by 007hertzrumble | Jun 9, 2014 | Tournament of #Bond_age_ Tweets, Tournaments
You know what they say…. behind every great bracket is a great lesser bracket. The NCAA’s have the NIT. The Winners have the Losers bracket. And the Tournament of Bonds has the Tournament of #Bond_age_ Tweets.
After each live tweet a secret panel of “experts” selects their favorite tweets from the past week. I will then decide on the Top 5(ish) and submit those tweets to a vote. As we roll along through the live tweets, our second bracket will be populated and then the tweets will duel for their own fame and glory. The author of the winning tweet will be crowned Man or Woman with the Golden Tweet and be required to add a third nipple… and be showered with fame and glory and uncertain Interweb riches.
Here are the contenders for Golden Tweet of the Live and Let Die Live Tweet.
Vote below or in the Poll widget at the top right.
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by 007hertzrumble | Jun 6, 2014 | Live Tweet Digests, Tournament of #Bond_age_
June 4th: Match C in the Tournament of Bonds begins with the live tweet favorite, Live and Let Die. There’s never a dull twatter moment between the dated blaxploitation themes, pimpmobiles and J.W. Gone Wild speedboat action.
INITIATE THE LIVE AND LET DIE LIVE TWEET DIGEST (Tournament Edition)!
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by 007hertzrumble | Jun 4, 2014 | Misc., Title Credits Remixed
Have you ever thought that Paul McCartney needed more guitar in his title track for Live and Let Die? Did you think that maybe the Guns ‘n f’n Roses’ version of “Live and Let Die” might have been superfluous? (No? Me either.) If you’re generally discontented, how about sampling this title track switcheroo courtesy of Keith Bodayla (@theactualkeith) featuring the one and only Jimi Hendrix.
Live and Let Die Opening Remixed with Jimi Hendrix
by 007hertzrumble | Jun 2, 2014 | Misc., Title Credits Remixed
Replace Sir Paul? Why not? Sometimes even the classics need a day off. I knew immediately which song I wanted to use… thematics and all that fire jazz led me to The Cult’s “Fire Woman” immediately. I really wanted to use a remix I had on vinyl called the “L.A. Remix,” but that version failed to hit the cues without significant editing. I returned to the album cut. With minimal tinkering with the start and a fade out at the end, this one fell into place naturally.
Live and Let Die Opening Remixed with The Cult
Live and Let Die Opening Titles Remixed with The Cult from James Patrick on Vimeo.
by 007hertzrumble | Jun 1, 2014 | #Bond_age_ Project, Casino Royale
Casino Royale is the 21st essay in a 24-part series about the James Bond cinemas. I encourage everyone to read the other essays, comment and join in on the conversation about not only the films themselves, but cinematic trends, political and other external influences on the series’ tone and direction.
(Welcome, Snoopathonners!)
Of [In]human #Bond_age_ #21: Dispatching the “Reboot” and the Derring-Do of the many Casino Royales
by James David Patrick
The term “reboot” first became buzzworthy in 2005 when Christopher Nolan begat a new Batman universe only eight years after George Clooney last donned Joel Suckmaker’s bat nipples. The word “remake” had become tarnished from frivolous overuse and poor decision-making and synonymous with the industry’s dearth of creativity, or perhaps more appropriately, trembling risk averseness. As what can only be seen as a sly marketing ploy, the term “reboot” replaced “remake.” The term, of course, wasn’t a Hollywood original. True to form, Hollywood, the great appropriator (and/or corruptor), borrowed “reboot” from the comic book industry, which had, in turn, borrowed it from the computer science industry. “Reboot” derives from the idiom to “pull oneself up by the bootstraps” – an apt description for what happens when a franchise finds itself at the bottom of a creative well. (more…)
