The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

I seriously believe that this movie might just save Hollywood or something.

Here’s the trailer for the 2008 rendition of “The Day The Earth Stood Still”.

I’m just not sure if Reeves is up to the task of playing an alien, quasi-effeminate androgenous, low-emotionally-ranged character.

Trailer for the new X-Files film, “I Want to Believe”.

I know that it has been said many times, and in many ways, but I’ve just gotta say that Hollywood is officially out of ideas. Witness “Welcome Back Kotter: The Motion Picture”.

After eighty years of looking, film historians seem to have finally come across a complete print of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”. Evidently, what we have been presented with over all these years as “Metropolis” is a vastly over-simplified film, missing one quarter of its footage and much subtlety of plot.

Some right-wing types suggest protesting Wall-E’s treatise on overconsumption by boycotting the purchase of useless, plastic Wall-E Pixar/Disney promotional crap.

This is rather like noting your formal objection to the film “Ghandi” by joining a vegan peace collective.

Heckuva strategy there there, Sun Tzu, heckuva strategy.

After reading this review for The Incredible Hulk in the Guardian, I’m left with a nagging uncertainty as to how the reviewer felt about the film.

When I was ten, a girl in my class brought a photograph of Darth Vader to school. It was the year of Star Wars, so that in itself was not unusual. The funny bit was that Darth Vader was sitting at her kitchen table. Mind you, Photoshop was still decades away and photocopies only came in black & white. I could tell that it was this Particular girl’s kitchen table because I’d been to her house for a birthday party once, when I was eight and she was my biggest crush.

Her uncle had something to do with looking after “the Traveling Suit”, a “hero level” replica of the costume worn by David Prowse in the original Star Wars film. Apparently Vader was scheduled to appear somewhere in nearby Ottawa that weekend and her uncle had dropped by with Darth for a visit.

I remember being quite jealous, but - in the end - it just made her that much cooler in my ten-year-old eyes.

Anyway…

What brought this to mind was seeing the “Growing up Star Wars” photo group on Flickr. It’s a group dedicated to 1977 – ‘85 era photography featuring people and their cool Star Wars stuff. Among the shots of masks, and toys and other things are a couple of shots of “The Suit”.

Man, I’m so jealous.

Those of you who have watched any amount of anime will no doubt enjoy this extensive compilation of The Anime Laws of Physics. Although some of them aren’t actually laws of physics in the traditional sense, they are all likely to tickle the funny lobe of anyone who has watched more than a couple of Japanese cartoons.

That said, I’m sure that there are a bunch of laws that you folks can come up with that aren’t on the list…