This is probably my favorite round-up of the year: The A.V. Club's list of funny, asinine, ridiculous, awesome or just plain terrible band names. The entire list is well worth perusing, but my favorites include the following sections:
REWORKING PROPER NAMES & TRADEMARKSSega GenocideWeird Al QaedaThe John Hughes OverdriveHarrison Ford EscortDali's LlamaBin Laden Blowin UpJohn Wilkes' Kissing BoothFlock Of Steven SeagalsE=MC HammerLabrador DaliBarry WhitesnakePhallus In Chains
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Hooch & Daddy-O in their glory days.Oscar Madrid and Jim Ousley, the writers of fake-documentary-real-funny-film Hooch & Daddy-O, are not content to rest on their laurels. Because those laurels aren't for sitting on -- they're for building on. Madrid and Ousley now have plans for a comedy/horror film about a high school janitor who has a Chuck Norris obsession (and aren't we all guilty of that?) and an alien zombie infestation to deal with. Oh, and it's graduation eve, and the
Around 1:10 a.m. or so, MSTRKRFT dropped bits of Daft Punk's "Da Funk" into its DJ set. The crowd - or what was left of it - at the Pageant naturally went apeshit, fueled as much by free Bacardi drinks as it was by the French techno-funk. And sure, at that hour, nothing is better than hearing an awesome dance jam.(View a slideshow of the concert.)
Photo: Egan O'Keefe
MSTRKRFT. More photos here.But aesthetically, it highlighted the shortcomings of the Canadian duo's 90-minute DJ set. Dropp
Talk about shocking news: John Hughes -- the movie director and screenwriter famous for his '80s teen movies -- died this morning of a heart attack. He was 59. Hughes' films -- especially the holy trinity of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink -- were innovative in the way they used music as plot progressors. Who could forget Ferris Bueller twisting to the Beatles after taking over a parade in downtown Chicago? Or the end of Candles, when (DREAMY. Ahem.) Jake Ryan and Samantha
Legendary movie director John Hughes died yesterday. Hughes directed and/or wrote such classic films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.But my favorite remains Hughes' first bit hit, Sixteen Candles, in which the foreign-exchange student Long Duk Dong renders his "no more yankey my wankey" line. Got a favorite Sixteen Candles line of your own? Or another favorite quote from a John Hughes' film? Leave it in the comments section below
