Get Smart

yes, it's actually a post about a movie. I love movies, but I seldom go to the theater: there's no pause button, and the theater is likely to screw up something.

well, we went anyway.

This is hilarious. You do have to know the original tv show, however. Lacking that, a bunch of funny parts aren't going to even register.

This show is about CHAOS trying to take over (as usual on the original GS), and Siegfried is once again at the helm--played by Terence Stamp.

Spoilers: near the end, a car almost runs Max over as he's trying to get to California. The car is driven by Bernie Koppel. yeah, the guy from "Love Boat"--but before that he was on Get Smart, as the original Siegfried. He yells at Max. It goes by in about 3 seconds. If you haven't seen the show, it will mean nothing. Likewise, Agent 13 won't make any sense, and that goes on longer than 3 seconds. Hymie won't make sense either, at the end.

They managed not to beat certain jokes to death, which was good. "Would you believe...", "Sorry about that chief", etc. Although I think they could have done each of them twice...

it also manages to parody a few other things (True Lies comes to mind, with the dance scene, and James Bond with the "swiss army knife").

Two thumbs up, as they say.

Free Music again

turns out there are a couple of classical music sites, I just learned...

MusOpen a bunch of these MP3s require either emusic or napster, which I don't want to mess with.

and

Classic Cat

Mind you, these two don't much include the great stuff we all know and love...what's available tends to be somewhat obscure.

Look up Rimsky-Korsakov. You don't get the entirety of Scheherazade, you get a couple of very short excerpts. Shubert: full Ave Maria, and a lot of others I never heard of (well, I'm hardly an expert, but I do like I reasonable amount of classical). And you apparently can get different versions of things: two complete Beethoven's Fifth's different in length by three minutes. Are these different arrangements, or different tempos?


Apparently Wikipedia can lead to some free classical...I haven't looked at that yet.

Jamendo and BeSonic continue to be favorites.