Dance! Sing! Repeat!

This documentary about the race to the top of the Donkey Kong scoreboard. Although kind-of interesting, especially if you enjoy video games, the film mostly centers around a school-girl like drama between credibility of scores between the characters the film centers on: Billy Mitchell (Champion since 1980's) and Steve Wiebe (Laid off challenger).

***

I've always been a fan of the fantasy genre, but when within the first five minutes of the movie I was informed that the great heroes of the movie would be a midget and Val Kilmer, I almost turned it off. This isn't even mentioning that it was directed by Ron Howard (Ritchie Cunningham in Happy Days). I should have stuck with the old proverb about 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' because even though this wasn't a book, it proved to be a very good film.

****1/2

Just when you thought one puppetmaker was bad enough, Jim Henson (The Muppets) and Frank Oz (The Wizard Of Oz) team up to create the ultimate puppet-fantasy film of the 80's (with the exception maybe being Labyrinth). Ignoring that sometimes a character speaks and the puppet's mouth remains unmoved, the storyline is excellent and all of the wacky creatures provide a pleasant and intriguing backdrop for a viewer.

*****

When drum machines got too popular, Radiohead took it up a notch by recruiting a marching band. FTW.

I guess this seems as appropriate of any time to recommend this record considering just as of tonight we celebrate the reunion of the boys of 'Blink-182'. This particular record falls into my category of records I wasn't impressed by at first, but came to love over time. My grandma always said, 'Different isn't always bad.', a particularly true statement when examining song structure, instrumentation, and lyricism. Recommended tracks in bold.

1. "Feeling This"
2. "Obvious"
3. "I Miss You"
4. "Violence"
5. "Stockholm Syndrome"
6. "Down"
7. "The Fallen Interlude"
8. "Go"
9. "Asthenia"
10."Always"
11. "Easy Target"
12. "All of This"
13. "Here's Your Letter"
14. "I'm Lost Without You"

Green Day to release new album in May 2009 entitled '21st Century Breakdown'.

This is my roommate, David Assman (Yes, that's his real last name.) He just launched his new clothing company, does.it.melt. Definitely worth checking out. Possible big news coming soon about it too. If you're interested, check it out here or just get a hold of me at dancesingrepeat@gmail.com.

Although I admit a movie with a red-headed, freckle covered, devil child protagonist looked to be more than appealing to me, Problem Child delivered what I should have expected from a movie delivered by 1991. I chuckled a lot at all of the antics, but actual laughing was barely achieved. Highlights include John Ritter, Gilbert Gottfried, and Michael Richards.

**1/2