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The Ride of Our Lives Is Coming Soon
Ready. Set. Come with me…
Released today by Warner Bros. Pictures, this newest look into the virtual mega world of the forthcoming Steven Spielberg film (based on the book of the same title by fellow Ohioan Ernest Cline) Ready Player One is being set-up as a spectacularly fun (and prescient?) experience at the movies starting March 29.
While I’ve explored this story’s prescient virtual reality dynamic more extensively in past blog posts, it’s important to be ever-cognizant of pop-culture’s impact and strange acumen at foretelling the future. These cinematic visions can seem surreal in the moment. And yet, when one of these occasional visions comes true, the everlasting magic of cinematic storytelling gets stronger. As seen above, it appears that a healthy combination of strength and imagination are necessities in the places portrayed in Ready Player One.
Where our virtual world and real-life collide for a transformative impact.
P.S. “Pure Imagination” as the background song? Absolute perfection.
Anybody Else Hear a Cowbell? It’s Coming From That Hot Tub. Hey, Someone Brought BBQ Ribs & Budweiser!
Will Ferrell is returning to 30 Rock (the building, not the show) to host this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Chris Stapleton. And this blog post will ask just one question:
What’s your favorite Will Ferrell sketch?
Okay, that’s an unfair question.
The correct answer is Will Ferrell on SNL What is Will Ferrell on SNL.
Setting the Stage for Star Wars
Star Wars isn’t going anywhere, folks.
It’s Thursday and the following interview with Mark Hamill on the practical “Death Star” set is a nice throwback and early sobering assessment of what Star Wars was and was going to be to movie fans as the original trilogy was just beginning to change the world forever.
While Mr. Hamill’s drawing of a cinematic line between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz sounds as ridiculous as two suns on Tatooine back in the ’70s, what time has proven is that there is, in fact, a link between that famous yellow brick road and the ultimate good vs. evil battle in a galaxy far, far away…
and that link is movie magic.
When films welcome and embrace that powerful escapist sensation, that’s when we, the fans, are granted permission and encouraged to travel to far-off worlds and galaxies we never knew were possible to reach within ourselves.
Sometimes in less than 12 parsecs.
Everyone Has a Friend in Randy Newman
We’ve just gotta let the piano man play. Not the piano man Billy Joel, but an equally great piano man nonetheless. As a matter of fact, we’ve gotta let one of the best piano men of all-time just talk and we need to listen.
Trust me on this…
Did you know those awesomely cool stories about Randy Newman? I didn’t. However, I’m glad I do now. What an incredible collection of collaborators. This is why we tune into The Tonight Show.
FYI – Randy Newman’s latest album “Dark Matter” is available everywhere music is sold and downloaded.
But I’m waiting for that throwback album “Four Amigos.”
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