Like in force on the case, there was an ep called like “sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of murder”
― Yelp for gyros (wins), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link
wins is mainly thinking, I infer, about the post-Fleming Bond word salad titles imo: Tomorrow Never Dies*, The World Is Not Enough, Quantum Of Solace, No Time To Die
* even more Oasis-like because it came from someone misreading a fax: the unused Pulp theme was still released as Tomorrow Never Lies
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:05 (three years ago) link
btw we tried to watch Tiny Pretty Things last night and it was so poorly written and acted we turned it off after 15 minutes, and we never stop watching anything no matter how dumb it is.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
when i was a little kid watching all those bond movies on cable i often wasnt familiar with the idioms and familiar phrases those titles were tweaking and just internalized them at face value - it wasnt until years later that really dawned on me how many of them are complete nonsense
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Fine Young Cannibals?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
LittleBigPlanet
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
Little Big League
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
I just remembered that's both a movie and a band.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
littleBIGMAN
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
That hasn’t been posted yet?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
John Crowley, Little, BigArundhati Roy, The God of Small ThingsLittle Big Town (band)Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Oh great, HBO has a show coming just called "The Little Things". I'm going to boycott it.
― akm, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
Never Rarely Sometimes Always seems like a questionable title, but the scene where you find out what it refers to is the emotional high point of the film
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
Before I saw that movie I assumed the title referred to survey options.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 17 January 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
I just came to post about my ambivalence to the second season of Big Little Lies and then I realized I’d forgotten the thread theme, so anyway.
Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 18 January 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 18 January 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
thanks Zing
https://offtheshelf.com/app/uploads/2016/09/A-Million-Little-Pieces.jpg
A Million Little Pieces
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.watch.cbc.ca/p/categoryThumbnails/8ff393e7-610d-4d42-b078-ff1049045e2d.jpg?impolicy=poster3x&imwidth=412
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
fuck sake.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1rkAXZ9o
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
Working title was apparently "Lady Dicks," so this may be for the better.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
http://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kathryn-newton-the-map-of-tiny-perfect-things-poster-2021-0.jpg
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Saturday, 13 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
LMAO!
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Saturday, 13 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Wait what?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-million-big-pretty-tiny-little-lies-everywhere
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 16 May 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
watched this a few months back, it was not my choice, some interesting ideas in there i guesshttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ1MjM0OTE2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzgwMDY4NzM@._V1_.jpg
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
Bigby, The Littlest Big Dog in the World
― calzino, Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.reeloneent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/47736-_1_PRETTY_LITTLE_VICTIM_KEY_ART_V4-scaled.jpg
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
I saw an article about the upcoming TV series Tiny Beautiful Things and was like, didn't they make a show called that a few years ago? No, that was Tiny Pretty Things
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
This trend started with Little Bighorn
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.applewoodbooks.com/Assets/ProductImages/9781557095916.jpg
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
See also--
The God of Small Things (perhaps the book that kicked this off?)Small Great ThingsScrappy Little NobodyLittle EarthquakesTen Tiny BreathsShiny Broken PiecesTiny Dark SeedsEach Tiny SparkThis Tiny Perfect WorldThe Association of Small BombsThe Ministry of Utmost HappinessThe Dazzling TruthA Teeny Bit of TroubleA Teeny Taste of Scandal
Big Lies in a Small TownBright Shiny MorningThe Queen of Bright and Shiny ThingsEvery Shiny ThingNine Shiny ObjectsTiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
haha i was just thinking about this but i couldn't really articulate it, of course there's an ilx thread.
it is annoying.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Map_of_Tiny_Perfect_Things?wprov=sfla1
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
How many books have titles like this and the front cover is just large type white font with a background of interlaced CGI flowers
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
this title convention is like a mash-up of grown-up YA, multicult Chick Lit, McSweeney's sincere-core and cutesy crime fiction.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
The God of Small Things (perhaps the book that kicked this off?)
