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I’m currently obsessed with this song.
Other artists on the track (and in the video) are – Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee & Grandmaster Caz.
My favorite part, is the sweet hook by Eric Nally. I was hoping that – like Mary Lambert’s Same Love, that hook was part of its own song but I haven’t found it.
I like how long the rap is, and how it is like six different songs, strung together.
Everything about it, is great.
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Writer Sam Humphries
Pencils Ed McGuinness and Javier Garron
Inkers Mark Farmer, Javier Garron and Ed McGuinness
Colors Marte Garcia
Letterer Travis Lanham (without VC?)
Black Vortex, Chapter Thirteen
The Final Chapter!
Shadowcat narrates the entire issue, for us. Kitty has been given a cosmic upgrade but has also disappeared in front of everybody.
The combined heroes are fighting off the Slaughter Lords.
We get our first look at, Cosmic Shadowcat! I like Humphries’ reveal of what Kitty likes to do on a Saturday night. She likes to drink tea, under a blanket and watching Katherine Hepburn films. My favorites are – Philadelphia Story, Adam’s Rib, African Queen, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and On Golden Pond.
I’m glad I looked her up, as my mind read it as “Audrey Hepburn” instead of Katherine.
Cosmic Shadowcat has a different outlook on space now, all the things she hated before, seem to have disappeared.
She sees the remains of Hala, Breakworld and Earth. She reaches out and touches alternate realities of Kitty Prydes. The two famous ones are Kate Pryde and Shadowcat of Lighting Force. With Humphries writing “Star Lord and Kitty Pryde” starring the Shadowcat of Age of Apocalypse, I’m surprised that Shadowcat wasn’t on the list. Especially as the other three are just Kitty Prydes over the eyar, from her Original X-Men Uniform, to her Blue Excalibur Costume to Current one, plus the even more current Cosmic Kitty Pryde. I would have included Age of Apocalypse and Ultimate Kitty Pryde, but I can see them not wanting to include Ultimate Shadowcat this close to Secret Wars 2015. If the X-Men Forever Shadowcat had a distinctive look (or was more popular) she could have been included. Cat from Exiles is dead, so that one wouldn’t work.
The Mutant X slash Black Queen Kitty could have been fun. This may be the biggest problem, if you choose two, do you not go with a fuller page with additional ones? With Spider-Verse behind us, I imagine Marvel also wants to avoid that too. Shadowkitty would also have been a cute choice.
Cosmic Shadowcat becomes one with the entire universe. Thus, she is far better than Mastermind, when he had this same experience. I suppose that his was forced on him, and he didn’t have the cosmic power to support it.
Ronan the Accuser, still cosmically powered, has entered the fray. He is seeking revenge for Hala, which he should just be mad at everybody present. Cosmic Gamora, Beast and Warren for destroying so much of Hala and Slaughter Lords as they work for J’Son and he gave the order to rip Hala in half. Which Ronan is clearly mad at them all.
Before more fighting can happen, the astonishing happens.
Spartax and its amber coated top layer, are phased apart. Add Spartax to the list of planets that Kitty Pryde has single handedly saved by herself – the other planet, Earth. Look at that image on the bottom, how awesome that Kitty just straight up phases on a planetary scale.
We will just have to overlook or plain forget that Kitty just killed an entire species of Brood babies.
So great how the people of Spartax will know, forever, the name “Kitty Pryde.”
Look at the . . . how proud, Quill is over his lady love.
Kitty just holds Spartax like it is a basketball.
The Slaughter Lords decide now that is the time to be getting out of there.
Cosmic Kitty is now human size.
I like the possible friendship between Magik and Nova, she could use a friend that isn’t related to the X-Men.
Gara prepares to destroy the Black Vortex, she gives those who were enhanced to undo the procedure. There is a risk though, the repercussions are unpredictable.
Gamora and Warren are going to keep their power upgrades. Scott, Bobby, Groot and Beast – all agree to risk the changes and get depowered. Beast reverts back to his latest blue ape form. Bobby, instead of having his default ice form being mostly snow, is now ice. Groot seems to be bulkier.
Scott doesn’t feel any differences. Jean, being the nosy bitch that she is, reads his mind and sees that it his heart that is different.
Kitty offers Gara to join them. Kitty feels pretty comfortable offering positions in the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Look! Someone remembered to include Lockheed! This is already a great issue! He looks pretty soft there. This appears to be a Garron drawn page, I would reckon.
Corsair remains the only member of the Starjammers to be seen. In that Black Vortex trailer, they make a point of naming the Starjammers as being involved but they were barely on four pages. They may be tied with Lockheed for involvement.
Nova and Magik are still chatting about. Is Drax and Storm dancing? Rocket explains that the X-Men are taking the Hot Rod back to Earth, as he doesn’t want to get anywhere near that planet. Corsair is talking to the younger version of his former daughter-in-law. What could Lockheed, Scott and Carol be talking about? Lockheed seems to be very interested in the conversation.
