For Suzette, who has great taste in music
Here’s some Queen for y’all.
I love Queen, especially Seventies Queen. They had an awesome sound, and lots of presence on stage, mostly thanks to Freddie Mercury. Fantastic shows, and crazy-ass sounds.
This is from their first album, recorded during studio time that Paul McCartney had reserved, and then never shown up for. (He apparently did that a lot; they got a lot of free studio time because of that.)
Holy crap, look at those pants
The Tale of Despereaux
An animated movie, featuring a very small mouse with big ears and no good sense of how to cower like a normal mouse. There’s also a sorrowful princess, a temperamental chef, a lost rat, soup, a captive cat in a repurposed stove, a piggy servant with the unfortunate name of Miggery Sow, a man made of vegetables, and a despondent king.
The trailers for this movie emphasized Despereaux himself, which I think was a huge mistake. There’s so much more to the story, and so many offbeat characters that could have been promoted. I remember seeing the trailer and thinking, “well that looks boring.” Surprisingly, it wasn’t. Lots of action, lots of unusual plot twists, and lots of soup.
Fun little movie.