I’m not particularly surprised that Michael Bublé covered the old Spider-man theme song, but a video? Apparently the song ran over the closing credits of Spider-Man 2, a Wikipedia ‘fact’ I am disinclined to personally confirm. Kelly?
Play that funky music, Jedi boy
To celebrate Star Wars Day, Fong Songs offers several GFFA-inspired mp3s.
The horrors of MySpace
The Naboo Sound Machine. I think the best part is the genre selection… (Thanks Bonnie!)
You kids and your wacky music!
Most of the coverage of the Battlestar Galactica season finale seems to have focused less on The Stunning Revelations (TM) and more on the musical choices of the episode.
And The Man Responsible For It All (for once, not George Lucas) has spoken about his choices in his blog.
Be careful: Here lie spoilers…..
Can you hear the drums, Kenobi?
ABBA the Hutt. Yes, exactly what you think it is. (via Boing Boing)
Thanks to HollywdLiz, we have a few Abba filks in the CJFA: Naboo Queen, On Naboo, and Kenobi.
Score or soundtrack? Who cares!
Slice of Sci-Fi’s Top Ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie Soundtracks of All Time. Star Wars clocks in fairly low, which… okay. (A subjective list of music on the internet? Gasp!)
Still, doesn’t The Fifth Element deserve some love?
Any excuse for a video post
- 2001: Also Sprach Zarathustra
- A Clockwork Orange: “The old Ludwig van.”
- LOTR: Pippin’s song
- The Fifth Element: Diva Dance
- Star Wars: Duel of the Fates music video
News in Brief
Ground was broken yesterday at the future Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at the National Mall in D.C.. George Lucas donated $1 million to the memorial.
Basil Poledouris, film composer who did the music for Starship Troopers, RoboCop, and Conan and a classmate of George Lucas at USC, passed away last week. Watch a video tribute at Youtube.
Fans are big on spin-off novels. Shocking! However – Star Trek and Lost I can understand, but do CSI novels really sell better than Star Wars, as the article insinuates?
All things muppetlike and furry
See you in the Sarlaac pit!
Do you know M.C. Chris? You should – his Fette’s Vette is (sorry Al) the best Star Wars song ever.
Buh-bye, Andy
We interrupt the exciting news about Helen’s upcoming book to break some sad (and probably not-so-surprising) news to the Durannies who frequent this page:
Andy Taylor is leaving Duran Duran.
Again.
I remember listening to an appearance of Andy and Simon on a local Atlanta radio station and Andy was none-too-pleasant. Simon sounded like he was rather exhausted trying to cover up for him.
I’m impressed they made it five years! And Duran Duran with Timbaland? Could be kinda cool…
Okay. Back to your regularly-scheduled geekdom.
‘Bots just want to have fun
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a wine-tasting robot. And of course, it’s adorable. Potential JadeCon guest?
Speaking of automated fun, I caught Beck’s video for ‘Hell Yes’ the other day, which features adorable dancing robots. It’s not exactly new, but can you stand the awesomeness?