So yeah, it’s been over a year since the last List Day. I figure we’re due.
Random Ten:
- Mike Oldfield – “Tubular Bells Part Two”
- Nine Inch Nails – “9 Ghost I”
- Mew – “Why Are You Looking Grave?”
- The Who – “Welcome”
- Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet – “Winter Overture”
- Soundgarden – “The Day I Tried to Live”
- Jimi Hendrix – “Stop”
- Steroid Maximus – “‘Pusher’ Jones”
- Fantômas – “Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion”
- Dave / Del tha Funkee Homosapien / Handsome Boy Modeling School – “The Projects (Pjays)”
5 Interesting Documentaries Available on Netflix Instant Viewing
In honor of Netflix’s newfound PS3 support, I’ve been watching a bunch of stuff this week, including these documentaries.
- Overnight: Wow, Troy Duffy (of Boondock Saints fame) is a tremendous douchebag.
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired: A little too sympathetic to fugitive child rapist Polanski, but that’s a tough line to walk and the movie does a reasonable job in spite of that. Apparently a sequel covering recent happenings is in the works.
- Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: It’s a fun film for fans of the genre (I wrote about this before).
- Revolution OS: Seems to be a reasonable overview of the rise of Free Software, Linux, and Open Source. Like most movies about technology, it’s out of date, but still interesting.
- Zombiemania: I don’t even really like Zombie movies that much, but I love watching documentaries about movies, so this was fun.
5 Other Documentaries I Want to Watch
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
- Bigger Stronger Faster*
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- Hoop Dreams
That’s all for now. I doubt this will be the regular feature it once was, but you never know…
List day!
Just watched Anvil last night. Pretty interesting, seeing how a band that almost made it didn’t, and how their lives are playing out now. Would have been nice to see more of the how and why of things not quite coming together (seems like bad/lack of management).
Anvil is #1 in my Netflix queue. I should thus get it this week. I am looking forward to it, as I’ve heard a lot of good things. It seems almost like a real-life Spinal Tap.
Heheh, it very much feels that way, in part to the band members’ personalities but all the more so because of the genre of music. There’s some footage of them back in the early 80s, long hair, bondage gear, wailing away that looks like it could have come straight out of Spinal Tap.