- Pajiba reviews the Tracy Jordan feature film A Blaffair to Rememblack.
- The newspaper industry begins to implode right before the eyes of June Casagrande.
- A review of one of the strangest movies I have ever heard of: the made-for-TV wonder The Twonky.
- One hundred well-illustrated film posters. (via Stale Popcorn)
- A kickass collection of public domain book illustrations: Granda’s Graphics.
- Anatoly Liberman on the seeming lack of logic directing English spelling.
- Weird architecture in the U.S.
- Merry Swankster breaks down Okkervil River’s “Plus Ones,” the lyrics of which mean more than you might have realized.
- In defense of American Dad — and I have to say he makes some valid points.
- The curious tendency for video game protagonists to be depicted as darker and grittier has the series progresses.
- Watchmen goes manga — shades of Watchmen Babies.
- Eight awkward Berenstain Bears books.
- Daisy — that is, the female counterpart to Donald Duck — is apparently kind of a ho.
- Bjork explains how her TV works.
- New Kaiser Chiefs single bears a passing similarity to “Five Little Speckled Frogs.”
This above sketch features “Little Anything” back-up singers and a prototype version of the character Bip Bippadotta, whose name sounds a lot like the lyrics song before the “mah nà mah nà.” But it’s the “mah nà mah nà” part that Bip sings. The finalized version of the character appears in the more familiar version of “Mah Nà Mah Nà” with the Birdo-like Snowths singing back-up.
Was it you or someone else who compared this song to social conformity?
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ReplyDeleteOh. Manah Manah, but I think I'm thinking of youtube, or something. I just know that somewhere, at some point in time, I read a spiel about how that song relates to social conformity. I'll have to do some digging.
ReplyDeleteThat "Plus Ones" entry you point to is pretty good--I love that song--but it seems odd the writer totally ignored how the song ends up riffing on Chet Baker's "Let's Get Lost." Which isn't a number song, except in the sense that lost is subtraction (so much for plus ones). And there is another line about being someone's plus one on the album, but I'm blanking on which song.
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