Update: We now have a month’s worth of quizzes in reserve. Thanks, y’all! That’s probably enough for now, but I’ll put out the call for more when the time comes.
Hey y’all — Today’s quiz from Pamie was the last one in my reserves. If you’d like to submit a quiz of your own, just e-mail it to me. Let’s keep the music going!
I really enjoy these quizzes. Not only are they fun, but they provide a fascinating snapshot of each participant’s personality. I mean, Pamie has both Lionel Richie and Silversun Pickups on her iPod; Scott’s ranges from Klymaxx to Jeff Buckley; and mine bounces from Jens Lekman to Dixie Chicks. We’re so diverse! We’re the America that Obama promised!
Also, I love how almost every song has been identified, and how things that I have never even heard of have been correctly labeled in mere minutes. It’s all very impressive, and it makes me proud to be part of this hella smart community!
Seriously… can we turn this game into a game show? Lord knows, it’s time for me to be on one.
Um… okay. Opie’s a thug now. How else to explain his presence in the new Jamie Foxx/T-Pain video? I mean, it doesn’t make much sense that Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest “Spirituality” Whitaker, and Quincy Jones would all be in the same champagne-n-strippers club, but it makes even less sense that Ron Howard would be there. Just watch, especially the last 30 seconds…
So… are we to assume that after wrapping a long day on Frost/Nixon, Richie Cunningham went out and popped some Cris? Or that after a heated debate with Tom Hanks about the true meaning of The Da Vinci Code, he relaxed by stuffing some Hamiltons in a young lady’s thong?
(Thanks to Tara for Twittering this to my attention.)
Welcome to this week’s Friday Quiz, where a reader shuffles his/her iPod then lists the first lines from the first 30 songs that come up. It’s up to us to provide the artist and title of each song. Huzzah!
Basic rules: Post your answers in the comments section, don’t use internet to look up lyrics, and please don’t supply more than three answers per day.
UPDATE: This post is generating some great discussion in the comments section. After you read, please join in!
Let me make a bold claim: Adam Lambert is one of the most subversive and relevant contestants in the history of American Idol. An if he becomes a pop star, then he will be one of the most subversive and relevant parts music history.
It sounds like a hellish formula created by Dark Willow: Hanson + Smashing Pumpkins + Fountains of Wayne + Cheap Trick = Pop Supergroup.
And yet it’s happening. Members of all those bands have joined forces to create Tinted Windows. They just dropped their first single and will release an album in April.Â
It seems unnatural, right? Did the kids who liked Smashing Pumpkins in the 90s even talk to the Hanson fans? And weren’t the Cheap Trick fans, like, our sketchy older cousins? Yet now they’ve fused, like a crazy pop Cerberus barking out bubblegum riffs.
And the weirdest part is that their first single “Kind of a Girl” is really good. It sounds like a fuzzier Fountains of Wayne track, full of bounce and harmony and electric guitar:
Between this and the news that Steven Page is leaving Barenaked Ladies in the wake of a coke bust, I feel like the 90s have unraveled. Next thing you know, Alanis Morissette will be endorsing beef jerky and R. Kelly will seem sane.
Tonight on Lost, he returns as creepy Other Matthew Abaddon, and on Fringe, you can see him bark orders as Homeland Security agent Phillip Broyles. He’s also had regular roles on The Wire and Oz, and he was in that one episode of Law & Order where the federal government’s “secret courts” almost keep Jack McCoy from prosecuting a murderer.Â
But here at The Critical Condition, he’s just Lance Reddick, excellent actor. Recently, we spoke about his career, his friendship with an Oscar nominee, and his strategy for staying invested in his work. After the jump, I’ll serve up highlights from our exclusive interview.Â
It’s been the works for years, and now we’re just eleven months away from finally seeing the Broadway musical based on Spider Man. No, really. Spider Man.
After the jump, I’ll share some facts about this show that I find… striking. Let me know your reactions!
It’s full title is Spider Man, Turn Off The Dark
Evan Rachel Wood is rumored to be in the cast
Bono and the Edge wrote the music
Along with Wood, many, many people from the movie Across the Universe will be involved, including director Julie Taymor and choreographer Daniel Ezralow
Tickets are already on sale, though the first performance isn’t until January.
Now, I should acknowledge that I was dubious about Shrek: The Musical, and then I ended up giving it a pretty good review. That’s why I’m calling the above information “striking.” As in, “It strikes me that this could all go awry, or it could be weirdly rock-star awesome.” I mean, I didn’t like Across the Universe. At all. But Taymor’s stage work (like The Lion King) is often fantastic. Also, there was a time when I loved U2. Will this show recapture their scrappy glory from the 80s? I guess we’ll know next year.
I’m really excited about this week’s Wife Watch!, y’all. This episode of Big Love is one of the best ever, and for this show, that’s saying a lot. To find out why this installment forced me to change the regular Wife Watch! rules, take a gander at the Huffington Post.
I try to stay plugged in, but since I’ve only lived in the South or the Northeast, I don’t always get the latest news from California. Specifically, I didn’t know about the California Milk Advisory Board’s “Happy Cow” campaign until this afternoon, when I watched last night’s episode of The Amazing Race. (Good for you, Mel and Mike!)
Around the middle of the episode, I saw this:
After the jump, I’ll analyze this spot, and I’ll dig into the controversial campaign it belongs to. If you’re already familiar with this stuff, then please join the discussion. I need your input!
Despite the awkward randomness of Hugh Jackman’s two big production numbers (and otherwise nonexistent hosting), this was a good Oscar ceremony. There were interesting changes, moving speeches, and at least one legitimately funny bit (thanks as always, Tina Fey!)
So here they are… my top five Oscar moments in 2009.
