on Family Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY That’s what living in the ’70s was like, kids.
Month: May 2008
Country Music Reclamation Project: Once A Day
I’ve been picking fairly poetic songs for this series of posts, and have so far ignored some of the tightly written hit songs that drew the attention of both country and pop music fans. Among the most-successful of these was “Once A Day,” recorded by Connie Smith on her debut LP for RCA in 1965. The song spent eight weeks at #1 in the Country charts, longer than any other single. Once A Day (recorded by Connie Smith) Written by Bill Anderson When you found somebody new I thought I never would forget you For I thought then I never …
Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
2007. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a perplexing film: beautiful and crude, detailed characters and awkward violence, long scenes without dialogue and scenes scored with odd, overwhelming music. After a second viewing, I thought it was all of the above, and a fascinating film, after all. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a solitary prospector who abandons his search for silver when he strikes oil. Trying to stay a step ahead of competitors such as Standard Oil, he follows up on a tip to buy a remote goat ranch that has crude seeping out …