4 posts tagged “1980”
IMDB.com, a website I go to all the time to help me remember what star was in what movie/TV show, and how to spell someone's name, now has free videos to watch. You can watch entire movies for free. I know you have to at least watch on advertisement before the movie starts, but that's not too bad. One of the movies you can watch is Xanadu ...
Try it out here ...
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2117271577
I am guilty of singing every song in a commercial. Mattress Firm commercials will come on, and I will sing along with "Mattress Firm ... where it's easy to get a great night sleep." Anyway, there are two commercials that have been coming on in the last couple of months or more that feature songs that are good on their own. The first one is a commercial, titled "Sweater", from Old Navy that features the catchy song, "The Way I Am", by Ingrid Michaelson.
Here is the Old Navy Commercial ("Sweater") ...
Here is the full song from the commercial ...
Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am"
Here is a woman named Chrissy Sandman singing "The Way I Am" on YouTube. I actually thought it was Ingrid Michaelson when I first saw the video because they look a lot alike, and Sandman's cover sounds really good.
Chan Marshall or Cat Power (whatever you want to call her) is actually getting some flack for letting a commercial for diamonds use one of her songs (well, her cover of a Cat Stevens song) because the diamond industry is so controversial. However, I really don't mind when artists let companies pay them to use their songs in commercials or movies or whatever. I mean, the artists need to get exposure and money so they can continue putting out albums. I remember when M.I.A.'s fans got mad at her for letting Honda use her song, "Galang", in a Honda Civic commercial. That is just stupid. I love Hondas! They are way more environment-friendly than other cars, and they are fun to drive. The commercial was kind of fun, too.
Honda Civic Si commercial with M.I.A.'s song, "Galang"
In other news, John Carpenter's "The Fog" (the 1980 version ... not the lame remake, which I refuse to watch ... unless it comes on TV) was on AMC today as part of their Monster Fest. I watched "The Fog" when I was very young, and I always liked it. It features Psycho's Janet Leigh with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis (who did the Halloween movies with John Carpenter, of course). The guy who plays Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend in the movie, Tom Atkins, was the star of Halloween III: Season of the Witch (one of the many Halloween movies Jamie Lee Curtis is not in). The woman that rides around with Janet Leigh is played by Nancy Kyes, who played "Annie" in the original Halloween. John Carpenter also did the soundtrack for "The Fog" like he did for many of his movies.
Theme from "The Fog"
The Fog - The Fog Rolls In
No, I am not talking about this cheesy 1981 movie ...
but I am talking about the day after Friday the 13th. I feel like posting some scary music in honor of Friday the 13th, even if I am a day late.
Friday the 13th - Main Theme (composed by Harry Manfredini)
A Nightmare On Elm Street - main theme - by Charles Bernstein (I had a version where Freddy would say "Tina", but I can't find that one)
Laurie's Theme from Halloween by John Carpenter (my favorite movie, my favorite soundtrack) ...
edit ... ok, it sounds like something is wrong with this version of Laurie's Theme(I can't find the good one I had before). Therefore, here are two more versions ... one is #9 from the Halloween Soundtrack called "Laurie Knows" and the other one is "Laurie's Theme" from Halloween II (where she is in the hospital the whole time).
Halloween - Laurie Knows
Halloween II - Laurie's Theme
I have been wanting to listen to my Benny Benassi(Hypnotica) CD lately. My favorite song on the album is "Love Is Gonna Save Us". The song is romantic and sad at the same time, and it has this part that I call the "wind" part that is just perfect. For some reason, I thought the song would fit with the movie, "Edward Scissorhands".
My second favorite song on the album is probably "Time", and I thought a scene from the 1980 Christopher Reeve movie, " Somewhere in Time", could best sum up the concept of time(his best movie besides the first Superman).
While I was searching for my Benny Benassi CD, I came across one of my Tarkan CDs, and I thought, "Oh, I need to revisit Tarkan". Therefore, to be completely random, here are my three favorite songs from Turkey's own Tarkan(from his self-titled album) ...
Tarkan - Simarik
Tarkan - Ölürüm Sana
and Tarkan - Sikidim (Hepsi Senin Mi?)
Finally, here is a short clip of what XR2 is supposed to sound like on M.I.A.'s next album, Kala. I don't know how correct this is, but the quality sounds better than all the other versions that I have of XR2 ...
That is the fake cover of Kala that some fan made, and I got it from http://miafans.co.uk, of course.
Here is an image of M.I.A. on the cover of URB that I also got from that message board ...
Oh wait, I thought of one more thing ...
I really hope Rob Zombie's version of Halloween(probably my favorite movie ... ever ... ok, one of many I guess) turns out to be good.
