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Monday, September 09, 2002
While catching this funny but average movie last night, it dawned on me that the Farrelly Brothers actually are vastly underrated when it comes to their movie soundtracks. I guess most people are distracted by the sick sight gags and such to notice the music. If you're looking for just slightly off the mainstream pop, the Farrellys are good for that. They're also solid with '70s stuff -- the Outside Providence soundtrack was just a collection of '70s pop/rock stuff.
In Me, Myself and Irene, there are a couple of decent tracks by Pete Yorn and Wilco, not to mention some Steely Dan covers, including "Do It Again" by Smash Mouth. (How many covers have they done for movies anyways? I smell a question brewing there.) Kingpin featured Freedy Johnston, whose "Bad Reputation" from about '95 or '96 I liked a lot. There's Something About Mary had Jonathan Richman in a funny recurring role, not to mention resurrecting "Build Me Up Buttercup" from the scrap heaps of the oldies stations. Shallow Hal wasn't as memorable music-wise, but it did feature Lucinda Williams and Cake, not to mention a fun tie-in with "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)."
posted at 12:53 AM
One heck of a first weekend for the NFL, even if it was spoiled a little bit by that ridiculous opening ceremony concert, etc. in New York. I wonder if I really think having DirecTV and Sunday Ticket is worht my time since I'm already flipping like mad between the two games going on, never mind the 8-10 early games at once. Besides, it's better to have all of the numbers in front of me, no matter how slow the Web sites were updating them early (still hard to simulate so many people logging in to check box scores for fantasy purposes).
I won't bore everyone with all of my fantasy teams, but I will say it seemed fortuitous that I have Charlie Garner and Marty Booker on a bunch of them.
And in between it all, it was fun watching Agassi and Sampras slug it out again in the U.S. Open finals. For some reason, that match was more compelling coming in, no matter how many times they faced each other, compared to the Williams sister final, which is actually becoming very repetitive with four of the last Slam finals being the two.
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