Slabtown! Bond Bond Bond!

Today I go to the IPRC and hopefully complete the inserts for the CDs. Then they can be mailed out and completed and I won't have to think about them no more. Plus tonight The Robinson Age is playing our only show with the lineup of me, Jeff and Kyle at Slabtown. After this is behind me I can do the covers I promised folks and gear up to relocate Mudlust HQ to Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, my travels through James Bond in film continue. In retrospect Dr. No rises in my estimation after watching the fine but off-brand Never Say Never Again and remembering how iconic Sean Connery really is in the role. Octopussy is easily the most ridiculous Bond so far, putting 007 in a clown costume and a gorilla costume and having him swing through the air on vines while giving a Tarzan yell. I still have little love for fan-favorites Thunderball and You Only Live Twice but A View to a Kill, despite having Grace Jones and Christopher Walken as villains sits below them thanks to being boring, Roger Moore being 57 years old and a scene where James Bond is hanging from a zeppelin by a rope and he hits his groin on a building's radio antenna. Meanwhile, Timothy Dalton's sour-faced saddo take on Bond earns The Living Daylights a demerit, but he is the right age and the action sequence that ends with a cargo plane crashing into an Afghan mountain is really stunning.

1. Goldfinger (Connery)
2. From Russia with Love (Connery)
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Lazenby)
4. The Spy Who Loved Me (Moore)
5. Dr. No (Connery)
6. For Your Eyes Only (Moore)
7. Live and Let Die (Moore)
8. The Living Daylights (Dalton)
9. Never Say Never Again (Connery) 
10. Diamonds are Forever (Connery)
11. Octopussy (Moore)
12. Thunderball (Connery)
13. You Only Live Twice (Connery)
14. A View to a Kill (Moore)
15. The Man with the Golden Gun (Moore)
16. Moonraker (Moore)

And my my revised list of the best Bond theme songs. "Moonraker" switches places with "Diamonds Are Forever" because it's more fun to sing "Where aaaare yoooouu?" than "Forever and ever and ever!!" "The Living Daylights" by a-ha and Duran Duran's classic "A View to a Kill" dance into the fire on their way towards the top and Lani Hall's "Never Say Never Again" sinks to the bottom. Only Madonna's "Die Another Day" can surpass it's awfulness.

1. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
2.  Nobody Does it Better - Carly Simon
3. The Living Daylights - a-ha
4. A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
5. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney and Wings
6. Thunderball - Tom Jones
7. From Russia with Love - Matt Monro
8. You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry
10. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
11. All Time High - Rita Coolidge
12. Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
13. The Man with the Golden Gun - Lulu
14. Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
15. Never Say Never Again - Lani Hall