Ok, so I skewered her first rubbish, “Swagger Jagger”, but she had to know that it was not what we wanted from her. But I found this short clip of another song she’s working on, “Superhero” and she starts out trying to sound a little Amy Winehouse/Adele, but then starts getting into the song and sounds lovely. Check it out…
*NOTE: After I wrote this post this morning, I found out that Amy Winehouse was found dead today… weird. Here’s the story:
I seem to be drawn to the ancillary characters in cartoons. It was Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants, then Sheen from Jimmy Neutron and now it’s Kyle the Conjurer from Fanboy And Chum Chum. Kyle was kicked out of the Wizard school and transferred to Fanboy and Chum Chum’s school, where in the first minute on the first day, his wand gets taken away by the teacher. Fanboy and Chum Chum are immediately enchanted by Kyle and force their friendship upon him. He is sarcastic and blazé, but has a tender side.
A few years back, I learned that Disney painted things specific colors along Main Street to translate well to photographs. But, now that no one uses actual film, I wonder if Disney plans on changing the colors to suit digital photography. The colors seem muted along Main Street, so I wonder if the colors would work better if they were more vivid…
Over 10 years ago, I came up with a ring that had a center spinning section that allowed you to determine whether or not you should do something based on a 10 point scale. It was by your star sign as well. Well, browsing through some jewelry today, I found something similar that was a lot simpler and reminded me of a magic 8 ball. It spins, but it has Yes and No printed on it. So, another idea (sort of) gone… sigh…
The 70’s, for me, represent the end of innocence. It was before cable and technology made the world smaller. I remember going to Disney World in the 70’s and you didn’t wait in long lines and people actually moved out of the way when they saw you walking towards them. Children were well behaved, and if not, the parents were embarrassed and took care of the issue.
I ran across this picture of the Super Skiers from Sea World in the 70’s and it made me long for the simpler times. Check it out:
I watched the “You’re Getting Old” episode last night (appropriately on my birthday!) and identified with Stan and was saddened by the end. It was an unusually touching episode. I will have to admit that I haven’t been watching the show as religiously as I used to. I would like to see Matt and Trey go on to do something else animated, maybe a Glee-type show where there is lots of music, which was one of the best things from South Park.
The show left us with questions of whether the show would end completely or Stan was leaving South Park. Maybe the kids could all move to another city…New York?
I am not sure if I should even comment on this, but, since I did like this girl’s unique voice on x-factor or britain’s got talent or one of those shows, I figure I would share my thoughts.
When I first saw Cher Lloyd (pronounce it “Shaa” so as not to confuse her with CHER), she did a rap with singing and she had a very unique quality to her voice. She looked anorexic, which made her look older than her 16 years. What I liked was the song’s similarity to Neneh Cherry’s old stuff. (The first album.) Neneh could rap and sing and was very unique sounding… “What’s he like, anyway?”
It didn’t surprise me that Cher Lloyd (she should put the names together-Cherlloyd) did not win whatever the show was.
Today as I was browsing youtube, I ran across the new single from cherlloyd. It’s called “Swagger Jagger”. First, let me say that the term Swagger got popular with the deodorant. Do you feel stupid? Don’t say this word. Also, while we’re at it, don’t say “really?”, either.
…”and I looked at her and said, ‘really?’….’really?’… really.”
Now, back to the new song. It started off ok, with a M.I.A. feel to the music, even some Galang-style graphics. Then cherlloyd popped on the screen in what looked like her mother’s wig and a bandana tied around it. I guess the anorexia made her hair fall out completely. She started rapping… “you can’t stop looking at me, texting bout me, tweetin bout me…”
oh… kay…
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good mindless pop song… so I stayed with her… and her “hair”.
It got to the chorus.
I can see where they thought she sounded country and brits love country music, but… they took “oh my darlin, oh my darlin, oh my darlin clementine” and made her sing “swagger jagger, swagger jagger, you should get some, of your own…”
It was at this point I felt sorry for poor cherlloyd. They ruined her chances of being big in the states. This song ended up sounding like Rednex’ “Cotton Eyed Joe” from the 90’s. They should have left her RAW and rappy and underground sounding. Here’s the video: The still shot you see is indicative of the whole mess.
Now that I have watched it a few times (like a train wreck), I take back what I said about the term “really?”. It’s very useful in this particular scenario.
I was having some issues with CS4 programs not being able to use my cursor to scale or move objects. I narrowed it down to it only happening when I touched the keyboard while using Photoshop or After Effects. Once I hit a key, I could move the cursor around, but clicking on something and trying to drag it around didn’t work. So, after rebooting, I started AE CS4 before starting anything else. Then I started my Synergy program and voila! The problem happened. So, just closing Synergy while using CS4 programs seems to work.
First, I have to say that even though you have some grant from the endowment of the arts doesn’t mean you have a good idea. This movie absolutely was horrible from beginning to (the not-soon-enough) end.
The actors were terrible. The girl that walks off the cliff was made of gold or lead, she dropped that quick! (Poor special effects) The main girl looked like she had down syndrome. Her husband/boyfriend looked like a pepto-bismol commercial actor.
The sound person should be shot. I am not talking about the special effect sounds-I am talking about the dialog. Very muffled, muddled, you need the subtitles on to understand what they’re saying most of the time. Someone said at one point they looked like the crew of the starship enterprise jerking around like they had been hit by Klingons… it’s true!
Story-sounds interesting, but ends up just someone’s vision of “crazy”. NEVER show the alien or ghost or your view of crazy. It just looks STEW-PID to everyone else.
Here’s the spoiler for you- you will want your time back at the end of the movie. Nothing was explained, everyone dies or goes crazy.
This seems to be a real product-carried by walmart… it’s sea salt and kelp to spray in your hair to make it seem like you’ve just “come back from the beach”. If you have salt and kelp in your hair, wouldn’t you look more like you’ve been diving, rather than relaxing at the beach? Or maybe you’d look like the creature from the black lagoon…
I think the only people who would buy this (other than me for “weirdness” value) are people who have never been to the beach.
