Xena Related
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24 Related
Xena & 24 Related
KMFDM & Xena Related
Miscellaneous

1. Gina Torres and Tony Todd both had appearances in Xena and 24. Tony Todd, coincidentally, is often the narrator on movie previews.

2. The movie 12 Monkeys has a Muse (a cool band) poster in the background. It also has a KMFDM concert poster in the background. The movie is based on a french film called La Jetee, which takes place after the nuclear holocaust of World War III. KMFDM's last album was called World War III.

3. Kill Bill Vol. I starts with the quote "Revenge is a dish that's best served cold" which is a KMFDM lyric. Daniel (who's last name is Buck) mistook the lyric as "Revenge is a dish (as in a hot girl) passed out cold." And in Kill Bill Vol. I, Buck gets his revenge from The Bride, who was a passed out dish.

4. The Wu-Tang Clan uses a sample from the movie Five Deadly Venoms which in part inspired Kill Bill.

5. Karl Urban, who has had multiple roles on Xena was also Eomir on The Lord of the Rings.

6. Hugo Weaving was Elrond in The Lord of the Rings, and Agent Smith in The Matrix.

7. The guy who played Milo on season one of 24 was in the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the remake, the protagonist takes it upon herself to save a baby that the Leatherface Extended Family has kidnapped and murdered the parents of. This is similar to Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes in which the protagonists try to save their baby from the cannibalistic hill folk who have stolen it.

8. Not a lot of people say "slippy", but Worms has a "Slippy mode" and lyrics from U2's 'Mysterious Ways' (covered by KMFDM) says "she's slippy/you're sliding down."

9. En Esch lives across the street from me.

10. Shiri Appleby appeared in Xena, and Roswell. Roswell's themesong was by Dido, who appeared on the song Stan with Eminem. Dido is also the Queen of Carthage, whom Aeneas had an affair with after the Trojan War, which is the subject of Troy (the war, not the affair), and was also the subject of a Xena episode entilted "Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts."

11. Gary Jules does the song "Mad World" for Donnie Darko, and Jules Hodgson is the guitarist for KMFDM.

12. Lucia (KMFDM) & Gabrielle (Xena) are always talking about food.

13. The KMFDM song Brute has the lyric "dawn of my death" which is like the George Romero movie Dawn of the Dead. Also, the House of Pain song "Jump Around" mentions the "Dawn of the Dead". The third movie in the oiginal series is Day of the Dead, which is also an Hispanic Holiday celebrated Nov. 1st.

14. The KMFDM song "Split" has lyrics like "things that used to be one, become divided being in halves", "one face each on one side" & "like twins torn apart" relate to themes from the "Origin of Love" from Hedwig & the Angry Inch, a song that talks about how people were originally conjoined back to back. They were then split apart by the gods and people fall in love when they literally find their other half.

15. KMFDM's song 'Mercy' says "I have been there and I have done that" and there is an episode of Xena called "Been There, Done That."

16. The Pig song 'Hothole' mentions a "motel hell" which is the name of a really bad but funny horror movie.

17. A Kevin Smith plays Ares on Xena, while a different Kevin Smith is responsible for Clerks, Mallrats and the rest of the View Askew movies.

18. In the Xena episode 'Tsunami', while stuck underwater in a capsized boat, they fill up wineskins with air to breath through on their way to the surface, which is exactly like my theory about always having ziplock baggies with you so you can fill them with air and breath underwater if necessary.

19. KMFDM's song 'Stars & Stripes' says "divided and conquered" and Julius Ceasar (aka Karl Urban from Xena) is always talking about his strategy to divide and conquer. Also the mdfmk song "Get Out of My Head" has the lyrics, "divide / conquer."

20. In mythology, when Apollo's son wants to drive his father's chariot, Apollo warns him to take the middle road. Buddha eventually came to the conclusion that the path to enlightenment lay among the middle road. The Matrix has many similarities to Buddhism and enlightenment, and the enlightened one, Neo, is played by Keanu Reeves, who played Buddha in Little Buddha.