Well, Thomas Berger published the western novel Little Big Man in 1964. It was a Dustin Hoffman film in 1970.
John Crowley published the fantasy novel Little, Big in 1981.
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things came out in 1997.
So I get the annoyance with a twee cliché (tweeché?), but comic juxtaposition and cognitive dissonance are as old as literature. (Cf. Shakespeare, "Though she be but little, she is fierce.")
I don't know whom to blame but it seems unfair to blame Arundhati Roy.
Maybe giving atomic bombs cute names Fat Man and Little Boy was in poor taste.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
of course there are antecedents but having worked in a bookstore from the late 90s to the late 00s there was a definite in titles like this in that era. The God of Small Things sounded kind of profound and cozy at the same time, which is the vibe I get from a lot of these.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
One time when something bad failed to happen - like I dropped a glass and it didn't break - my girlfriend said "thank the thousand little gods."
I don't know where that came from but I found it charming and I married her.
Shit, maybe I'm the problem.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
Also, Little Earthquakes rocks. Do not mess with 90s Tori.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China?
― Ste, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClygZtp8mA
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
A little bit of Monica in my lifeA little bit of Erica by my side
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
Just saw this tweet and came to revive. Glad to see we're already on top of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the seventh thing with this title to have been released in the past five years pic.twitter.com/4E3jYU7y7j— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) April 5, 2023
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
Soref otm
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:12 (three months ago) link
I think they work by being vague but also familiar, so that you have the feeling that you've heard enough good things already to warrant the purchase. "Oh yeah, Pretty Liars Everywhere, I think I've heard of that."
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:31 (three months ago) link
All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Hilarious that Rothfeld, who made her name writing about modernist masterworks, allowed her book to fall into this format lol
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
Small Lights Lie Everywhere
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:04 (three months ago) link
All the Little Live Things a really good, devastating 1960's novel by Wallace Stegner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:09 (three months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/1QlU1wrhbd— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) March 26, 2024
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:03 (three months ago) link
How did we make it this far without anyone mentioning Eat, Pray, Love
We should combine themEat all the big little lies I never told you, pray everywhere in the house of ivy and sorrow, love all at once
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:48 (three months ago) link
overly long ones are next, lets say fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe as an exemplar
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:21 (three months ago) link
They combined the titles that’s crazy https://t.co/XhyCrw75qZ pic.twitter.com/tvvm7Px09o— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) March 26, 2024
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:04 (three months ago) link
All thesmall wives
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:22 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435452849i/90619.jpg
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Vf2vo2IqL._SL1200_.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:39 (three months ago) link
Remember all the book covers that were just, like, shoes?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817iFfLhJ+L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=M86PhpoehBAC&pg=PP1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2B9KEeH3mVPMWU7HGtr5DdvQ0e8Q&w=1280
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
if James Herriot were writing today, his book would be called Little Big Animals
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
All Creatures are Small
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:43 (three months ago) link
Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:48 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387741079i/18079552.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1311978825i/8789529.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:56 (three months ago) link
xp The ad for Dirty Sexy Money started with a bunch of random words on the screen, and they disappear one by one until only "dirty" "sexy" and "money" remain. Probably exactly the way creators and execs come up with these half-assed titles
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:17 (three months ago) link
I wonder if the title for Dirty Sexy Money was inspired by this British TV movie?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY5MjIxODk2MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgwOTgyMQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link
Tell me lies, tell me Sweet Little Filthy Sexy Tiny Big Lies
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:53 (three months ago) link
Lionsgate has acquired the rights to ‘SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE’ starring Cillian Murphy.The film takes place over Christmas in 1985, when a devoted father (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and shocking truths about his own life too. pic.twitter.com/0SqxR3FW2T— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 5, 2024
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:13 (three weeks ago) link
startling secrets AND shocking truths? I'm in.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:16 (three weeks ago) link