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"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.


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Those themes were kind of Bruce's trademark specialty. I've haven't bought

a Springsteen CD in a long time, but I'm sure he's moved on and out.

 

Sometimes ads appears and sometimes they don't. In certain videos on Vevo

they seem to be blocked in by the Vevo box. It's not too bad in this one.

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Lefty isn't as well known as near contemporaries like George Jones or

Johnny Cash, but he was a very popular country star in the first half

of the 1950s. I've never heard of the basketball coach, but that doesn't

mean much because I was never a big basketball fan.

 

Yeah, most Canadians are probably too staid and dull to riot hardy.

I've always had the feeling that's the usual take on Canadians for

us here in the US. They're like Americans, but not as excessive and

extreme. Not saying it's true, but that seems to be the general feeling.

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"Yeah, most Canadians are probably too staid and dull to riot hardy.

I've always had the feeling that's the usual take on Canadians for

us here in the US. They're like Americans, but not as excessive and

extreme. Not saying it's true, but that seems to be the general feeling."

 

NOT SO. YOU CAN TELL I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THIS AS I AM TYPING IN BLOCK CAPS. That alone is considerd rude, so you have empirical evidence that Canadians are not always boringly polite.

 

One reason I make a point of letting people here know when someone cool and creative is Canadian - whether it be an actor, director, comedian, singer, musician, or athlete - is to try to debunk that very misconception about Canadians.

 

Now I know that you folks here know better, but I still like to give a little pro-Canada jingoistic plug now and then.

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I don't know about that...There was a riot in Montreal some years ago, and that was after the Habs had won the Stanley Cup. Montreal's pretty far away from Vancouver.

Last year Vancouver hosted the Winter Olympics, and there were no riots. Although maybe that was because Canada did pretty well, scored a bunch of gold medals and so forth.

 

I've heard - from you, actually, finance - that Philadelphian sports fans have been known to go crazy on occasion.

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On the weekend I saw a film that came out a couple of years ago, but I just got around to seeing it now. The film was called An Education and it was very good, one of the best "new" films I've seen in a long time. It had a great soundtrack too. This was one of the songs on it: Brenda Lee 's Sweet Nothin's :

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stieusjP-g

 

(On this video you can barely see Brenda. But you can sure hear her.)

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Did you know there are at least two movies out about Joy Division? One's kind of a chaotic documentary, called "All Night Party People", and the other one, "Control" is mostly about Ian Curtis.

 

I think it's funny that at the end of that rather dark (but good) song, the screen comes up with a perky "Thanks for watching! " Kind of incongruous.

 

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I knew there were some movies out there about Joy Division, but I've never

seen them. I believe there is one on Hulu. Have to check it out some time.

I think they only released two studio albums before they disbanded, but

there are something like ten compilation albums out. The ending to the video

is a little bit out of place, but it's the thought that counts.

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Getting back to the old timers, one of my favorites has always been the

great Fats Domino. Fats performing Walking to New Orleans.

 

I think about the only time Fats walked was down his driveway to get the

daily paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I love that song. When I was real young, I coudn't help but note the similar nicknames of Fats and CHUBBY Checker. The Twist was all the rage, and I mean, it was HUGE! Chubby was either featured or talked about on American Bandstand. I don't remember which.

 

My mom used to watch a Tennessee Ernie Ford show. I was little more than a toddler. But I remember him sitting around, wearing a cardigan, Crooning in that soothing bass.

 

"Some people say a man is made out of mud..."

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My two favorite Domino songs were the lesser-known "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" and "Be My Guest". I think that after Presley and Berry, he was the most important r&r figure of the '50s...........Chubby Checker's name (real name--Ernest Evans) was a direct play on Fats Domino.

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