One of the worst executed ideas ever thought of finally ended yesterday. Due to how stupid, boring and slow moving the first two episodes of Season Two were, I hadn't watched another episode since. That includes the finale last night. The far superior "Falling Skies" was on, as well as the NBA Finals and MLB inter league play between the Cubs and the Red Sox. Then if those shows weren't entertaining enough I could always watch the excellent episodes of "Cold Case" I have on DVR.
After reading ew.com's review of "The Killing" series finale, I'm glad I didn't waste my time watching it. This is a bit of the ew.com article written by Ken Tucker:
"With the same slow raindrop water torture that came to characterize The Killing, the hour continued until we arrived at another twist. Rosie didn’t die at Jamie’s hand. She ran into some woods, Jamie found her, beat her for a while, put her in a car. Then he got Ames to drive out to the forest to tell him he had to help him with this problem — he arrived with his girlfriend, Terry, Rosie’s aunt. While they quarreled over who was going to do what to get rid of Rosie, Terry (Jamie Anne Allman, who ended up giving one of the more effectively varied performances of the series) simply drove the car into the nearby water, drowning poor, screaming Rosie. Terry had no idea it was her niece, she just thought she was taking care of some ugly business, hoping that Ames might still leave his wife for her, even though he was saying he’d changed his mind about that to Jamie."
This is from wikipedia.org: "
| "Jamie takes Richmond back to the office, where he reveals that Rosie had overheard everything between him, Sheriff Jackson and Michael Ames about planting the Indian bones on the waterfront and that he had discovered her there after Jackson and Ames had left. When Rosie started screaming, Jamie hit her to quiet her and she fell. Thinking he had killed her, Jamie drove her to the woods but Rosie surprised him and ran and he chased her to the lake where she was eventually dumped. Linden and Holder arrive as Jamie takes out Richmond's gun. Holder shoots him dead. Thinking the case is solved, Linden and Holder go to the Larsens and find them gone with Terry packing up the garage. There, Linden connects Terry to the killing through the broken taillight on her car and Terry makes her confession: she had picked Ames up from the ferry and were about to depart for Las Vegas when Ames received a call from a panicked Jamie. Terry drove them to the lake where Jamie and Ames get into a fierce argument about what to do with the body. Terry, not realizing that Rosie was in the trunk and fearing that she could lose Ames, pushes the car into the lake. Terry is arrested and refuses a lawyer. In Jamie's apartment, they find the missing footage from Rosie's camera, another super 8 film called "What I Know", which Linden anonymously sends to the Larsens. It shows Rosie preparing to depart for her journey and she professes her love for her parents and brothers, giving the Larsen family closure. Richmond is elected mayor and decides to leave his wife's death in the past. Linden lets go of the Larsen case." |
Although I didn't love "Rock of Ages" as much as my peers do, I still love the music from that era. I've been listening to hair metal classics the last couple of days to get the best hair metal playlist possible. Although I will include a few obvious selections, I also tried to dig deep. I wanted a mix of the best songs, not the most famous. Enjoy!
While I mock nearly everyone of these songs, I admit that I probably owned every one of them at some point in my life. I also predict that most of these bands are in the studio right now working on their "comeback" CDs. They only wrote songs about 3 or 4 topics, no one will ever accuse these guys of being members of Mensa. Of course that's not the purpose of these songs. These songs meant to rock, kicks some butt and for people to have fun. While they didn't educate anyone, they certainly created some of the greatest music ever. Here are some of the more obscure bands and songs from the hair metal era.
This is pretty typical lyrical comment for hair metal, especially at the early part of that era. This is Bullet Boys "Smooth Up In Ya":
Again more of the genius songwriting lyrics on this song. A great song, in spite of the relentlessly stupid lyrics. Kingdom Come's "Get It On":
When the hair metal maestros weren't thinking about sex, the other 5% of the time they were thinking about death, suicide or partying. Kix's "Don't Close Your Eyes":
Here's another song about death, this is from Slaughter. This is "Fly To The Angels":
Sticking with the boys from Slaughter. They don't just talk about death, they also talk about partying. Yet another hair metal cliche topic:
More "research" tonight and more songs to come tomorrow.
themusicaddict
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