mikeduquette.bsky.social
Music reissue news at @theseconddisc.bsky.social, assorted culture writing at Duques-Delight.ghost.io, freelance writing at Allmusic/Observer/UltimateClassicRock/various labels of varying repute
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The wordplay has stuck in my head since I read this very interview (for better or worse)
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This is real sub-IMDb coincidence trivia, but I love that this movie features Veronica Cartwright (future trauma victim of pod person and Xenomorph) AND Doodles Weaver (uncle to Sigourney)
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Agh! I am sorry to hear of this
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Damn near screamed out loud when I read this. What a freak!!!!
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it is very funny to go through the path of GoldenEye in reverse - game, then film - and realize the story mode is like someone remembering only 3/4 of the movie
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I ride stupid hard for Blast Corps; Bananza (not Rare obv) looks like a holler, but DK matches my attention most as a side-scroller if you're gonna put so many hidden things in there (and Returns was imo too much reminiscing over the formula, which Rare didn't quite do in DKC)
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Good lord, what is happening in there
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Gonna keep the JAWS love going with my first of two contributions to the steady stream of 50th anniversary content. I've guested for the second time with my friends at the Sleepless Cinematic Podcast to talk bad fish for nearly a commentary track-length discussion!
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I remember that memorial, they got some weird guests
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(And THAT, a quote of a deleted piece of Peter Benchley’s cameo as a reporter, is probably the deepest cut of JAWS ephemera you’ll see on your timeline today.)
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And, like, the discontent is clearly bleeding through the less lefty channels of America! You don’t get that many people to No Kings (the SECOND major wave of protests about this asshole) without a molten core of anger. If liberals don’t back off the stove it’ll look like they’re cooking too
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I didn’t grow up in a conservative family so I never felt fit to judge what compelled folks in 2024 to go how it went. But my patience is long frayed with the ignorance of voters ostensibly on my (and my kids’) “side”
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Hoopin’ Walton, they call him
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If—IF—there was a justification, it must come down to something with the book (manufacturing/photo clearance/something I’m not thinking of). Not making it so luxe/hardcover might’ve gotten it down to a price I’d consider springing for sooner. (A guess from years of working around sets like these)
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His diction and voice have forever fascinated me. As someone who started noticing radio juuust before the Lion King years, it was fascinating to hear a DJ say the same name after “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” and “The One”
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I really really wish there was a way to figure it all out, as I’d wager there are more film score enthusiasts ex-U.S. at this point (we’re a very stupid country lmao)
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(Although, and I’ve said this to him multiple times, the ones I reeeeeeally want him to do are the OTHER Lucasfilm series)
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I’d say it’s an improvement—they found a bunch of first generation session tapes archived in, I kid you not, an underground vault in Kansas and rebuilt the original 2LP program from those tapes along with the full score
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He’s breathed so much life into so many Williams classics on CD. Imagine what it’ll sound like when he gets to loop back around on those big ones in space
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The way I'd always heard it was Warren met Andy as he was wooing Terry and Patrick out of Missing Persons, got the sense he wasn't coming back to Duran and sent them a demo, which they rejected because, as far as they still knew, they still had a guitarist
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When she does that high, wordless thing on the 12" and he copies it??? Balls the size of Russia. Legends, both of 'em
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I used to be so scared too, which made me sad because of how much I like the movies. My mom convinced me as a kid that I should hear the theme and see the gate, dramatically opening her hands and saying "Welcome...to Jurassic Park." To this day, we'll ride, and she'll do the same hand gesture
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I was a green 14-year old at the time but this was one major “ohh are they dumb” moment. The other was this guy (a graduate of our high school) coming with this song (the video came later) on CD singles for an assembly in, like, October
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Do people think the guy with her after the funeral is his dad? I always thought it was one of her parents
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There's a Springsteen biopic and a Star Wars spin-off where he's playing a Hutt, which, despite the weird blockbuster landscape, doesn't scream "every movie" to me
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I'm so fascinated to see how my children navigate the nuances of gender, and hope they're appropriately bolstered by their parents/not intimidated by the freaks out there to live how they want
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Do you remember the first time you heard "No Myth" in a store and it changed your life. I was getting some specific cracker as a record label intern in 2009. There was no Shazam and I had to write the lyric I could remember on a scrap of paper and Google it when I got to my desk
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One of the last really good Matrix co-writes imo
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is the top left after Bob leaped out of bed to go to the chocolate factory or after he avoided getting hit by the fan by burping