Two people are clearly missing.
Pryde and Quill are floating about space, he is attempting to serenade her. The song he is singing, is “Once Upon a Dream” – which is famously from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.
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Kitty, even after all of her comments and thoughts about hating space and how it isn’t her jam, she has decided to maintain her cosmic powers. Which seems crazy to me! Then again, I wouldn’t have wanted to risk what would have happened if she gave it up. Especially as she was one with the universe. Kitty does have doubts about not giving it up.
Quill doesn’t care about any of that, as he plain loves her.
Quill starts explaining how much he loves Pryde. Pryde loves the dumb lug.
Bobby, who is the worst, shouts that everyone should come to the window and watch.
Quill straight up proposes to Pryde!
The Collector . . . collects J’Son. Ronan arrives on some Kree planet, I figure, and swears his vengeance!
Thane and the Ebony Maw, plan on tracking down the Black Vortex. Which Secret Wars 2015 coming around the way, I doubt we will actually get any of these unresolved threads will be tied up.
Pryde and Quill are crying. Look at that weird middle panel with all of the headshots, those look so odd.
They see the couple hugging and take that as a ‘yes’!
Look how big Lockheed is there!
Storm asks Rocket if he will be her date for the wedding. Are we going to get a wedding issue prior to Secret Wars 2015?
StarKat make out as the issue ends.
This was such a fantastic crossover! Such a nice ending and it seems like it will have major ramifications for the two series.
Every year, I get this need to listen to this song but I get around to it, maybe every three years or so.
Thanks to Youtuber harrypottersdaddy for hosting the video.
The visuals for this song are completely bonkers.
Worst Witch came out in 1986, but I must have watched it when it aired on television or something.
Thanks to Jen Wolford for hosting this video. The film is barely an hour and ten minutes.
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Meghan Trainor has treated us to two songs, wherein she either appeared on someone’s track or got someone one her track.
She guests on Charlie Puth’s Marvin Gaye –
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She got Oscar winner, John Legend, to guest on her song, Like I’m Gonna Lose You –
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Both are such good songs!
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There are times when I go on a real kick and watch a slew of SNL music videos, from originals to clever usages of proper songs. I’m a real sucker for people singing.
Here are a few of my favorites –
Ooh Child
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So funny that Lena Dunham can’t sing along. I had to go with a bootleg version, as the music rights were not cleared for infinity.
Paul Rudd’s Divorce Skit
Thanks to Monica Alimonti for hosting this video. I do wish there was a higher quality, as I have to turn the volume way up, just to hear it. The song is –
Fleetwood Mac’s I Don’t Want to Know
Thanks to mander pie for hosting a video with the lyrics!
The last of the Proper Songs is –
Josh Hutcherson’s 80s Skit, using The Outfield’s Your Love (with Jessie’s Girl at the end, by Rick Springfield)
Thanks to Toye Mason for hosting this video. This one also has an audio problem.
Here is the song proper –
Thanks to TheOutfieldVEVO for hosting their own song.
Now for the Original Songs, all songs hosted by NBC or SNL –
The Two Back Home Ballers songs –
(Do It On) My Twin Bed
NBC
Back Home Ballers
Saturday Night Live
Keeping with the ladies, here is
Dongs All Over The World
Saturday Night Live
Now for the guys –
Boy Dance Party, the one that usually starts the marathon –
NBC
Wishing Boot is so great, with the twist at the end –
Saturday Night Live
I looked for two more songs that I hadn’t featured before but I couldn’t find two to round the list out. Enjoy the bonus two videos!
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I thought there were three songs from the first Fantastic Four soundtrack. I recall the film having a decent soundtrack (we played it quite often at Hastings).
Velvet Revolver was Slash’s other big band. I’ve always been a huge fan of Slash, especially when he was on Conan O’Brien.
He did a Secrets segment on Conan that was so funny! I can’t find his solo one but here is a video with one of his –
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I wish the Axl Rose is a sexual anagram, had made the cut.
Nice, I found a website that has all of Slash’s secrets –
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/Music-General/Slash-s-Secrets/td-p/280306
SLASH SECRETS
“I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.”“I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.”
“One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop ‘n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.”
“If I ever go bald, I’ll kill myself.”
“The original name for Guns ‘n Roses was Roses ‘n Guns, but that just sounded stupid.”
“I once asked Axl why he left the ‘E’ off his name. He started crying and said he thought he’d spelled it right.”
“Almost every night I have a dream where one of my pet snakes eats all those boys in Hanson.”
“Someone once asked me what I liked better-kittens or puppies. And I said “‘It’s a tie man.’ They said- ‘Too close to call?’ I said, ‘No, man, too cute to call.'”
“My original nickname was ‘Splash’ because I loved that movie so much.”
“I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There’s the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he’s wild. And then there’s the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.”
“An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I’m not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.”
“Originally, I wanted to call the band ‘Guns ‘n Robots.’ I still believe that if we had just called ourselves ‘Guns ‘n Robots’ we’d still be together.”
