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Better than the one going down Straight to Hell, boys.

U R welcome.

Sounds like a good threesome. I know Bowie had a relationship with Reed (I mean a "platonic" one), but I think they had some arguments along the way. He also had close ties with Iggy, especially around the Berlin period. I think I read they shared an apartment in Berlin. Wouldn't want to be their landlord. I don't know about Lou and Iggy, but they likely at least crossed paths sometime or other. Ah, The Golden Years.

I'm still lost in the supermarket.

It's a riff on those old sayings about hammers and nails. 'To a hammer everything looks like a nail' and 'the nail that sticks up will be hammered down.' So basically it concerns relations of power. Posters are closer to being nails than hammers. OTOH, no need to take it too seriously, it's only a movie forum.

Ike and Tina Turner within the Nutbush City Limits.

I remember hearing about The Killers, but never went much further. Just not enough time for everything. Looks like there's a little bit of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, going on,at least on the female side of things.

I'm not surprised he liked it, but then I think it would have been a little riduclous for Bowie to reinvent himself as a rapper. I guess he never got into punk rock either, maybe too busy doing stuff in Berlin.

I kinda like this Willkie fella. I have nothing against FDR, I just think that two terms are enough for any president. What we need is a Constitutional amendment to that effect.

Probably. There were other bands and performers who changed their musical styles, but it was usually a more organic, evolutionary thing. I can't think of anyone who did it as often and so calculatingly as Bowie. I don't think he ever got into rap, that was one hip hop too far.

If you want more than a very minimum freedom of expression, then you're just in the wrong dang place. :0 :^0 B-)

The Smashing Pumpkins playing Soma.

I think Fred did mention he had interviewed Walker, but I had forgotten about it. I've read that Walker was doing his taxes at his dining room table when the bullet went in. Maybe taxes helped save him from death. I don't think there's much doubt that Oswald was the one who took that shot at Walker. Not to be overserious about the matter, but The Manchurian Candidate concerned an assassin who was programmed to kill someone by others. I believe that Oswald was doing it on his own for his own reasons, however delusional they might have been.

There is no credible evidence that Ruby knew Oswald prior to the Kennedy assassination, that Oswald was a patsy, or that Ruby was acting as some kind of hired hit man to silence Oswald about a supposed conspiracy. Oswald was in police custody for almost 48 hours before he was shot by Ruby, so if there had been a conspiracy, he had ample time to tell investigators about it. If Oswald had not asked to change his clothes at the last minute, he would have left the jail before Ruby ever arrived. Ruby was known as a hothead who was extremely saddened by the killing of Kennedy and so he shot Oswald. While the story is interesting, it's also rather basic and not very mysterious.

L.H. Oswald, a documented lifelong Raisin Bran eater. Case closed.

Yep, during Bowie's relatively short-lived "blue-eyed soul" period. Pretty good album, though I haven't listened to it in a while. I believe the Thin White Duke shtick was up next, followed by the Berlin Eno/Krautrock thingie. Can't remember what came after that. You'd need a detailed chart to keep up with all the Ccchanges.

I Can't Quit You Baby was written by the great Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Otis Rush. The Led boys were notorious for ripping off old blues tunes, especially on their first couple of albums, and not giving credit to the original songwriters. There were a number of lawsuits to reestablish the proper songwriting credits. I'm not sure about this particular song, because they did sometimes credit the true songwriter. Heartbreaker and Cocaine are two titles that are used frequently. I'm sure there are a number of others too.

Willie Nelson singing Hands on the Wheel.

He was pretty good at going from one genre to another without being too obvious about it, though as they started to add up, the contrivances were harder to take at face value.

I like Suffragette City and Panic in Detroit. Most of my favorites are from the 70s: Five Years, Ziggy Stardust, The Man Who Sold the World, Drive- In Saturday, Soul Love, plus a few others.

Sadly, Hume died long before Yoo Hoo was produced, so he could never enjoy a cold Yoo Hoo with a delicious Ring Ding. IDWTSTP.

The Police, Bombs Away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1XTyqcfLNo

SOUH--I respect your decision, but I will remain an old school original Cheerios consumer. finance--I once bought one of those off brand Cheerios knock- offs. They're not bad, but they're just not the same as actual Cheerios. Another thing, Cheerios "dust" is better than Raisin Bran "dust." Apropos of nothing special, I would like to salute another great food store staple, made right here in the good old U.S.A. Me he for Yoo-Hoo. One last thought about flame wars: If we take in our hand any volume--of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance--let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. David Hume

LOA would be relevant, plus it would fill up a lot of time in a day's schedule. I've never seen it all the way through, but from the little I've read about it, it's not all that histroically accurate, which should be no surprise. He might get a very differnt reception today than he did almost a hundred years ago.