21. The Matrix uses many mythological names for characters and ships including Morpheous, Niobe, Persephone & Osiris.

22. Nancy Sinatra sings 'Bang Bang' on the Kill Bill Soundtrack, and she also originated 'These Boots are Made for Walking', which KMFDM covered.

23. Kill Bill Vol. 1 has a character named Sophie Fatale, and Lerin, who we saw Kill Bill Vol. I with, has a daughter named Sophie.

24. The Satanic Verses by Salmann Rushdie has a lot of links to other cool things:
A. p. 122 - ululating - the vocalizations of Arab women, which the Xena battle cry is based on. The Song of Troy also mentions the ululating war cry of the Amazons. In the movie Army of Darkness, Evil Ash ululates Xena's warcry.
B. p. 138 - uses the word 'barmy' to describe being a little crazy. KMFDM has the lyric 'barmy army for everyone.' in 'More & Faster'
C. p. 223 - lepidoptera & throught the book talking about butterflies. The Buck family is all into entymology, so the use of the scientific name is apreciated. Also, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez also has butterflies. (and then there's the coincidence between the character Gibreel and the author Gabriel.)
D. p. 238 - one of many mentions of 'sweetmeat' which I don't know what that is, but Pigface has a song called "sweetmeat". The Song of Troy also mentions 'sweetmeats' on p.441.
E. p. 260 - references a Nightmare on Elm Street by Wes Craven
F. p. 374 - the Manticorps, referencing the manticore, a mythological beast with the head of a man, body of a tiger or lion, and feet and tail of a scorpion or of a dragon. Also, Manticore was the secret government agency from 'Dark Angel' with Jessica Alba.
G. p. 415 - references Labyrinth with David Bowie
H. p. 416 - references Dr. Strangelove
I. p. 419 - talks about a remote control gizmo, and my dog's name is Gizmo
J. p. 420 - 'the genetic possibilities of centaurs' and Xena has centaur and amazon mating.
K. p. 449 - references Moby Dick, which I've never read, so i'm not sure if it's cool, but it was also referenced in 'Heathers'
L. p. 478 - talks about an 'Event Horizon', which is also the title of a Laurence Fishbourne movie
M. p. 528 - talks about a 'Megalomaniac', which is also the name of a KMFDM song, and in Die Hard 3, the bad guy isGerman and profiled as having Megalomania

25. In Kill Bill Vol. 2, Pai Mei calls Beatrix Kiddo "my pathetic friend." Ben Lee has a song called "My Pathetic Friend".

26. In Kill Bill Vol. 2, when Beatrix is at Bill's home and he shoots the TV as she goes for his sword, he then shoots a bowl of fruit on the table and Beatrix gets fruit goo all over her chest. Some probably got caught down in her bra too. In an episode of Xena, Gabrielle ends up saving some Ambrosia in her bra and it's just enough to bring Xena back from the dead. Also, the actress who played Vernita Green's daughter Nikki is named Ambrosia Kelley.

27. In Kill Bill Vol. 2, Beatrix uses the "5 pt. palm exploding heart technique", which looks awfully similar to Xena's pressure point trick.

28. The novels A Story Like the Wind and A Far-Off Place by Laurens Van der Post have some cool connections too.
A. p. 103 mentions the Englishman's saying that 'you have to be cruel to be kind." In Calderon de la Barca's play Life is a Dream, line 552 states "I must be cruel to you, to be kind" like the Cheap Trick song, "Cruel to be Kind", which was covered by Letters to Cleo for the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, which is based on a Shakespeare play. And according to alibris.com "Calderon is the most celebrated classical dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. Author of over 120 plays, his greatness compares to that of Shakespeare." A Far-Off Place also references Shakespeare in general, as well as the plays Hamlet and The Tempest.
B. p. 162 compares a Bushman resisting the call of a honey-guide to Odysseus resisting the Sirens.
p. 276 also references The Odyssey comparing the ocean's waves to the sea-god's horses.
C. p. 269 compares a character to a kind of heroic Amazon.
D. p. 310 has a little speech: "For if one does not forgvive one does not understand; and if one does not understand, one is afraid; and if one is afraid, one hates; and if one hates, one cannot love." This is like Yoda's speech to Annikin in Episode One about fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. (and Star Wars relates to so many other cool things.)