Thanks for compiling these, ReddDragon!
One sad note, with the Secrets, was back in the Joe Quesada Message Board days, we were talking about our favorite Secrets, and the very next day, John Ritter died. He had such a great segment!
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The other music video released for the Fantastic Four soundtrack was –
Everything Burns, by Anastacia featuring Bed Moody
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Though this song seems to have inspired –
Ellie Goulding’s Burn Burn Burn
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It is like the exactly same song!
I do like how the music videos do make it seem like the first Fantastic Four film, was going to be pretty good.
Sort of like how Seal’s Kiss from a Rose, makes Batman Forever look like a good film
Thanks to IntheBeginning for hosting the video.
These films really do benefit from being condensed to three minute commercials with a pop song.
The always amazing, Michelle Pfeiffer, is referenced in two songs – though she ought to be in more!
Vance Joy’s Riptide
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I really like how this song is essentially just all of the lyrics, brought to live.
“I swear she’s destined for the screen, Closest thing to Michelle Pfeiffer that you’ve ever seen”
The other song is :
Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk
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I’m not a huge Bruno Mars fan, the radio overplays him. I was thinking about how he was due for another single but now that he has a shared one, with Mark Ronson, I’m already over this song. But I do like hearing Michelle Pfeiffer’s name being sung.
“That ice cold, Michelle Pfeiffer, That white gold”
I mean, seriously, after her star making performance in Grease 2 and the way she performed Cool Rider, she deserves to be immortalized in song.
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I really adore this song, especially that middle section that sounds like Mraz must have incredible lung control to hold his breath that long. Are there other songs with that type of speed or tempo change?
Gavin DeGraw’s Best I Ever Had doesn’t quite have that same moment but I do like how it does speed up in its own way –
Thanks to YouTuber GavinDeGrawVEVO for hosting this video.
Which this song seems like it shares the same tempo, sort of, with Train’s 50 Ways to Say Goodbye
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or maybe I just like listening to all three songs in a row. That’s probably it.
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With this video, I feel like I have to announce that I am a fan of Ed Sheeran. Or at the very least, that I’m a fan of his hit songs.
Thanks again to Ed Sheeran for hosting his own video!
This is a very cute music video. When he was younger and with the glasses, he looks like my nephew Hunter but with red hair.
Referring to Ed Sheeran songs, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) showed up on Jimmy Fallon and performed a very fun song –
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I’m addicted to watching this and I doubt I will ever tire of it.
I’ve been a fan of Jeremy Renner since his ABC show, The Unusuals, which was a great comedy police show, with some real heart. It is a shame that it only lasted ten episodes.
Referring to Renner’s Hawkeye, remember when we first saw him in Thor’s first film?
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It is editted (I imagine for length and to keep it mostly about Hawkeye) but this is by far my favorite scene of Thor’s first movie. Most other scenes with Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard will round out the rest of my top five scenes from the first film. Especially when Thor and Dr. Erik Selvig are drunk after Thor’s failed attempt to lift Mjolnir.
Imagine how much better that film would have been (or how awesome that scene would have been) if he lifted the hammer and had that glorious reunion with his powers? That would have been such a great moment!
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In 2003, we were treated to Ben Affleck’s Daredevil.
I remember being the first one there, one February morning, and realizing that this film isn’t going to make anywhere near the money Spider-Man did, only a few months earlier.
I like the film but once the Director’s Cut came out, that’s all I can watch. It, coincidentally, has less Jennifer Garner, which may be what makes it more into a movie. There are more scenes involving the plot and such.
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I was a giant Ben Affleck film, circa 2003 – though I still am but I’m so far behind in my movie watching, largely because of how often Affleck worked with Kevin Smith.
Here is the trailer –
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I was perfectly cool with the late Michael Clark Duncan portraying Kingpin, that just made perfect sense to me.
I imagine that this film is fun to watch at the ol’ Affleck / Garner home, their children must really like it.
I mostly remember the film for the Evanscenece songs. (which isn’t a great sign)
Bring Me to Live
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My Immortal
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I didn’t want to go negative with this post, as I do enjoy the film – though the graphics are super dated. There were two moments, when I watched it in the theater, that struck me as just plain wrong.
One being when Joey Pants throws the match down, to reveal the Double Ds. Like, seriously? That is a crime scene!!! You can’t just be throwing matches on the ground and the cops are more like “whoa cool” instead of “hey buddy, you just tampered with evidence!”
The second, and it is right at the end, so you leave the theater thinking about how silly the moment is. When Joey Pants (who did a decent job as Ben Urich) has his expose on Daredevil, all written up. He then presses the delete button, just once, and it instantly starts erasing the entire document from word to word, in backwards order. The heck!?! I’m glad my computer doesn’t have that “delete everything” button. They should color that death button something else, so that you don’t accidentally erase your entire thesis paper! Good grief, that was bad!
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