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Well....there you go again.

I've seen bit and pieces of Harold and Maude over the years, but never the entire film, which he did music for. Cat Stevens has always been my favorite 1970s singer- songwriter. Artists have the right to renounce their work, but that doesn't mean the audience will do so. I'm sure folks are relieved that Kafka's instructions to destroy his manuscripts were not followed.

I don't know if Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam ever actually called his early music crap, perhaps he did, but he did stop playing it for a long while. But for the last few years he's been playing his Cat Stevens' tunes, and they sound as good as ever.

180 Twenty rubles for half an hour? Let me get my conversion chart out. You do take traveler's checks, don't you?

179-B It's days like these when I wish I was paralyzed from the neck up.

Actually.....I think I've got this right, Roy Wood was one of the founders of The Move and Jeff Lynne joined later. Then they went on to form ELO, but Roy left early and formed Wizzard and slowly drifted into oblivion, at least in the US. ELO turned out to be quite successful, more successful than The Move. And .......Bev Bevan, the drummer, was with The Move from early on and was with ELO for most of its existence, so the drummer, usually in the background, might have been the longest serving member in these two groups. There is an English illustrator who draws charts of different bands' "genealogies," tracking when the different members dropped out and new ones came in and old ones dropped in again. Compared to some groups, The Move is not all that complicated. Vera Lynn, she was the bomb (with god given a s s).

179-B "Sic...sic her Fala, chew her up and don't spit her out."

179 Jeez, this dame can go on and on--FDR, the coalminers' wives in West Virginia, the bad service at the Brown Derby, and all in that high pitched voice with the New England accent. But I don't care. I had a fifth of Cutty Sark in the bottom of the sixth and I'm feeling no pain. If only she knew....

Ray Price singing Under Your Spell Again. Just good buddies, that's all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtrN2zcM7k

I think I've aleady mentioned this and you might know it too, but The Move was one of those groups which were big in the UK, but never caused much of a stir in the US. At least T. Rex and Slade had a few modest hits here, but I don't think The Move even did that. Which is too bad cause they had a lot of worthwhile songs. Roy Wood was a mover. I think he was only in ELO for the first or maybe first two albums. By the time of Eldorado he had left. I bought Eldorado when it came out and wore the needle out on it. Quite a unique sound at the time, though there was a prog rock feel to some of it, though ELO never went over the top like Yes did.

I haven't seen either Dick Cavett or Johnny Carson interviews in so long I wonder if there was really was that big a difference. I mean when Cavett was doing his 90 minute show on ABC. Dick's approach was a bit more intellectual, but they were both about people pushing their projects and telling stories, some of which were very funny. Later on, when Cavett was on PBS, he had more time to do things a bit more in depth. Truman Capote should be fun. I developed a pretty good Capote imitation listening to him on all the talk shows. Well, Norman said I was about the toughest s.o.b. he ever met, then he had that funny little laugh. Too bad Rodney Dangerfield won't be on. He's do his routine, come over to Johnny's desk and say hello for about ten seconds and then go right into more of his act. Hilarious. I remember the time I believe Don Rickles was the guest host and I think Dean Martin was one of the guests. Rickles broke Johnny's wooden cigarette box, tried to put it back together and when Carson got back he discovered it was broken and was ****. I'll bet Ed was laughing his a s s off.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the Hollywood types figured out that this kind of film might be a modest money maker and so it would be okay to make them. And since Hollywood likes to copy success, why not approve more of these crime films. Producers and directors also likely knew what elements to put into these pictures to draw an audience. Maybe it wasn't completely conscious, but filmmakers copied what had worked before and what they noticed around them. Of course each film was still based on a unique story and was given an individual treatment by the director, but one can usually count on seeing some form of the post WW II disillusionment, alienation, mistrust, yada, yada themes. And you have to give the noirs credit for showing the ugly underside of America when, on the surface, it was generally a time of prosperity, at least material prosperity.

