Mr. Sunday Movies - Superfast and Super Terrible

The Caravan of Garbage visits a "Fast and Furious" parody movie that I've never heard of. I should probably see it.

Mr. Sunday Movies - Pearl Harbor

"How about Pearl Harbor... what if we won though?"

Late Night - Conan at the 2002 Olympics

This is another official release that replaces one of my videos. And another classic.

"I need a clap skaate! .. You didn't have a clap skate and you came home with the gold chocolito!"

Victor Davis Hanson - The Second World Wars (Air)

LGR Oddware - The Ultimate Game Buster

Lazy Gamer Reviews looks at a PC Card from 1993 that claimed to act as a "game genie" for PC games.

The Essential Yacht Rock Playlist

Just wanted to recommend a youtube playlist that I've been enjoying lately.

The Essential Yacht Rock Playlist is a youtube playlist of all Yacht Rock songs with Yachtski scores of 90 and above.

You mean I get all these great Yacht Rock classics on just one compact disc?!

Listen to the playlist here.

Listen to all Certified Yacht Rock songs here.

Find the full list of Yachtski scores here. A score of 50+ is Yacht, a score of below 50 is Nyacht.

Papa John Rates Papa John's Pizzas

Warning: I found this interesting... you may not. Papa John tries some Papa John's pizzas and rates them according to the official 10 Commandments of Pizza...



See the whole interview here.

The Star Trek Theme Has Lyrics

As noted ... once, many songs that we know as instrumentals actually have lyrics. It turns out the Star Trek Theme is one of those songs. It has lyrics.... and they're terrible!

The lyrics:

Beyond

The rim of the star-light

My love

Is wand'ring in star-flight

I know

He'll find in star-clustered reaches

Love,

Strange love a star woman teaches.

I know

His journey ends never

His star trek

Will go on forever.

But tell him

While he wanders his starry sea

Remember, remember me.

According to Mental Floss, Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics purely as a cash-grab - they made him a co-writer of the song and therefore entitled to royalties.

Continue - Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey

Super Oscars Bowl

In Sight & Sounds poll of film critics, "Citizen Kane" was voted the top film every decade from 1962 to 2012. It has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert called it the greatest film ever made. Seeing as how "Citizen Kane" is widely regarded as the greatest movie ever made, you might be surprised to hear that the Oscars did not even regard it to be the best movie of 1942. It was nominated for Best Picture and did not win. The movie that beat it was "How Green Was My Valley", which as far as I know, has never been #1 in any poll ever since.

Last Sunday I decided to watch "How Green Was My Valley". 

"How Green Was My Valley" is about a small boy growing up in a small mining town in Wales. It's not just a movie about the boy but the trials and travails of his family and the town as well. It simply follows the lives of ordinary people and how their lives unfold over time. I'm not going to do a giant "takedown" of how the movie that robbed "Citizen Kane" is terrible - it isn't terrible. It's pleasant and interesting enough, but it's fairly dated and clearly the wrong choice for Best Picture 1942 (eh, in hindsight, of course).

So I've watched all of the Best Picture nominees again this year. It seemed to me that after a few years of dreadful decline, this year's nominees were a marked improvement overall. My favorite continues to be "Parasite". But if "Little Women" or "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" win, I'll be ok with that.