Did you and/or your friends hear that July 5, 2010 — also known as "yesterday" — was one of the target dates for Back To The Future's time-traveling DeLorean? Well, don't worry if you didn't, because it's not true — not even for those late-aughts-produced DirecTV ads that starred Christopher Lloyd. This little bit of misinformation (complete with misleading Photoshop!) was apparently hatched by TotalFilm and turned into an Internet Holiday Wildfire (that's still burning, thanks to a follow-up Photoshop that changed the DeLorean's date to July 6!) thanks to the killer combination of that site's Twitter account having almost 30,000 followers and people not really double-checking anything on the Internet, ever. ("It seems some lax research and average photoshop skills go a long way on Twitter these days," mused TotalFilm, which apparently just arrived on the Internet.) I would also hazard a guess that peoples' inherent desire to moan and groan about feeling old played into this particular rumor spreading as quickly as it did, so get ready for more of that when the actual date arrives!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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I have a longing for "The Young Riders".
Remember when Stephen Baldwin was "the hot one"? Sigh.
Teen Wolf > Back to the Future
Elucidate, because woefully incorrect as per my opinion, which is correct.
I had to look up "elucidate" so I think you probably won.
Your vocab > my vocab
Well, even without debating the film, I present this: Listen to the Alan Silvestri tracks "Back to the Future" and "Back to the future Overture" while watching any sporting event. Any. I like it for Hockey, but golf, tennis, curling, whatevs. Turn off the announcer's voice if you can (where we're going, we won't need an announcer) or mute entirely if need be. Then enjoy a marriage of the greatest movie them with sports. Improvement: 950 percent. Doping of any kind is encouraged.
*Theme.
I like this idea. I'd also suggest doing the same thing with "Win in the End," the song that accompanies the most realistic basketball game footage ever from Teen Wolf. But yes, either way, doping is required/encouraged.
Touché!
So Liz Phair didn't release an album this weekend?
I don't even know why this makes me mad.
Christ, that's nothing. What about when 2001 came and went? That was always supposed to be the future!
What about 1984, youngin'?
Not only did 2001 come and go, it's now, of course, 2010. As in "2010: Odyssey Two." Also coming and going.
Not so young, I was 22 then.
2001 was further away and a more magical number. When I was a kid I never wondered what I'd be doing in 1984.
I did. 1984 freaked me out. Like, here's life after the Soviets take over.
Personal Trivia: I took my driver license road test on October 28, 1985 (the night when everything "happened" in the movie). Most teens get fairly good advice prior to taking their road test, but everyone I spoke to told me not to drive 88mph.
So the Cubs WON'T win the World Series in 2015?