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Emmylou Harris with her cover of the great Kitty Wells' tune, Making Believe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpyai-X3BgA

Maybe that's because she got the heck out of Canada and moved to So Cal as soon as she could. Rush has been around what, a million years or so? I never really got into them, just one of those things, and nothing to do with the fact that they come from the frozen north. I believe there used to be a band called Mahogany Rush, but I don't remember if they were a separate group or if Rush just dropped the Mahogany and right now I'm too lazy to Google it. A good short project for the weekend.

Or as a lyric to a blues song. Yep, a western with the older hand telling some green kid that he's going to have to pay, maybe with a push push in the sage- bush. Ouch. A Lonesome Cowboys type of thing. I still consder YT to be free. By the by, some kind soul there has posted many episodes of the old The Fugitive TV show, uncut and commercial-free to coin a phrase, and the visual quality is quite good, just for anyone's information.

The Desperate Hours...Eddie Haskell is staying overnight at the Cleavers. I've seen the Cleaver house in other movies, but the only one I can recall offhand is TDH.

Spencer Tracy had a nice little colonial or semi-colonial in Father of the Bride. Spacious, but comfy and cozy too, and, a must for any Tracy abode, a nice space to keep the liquor bottles in. It's easy to tell that The Desperate Hours was using the second Beaver house, or rather it's the other way around since TDH came first. Some things may have been altered, but not that much. Bogey would have had Eddie Haskell running for his life. I like the ocean side shack in Rebecca. It needed to be cleaned up and re- decorated, then it would have been a nice hideaway to get away from everything and everybody. Might have to have it moved--near enough to hear the ocean in the distance, but not near enough to smell the stuff that washed up on shore.

English master metallurgists Deep Purple, No One Came.

Well, that's what makes Joni such a fascinating and original artiste. She had a song about an old boyfriend named Richard, but it wasn't told from his viewpoint, but from hers.

I've always considered movies on YT to be free. I'd be paying for my internet connection anyway, whether YT existed or not.

Well, if you look very closely at "Joni," I think you'll notice....just kiddin'. If I recall it correctly, the song was written about the record executive David Geffen, who was able to get away, temporarily, from the hectic record business on a trip to.....Paris. Now, if you look closely at a photo of "David," I think you'll notice....

Joni Mitchell singing Free Man in Paris.

From the outhouses of the holy, Dread Zeppelin playing Black Dog, with a side of custard pie.

Mencken's quote about nobody ever going broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public is actually a paraphrase of a longer sentence that has the same meaning, but uses different words, so the first is not an actual quote from Mencken. The taste variation is sometimes attributed to Mencken and also to P.T. Barnum. There are plenty of quotes floating out there that are repeated from one generation to the next that were never actually written or said in that form. Voltaire never wrote or said I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. It is taken from a biography of Voltaire summing up what the biographer felt was part of his philosophy. Misquotes happen. http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/09/no-one-ever-went-broke-underestimating.html

RHCP playing on the Otherside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWbZEfaqs7Q

Too bad Nirvana never covered a Webb Pierce song. Webb was a phenomenally successful country artist during the1950s. I believe his Nudie suit was meant as a salute to our national park system. Well, I'm a Desperado kind of guy, though Witch-aye Woman is good too. I just hope Puddy doesn't program the radio to those Christian music stations again, nttawwt. Too early to think about Halloween, though obviously the stores don't agree. It doesn't feel like that atmosphere that late October has yet, which makes things even spookier. It will soon enough be time to cue up the Black Sabbath cuts. ]

Yes, Evelyn Keyes, the most ham-fisted pickpocket around. Well that had to be the story in the forties. Very entertaining, even though it's mostly burned-over territory. The wise cracking cop, the wiser cracking gambler, gunplay, dames, etc. And did Thomas Gomez really think his wife wouldn't prefer Johnny O'Clock to him? C'mon guy, take a look in the mirror. I also got a charge out of people nonchalantly calling him Mr. O'Clock, as if it wasn't one of the dumbest names they'd every heard. All in all, I give it a B-.

These supposed differences between e-book readers and print book readers are oversimplifications almost to the point of absurdity.

Well it's only been on DirecTV for about two weeks. They did run Contempt, though that's the only French film I've seen so far. They have also shown Beat the Devil, Repulsion, Lilith, Georgy Girl, and White Mischief. There was also an interesting movie/interview with Fellini. They've also shown quite a few movies that are similar to the ones IFC used to show, and without commercials (so far). It won't be movies all day like TCM, but it's a channel that shows some good films occasionally.

I feel we should strongly support our local libraries as both centers of enlighten- ment and places where weirdos can hang out and nap for a few hours during the day. I have probably half a dozen library books in my own modest book collection, all of them dating back to the days before library security measures were upgraded, a shameful waste of taxpayers' money, but that's a different topic.

Webb "Show Me State" Pierce singing Each Day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxrueo7_26s

I didn't realize Muskrat Love had such a detailed history. Since the title and their easy listening mush style were a turnoff, I never wanted to know anything more about it. I've always enjoyed the joke about America being called 'the group with no Neil.' At first I thought Tina looked so bad because this was a candid shot without any makeup or hair styling, but there's a picture of her at some Oscar related function and she still doesn't look very good. Of course she is in her late seventies.

Nirvana, just Come As You Are.

One of the fairly early songs with boogie in the title. I forgot that Ringo directed a T. Rex concert film in 1972 called Born to Boogie. Don't give up that drumming gig, Ricky.

Yep, I remember The Captain and Tennille. Wish I could forget. In hindsight, I suppose they weren't quite that sappy, but they came pretty darn close. And what's with a song called Muskrat Love? One of the most puke worthy titles in pop music. Mary Ann, all the way, so to speak. You know all the cliches: cute, friendly, thrifty, the girl next door type. Still she was sweet. Ginger was too much Hollywood, and frankly I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her make-up case. And didn't Dawn Wells get busted for pot some years back? That certain- ly doesn't hurt her case. You go girl. The Professor really could have made out. Smart, pretty good looking, maybe a little on the serious side, but compared to the Skipper and Gilligan, he looks like a real winner.

Yep, one can't walk down the street without hearing boogie, even the glam rockers got into it-- Honaloochie Boogie by Mott The Hoople and I Love To Boogie by T. Rex. Everybody boogie down tonight.

It wasn't a joke, just a somewhat unclear paragraph. I meant that Lennon covered the Lee Dorsey song, but I didn't make the differentiation with the Lolita theme clear enough. I didn't even realize the theme had a title. The only other movie I can think of offhand that Sue was in was The Night of the Iguana. I'm sure she was in more, but she had one of those typical Hollywood careers with a few high profile roles and then things tapered off rather quickly. That's show biz. Cinemoi had a movie on last night about someone who impersonates Stanley Kubrick. Since it didn't start until 3 a.m., I didn't bother with it.