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Hot Doggie (with sample sources)

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Being a fan of this track, I was overjoyed to come across a list of the film samples used and thought I’d share.

“Let’s hear some music!”, “We’ve got us some good’uns.” — 2000 Maniacs

“Be with me.”, “Here I go.” — Lifeforce

“Well hot doggie!” — 2000 Maniacs

“This guy is crazy. Okay, you break these windows and get me that body.” — Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys movie

“Soon the frontier will be down.”, “Bow to their new emperor!” — The Last Starfighter

“Alright … Scotty, there has to be.” — Star Trek? (sounds like Kirk?)

“You’re blind, buddy.”

“Pushed to the edge.”, “Pushed to the limit.” — Late ’70s tv commerical for batteries???

“Collection time.” — Deathwish

“Now you’re going to die.” — Supergirl

“Close your eyes, I love you.” — Lifeforce

“You will die, lover boy.”, “One by one. [chainsaw effect]” — The Evil Dead II

“This is our celebration.” “Don’t move now, we’re going to start.” — 2000 Maniacs

Musical Detective Work

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I’ve just read a good piece on The Quietus about the Gang Starr album ‘Hard To Earn’ in which its author Angus Batey talks about a sample used in the track ‘The Planet’. (continued after the break)

Blood Father

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Year: 2016 Director: Jean-François Richet

Though Mad Mel Gibson’s forthcoming ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ heralds a return to the kind of directorial event film-making for which he’s famed, he’s been prepping the ground with a series of smaller, mea culpa acting turns, ‘The Beaver’, ‘Get The Gringo’ and now this.

Ergo, ‘Blood Father’ opens with Med Mel – I mean, his character, John Link – confessing all at an AA meeting. He’s done bad stuff. He’s sorry. He wants to begin again. Whether or not you forgive him is irrelevant. The question is whether you want to watch him, and the fact remains that from ‘Mad Max’ to ‘Apocalypto’, whether in front of the camera or behind it, Gibbo’s always turned out fascinating work. Not necessarily good work, mind you, but always with a welcome dollop of ‘what the fuck?’

Here he seems to be channelling his most commercial character, Riggs of ‘Lethal Weapon’. In fact, if you can imagine that Riggs has retired, grown an awesome beard and now works out of a caravan as a tattoo artist, only to be dragged into a violent feud involving his daughter, you’ve got the measure of ‘Blood Father’, both in terms of plot » Continue Reading.

Je suis un ex-lurker, J’ai cessé d’être

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Salut! Comme je suis nouveau sur le site je pensais que je devrais me présenter pour dire que je l’habitude d’être un lurker mais maintenant j’ai décidé de venir pour le plaisir et ébats!

A l’exception de ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’, Optimus Prime et Galvatron, j’aime toutes les choses énumérées dans ‘Can U Dig It ?’ par Pop Will Eat Itself, en particulier The Fall, Bruce Lee et ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. J’aime aussi electronica, hip hop, post-punk, dub, industriel, hard techno, films d’horreur et des romans d’horreur. Je ne veux pas le stationnement égoïste, et je pense secrètement Morecambe et Wise sont un peu trop cher.

Cela me est en un mot. Je l’espère de faire votre connaissance bientôt!