BruceH

Supposedly they consulted with some people who were at ad firms in the 60's and they said MORE drinking went on where they worked back then.

Happy Belated Birthday!! :party:

Mmmmm....cozy.

Just got the new, 2-disc edition of North By Northwest so I may be watching that soon.

My heart goes out to you. Hope you get better much faster than predicted.

I felt a little sorry for Kinsey being left behind (and will miss him) but it had to be that way. They couldn't take everyone with them and it's been made clear that Peggy is the most talented of the creative team. Also, it was established in an earlier episode that he "has a big mouth." Can't risk that, as the whole operation has to be kept very much on the down-low until Monday. I was happy for Pryce---he really got his own back after his company had repeatedly treated him callously. I'd gotten to liking him more as the season went on. And just nice to see an episode that really moves and pops with big, decisive events. Not always like that with this show.

Anyone catch the season three finale? Best episode of the season.

Put it in the dishwasher. Works like a charm.

Watched the season finale of Mad Men last night. It was great!

I wish they'd bring that back.

More Wire, and the new Columbia Film Noir box, vol. 1. It's got three of my favorite obscure late-noirs!

Right on.

Hey, how about Matsui getting Series MVP?! Nice!

Maureen Sickler? RVG's assistant "The Sickler Series"? Doesn't have a great ring to it, somehow. Come to think of it, I got the Monk/Trane, Mingus, and Silver discs, so I guess I'm keeping up. Have yet to get the Hubbard, though.

Yeah, not for the first time, it occurs to me that his name is another way of saying Claude Denim-Waltz.

For the same reason that "Anything Goes" is a Cole Porter song, but "I've Got You Under My Skin" is a Frank Sinatra song. That's just how it works. Also, he had so very many different collaborators...scores. The documentary touched on this. I'm a big fan of Mercer, so I loved seeing this. Thought there were times when it could have gone into more detail, but you can't expect miracles. On the whole I'd say it was a great intro to him.

Definitely one of those figures that I vaguely assumed to have passed away some time ago (no disrespect intended.) So he was healthy and in his right mind up through his 100th birthday? We should all be so lucky. RIP

Damn, Allen...hope you get completely better real soon.

I never heard his last name pronounced - only saw it printed. The Times obit confirmed what I thought was the correct pronounciation. Same here, with one difference: As usual, I've been pronouncing it incorrectly for the last 20 years. Oh, well. We can all be glad he lived such a long life. RIP

I should have mentioned, that's one of the few Chestnut albums I don't have, though I'll probably get it someday, just for the hell of it.

Just watched disc #2 of The Wire, Season Three.

I do tend to prefer her earlier work.

Get it.

Yeah. In this case, it's much like when one of those French New Wave directors used a non-actor for a supporting role in a film. The movie still works, but it would probably have been a bit better with an actor. Strongly disagree w/ the French New Wave analogy. They actually did replace her temporarily only to have disastrous results. Have you ever heard the VU album,"Live at Max's Kansas City"?? Mo was replaced for the weekend run of shows(she was in labor w/ her first child) by Billy Yule. Now Billy was a pretty straight ahead, balls to the wall rock drummer and he just ruins that album. Every song. He's a very flashy drummer and overplays everything. No subtly whatsoever. Yes, she was an amateur but the VU wouldn't have been the same w/out her as evidenced on Max's. Except for Cale, the rest of the members in the VU were amateur musicians too. What saved them were Reed's songwriting ability and their sonic experiments of which her drumming played a significant part. She also had that one dance groove that she used over and over again in songs like,"What Goes On," "I Can't Stand It," "Rock & Roll," et al., that was very influential upon Klaus Dinger's "motorik" sound. So if you're going to judge her solely on her technical ability you're missing the point. I think a better analogy would be that her drumming played the same role in the VU's overall sound as Ringo's did in the Beatles. Like Ringo there are better drummers(Hell Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles - that was Paul) but despite their technical limitations they both were able to coax a sound from their drums that was very complimentary to their respective band's overall sound. Haters. Oh, fer godsake..... When I say they could have used, from the beginning, someone who could keep time little better, I certainly do NOT mean they should have used someone who was "flashy and overplays everything." Not in a million years. In fact, I wouldn't recommend that to any rock'n'roll band, particularly a garage/proto-punk/Nuggets-type band like the Velvet Underground. Now clearly, Reed and Cale worked her limitations into the framework of the group's sound and everything worked out fine. Sit back and take a chill pill.

Well, I for one don't like the idea of having to get up when it's pitch black out.