29. KMFDM has a song called "Sturm & Drang" which is a German Literary movement whose best known author is Goethe. In the movie "Almost Famous" Francis McDormand quotes Goethe when she's on the phone with Russell Hammond: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." Herman Hesse (who also wrote Siddartha, about the life of Buddha) is always talking about Goerthe in his book Steppenwolf, which has a protagonist named Harry, and his friend is named Hermine, much like Harry Potter and his friend Hermiane. In Greek mythology, Hermione was the daughterof Menelaus & Helen. Hermione was orignally promised to Orestes, but intead she was married to Neoptolomos, the son of Achilles. But he was murdered and she then married Orestes and had a child with him.

30. The Last Samurai mentions the Battle of Thermopylae, which Xena fictionalizes in "One Against an Army".

31. Slick Idiot and Prick both have a song called "Make Believe". The Watt's song "Situation" has the lyric "it all turned into make believe".

32. In Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Papa Jones is talking about the nazis and saying if they get power there will be an Army of Darkness across the world. Army of Darkness is a movie by Sam Raimi & Rob Taipert, the creators of Xena.

33. Star Wars
A. Kevin Smith is always talking about Star Wars in his movies, like Clerks, where they ydiscuss the fate of the everyday contractors who also died when the incomplete Death Star blew-up in Return of the Jedi. (Not to mention his movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which had Mark Hammill and Carrie Fisher in it.)
B. Natalie Portman plays Amidala in the Star Wars Prequels, and she stared in The Professional, where she learns to be an assassin, and she was in Mars Attacks (a Tim Burton movie, and almost all Tim Burton movies are cool) which was about outer space, aliens, and war.
C. The Cibo Matto song "Sci-fi Wasabi" references Obi-Wan Kenobi.
D. The Xena episodes "Adventures in the Sin Trade I & II" features a tribe of young, orphaned Siberian Amazons, who look kind of like Ewoks. And there is some fighting up in trees, also like the Ewoks.
E. In Van Helsing, Dracula's little amy of helpers look like evil Jawas.

34. The Tim Burton movie A Nightmare Before Christmas has a character named Jack the Pumpkin King, who is very simillar to Jack, a pumpkin-headed scarecrow in Return to Oz.

35. A crew member on KMFDM's WWIII Tour was wearing a Buddy Guy t-shirt just like Daniel's.

36. The Professional (Luc Besson):
Gary Oldman makes an awesome badguy. He was at one time married to Uma Thurman (Kill Bill) and he once got arrested for drunk driving with pal Keifer Southerland (24) in the car with him. (While Gary Oldman is cool we do not condone drunk driving. Gary Oldman sucks for driving drunk.)
Jean Reno, though a hit-man, he is the good guy. He also plays a less nice hit-man in Nikita, another film by Luc Besson, which is the basis for the TV series, La Femme Nikita, as well as Point of No Return, with Bridget Fonda, who was not only in Army of Darkness, but also in Little Buddha with Keanu Reeves. Jean Reno turned down the role of Agt. Smith in The Matrix to be in Godzilla.

37. The KMFDM song "Urban Monkey Warfare" has the lyric 'Monkey Man', and the Xena episode "The Way" has an actual Monkey Man.

38. In the movie King Arthur, King Arthur gets shot in the neck with an arrow, much like Season 3 of 24, where Tony gets shot in the neck with a bullet.

39. The Empire Records Soundtrack has a song "What You Are" by Drill, which is the band Lucia Cifarelli was in before she joined KMFDM. Empire Records has Ethan Embry in it, who was also in the movie A Far Off Place, based on the sequel to the book A Story Like the Wind.