6 posts tagged “olivia newton-john”

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

If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).

Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419  

Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .

  Cliff Richard is also in the above video.

Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...

I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.

Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...

The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).

Austin is way too hot right now. I went out Saturday, and even at night it was too hot. Instead of getting alcohol to drink at a bar, I was drinking bottled water. I hate the cold, but this heat is becoming very irritating. Last year, Austin had tons and tons and tons of rain. I think all kinds of records were broken, and the heat was never this bad. Anyway, I thought I would post this Olivia Newton-John song to describe what I wish the weather in Austin would do ...

The above photo is from Only Olivia.

Toomorrow is a musical that came out in 1970, starring Olivia Newton-John as a member of a band whose music attracts the attention of aliens or something like that. I got the DVD a while back from Ebay (it came with Japanese subtitles that you can't remove), and I decided I would upload it to YouTube since I am a big nerd and a fan of Olivia's. I divided up the movie into 11 parts. Most people have never heard of this movie so it will be neat to have the entire thing available on YouTube for very bored people out there to watch. I haven't even watched the movie all the way through, but I think the best part of the movie would be when they play the song, "Happiness Valley" (video #6).

Here it the Toomorrow YouTube playlist (11 videos) ...

I will update this later. I have to get ready to go out for New Year's Eve now.

Update ... Here are all the Toomorrow videos that I uploaded to VOX for posterity ...

If you just want to watch a short video of "Happiness Valley" from the movie, you can see it here ...

I found some songs from "Toomorrow". Here they are ...

In 1976 Glen Campbell and Olivia Newton-John had a TV special called "Down Home, Down Under" (according to Wikipedia). I would actually pay money for a high-quality DVD of this show, but I don't think it's available (I will look on Amazon later). Olivia sang one of my favorite songs of hers, "Greensleeves", during one segment of the show. Greensleeves is an extremely old song, of course, and it has been done by tons of artists, but Olivia's is my favorite version. The scenery in the video is pretty nice, too.

Here is the YouTube video of it ...

The funny thing about that YouTube video is that it was just uploaded yesterday by an Olivia Newton-John fan. The video was available over a year or two ago on YouTube, but it was taken down for some reason (as if people can purchase it somewhere else ... which they can't as far as I know). I have a feeling it will be taken down again so I will post it again below for posterity ...

  

Years and years ago, I used a cassette player to record songs, play songs, etc. Either the player or the cassette would mess up sometimes and cause the entire song to play backwards. Well, sometimes this error produced some cool results. Here are two of my favorite backwards songs ...

Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John - Udanax

The cool thing about playing "Xanadu" backwards is that the song has more of a desperate, urgent feel to it, like some catastrophe is about to happen (maybe I am the only that hears this). Also the phrase, "Now we are here" which is sung by the backup singer (is that ELO's Jeff Lynne or members of ELO?) becomes "Now you are here". That little trick makes sense since ELO always played around with secret messages on a song played backwards.

 
Tori Amos - eeeii

Tori Amos' "iieee" is probably one of my favorite songs ever. When played backwards, the "iiiiiieeeeeeee" parts sound really cool and kind of creepy like something the faux witches in The Crucible would have sung in the woods. ;)

and here are some others I was playing around with just for fun ...

BT and Tori Amos - Blue Skies (backwards)

There's nothing special about this song played backwards. I just thought it sounded cool. Playing vocals backwards can make the emotion in the singer's voice sound a little more intense for some reason.

Bjork - Earth Intruders (backwards)

Again, nothing too special about this song being played backwards. I just wanted to see what it sounded like. The end of this song sounds like Bjork is standing on a boat about to leave the dock. That part of the song begins when played backwards.

Goldfrapp - Clowns (backwards)

I just wanted to see what this would sound like backwards.

Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself (backwards)

Same as above.

Goldfrapp - El Train (T. Raumschmiere Remix ... and backwards)

This remix contained vocals from "Train" played backwards already so when you play the remix backwards, you hear those vocals played correctly. You'll see what I mean.

I love M.I.A.'s song, 20 Dollar, and I wanted to hear what the background sound that's repeated  throughout the song would sound like backwards.

 

OK, that's all I got for this strange and unnecessary post.