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For the sequel:

"It's wrong to use an elevator if you're only going up or down one floor."

"I'm never going to start smoking, no matter how cool I think it looks."

I saw the tag, knew it would be really good... had no idea it would be THIS good.

I was in the mood for Coop tonight...I'm going to finish with his speech from "The Fountainhead," but I'm going to start with this, a wonderful performance of Gehrig's actual remarks (RIP Magnificent Lou) that left my son, I am proud to say, in tears, when his age was single-digit, and which put ...

My mistake, it's at 8:47. (Sorry.)

What stunned me about the promo interviews for Part I, by the financier and Beckol's brother, (who is one of the actors), is the difficulty they had getting anyone interested in making it, often paraphrased with, "I don't agree with the philosophy of the book..." How could anyone who believes in...

Not a huge bel canto fan, although I know this particular aria like the back of my hand... Also not familiar with this singer, but what a perfect instrument she has for this idiom, and what gorgeous choices in melodic ornamentation she has made.

Breathtaking.

Posted on my birthday, no less...

(Good luck with the new CD, Ms. Read.)

My bad, Daughter, I didn't know I was logged on under your s/n:

I love the Who, and I love the TV themes of Mike Post, and I had great hopes for this.

With the exception of "Squeezebox," this may be the worst Who tune of all time.

@PeriquinTV

Watch 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' one night, and then "The Social Network" the next... I have... a shatteringly educational experience.

Interesting... because most of this was scripted, which means Winters could deliver a pre-planned line as well as he could improvise.

The word "acting" comes to mind.

Ed O'Neill, terrific actor, was great as Joe Friday, and the show was a gritty, contemporary re-envisioning of the original... but because of the memory of the original series, and O'Neill's work on "Married with Children," it never really got a fair shake from the viewing public.

If they'd done...

I have now listened to, I believe, every track from this LP, at least every track that's posted here on YouTube, and I have reaffirmed the conclusion to which I came a month or so after purchasing it, back in 1968 (along with "Orpheus Ascending" and "Ultimate Spinach," all on the same day): Thes...

Very cool.

Imagine if Bogie had done the same thing, having Sam Spade confer with Philip Marlowe...

Very cool.

AK, doing his signature tune, backed up by the band that (at least in name) did more, directly or indirectly, to (re-)introduce his music to America than anyone.

John Mayall: The Miles Davis of Rock.

Mick Taylor: The third member of one of Rock's Two Great Guitar Triumvirates.

(Major...

If Blues-rock can also be Impressionist, that is achieved here.

It's almost as though we're being allowed in to see how his mind works...

@forbsdotcom Wow,what a gem of ironic badinage!My hat is off to you,Sir or Madam,for so graciously allowing me to participate in this interchange which rivals,I have no doubt, the level of wit and urbanity with which Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott traded good-natured barbs at the Algonqui...

@Davian67 I believe he, himself, took credit for the solo on "Eight" in his autobiography... I asked around among my colleagues in the Guitar Dept. of The World's Most Famous Music School, in Boston, and those that are into this music all corroborated the credit.

Allow me to observe further that Grant's responses at the beginning of the hearing are extremely reminiscent of Gary Cooper's summation in "The Fountainhead."

His valedictory performance?

If so, this is, for him, what "The Shootist" was for John Wayne.

Bravo. To both of them.

The more I become familiar with Jack White, the more impressed I become.

@door2yourheart

Sad news... this is the title track, I believe, from one of the greatest soul LP's of all time.

12/16/11: Christopher Hitchens died last night, and after visiting with him in various moments of his televised life, thanks to YouTube, I realized that I was missing my other most-favored public thinker, WFB, so I came here.

They both loathe "Atlas Shrugged," which, given their fealty to indivi...

@IconsOfTeleplay

This is a joke, right? Hitchens said in a C-SPAN interview that he didn't write fiction because he was not musical.

What are you a "MAD Magazine" wannabe?

Hitch at his best... the C. S. Lewis of atheists.

Incidentally, I admired him enormously, and disagreed with him, not about Christianity, but about the existence of God, completely.

@eektherigo

"Dude?"

How old are you?

I suspect that these '60's visuals weren't intended for this '60's garage-rock tune... but isn't it weird, and brilliant, how beautifully they match up?

I don't know technology, but I do know harmony... this is a good performance, but what keeps it from being "great" are the absence of the genuinely remarkable turn-around changes leading into each verse, and the truncation of the seemingly incongruous "orchestral" part in the middle of the origi...

@jdrock14

Really? You don't agree that it was a beautiful performance?

@fnd111

Look on the liner notes on the back: The Green Glen Singers have a member named "Gleen Close," a misspelling of "Glenn Close," and you can recognize her from the group's pic. Hang onto it, it's a collector's item.

Brilliance X 2 =

Cagney, for improvising it;

Michael Curtiz, for keeping it.

12/5/11: My fave scene from this film, because of how good it is, and because of the "cinema history" behind it. But beyond that: I am preceded by three commentators who just watched it on TCM tonight, as I have, and isn't this amazing? We can watch it on TCM, and then call it up on YouTube a...

There are occasional moments which make me especially proud to be a member of homo sapiens; this is such a moment.

I'd never heard this... leave it to Roy to take this most vocally-challenging song, sing it flawlessly, and then sing the final chorus up a 4th in an even higher key.

And, like all of his records, flawlessly arranged, and flawlessly produced.

No wonder Elvis refused to let him open for him.

A gem of a performance of a really strong tune, and his voice is perfectly offset by the sparseness of the accompaniment.

1,495 comments in seven days... not bad.

11/27/11: This is a brilliant bit of business from a movie I'm watching on TCM as I write this. I came here looking for Ethel merman's first number in this film, a great song by Harold Arlen that I'd never heard before... if anybody knows what it is, please tell me, and post it if you can.

@myrtlebox

Read this again:

"No composer of art song, musical theater, or even opera, has ever come up with a better ensemble piece than this."

I was very, very specific about my comparison to, specifically, VOCAL art music, and its accompaniment.

ELP was never a fave band of mine, but this cut is an unimprovable gem, absolutely perfect... and note that, as keyboard-centric as they were, it's all Lake and Palmer until 3:05, when Emerson comes in with one of the most tasteful synth solos ever put on record.

The liner notes to the fourth Blues Project LP, "Planned Obsolescence" (the first with the new personnel that would later become SeaTrain), made reference to the "Coltrane licks on 'Eight Miles High.'" As I knew this extraordinary track, that reference made me investigate John Coltrane... and t...

Blues on an electric 12-string... and pre-Cream, too.

Too cool for words.