23 Wednesday Dec 2020
Posted in Video
Tags
Salutations™!!
Continuing my trip through rocking Christmas tunes, here’s a cool one from the Curled-Lipped-One, himself, Billy Idol. Enjoy!
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
—
“Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet. Jingle around the clock. Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin’ feet. That’s the jingle bell rock.” – “Jingle Bell Rock” (Beal/Boothe)
24 Sunday May 2020
Posted in KISS, Records, Spinning Sunday
Tags
10cc, ABC, Accept, Adam & the Ants, Angel, Barbra Streisand, Bauhaus, Berlin, Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Discogs, Heart, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Huey Lewis & The News, Jim Steinman, KISS, Megadeth, Music, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Radiohead, Records, Run-DMC, Rush, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The BCPF, The Cars, The Clientele, The Mamas and the Papas, The Outlaws, The Rolling Stones, Timbuk3, Underdog Records
Salutations™!!
Another Saturday passes that we didn’t get to darken the door of Underdog Records. That doesn’t mean Underdog isn’t busy. Heck no! Jonathan is running himself ragged to make deliveries and has extended the reach to Greensboro, High Point and other places. So, definitely watch the Underdog Records Facebook and Instagram and watch what he’s releasing. Purchasing is first-come-first-serve so be on the lookout. Also, you can purchase new vinyl anytime day or night on the website. If you’re outside of the delivery area or just don’t want Jonathan to drop stuff off at your door, then he offers “unlimited” LPs (I’m sure it’s a little limited) for a flat rate $4.
This week’s “listens” were abundant. 22 albums I got through from Monday-Friday.
And, per usual, this week’s streaming listens comes from Discogs’ shuffle feature and it has to be an album that I own on vinyl (outside of peripheral things like Beeswax Vinyl & More listens), that way it’s like listening to my vinyl but with headphones from my computer whilst The BCPF works 10 feet away. Here’s the list (this is in order of listens):
Whew! A long listening list indeed! It was spread out, too. The BCPF remarked how I went from Streisand to Megadeth. It worked. I love Streisand and I’m not afraid to admit that. But, I was ready for something heavy after having gone through The Mamas and the Papas and Streisand back to back. It worked, as I said.
Well, yesterday, here’s what The BCPF and I listened to, actually on vinyl:
All-in-all, it was a great listening week. I just hope to get into Underdog Records soon to rummage through the used vinyl.
Again, check out Underdog Records’ social and web stuffs. Buy records. Use Discogs to keep track of your collection and use it’s groovy (see what I did there) shuffle feature.
Until tomorrow, keep spinnin’…
Scorp out!
—
“I was seventeen, you were just a dream. I was mesmerized, I felt scared inside. You broke my heart and I still can feel the pain. I’ve been counted out, I’ve had fear and doubt. I’ve been starry-eyed, never satisfied. Because late at night I still need you just the same.” – “Sure Know Something” (Stanley/Poncia)
10 Wednesday Oct 2018
Posted in Movie Review
Tags
Bauhaus, Billy Idol, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Devo, Grand Funk Railroad, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal 2000, Journey, Julie Strain, Life, Michael Ironside, Monster Magnet, Movies, Pantera, Percy Rodrigues, Queens of the Stone Age, Rotten Tomatoes, Sammy Hagar, Stevie Nicks, Superfan Damien, System of a Down, The Less Desirables, The Less Desirables Network, Voivod
Salutations™!!
So, whilst doing the social media for The Less Desirables, and on the recommendation of Superfan Damien, I decided to watch Heavy Metal 2000. He was right to a point, The storyline is more linear and makes a little more sense, but it’s really just one story and not pieces. It’s not about the Loc Nar as the first one was. I mean, the Loc Nar is insinuated but, it’s not the focus.
