Driving music

I made a CD last night for my drive up to Boston today. I made it late at night, right before going to bed, and forgot what I had put on it. I grabbed it and popped it into the car stereo and turned it on once I was on the highway.

Forgetting what was on it turned out to be the greatest thing ever. I had a terrifying experience as I was getting off 295 in Massachusetts (the lanes merge into one and some fool decided he could pass me on a sharp single-lane curve), so was a bit shaken and angry. But once on 95, as I was moving back over to the left lane, the track changes and out blasts “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from The Lion King.

I listened to it twice, and I am not ashamed.

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I think our government could do with more farcical aquatic ceremony.

We shouldn’t have trouble finding ourselves a watery tart.

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Spending Saturday night watching Toy Story.

My copy of this movie is on VHS and comes in that horrible clamshell packaging that all Disney movies used to come in back in the day. The previews include things like Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the home video release of Bambi, as well as the SNES and SEGA Genesis Toy Story video game.

The movie is still delightfully funny/touching and has aged so well. (Yes, I know it’s only 15 years old. Work with me here.) I have no idea how many times I’ve seen it. All I know is I’m surprised my tape is still intact. I would think it’d be worn out by now.

“I think the word you’re searching for is ‘space ranger.’” “The word I’m searching for, I can’t say, because there’s preschool toys present.”

It’s an animated movie and the toys are still such great actors. When Woody shoves Buzz and opens his helmet, Buzz does the most overly dramatic gasping and choking ever, and the look on Woody’s face is priceless. And I love when Buzz is yelling at Woody, blaming him for being sent off-course and leaving the fate of the galaxy in the hands of the Evil Emperor Zurg, and after a beat, Woody screams, “YOU! ARE! A! TOY-EEEE!” And that face/hand gesture he does when he says, “You are a child’s plaything!”

“Buzz! You’re flying!” “This isn’t flying, this is falling with style!”

And who doesn’t love the soundtrack? I admit I’m a little overly emotional lately and miss my best friend rather a lot, but “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” had me in tears a couple of days ago, and I wasn’t even watching the movie. “Strange Things” is so funny and spot-on, and oh, my God, “I Will Go Sailing No More,” just kill me one more time, will you?

I saw Toy Story 3 in the theatre on opening weekend, and was lucky enough to see it with a great crowd. One thing I remember vividly is the scene where all the toys are going into the incinerator and think they’re about to be melted, and suddenly the giant claw swings around and the alien squeaky toys are controlling it and they say, naturally, “THE CLAW!” The entire theatre erupted into applause. If any of them are anything like me and my sister, they regularly recycle lines from the first movie, and “THE CLAW!” is one of them.

“A stranger!” “From the outside!” “OoooOOOOOoooo!”

It just never gets old. VHS tapes do, though, so I should probably get on that at some point. This is not the only Disney movie I have on tape that needs replacing — it’s just my favorite.

Where is Brian of Nazareth? I have an order for his release.

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Dianne Reeves - “One for My Baby”
from Good Night, and Good Luck.

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The famous arrow scene near the end was in fact done with real arrows. That is, the arrows hitting the wooden planks were not done with special effects, but rather choreographed with archers. Mifune waves his arms to brush away the arrows sticking from the planks, indicating to them that he wanted to go in that particular direction. The real arrows were included to get Mifune’s facial expressions of real-life fear, which is exceptionally hard to imitate. Of course, the arrows that hit the Mifune character were bamboo fakes.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in theTitanic re-release

It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original at 4k resolution and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed.

Well, almost nothing.

According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year [April 15, at 4:20 am], in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.”

“And with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said ‘All right, send me the right stars for that exact time and I’ll put it in the movie.’”

So Tyson did just that, and Cameron re-shot the scene. According to the Telegraph , it is the only major technical change in the film’s re-release.

I cannot contain the love I have for Neil deGrasse Tyson.  Seriously.

I listened to him telling Stephen Colbert this story and nearly peed myself laughing. I shall link to it again for everyone’s pleasure.

GPOY

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