Accordions and a Bad Katy Perry Cover Equals World Fame for Ukrainian Band 'Los Colorados' (Лос Колорадос)

Ukrainian pop act "Los Colorados"  (Лос Колорадос) may have single-handedly sealed Ukraine's fate as a nation that will never rule the world, and with just one video.

Their live televised version of Katy Perry's 2008 hit "Hot N Cold" features everything we in the West feared more than anything during the entire Cold War: Hideous attempts at popular music.

This is surely one of the worst yet most amusing attempts to perform any song ever, let alone cover a major pop hit by a major Western performer. Or is it?

Perhaps not. Maybe it's the most ... ingenious. It's so damned bad that it's actually good. You can just watch it once. Like a bad car crash, you can't seem to look away. That, however, is only one video. The band is actually NOT at all like what we seem in this video. Rather, they are solid rockers, having a sound not unlike the Beasty Boys, as you can see in these videos recorded at the Festival Slavske Rock in 2011 and posted on the band's own website.

These boys are pranksters, you see...

Review: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, now on DVD and Blu-Ray

Image via Wikipedia Guest Post by Michael David Stewart

If you saw it, then you undoubtedly remember the original “Planet of the Apes” starring Charlton Heston (1968). It's one of those movies that just burns itself into your memory with just one viewing. The original left us all wanting an explanation, however, of just how the apes came to acquire human-level intelligence and become the dominant species on Earth.

Friend and fellow screenwriter Michael "Fozzi" Stewart gives us his review of 2011's "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes," which answers those questions. This "prequel" to the original story is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Coxtom Felton and Andy Serkis.

In a perfect post-Christmas gift to humans everywhere, "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" recently became available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Fozzi's timing for a review of the DVD release is perfect.  The Hollywood Reporter today notes that "Rise" (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)  "returned to the top of Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales, and its dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart. The title debuted at No. 1 after its Dec. 13 release but slipped to No. 5 in the week leading up to Christmas."  Apes rule, I guess.

Fozzi recommends “Rise” for those of you who missed it in theaters, "and since we mere humans prefer a 'scale' to go by I give 'Rise' a solid 5 out of 5 on the Fozzi Film Scale." Remember, that's not just any scale. It's the Fozzi Film Scale. Read his review here.

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