The Chronic "what" cles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by Andrew Adamson

So I went to see NARNIA on Monday night and it wasn’t a total waste, but I sure was disapointed. I loved the books as a child and read them multiple times, but I haven’t read them in more than 20 years, so my memory of specifics is pretty vague, but the movie seemed to project a different milieu in general. The character development was great in the first half of the movie, but then everything started feeling rushed and ridiculous and by the end of the movie the cheese had weighed down the whole thing. I’m sure that the movie will be a lot of fun for 10 year olds, but I’d just rather that they read the book anyway … that way they could as least imagine that there was blood involved when Peter ran the wolf through with his sword.

Anyway, the SNL Sanberg and Parnell version is highly superior.

Sheeesh…

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 12/14/05

My (usually, anyway) bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Jima / X-Mas Bush / The Dubya Cut & Paste Project / The Internet
Dirk Keysser / Silent Night / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com
Ed Shepp / The Christmas Story / Happy Holidays 2004 / self-release
The Wonderful World of Joey / What Sweet Child o' Mine is This? / CD single / Asphodel

Yello / Jingle Bells / 12" / Mercury (behind my voice)

Low / Blue Christmas / Christmas / Chair Kicker's Union
Bobbie Boyle with The Singers / Santa Claus Goes Modern / The American Song-Poem Christmas (v/a) / Bar-None
The Belrays / Rocket Ship Santa / Merry Christmas from the Belrays / Cheap Lullaby
The Qualities / It's Christmas Time / Sun Ra: The Singles / Evidence
Darlene Love / A Marshmallow World / Phil Spector's Christmas Album (v/a) / Warner
Dirk Keysser / Joy to the World / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com
The Bobs / Do You Hear What I Hear, Man? / Too Many Santas / Rounder
Droogs / Silent Night / A Midnight Christmas Mess (v/a) / Midnight Records
Benjamin Sears & Bradford Connor / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Rest You Merry: A Holiday Caberet / Oakton
The Salsoul Orchestra / There's Someone Who's Knocking / Christmas Jollies / Salsoul
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades / Little Rubber Boy / A Rubber Band Christmas / ada
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra & Chorus / Do You Hear What I Hear? / 22 Merry Christmas Favorites / Ranwood
Dirk Keysser / Ode to Joy / Happy Clucking Holidays / www.happycluckingholidays.com

John Fahey / Christ's Saints of God Fantasy / The New Possibility: The John Fahey Guitar Solo Christmas Album / Rhino (behind my voice)

Twink / Let Me See How You Do It / The Broken Record / Seeland
Borful Tang / John and Mary in: The Restaurant / Root / Snurp
Childhood Friends / It's Cold Outside / Everything Is About to Change / self-release
Lou & Peter Berryman / Lexical Dude / Some Days / Cornbelt
Angel Corpus Christie / Still Feels Like Christmas / XMAS SNERTZ: Have a very Gulcher Christmas (v/a) / Gulcher
Harvey Sid Fisher / Sagittarius / Astrology Songs / Amarillo
Smegma / Happy Holidays / It's Finally Christmas (v/a) / Tim-Kerr

Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO / Cosmic Introduction / Minstrel in the Galaxy / Riot Season (behind my voice)

Hopewell and The Birds of Appetite / Sugar in the Honey / s/t / Tee-Pee (Rubric)
Saxon Shore / Marked with the Knowledge / The Exquisite Death of... / Burnt Toast Vinyl
Espers / Black is the Color / The Weed Tree / Locust Music
Ennio Morricone / Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri / Crime and Dissonance / Ipecac
oRSo / Is Christmas Tomorrow? / Is xmas tomorrow? / binto family
The Dirty Three / Michele / Cinder / Touch-n-Go
My Life Is On The Line / Untitled#6 Epilogue / s/t (part3) / www.mylifeisontheline.com

Mizar / That Polish Girl / The King of the Stars / self-release

~fin~

That was fun. I traded Diana this week for next and then we're back to our normal schedule so that means that my next show will be on January 4th.

Okay. I need to get home and go to bed. Work in the morning. Love ya all.