© CinéGroupe, Artisan Filmworks and The Montecito Picture Company
Another thing that’s missing is the cool soundtrack. Yeah, there are songs and yeah, they’re more actual “metal,” but it’s just not got the same feel. Instead of Cheap Trick, Journey, Grand Funk, BOC, Black Sabbath, Sammy Hagar, Devo and Stevie Nicks, we get less memorable songs from Pantera, System of a Down, Voivod, Monster Magnet, Bauhaus, Queens of the Stone Age and Billy Idol, who actually lends his voice to Odin, the guardian of the ancient fountain that gives the bad guy his powers and such. The fountain guardians aren’t the bad guys, by the way. But, is Odin one of them, really? Hmmm… I’m not getting into the plot and all that. The saddest part, though, is that Percy Rodrigues isn’t voiced in this film (he was alive then, couldn’t he have done something?).
The whole thing is kind of disjointed and like I said makes a little more sense, it just isn’t any better. It also is not and was never the cult classic the first one was. The movie rating site, Rotten Tomatoes rates the first one at 61% Fresh (67% Audience Score). This one, however, is a dismal 10% Rotten (36% Audience). Yeah, the more I think about it, it really did suck, pretty much.
The main female character, Julie, is actually modeled after, drawn in the likeness of and voiced by softcore porn actress and 1993 Penthouse Pet of the Year, Julie Strain. Michael Ironside plays the main villain, Tyler.
It’s really a crappy film, but it’s somewhat entertaining when you have to have something going on while you’re doing social media, you know? Yeah… I guess so.
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
—
“What does it take to get laid around here?” – Tyler
28 Sunday May 2017
Posted in Records, Silent Sunday
Tags
Bad Company, Billy Idol, Blue Oyster Cult, Bon Jovi, Boston, Burt Bacharach, Carly Simon, Cinderella, Cyndi Lauper, Daryl Hall, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Discogs, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Foreigner, Heavy Metal, Jefferson Starship, Jethro Tull, Jim Croce, John Oates, KISS, Krokus, Led Zeppelin, Missing Persons, Mozart, Nino Rota, Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Steve Martin, Stryper, The Beatles, The Big Chill, The Godfather, The Kingston Trio, The Kinks, The Less Desirables, Underdog Records, Waylon Jennings, White Nights, ZZ Top
Salutations™!!
Underdog Records closed on Saturday (through this Tuesday) for a bit of “respite.” Never fear though, I still went there Friday (twice) and got a nice haul for the weekend. This is what it looked like:
Man… we are certainly gonna need a new cabinet soon. We’ve started on the last cube of the 8 cube cab. It’s coming. Underdog will be open again on Wednesday. You can find them at 825 Burke Street in WSNC. Listen to The Less Desirables to hear what the weekly Underdog/TLD special is. And, use Discogs for your cataloging of LPs and CDs and hit me up, we can share collections.
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
—
“It’s all the same, only the names will change. Everyday, it seems we’re wastin’ away. Another place where the faces are so cold. I drive all night just to get back home. I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. I’m wanted dead or alive. Wanted dead or alive.” – “Wanted Dead or Alive” (Sambora/Bon Jovi)
07 Sunday May 2017
Posted in Silent Sunday
Tags
Alan Lerner, Billy Idol, Camelot, Cat Stevens, Frederick Loewe, Giuseppe Verdi, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Jackson Browne, John Addison, Joni Mitchell, KISS, Kool and the Gang, Linda Ronstadt, Mozart, Norman Luboff Choir, Rod Stewart, Santiago and His Silver Strings, Stevie Wonder, Tchaikovsky, The Honeydrippers, The Human League, The Zombies, Wilco
Salutations™!!
Yesterday was a really great day for “rekkeds.” The BCPF and I met up with our buddy
Clay Howard at Underdog Records for some Saturday morning candy shopping. After we finished there, The BCPF and I went to Mary’s Gourmet Diner. While we were there, Clay sent a picture of something he purchased from the
©Island Def Jam/UME
Rescue Mission store. That’s basically across the street from Mary’s and we walked down there when we finished eating. I bought 17 rekkeds there (at $.50 per). So, I’ve split the haul between Underdog Records (the official vinyl sponsor of The Less Desirables) and what we grabbed at the RM. Here ya go:
From Underdog Records:
From Rescue Mission:
So, there you go! A great haul as far as music goes. I have washed them all in my handy dandy system that The BCPF calls me washing my “rekked dishes.” Hopefully, some of those 50¢ albums will be worth listening to. Thanks for reading.