Johnny's interviews were usually to let the star push their latest project, but he did occasionally get them to reminisce about the good old days, though who knows how accurate those stories were. I remember Jimmy Stewart being on and Johnny always getting a kick out of his um...er.... you see...um delivery. Then he would read one of his poems. I'd love to see his Art Fern character too. Hilarious.

Well, young master Tarantino is just shy of 50, so he will likely have many years left to make movies. To me he already has an impressive resume. Whether the coming years will add to or subtract from it will be interesting to see. Frenzy is not a bad credit to have as one of your last movies. It's a bit of a summing up of many Hitchcock themes with the extra permissiveness available in the early 1970s, which the old boy kept fairly restrained anyway.

The Move, Kilroy Was Here. Dig those groovy mod threads. B-)

Sh*t happens on the net. A little Touch of Evilish, though I don't think Orson Welles would dig that kind of music. What a relief they changed their name from Giant Sandworms. I read Dune when I was a teenager and they creeped me out. Yuck. Hey, there's a connection to Yer Blues.

Prince, B glad That U R Free. Prince is cracking down on YT again, so there are fewer videos than the last time I looked. Whatever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKbb2brbm9I

Well they can overlap at times. I almost went with fey, but the word fey is sometimes itself a little too fey. Miss W. you posted a link to the Wiki article on Dark City. I'll check out the video later today.

Morrissey singing Satan Rejected My Soul. ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fl5u4Ab1ME

There have been a lot of legal issues over the years with things ping ponging around, but I would guess that the two remaining Beatles have quite a say in the matter and apparently they don't want to release the film on DVD for the reason already mentioned: It would reflect badly on the group and supposed- ly damage the brand. After more than forty years, that's seems a stretch, but they have a very personal stake in it that we don't. There have also been rumors that the movie will be released on DVD with additional footage sometime in the future, but who knows. Paul may have fancied that the other three were just his sidemen, I doubt that they did. I'd love to see the unused footage, maybe not all at one time, but over a number of days or weeks. A lot of the McCartney/Harrison blowup was left out, so that would be a kick. I might not even mind watching them sitting around drinking tea, though I suppose it would matter what kind of tea they were drinking. I remember as a kiddie going with a friend to to see Help! at the local movie theater. That was the most sheer fun I've ever had at a movie. There were the Beatles in color on the big screen playing their songs and yes, everybody was screaming. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/54635/Macca-and-Ringo-say-just-Let-It-Be

The novel is easier to follow, since one can stop and go back and check other things out. The movie just barrels along and if you miss something you're out of luck until you can watch it again. For some reason they changed the name of Vivian's husband to Rutledge, when in the novel she is married to Rusty Regan, who we find at the end of the book was killed by the **** daughter, Carmen. Wiki has a good plot summary of the book, which answers the plot questions, including who probably killed the Sternwood's chauffeur.

Let It Be used to be on YT, but apparently it's been taken down. It seems that Paul and Ringo want to keep the Beatles' legend intact and not bring out anything that would reflect poorly on it. It all seems rather silly, since it was forty years ago. There is also the question of what happened to all the film they shot but didn't use in the movie, which only runs 81 minutes. Who wouldn't want to see that?

Ozzy just dropped off some good stuff from the latest production run, Pat. Take a toke, honey. You look like you could really use it. *Bright Sweet Leaf* Coop finds that his nicotine empire of manufactured cigs is slowly losing sales. He realizes he needs a new product to pull the customers in. At the same time a little known English heavy metal band with supernatural undertones is touring the secondary markets of the South. In a most unlikely coincidence, the two happen to run into each other and Coop is introduced to a new kind of drug. The group even writes a song that Gary can use to advertise his new product, Sweet Leaf. All right now...

George Jones and Melba Montgomery dueting on We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds. Or just really drunk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ol3_5W4Um4

Nope, no relation. They are a bit on the wimpy side, but not as wimpy as John Sebastian, nttawwt.