Going to be watching Creed?
âSee that look in their eyes, Rock? You gotta get that look back, Rock. Eye of the tiger, man.â
This brings me back to when we first got MTV as a kidâŚ
Also, looks like Phylica Rashad is going to be in the filmâŚ
Seeing this kind of stuff on wikipedia always gives me a chuckle:
âThe band tweaked its musical direction in 1988 with the release of the slightly heavier Too Hot to Sleep, but due to lackluster promotion the album barely reached the Billboard 200 in the United States.â
Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
If there isnât a cameo from ghost Carl Weathers, Iâm not watching it.
This song always irritated me. Then again, so did âGonna Fly Nowâ.
Apollo Creed is a legendary character, I do not think words can do the man service. I canât imagine what a movie called Creed could do that is additive to who Apollo Creed is, in my mind.
Didnât Apollo Creed die in Rocky 4? Like that was why Rocky was fighting the Russian guy, because he had killed Apollo in an exhibition match?
Back in '93 I started working at IBM, which at that point was on the ropes (speaking of boxing). I worked in PC assembly where they had quarterly all-hands meetings. The first or second of these, they played âEye of the Tigerâ over the PA as someone from upper management approached the stage. He gave this long speech about getting back on top, being champion again, like Rocky Balboa. âItâs the Eye of the Tiger! Keep telling yourself: Eye of the Tiger! I want everyone here tonight to go home and watch Rocky III and think about Eye of the Tiger.â I did some mental calculations, there were probably several hundred (maybe a thousand) of us in the room (and that was just one shift). Assuming 2 dozen Blockbusters in town, each with 3 or 4 copies of Rocky III, it would be impossible for us to watch it, not that I would have bothered anyway.
Other than that spectacle, it was not a bad place to work. I liked hand soldering (not that they paid me much). Since then, I always figured that if my current job went down the toilet, I could always go back to hand soldering. But I figure that particular job may very well no longer exist in the United States (and Iâm not sure what, if anything, IBM still physically manufactures â they sold off the Austin PC plant about 16 years ago, then the company that took over moved out, and itâs all a shopping center now).
Maybe itâs about Helios Creed. I donât know if heâd be much of a pugilist but maybe thatâs what makes the plot so interesting.
Are you saying that a steroided up, mechanically trained monster from the SOVIET UNION could kill the spirit of America?
It WAS the cold war, after all⌠itâs the only narrative that makes any sense.
James Brown⌠Wasnât James Brown involved somehow? [ETA video]
yo i heard you liked cross-referencing multiple threads
so i got some threads
to go with these threads
Eye of the Tiger - choice #1 of my 12 album selection as a newly minted member of the Columbia House Record Club. I taped that penny to that form and mailed it in all by myself.
I felt likeâŚlike a MAN!
Did you complete the contract?
You know what⌠I actually think I did.
If I think hard enough I can still remember many of the other choices on that fateful nightâŚ
AC/DC - Back in Black
Men at Work - Business as Usual
Foreigner - Foreigner 4
Toto - IV
BIlly Joel - Nylon Curtain
Aerosmith - something, somethingâŚ
Still have the LPs somewhere in the basement.