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
—
“What’s your name? Who’s your daddy? (He rich) Is he rich like me? Has he taken, any time (any time), (to show) to show you what you need to live? Tell it to me slowly (tell me what). I really want to know. It’s the time of the season for loving.” – “Time of the Season” (Argent)
20 Saturday Aug 2016
Posted in Music Review
Tags
a/perture Cinema, Anthony Michael Hall, Billy Idol, David Bowie, IMDb, John Hughes, Michael Shoeffling, Molly Ringwald, Netflix, Night Ranger, Oingo Boingo, Peter Gunn, Rotten Tomatoes, Sixteen Candles, Spandau Ballet, The Godfather, The Less Desirables, The Vapors, WSNC
Salutations™!!
a/perture cinema, the Official Movie Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents The Less Desirables Movie of the Week, Sixteen Candles (1984), starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Shoeffling.
Per IMDb: “A girl’s ‘sweet’ sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.”
From one ridiculous absurdity to another, Samantha’s (Ringwald) sixteenth birthday is everything she wants it not to be. Her parents forget her birthday, a note meant to be a secret falls into the hands of the one person she doesn’t want it to, her grandparents getting her room while everyone is in for her sister’s wedding and her other grandparents feeling up her “brand new boobies.” What could be better, right?
©Columbia Pictures
Sam spends the film avoiding Jake (Shoeffling), the boy she’s really into and skirting around Farmer Ted (Hall) and his adolescent advances. It’s typical John Hughes and it’s quite entertaining. To find out if Farmer Ted or even Sam get what they’re looking for, or something else or more, you’ll have to watch.
As I said, this film is what we know of John Hughes. It was John Hughes and it is John Hughes. It wasn’t his first screenplay but it was the first film he directed and he only directed eight, but wrote a slew of them. Molly Ringwald was sixteen when the film came out. So, they had that right. It’s very predictable but very fun to watch. It’s perhaps predictable because this is one of the films that set the pace for this genre, this “coming of age” type film; the “we get how teenagers work” type, even. I meant it when I said absurdity, there was plenty of that in the film, but it showed, too that Hughes doesn’t take himself too seriously.
One thing that I have always liked about John Hughes films is the soundtracks. While not as prolific as some other Hughes films, this one has a really good soundtrack. Tunes such as “Rebel Yell” from Billy Idol, “Rumours in the Air” from Night Ranger, “True” from Spandau Ballet, “Wild Sex in the Working Class” by Oingo Boingo and “Turning Japanese” from The Vapors are all included here as is “Young Americans” from Bowie and a few TV and movie themes like “Peter Gunn” and “The Godfather.” Hughes uses music to help tell his story, not just as background filler. That’s a trademark of his, I believe.
Rotten Tomatoes has the film rated at 86% Fresh with an Audience Score of 85%. IMDb has it at 7.2 stars out of 10. It’s certainly not my favorite John Hughes film but he does a great job with it, it was witty and fun. You can see this streaming on Netflix. I do recommend you see it if you haven’t, but keep in mind that it’s not going overboard on the serious side. I rate it 4.25 stars. Have you seen it? Do you agree with me? What would like to read and hear me review?
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
—
“What’s happenin’, hot stuff?” – Long Duk Dong
Just another rambling dude talking out his...
Part of The Less Desirables Podcast Network
Asylum: Tales from the Devereaux Diaries
The Podcast of Triad Food and Beverage Coalition
Coming Soon
News, Weather, Sports and more from WGHP FOX8
An almost true-to-life soap opera that practically writes itself.
A NC-based Podcast About Music and Music History!
A Blog and Podcast all about North Carolina libations.
Your dose of the BEST music ever made! (www.DrRock.com)
North Carolina Libations from Beer to Wine to Spirits
Funny Redhead Loves Beer. Funny Readhead Writes About Beer.
Three guys having a beer and talking about being dads.
Exploring WSNC One Step at a Time
Way up high in the Valencian mountains
Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem's alternative newspaper and media source
Covering pro wrestling news since 1998!
Useless Things Need Love Too 