Jack Houston, rising star of 2016 Time for a little whimsy
OUR FOLLOW-UP list of loopy song titles has elicited “more pa- more” requests, which indicate that some readers can’t get their fill of spaced-out songwriters’, ah, effusive musical effusions.
—Must be because these wild and woolly titles are like crazy, short-short stories that provide glimpses and strobe-light flashes of folk singers and rockers’ most private and telling lows and highs. Our latest harvest:
“Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge”; “We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows”; “Shoplifters of the World Unite!”; “He Hit Me—And It Felt Like A Kiss”; “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family”;
“Stalkers Slit My Wrist”; “I Went Home at Two With a Ten and Woke up at Ten with a Two”; “A Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares”; “Baboon Rape Party”; “I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bone”; “I Used to Have a Best Friend, But Then He Gave Me an STD”;
“Cowboy King”
“If You Can’t Ride Two Horses at Once—You Should Get Out of the Circus”; “I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps a Cowboy King”; “For Stevie Wonder’s Eyes Only”; “Honey, This Mirror Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us”; “I’m Low on Gas and You Need a Jacket”; “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage”;
“If Trees Had Eyes, They’d be Glaring at You”; “I Lost All My Money at the Cockfight”; “If You Think This Song is About You, It Probably Is”; “Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space”; “If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?”
And, the “legally loopiest” of them all, “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued.” —Slaphappily guilty, your honor! JACK HOUSTON, who will be seen this August as the title character in the remake of “Ben-Hur,” was cited as rising star of the year at the recent CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards, held by the National Association of Theater Owners. The muchawaited historical action-drama also stars Toby Kebbell as Messala, Nazanin Boniadi and Morgan Freeman.
New world record
The new “Ghostbusters” film’s fans have set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts in a single venue. A total of 263 spooky-looking fans showed up at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and pulled off the fun feat.
The new fantasy film topbills Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth.
‘Ku’te’
The World Premieres Film Fes- tival-Philippines will be held from June 29 to July 16 at some SM Mall cinemas. One of the participating movies is “Ku’te,” written and directed by Ronaldo Bertubin. Its protagonists are Lenlen, a girl with Down Syndrome, and her brother Emong.
Tara mobile app
Galileo Software Service Inc.’s Tara is a Filipino-developed mobile app that prevents mobile phone theft with its killswitch feature. It works even without wi-fi access, Internet date or cell-phone load.
Download the app from Google Play and register the basic information. Visit www.tara.com.ph for details.
Entrance exam
The University of Asia and the Pacific will hold an entrance exam for Grade 11 applicants tomorrow, June 19. Contact Jenny at 637-0912 loc. 342.
In Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
Opening locally on July 6, the sequel topbills Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham-Carter.
Economic briefing
The University of Asia and the Pacific will hold an economic briefing from 1 to 5 p.m. on June 22 at the Li Seng Giap Au- ditorium. Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia Jr. will also speak on Philippine-US relations. Call Kellai at 637-0912 loc. 335.
Celestial Movies Pinoy
On the growing pay-TV landscape, there is more and more demand for movie channels, particularly those that have been localized or subtitled. The acceptance of movies from different countries brings down barriers like culture and language.
To address this, Viva Communications Inc., in partnership with Celestial Tiger Entertainment, has launched Celestial Movies Pinoy, a 24-hour pay TV channel featuring Chinese films dubbed in Tagalog.
This month’s lineup includes “Somewhere Only We Know,” with Kris Wu; “Blind Detective,” with Andy Lau; “My Lucky Star,” with Zhang Zi Yi, and “White-Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom,” with Fan Bing Bing.