Did I really hear the host of Collectors use the term "intarweb" last night? I just don't know that the target audience for Collectors would be familiar with that word. But then, perhaps I am mistaken about the target audience for Collectors. Maybe I was drifting off as I waited to watch Elvis Costello on Spectacle.
It was a combined Spectacle as Elvis was joined by Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Roseanne Cash and John Mellencamp (add the Cougar if you so desire). Norah and John sang a song each but the highlight here was Kristofferson. I had always been a little dismissive of earlier country, but Walk the Line changed my mind about Johnny Cash and last night, the poetry of Kristofferson's songs impressed me. The story-telling in his lyrics was beautiful in its imagery, narrative and character. Here:
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Also, he can kill vampires like nobody's business and co-wrote "Me and Bobby McGee."
Kris Kristofferson is a god among men.
me and bobby mcgee was the one song of his i actually knew before yesterday evening. they sang it as well but i liked this one and "here comes the rainbow" (ithink it was called) even better.
but of course now i know he kills vampires he rises immeasurably in my estimation.
where exactly does this vampire killing take place?
In the Blade film series--sadly made some time after Wesley Snipes apparently had his sense of humour surgically removed.
Still, Snipes is a great Blade, though I understand he is a . . . problematic man.
And Kristofferson is Whistler, the man who finds the teenage half-vampire Blade and trains him as a vampire slayer.
Awesome, awesome films. Especially Blade 2. Seriously bloody, but awesome.
Blade 2 has Luke Goss (from Bros!) as the villain. As though you needed another reason to watch it.
I can really see Kristofferson as a vampire slayer trainer
and in an unrelated piece of trivia - If my memory serves me correctly (although I am not the narrator of Iron Chef) I think I have the same birthday as the Goss twins from Bros. Something that was quite exciting when I was in year 10 and used to read Smash Hits magazine.
Whistler's a great character: doesn't take any garbage from anyone, and can make gadgets capable of far greater overall destruction than anything that Q ever whipped up.
I don't know about the Goss twin who from now on shall be known as "the lesser Goss twin," but Luke Goss is increasingly becoming a pretty awesome person with whom to share a birthday.
For some reason, he's been reinventing himself as Hollywood villain, largely in these big fantasy blockbusters. (Well, laregly from my perspective, anyway: he might have been in harrowing Merchant Ivory costume dramas, but I tend not to watch films unless something is guaranteed to explode at some point.)
He was excellent in Blade 2, and I really liked him in the second Hellboy film--slightly disappointing though the film was.
And impressing me in a Hellboy film is no mean feat, what with Ron Perlman standing there, being awesome, and attracting all my attention.
see that's where my goss bros history has fallen down as I tend not to watch films if something is guaranteed to explode at some point. if he had been in a merchant ivory harrowing drama i might have been more aware of this important trivia, and indeed the excellence of my birthdate.
i think the lesser known bros is matt. clearly, he is the equivalent of jonathan knight from NKOTB. or donnie wahlberg...
oh my now I'm going to have look up some NKOTB songs.
Oh, you won't like Blade 2 then. Actually, it's not the exploding--I'm thinking more of the fairly graphically depicted vampire fetishes. (That's the fetishes of the vampires, not fetishising vampires themselves.)
Oh, and then . . . things . . . do explode.
Yeah, it might not be your cup of tea, after all.
yes probably actually the vampires would be more disturbing than exploding things :)
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