For musical dinosaurs

At some point over my Christmas vacation, it became clear to me that I really don't know what the hell makes for popular music these days. My sisters were aghast that I hadn't hardly even heard of this (sp?) Kesha person, much less heard her song, "Tik tok" (again, sp???). True, that was mostly because it is apparently ubiquitous in all those venues I do not frequent--pop radio (never really listened to it, but I don't even listen to radio period any more), television commercials (I don't have cable), movies for people who comfortably fit into the description "tween"--but still. I am truly an Old.

Which means that I don't really recognize any of the songs I found in this mash-up. I kind of dig the mash-up, though. I'm going to have to go see if I can't do any better with the 2009 mash-up. Probably not.

One thing this sort of mash-up makes clear to me is that I'm not really missing all that much by not digging the current pop music scene. Any music that can be slotted together so easily, from so many different artists, cannot possibly be good. I know, I know, you could probably sync together all the songs from 1986, say, or 1994, or even 2003 (just to be totally random in selection of years from decades whose music I do like), and it would just as generic. What's popular at any given point is probably always generic, or at least predictably familiar. Hmm, now I wonder if anyone has synced up mash-ups for any of those years...

Resolved.

I may have this 52-movies-in-the-theater-a-year issue licked. LICKED, I TELLS YOU. I've already been to one movie this week, and I'm going to head out tonight to another. Then I looked at this list of movies that io9 put up and I all but peed myself with excitement. ALMOST WET MYSELF WITH JOY, PEOPLE.

If I can make it through January and February, the dumping grounds of the cinematic year, I'm golden. And, as I may have already mentioned, I'll have seen two movies in the theater inside of a week. Which means I can safely save the cinematic masterpiece Season of the Witch (featuring Ye Olde Crazye Nicholas Cage) until nearer the end of the month. I may even be able to skip a whole week if I want at this rate. Which means that I'll only have to wait another month for the Nicholas Cage movie of my so-bad-it's-good dreams, Drive Angry. IN 3-D.

Once we're past February, hole-E-shit. The Adjustment Bureau, Apollo 18, Suing the Devil (MALCOLM MACDOWELL IS THE FUCKING DEVIL HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT), Paul, Sucker Punch...and that's just MARCH. I know March is the new June, or whatever, but SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, Hollywood. I won't have any umph left for May! Ha ha ha, that's not even remotely true. But, my God, Source Code, Thor, Priest, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (Who would I be kidding if I said I wasn't seeing that? NO ONE), X-Men First Class, The Green Lantern, Harry Potter, Captain America, Cowboys and Aliens, Fright Night, The Thing...

In case you missed the memo: urine. URINE, people.