Free Things Are Cool Playlist for 12/7/05

My bi-weekly radio show --- Wednesday 9-11PM on KAOS.

(spaces to indicate sets)
(Artist / Song / Album / Label)

The Double U / Mazurkle / Absurd Fjord / Communion (my theme)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra feat. Marie France / Monster / Future Muzik / Scamp
Robyn Hitchcock / NASA Clapping / Jewels for Sophia / Warner Bros.
My Dad is Dead / Consequences / A Divided House / Unhinged
The Inkettes / I'm Blue (the Gong-Gong Song) / Beg, Scream & Shout / Rhino
Nothing Painted Blue / Take Your Own Advice / Taste the Flavor / Shrimper

Louie Gordon / Welcome to Rome Jose / JW 1 / Louie Gordon Productions
(behind my voice)

Broadcast / Corporeal / Tender Buttons / WARP
Sue Garner & Rick Brown / It's So Hard (Lennon) / Still / Thrill Jockey
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham / Ginger Snaps / Sonic Souvenirs / Jetset
Azalia Snail / I Feel Love (Summer) / Avec Amour / A True Classical CD
Low / Just Like Christmas / Christmas / Chair Kicker's Union

The Three Suns / Autumn Leaves / Space Age Pop Vol 3: The Stereo Action Dimension (v/a) / RCA
(behind my voice)

Ivone Lara / Nao Chora Nenem / Brazilian Popular Music (v/a) / Petrobras
Alarm Will Sound / Cliffs / Acoustica: AWS performs Aphex Twin / Cantaloupe
(behind my voice)

The Poppy Family / I Thought of You Again / A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 / What Are Records?
Edith Frost / Just a Friend / It's A Game / Drag City
The Magnolia Electric Co. / Doing Something Wrong / Hard to Love A Man / Secretly Canadian
White Magic / One-Note / Through the Sun Door / Drag City
Wilco / Heavy Metal Drummer / Kicking Television: Live in Chicago / Nonesuch
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / I Send My Love to You / Summer in the Southeast / Sea Note
The Meat Purveyors / Little White Pills / For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of... / Bloodshot
Danielle Howle & the Tantrums / Camero Power / Skorborealis / Daemon

Aaron Kruse / A Moment / Stuff 95-98 / self-release
(behind my voice)

Half Japanese / Frankenstein Meets Billy the Kid + My Bucket's Got a Hole in it / The Band that Would Be King / 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts
Twink / Pussy Cat / The Broken Record / Seeland
(Red Hot) Old Mose / Shrimp Man / American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) / Revenant
When People Were Shorter and Lived Near The Water / Autumn of My Life / Bobby / Shimmy Disc
Jerry Drake / Googie and Scogie / Songs From My Heart / self release
Ennio Morricone / Paura E Aggressione (short version) from the film Giornata Nera Per L'Ariete / Crime and Dissonance / Ipecac
Bobby Sherman / Time / s/t / K-TEL

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band / God / John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band / Capitol

~fin~

It's way late. I'm going home. Hope you enjoyed the show. Goodnight.

Crazy busy, life is good.

Holiday time is always like this. I work in a retail environment, so christmas time always hits like a load of bricks and beats me silly. This year has been no exception. Overtime and a desk that's overflowing with paperwork. I really don't have time to blog but I just wanted to say "hey everyone, I'm still here!"

Gillian is growing in leaps and bounds. She's so funny these days. Such a sense of humor. It really is the best sound in the world... the sound of your child laughing. I know it sounds cliche, but oh my god. It boggles the mind.

This morning she walked down the hall and Mindy noticed that she didn't toddle at all. She just walked with confidence from one point to another. It's incredible. She's gonna be one year old on the 17th. I can't wait to make her cake. What kind of cake should I make her? It's funny, 'cause it's not like we're gonna let her eat a lot of cake; she's small.

I think I call her small fry or just small more than anything else these days. Nicknames are funny. They rotate rather rapidly in our household.

Gillian got her first snow the other day. Lots of fun. She thinks it tastes great.

I need to go to bed. It's another busy day tomorrow.

Goodnight