Friday, July 27, 2007

Friday Night Fights: A little more bite, a little less bark

(from Avengers Annual #10, 1981; by Claremont, Golden, and Gil)

From the days when Iron Man wasn't a fascist, Rogue was a vicious psychopath, and writers were unafraid to pass off paragraph after long paragraph of exposition as actual dialogue...

I'm rather curious about what Iron Man means by "graphic detail." It's a curious choice of words that conjures up all sorts of interesting scenarios.

Max Bygraves - Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (from a 1960 single; collected on The Best of Max Bygraves, 2000) - Like a comfy pair of blue jeans, generation gap humor is something that will never go out of style.

Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (from the Live a Little, Love a Little OST, 1968) - A funky and delightful exception to the shamelessly awful compositions Elvis P. was saddled with during the last two-thirds of his movie career. My initial love for the 2002 Junkie XL remix of the song turned to nauseated revulsion after a week of listening to repeat plays of the CD single in what was probably my worst carpool experience ever.

(Viva Bahlactus!)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

go go's one day (hurrah!), max bleedin' bygraves the next, it would appear you have a dark side, do not succomb bitter andrew or it will consume you. I'm feeling a bit odd after stabbing myself in the hand in a cooking related incident and drinking a bottle of wine as a painkiller in preference to the 5 hour wait at hospital, self medication is a wonderful thing

A.J