BruceH

Best wishes for your continued, full, and speedy recovery.

I've often thought that myself over the years. I really thought they'd have gotten around to it by now.

Y'know, the first time I listened to Thinking Of Home I was struck by the sound, an unlikeable aura so different from his earlier BN's. Then it suddenly occured to me that the production was more in a 70's mould; ahhh, THAT explains it. It's far from Mobley's sprightliest playing, true...but I'm not sure I'd call it "torpid." I swing back and forth over the fence on this one; sometimes I actually get some pleasure out of it, other times it doesn't do a thing for me.

Nothing wrong with the ending of Gun Crazy! Agreed!!! However, there is that strange scene where he asks Peggy Cummins why she has to kill people, "...Why can't you let them live?" Several commentaters have maintained that this odd, flat, frankly nonsensical little scene must have been imposed by the studio ex post facto, and I'm inclined to agree. I'll have to watch the film again. Kind of off-topic, but I just found out that the 1957 film Night of the Demon, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, also stars Peggy Cummins. I've been on the fence, but now I'm definitely going to get it. I should have taped it when TCM showed it. Oh well. BTW, as you probably already know, the studio forced Tourneur to actually SHOW the demon, which inevitably compromises the film somewhat. Night Of The Demon is a MUST HAVE. There are only a couple of shots of the "studio imposed demon"...it really doesn't have an adverse effect on the film as a whole. It's so much fun to watch Andrews be a skeptic of all things supernatural...while everyone around him (and the audience) knows different. I'm gonna buy it and then just close my eyes when the "studio imposed demon" is on screen. Sounds like a plan. Actually, last night on TCM I saw another Dana Andrews film, While the City Sleeps, an early serial killer film no less. Andrews plays a newspaperman whose name is (wait for it): "Mobley" (Ed Mobley)---you can imagine what THAT was doing to my subconscious all through the film. Not a first rate film, but it also featured Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, and Ida Lupino! Worth seeing just for the cast.

Happy Birthday everybody!!

Nice store. I go there a lot, or used to.

In Pennsylvania not only do we elect our DAs but we elect our judges as well. Now that's fucked up. I'll go you one better - how about electing sheriffs, too? Don't worry about law enforcement training, education, experience - elect your favorite good ol' boy. Much better that way. "The Sheriff, he weren't much for kissin' babies...so when the votes was counted up, he was out of a job." Lee Marvin, Seven Men From Now

Nothing wrong with the ending of Gun Crazy! Agreed!!! However, there is that strange scene where he asks Peggy Cummins why she has to kill people, "...Why can't you let them live?" Several commentaters have maintained that this odd, flat, frankly nonsensical little scene must have been imposed by the studio ex post facto, and I'm inclined to agree. I'll have to watch the film again. Kind of off-topic, but I just found out that the 1957 film Night of the Demon, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, also stars Peggy Cummins. I've been on the fence, but now I'm definitely going to get it. I should have taped it when TCM showed it. Oh well. BTW, as you probably already know, the studio forced Tourneur to actually SHOW the demon, which inevitably compromises the film somewhat. Night Of The Demon is a MUST HAVE. There are only a couple of shots of the "studio imposed demon"...it really doesn't have an adverse effect on the film as a whole. It's so much fun to watch Andrews be a skeptic of all things supernatural...while everyone around him (and the audience) knows different. I have a vague meomory of there being another title for Night of the Demon in Europe. Accordig to IMDB the only other title is Curse of the Demon but I vaguely remember something else. Is this just another of my acid flasbacks? As far as I know, it was Night of the Demon in Britain (the longer, uncut version), and Curse of the Demon in the U. S. with 12 or 13 minutes trimmed off of it.

Doesn't this Mosaic have strings on it? (If so, I'm assuming they're tasteful.)

Very true.

No kidding.

Yes, Jim Hall album I believe.

As to the Rowles---I've often wondered how "sound" can possible be "supersonic."

Sounds a little too outrageous for me...

I still find Ornette Coleman rather challanging. And Lennie Tristano's "Intuition" still sounds pretty "out there." 20's jazz can pose a challange to the listener due to their not being used to it. Either a little listening cures this, or you simply don't like this style. There's some big-band music that I find hard to listen to due to string-heavy arrangements, but that's a whole different kettle of aesthetic fish.

Good for you! Some good stuff is comin' your way!

Nothing wrong with the ending of Gun Crazy! Agreed!!! However, there is that strange scene where he asks Peggy Cummins why she has to kill people, "...Why can't you let them live?" Several commentaters have maintained that this odd, flat, frankly nonsensical little scene must have been imposed by the studio ex post facto, and I'm inclined to agree. I'll have to watch the film again. Kind of off-topic, but I just found out that the 1957 film Night of the Demon, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Dana Andrews, also stars Peggy Cummins. I've been on the fence, but now I'm definitely going to get it. I should have taped it when TCM showed it. Oh well. BTW, as you probably already know, the studio forced Tourneur to actually SHOW the demon, which inevitably compromises the film somewhat.

Wasn't the prosecutor disbarred? That's a good thing, I'd say.

Many, many hearty congratulations!!

Blackbeard? Jack Sparrow?

Seems I now have ten of these, including the collectors' disc. I wouldn't mind having all of them.

The thing that gets me about McCartney, as someone said before, is that when he's at his most catchy is when he's often also at his most annoying. That's certainly true solo and even occasionally during his Beatles days---"Hello Goodbye," "You're Mother Should Know," "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"...they're not just dismissable little ditties, but so pushily insistant that there's something almost, I don't know, hateful about them.

Yes, absolutely. It is really uncanny how much greater the whole was than the sum of the parts. And while I agree that the post-Beatles work of all four is of widely varying quality, I think there is a clustering of points at the "low" end of the scale, and really not too much at the high end. That's for damn sure.

"Tippi-Toes"--by The Meters

The Stylings of Silver is also another big favorite of mine!