Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tarantino & the Doors

Since 1999, every year, the Dutch Radio 2 has organized a contest to determine what the best 2000 songs ever made are. After the 2000 best songs ever are chosen Radio 2 broadcasts them in a non-stop show from 26 December until 31 December at midnight. This has become a quite popular event in The Netherlands and every year more and more people ring in the new year by listening to that year's best song. Almost every year the best song turns out to be Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

In 2008 Radio 2's top 2000 existed 10 years. For this occasion Radio 2 did not organize a new voting contest, but added all the votes from all the previous years to create an ultimate top 2000-list. This list will be the core of this blog and I will use it in, what I hope will be, an interesting way. I'll try to link every song of this list to a movie and then I'll write about that movie. Mostly I'll try to link the movie to the song by looking at the lyrics of the song, though I'll also do it in other ways. Obviously the link can't always make a lot of sense. It's mostly a fun excuse to write about a movie

Of course I also hope to write about all kinds of other stuff that have to do with popular culture.

Anyway, I started this blog because I like to write about movies, and think that this may be a fun and interesting way to write and think about them. Especially at the start my writing may not always be good. Some reviews may be too simplistic, other ones may be too pretentious. Some may be written very poorly and some even may be fantastic. I hope that all of them will be at least interesting though.