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Even More Paul Anka Wrongness
I found some more Paul Anka goodies (see this entry for his cover of The Cure’s Love Cats)! Richard Cheese, you’ve got some serious competition now!
- Hello, originally performed by Lionel Richie [4.8 MB, MP3]
- Jump, originally performed by Van Halen [3.4 MB, MP3]
- Wonderwall, originally performed by Oasis [3.4 MB, MP3]
For your easy listening pleasure, here’s Paul Anka doing his rendition of The Cure’s Love Cats [3.7 MB, MP3]. Go on, annoy your goth friends right now!
Bay Street Video (1172 Bay Street, just south of Bloor) is one of the best damned video stores/rental shops in Accordion City.
Not only does it have a great selection of videos — many of which
you’ll never find at your local Blockbuster — but the staff are free
to make their own comments about their library:
(And yeah, while most reasonable high school nerds
deplore the acts of those two yobs at Columbine, you’d be hard pressed
to find one of us who didn’t fantasize about visting some high-velocity lead retribution on their jock tormentors.)
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The Best Laid Plans…
While searching for images of the cantina at Mos Eisley (the bar in Star Wars Episode IV), I stumbled across this scan of People magazine from August 1981 (I was 13 years old then):
Yes kids, for Episodes V (1980) and VI (1983), Yoda was a foam rubber muppet, not computer generated.
As for the “eager for a new life after Luke Skywalker” headline, before
you go feeling sorry for this young Jedi, remember that he had the lead
role in 3 of the top 100 grossing movies of all time. The many Broadway
and animated series and feature roles aren’t anything to sniff at,
either.
(The other big story on the cover — Elvis Presley: Did Col. Parker Rip Him Off? — made me laugh out loud.)
Billegible has created what has to be the best Star Wars T-shirt ever. It says “Geektease” on the front, and this on the back:
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For Your "Star Wars"-related Amusement…
Here’s Meco’s disco version of the Star Wars theme
[5.9 MB, MP3], a big radio hit when I was in the fifth grade and when
the tag line for the movie was “the story of a boy, a girl…and a
universe!”