My Top 100 Songs of 2024: 90-81

See yesterday's post for numbers 100 through 91.

90. "It's Oh So Quiet" Betty Hutton - I learned the Björk version first and so was surprised and delighted by this original. Except that Björk correctly noticed that the word "gorge" is meant to be short for "gorgeous," whereas Hutton mispronounces it as "George."

89. "Sugar In My Bowl" Camille O'Sullivan - on my March playlist of Irish music. She doesn't get all the words quite right, which I sometimes feel forgiving of and at other times get annoyed by. I like how she belts, though. 

O'Sullivan is the life partner of actor Aidan Gillen, who can be found reciting poetry in English and Irish on Spotify. I most recently saw him as the big bad in Mayor of Kingstown, but remember him best as the heroic Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders, late-life love of Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory).

88. "Dead End Road" Jelly Roll - the song from the Twisters soundtrack is simply a bangin' country-rocker

87. "David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me? (The Reboot)" Bree Sharp

86. "Me and Mr. Jones" Amy Winehouse 

85. "S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)" The Glorious Sons - I don't love the band name; it sounds like something Confederate sympathizers would name themselves. And it might not be great for one's mental health, as it implies suicidal ideation. But it's a very catchy song.

84. "You & I" Lady Gaga - I listened to Lady Gaga in anticipation of the release of Joker: Folie à Deux. (I still haven't seen it.)

83. "Sacrilege" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fallen for a guy/ [who] Fell down from the sky." On my Destiel playlist

82. "It's the End of the World As We Know It" R.E.M.

81. "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) (GOLDHOUSE Remix)" Elle King, Miranda Lambert, GOLDHOUSE

Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer

And this is the recipe for Robert Oppenheimer's signature gin martini. 

Happy Wuthering Heights Christmas Actually

This Tweet:

Is there anything more dramatic than when Dido’s “Here with me” kicks in when rick won’t tell kiera knightly he fancies her #loveactually

— Scarlett (@scarlettwith2ts) December 23, 2017

...reminded me that Andrew Lincoln, the actor from Christmastime favorite Love Actually who also plays Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead, was also in the 2009 BBC miniseries production of Wuthering Heights. (His character's name in Love Actually is Mark, and Mark is declaring his love for the wife for his supposed friend Peter.)

Best. Edgar Linton. Ever.

He even gets to be a little bit sexy and we, the viewer, get a little preview of the butt.

So I did this.

Well, he IS. He should have been nicer to Isabella. And to dogs.

But the 2009 production is what introduced Catherine actress Charlotte Riley to Heathcliff actor Tom Hardy, and the couple has been together in real life ever since. They're on Season 4 of Peaky Blinders together -- although not in any of the same scenes. Which is a real shame, because her posh character May is bad for Tommy Shelby, but she might have been great with Alfie Solomons.

Yep, I binge-watched the entire fourth season of Peaky Blinders on Christmas Eve. It also had Adrien Brody, my beloved Geoffrey Fife from The Thin Red Line. I did not love the way he played his character Luca. It seemed like he was doing an awkward impression of Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Although not played by an actor on the show, it was mentioned that one of Luca's rivals was a Chicagoan named Alphonse Capone. You know who has played Al Capone?

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