What I'm Currently Obsessed With (August 2013 Edition)

Like my previous obsessed" entries in September 2012 and February of 2012, this one yet again is music that I have not been able to go a day without listening to it. I have never liked Daft Punk and I never liked Pharrell Williams. I hate retro anything and that goes for disco anything, but for some reason Daft Punk has taken a disco theme and added a version of funk and lyrical rhythm that I love. I ended up buying the album and discovered there's a track I love even more. It's called Instant Crush and it's embedded below. Anyone else obsessed? 

What I'm Currently Obsessed With (September 2012 Edition)

I have a ton of reviews to get to and hopefully I'll post them soon, but I thought I'd do a quick "What I'm currently obsessed with" post like I did in February and last year. Most people know of the movie Dredd, currently in theaters. It's a reboot of the 1995 classic Judge Dredd starting Sylvester Stallone, only a lot more dark and a lot more violent. Some of the trailers begin with some beautiful music that sets the tone for the film perfectly. The artist is La Roux and the song is In for the Kill. Once I saw the trailer I immediately went to Amazon and downloaded to my iPod. So now I listen to it 60 times a day like I did when Nightcall was featured in the movie Drive.  Below you will find the song and the trailer that introduced me to it. Let me know what you think. 

What I'm Currently Obsessed With (February 2012 Edition)

I appear to be falling out of the music scene. As the months go by, very little new music interests me. I don’t follow my go-to bands anymore from the 90s. Rancid, Incubus, Drop Kick Murphys, 311, Bad Religion, Social D, Hed Pe, Pantera. Remember Fear Factory? And when I mean I don’t follow them I don’t anticipate new their new music like I used to.

I listen to my Google Music collection, and stream SiriusXM and nothing feels as great as it used to. I can’t stand terrestrial radio. The commercials alone are worth me paying for satellite. Pandora can mix things up for you but you run out of minutes and I’d rather pay for a service with Howard Stern than one that doesn’t have him. But I’ve essentially given up actively searching for new music. Until great music crosses my path, I will have never known it existed. And this is exactly what happened as I watching the movie Drive (which btw is equally awesome) . Two songs I am utterly obsessed with right now, had to download them on my phone, on my PC and anywhere else a speaker exists. For your listening pleasure, I give you Kavinsky – Nightcall and College feat Electric Youth – A Real Hero.

What I'm Currently Obsessed With (June 2011)

School has absolutely demolished my blogging rate lately. I currently have 4 weeks left and expect to do some serious movie reviews when I have some free time. I’ve been dominating my movie list this year- though my free time has been sparse, I’d rather relax on my couch or in bed and watch a 2 hour movie then plug away at a video game or book- Video games are not appealing to me right now because I have no satisfaction in completing them. I haven’t even completed Portal 2 yet. And books, well I’ve read more business cases and books in the last 6 months than my prior 6 years.... So movies have satisfied a happy medium right now...

Here is the progress on my top 20 anticipated movies of 2011.

1. Tree of Life

2. Super (Review Soon)

3. Super 8

4. X-Men: First Class

5. Extraterrestre

6. Stake Land

7. Hobo With a Shotgun

8. Anonymous

9. Apollo 18

10. Carnage

11. Rubber

12. Knights of Badassdom

13. Piranha 3DD

14. Conan the Barbarian

15. Cowboys & Aliens

16. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

17. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

18. Immortals

19. Captain America: The First Avenger

20. Thor

Cross two more off my list, X-Men and Thor. I also watched the Hangover 2, the new Pirates, Battle: Los Angeles and Kung Fu Panda 2. I’ve seen 79 movies in the first half of the year, destroying my 2010 pace!! I have short reviews written on some of these movies but this post isn’t about them. It’s about a movie I saw for the first time yesterday, a movie that broke into my top 10 of all time. Just to show you how prestige that list is… my top 10 movies of all time are:

10. Star Wars Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)

9. A Bridge On the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)

8. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

7. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino,)

6. Mulholland Dr (1991, David Lynch)

5. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa,)

4. M (1931, Fritz Lang)

3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

2. 2001: A Space Oddesy (1968, Stanley Kubrick)

1. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)

0. Inception (2010, Chris Nolan)*

It appears 1954, 1957 and 1994 were good years representing 60% of my top 10 list. Inception is listed at number 0 because I haven’t quite got over the honeymoon of just how extraordinary that movie is- not just from a masterpiece of directing standpoint, but how an overly complex ORIGINAL screenplay can be so emotional, entertaining and fun to dissect.

I’ll stop dragging it out and announce that Once Upon a Time in the West has made it into my top 10. I will admit that my knowledge in westerns is very limited, having only seen Leone’s big four, Unforgivin and both True Grits… but Once Upon a Time in the West feels completely different from the movies I just listed. And it starts with the music. So what am I obsessed with? The Man with the Harmonica.

There is something so ominous about this music, it makes my bones chill, raises the hairs on the back of the my neck, goosebumps appear on my arms. I’ve listened to it so many times today that I discovered SiriusXM’s channel Chill, plays a remix version by Apollo 440. I love them equally. Hope you enjoy them.

What I'm Currently Obsessed With (Update)

These are the remaining guns I am trying to identify.

And here is the list of guns I believe I've correctly identified, from my previous entry. I still need help with #11.

1. Men In black (Noisy Cricket) (tiny gun top left)

2. 5th Element (most southern gun)

3. Hellboy (The Samaritan) (dead center magnum)

4. Aliens (Pulse Rifle) (large assault gun to the right)

5. Star Wars (Han Solo gun) (Dead center)

6. District 9 (werid looking huge gun in center)

7. Forbidden Planet (upside down at the muzzle)

8. Star Trek (upside down at the cock)

9. Blade Runner (double trigger gun)

10. Drudge Dredd (upside down by trigger)

11. Predator (Shoulder cannon?) ( Trigger?) or Minority Report (shotgun)

12. Stargate (staff at top)

13. Firefly/Serenity (Jane’s Vera gun) (top left big one)

14. Matrix (Agent Desert eagle) (top left)

15. Logan’s Run (muzzle)

16. Space 1999 (Far east weird gun)

17. Lost in Space (upside down above District 9 gun #6)

18. Battlestar Galactica (handle by trigger)

19. Babylon 5 (upside down under Hellboy gun #3)

20. Big Trouble in Little China (Uzi)

What I'm Currently Obsessed With (March 2011 Edition)

In a new segment I like to call, What I'm Currently Obsessed With, I will highlight the thing (Book, Movie, Video Game, Youtube Video, Song, Etc) that... I'm currently obsessed with. Even though it feels like I don't have time for anything anymore (except for that 1 hour time block from 11pm-12am every night where I watch Adult Swim) I still think I can still write about AT LEAST one obsession every month. Who knows, I might even have to make this a weekly bit.

Over at Blastr.com (which for anyone who doesn't know is an affiliation with the SyFy network) made a new posts about the French director Jean-Luc Godard's love for guns in sci-fi movies. So he created a cool picture that includes 26 of his favorite ray guns from various movies and TV shows. I've become infatuated with trying to guess all 26. I currently have 20.

I have been cropping out the guns that I have guessed correctly and later tonight I will post a shot of what I have left. Maybe someone can help me out. Until then, enjoy trying to figure them out.