Thighs Wide Shut

Rocketman
He’s Still Standing, And Outstanding
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
R | 122 min

Who knew that Elton John‘s life story was so sad??!!!? We know that sad songs say so much, but his music is so un-sad – it’s joyous!!  And although 74% of the movie about Reginald Dwight’s transformation from broke bloke to sensational superstar is super sad (it’s like Tommy meets Pink Floyd’s The Wall, but WAY less  creepy and scary), you’ll be too busy enjoying the rise, to forget about the fall

What I particularly liked about Dexter Fletcher (that guy from Lock Stock!!) and Lee Hall‘s film is the pace – NON-stop.  You don’t even know where you are on the calendar year.  Time flies. The music soars.  The pain is real, but the antidote is right around the corner.  You can feel it.  It’s almost here!

Also, no knock on Taron Egerton, but before I saw Rocketman, I didn’t think for a second that the Kingsman kid would be able to pull off a role like this.  After?  I WAS BEYOND FCUKING WRONG.  TARON!  TARON!  TARON!!!  I mean, Elton’s retiring soon, so why doesn’t he go on tour with Adam Lambert and they can sing Queen and Elton songs and make billionz!!

Oh, and ALL those fcuking costumes!  And hairpieces!  And glasses!!  Make an special one year Academy Award for best movie glasses!!  SEEING IS BELIEVING 

Verdictgo: Breast In Show 

Rocketman has already lift-off

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

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The Full-Circle Journey of ‘Homer Simpson Backs Into the Bushes’

before he was Alfred E. Neuman

of Mad Magazine fame

he was…

some kid on a postcard that in the 1950s caught the eye of MAD’s founder Harvey Kurtzman who co-opted him as the magazine’s mascot

and before that, he was…

‘The Original Optimist’ by Harry Stuff – 1914

and before before that, he still didn’t worry…

The ‘It Doesn’t Hurt A Bit’ Boy adorning the 1908 calendar for Antikamnia Chemical Company

and before before before ALL that, he was a NEW boy (who eventually grew into a Neuman!)…

The New Boy—1894

bless you Alfred

love you America.  you’re more good than bad.  still better than most.  let’s try to be even betterer

Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits
City Winery
June 28

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SEVENTY-EIGHT MINUTES OF SIXTIES FUN, FUNNY AND FURY!!!!!!!!!

Setlist – I’m Into Something Good / Wonderful World (Sam Cooke cover) / Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers cover) / Ring of Fire (Merle Kilgore cover) / Dandy (The Kinks cover) / A Must to Avoid / Daydream Believer (John Stewart cover) / Sea Cruise (Huey “Piano” Smith cover) / All My Loving (The Beatles cover) / Just a Little Bit Better / Silhouettes (The Rays cover) / Listen People / Travellin’ Light (Cliff Richard & The Shadows cover) / No Milk Today / The End of the World (Skeeter Davis cover) / I’m Telling You Now (Freddie & The Dreamers cover) / Ferry Cross the Mersey (Gerry & The Pacemakers cover) / Do Wah Diddy Diddy (The Exciters cover) / Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones cover) / Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat / Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter / I’m Henry the Eighth I Am / There’s a Kind of Hush (New Vaudeville Band cover)