A2Z
A2Z is a 2006 USA-German action film by Daryush Shokof. The film is shot entirely in Berlin, Germany in 2004.
Plot
The old man (Jack Taylor) and his lolita (Narges Rashidi) are lovers. They have decided to end it all by a dramatic "shoot-out" finale this very day. As they know one of them will definitely die before the day is over, they decide to have a wild ride through the last day of their lives. They rob banks, fight the Nazis, do drugs, laugh and dance, kiss, feed the poor, and finally have sex for the last time before starting up the ritual to shoot each other to death. However, as each one holds the revolver against the other, neither one knows if the other's revolver is loaded, but the ritual has to go on.
Cast
Art Design
Award
Narges Rashidi won the Best Breakthrough actress award as the lead actress in the film at the New York International Film and Video Festival NYIIFVF in 2007.
Hook (boxing)
A hook is a punch in boxing. It is performed by turning the core muscles and back, thereby swinging the arm, which is bent at an angle near or at 90 degrees, in a horizontal arc into the opponent. A hook is usually aimed at the chin, but it can also be used for body shots, especially to the liver.
Hook punches can be thrown by either the lead hand or the rear hand, but the term used without a qualifier usually refers to a lead hook.
When throwing a hook, the puncher shifts his body weight to the lead foot, allowing him to pivot his lead foot and generate kinetic energy through the hip/torso/shoulder, swinging his lead fist horizontally toward the opponent. Sometimes, depending on style and what feels comfortable to the individual, the lead foot is not pivoted. Pivoting increases the power of the punch, but leaves one lacking in options to follow up with, such as the right uppercut or right hook.
The hook is a powerful punch with knockout power.
Variations of the hook are the shovel hook or upper-hook; they are body punches that combine characteristics of both the hook and the uppercut.
Hook (Blues Traveler song)
"Hook" is a song by the jam band Blues Traveler, from their 1994 album Four. The song peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The title of the song is a reference to the term hook; "A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener". The term generally applies to popular music, especially rock music, R&B, hip hop, dance music, and pop."
The music video for the song featured Paul Shaffer on keyboard, who also played keyboards on the second track off the album Four, entitled "Stand."
Structure
The chord progression of Hook is very similar to the basic structure of Pachelbel's Canon in D, (D-A-Bm-F#m-G-D-G-A, or I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V). This chord progression is very widely used in popular music, often as the hook, leading to other satirical takes on the use of this chord structure.
There are several allusions in the song, one to the story of Peter Pan and his nemesis Captain Hook "no matter how much Peter loved her, what made the Pan refuse to grow, was that the Hook brings you back".
Podcasts:
Hook Up
by: ButterfingersI might be skinny but to stop me getting thinner
Waitresses hook me up with my lunch and my dinner
I know every face in the place in the Valley
And when I'm outta cash they put my hash browns on the
tally
Or they shout me they wanna know about the shenanigans
It's a dull day without me yo
Like Joe Cocker when I wake up I'm a shocker
Pass on the latte they know I like a moccha
In this mecca's neck of the woods I get respected
And one thing I know is that it's good to be connected
Everywhere I go I get discounted clothes
Free entry at shows for me and all my bros and sisters
I rap the tongue twisters and if you don't like it you
can come and kiss this
Cause I'll be doin' it while your still fuckin' around
You call me lucky like I found twenty bucks on the
ground
I got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
I got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
Break out the bag bring it back to the bucket
Better get a bit of credit cause I never said fuck it
Choppin' up ya nugget cuttin' beats on the regular
Coughin' up chunks and delete all competitors
Bullshit I said its the full clique
I hang with the cool kids that I went to school with
Some get pregnant the crew gets bigger
I figure the family will grow but I'm happy to deliver
Break beats not babies and make these rhythms
Blaze these joints from Enoggera to Wynnum
All the women in the area make some noise
Everytime I kick a rap with the Valley Trash boys so
Fuck toys and bullshit artists
Cause doublehats knows home's where the heart is
Spark this ism with my closest mates
We roasted fate with bros in the pineapple state
Ate Marijuana cake for breakfast
To wreck this emcee collectors of resin and readily
Fingers that are buttery stoned utterly immaculate
And suddendly I come back to it
We've got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
We've got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
I'm sharp like a thistle and I whistle like a scud
Missle this old man standing here is my blood
It's the butterfinger boys here to tell you whats up
Anton turn the amps on and crank 'em up
So the the crowd can hear us louder and clearer
Got ya head rockin' like a shot of opal nera
I don't drive a Camira but it's all good
Still rollin' in the Holden (not the Kingswood!)
Hangin' for a hit of the shit we're cooking up
I'm on it like a comet so I keep ya lookin' up
Tonight we're rollin' dice so it's time I shook 'em up
I always liked it on the mic so it's time I took it up
As a profession and I'm guessin' it's a natural
progession
From here to fame but the game is a messin'
With my head better off dead?
No I think not cause look what I've got
We've got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
We've got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
Butterfinger motherfuckers have got the hook up
That always comes through
You gotta stay connected
To the mad mad crew
We've got the hook up
That always comes through
The mad mad crew