misswonderly3 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 what does the yawn imply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 For about the 500th time, I've asked whether someone is Canadian. I'm ready to starting asking something new, like whether someone is a cross-dresser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Bring on the gloom, bring on the anomie. If I remember correctly, Ian Curtis only recorded two Joy Division albums before his suicide and I believe the second one was released shorty after his death. I think there have been about ten compilation albums since then. It is a sad thing, but it has been thirty years. JD made a pact if a member left, I suppose for any reason, they would discontinue the name. And so after Curtis committed suicide, they changed the name to New Order. I'm not an especially gloomy person, but everybody has their down moments, so it's possible to emphasize with some of that music. Joy Division was fairly gloomy, both in their lyrics and their music, whereas New Order leans toward dance and synthpop and the lyrics are cynical. I like both groups. I believe New Order is no longer together, but this being rock and roll, you never know when a revival might occur. The Tragically Hip is yet another group I've heard of, but never got into. I had no problem with the videos. Nice bluesy tune with some interesting guitar licks. Maybe they're not signed to EMI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Blondie playing The Hardest Part. That's what she said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRNZ4eE1YKA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Woah, old Deb's really shakin' it in that one. She's strutting around like Britt Ekland in *The Wicker Man*, even pounding the wall at the end. I forgot, if I ever knew, that "Blondie" sometimes chose not to be blonde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 finance, it is a little -known fact that almost all Canadians are cross-dressers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Yes, Debbie could shake it when necessary, though she kept her clothes on, unlike Britt. If I remember the details of the plot correctly, if Edward Woodward had acted on Britt's siren call, instead of turning all kinds of colors resisting temptation, he wouldn't have ended up on top of the burning man with the animals squawking below. How about that Sgt. Preston of the Yukon dude? I'd like to take a careful look through his closet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I don't find New Order's stuff to be at all gloomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Boy, that Anne Murray could sing! What a smooth, beautiful voice. Not sure if she's Canadian or not. That does sound familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Yes she is, and her wardrobe consists primarily of Van Heusen shirts and Haggar slacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Here's Metric with Help, I'm Alive. I really hope that this video is not "blocked" anywhere, because it's really unusual. This is one of those songs that get better every time you hear it. (The babe singing the song is no Blondie, but she's pretty darned good.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Are the members of Metric all cross-dressers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 How'd ya know? That blonde singer is actually a transvestite who's had implants so she can wear low-cut dresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 No, I don't consider New Order to be gloomy either. They have too many good hooks and beats going for that. Joy Division were definitely gloomy, both lyrically and musically. I'm fairly up to speed on Anne Murray. She is a favorite of my father's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Cool song, but I think I'd rather see more of the band playing and less of those beating hearts. Yeech. If those are implants, she/he got cheated. Wasn't the US supposed to gradually go metric starting back in the 1970s or 1980s? It never caught on, at least in everyday things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 The late great Sam Cooke, with Lou Rawls, Bring It On Home to Me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1cD1HD1rus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 That's such a good tune. And who wouldn't want great-looking Sam Cooke to bring it on home to them ? ( Or in the context of the song, I'd bring it on home to him...either way.) This is K'Naan with Waving Flag. If you followed the World Cup Soccer event last summer, this song may be familiar to you. But this is the original version, just a track off K'Naan'a album Troubadour. ( at least I think it's the original version...there are a great many slightly different youtube videos of this, I just picked one that didn't have any soccer references in it. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Sam was one good looking guy, and his music is pretty nifty too. Nice song, as one of the comments said, a little reminiscent of Bob Marley. I never got into soccer, guess I'll stick to baseball and football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Going back to implants for just a minute, I saw Bad Teacher last night and Cameron Diaz's yearning for them is part of the plot. It's a pretty familiar 2011 comedy, but it does have more than a few LOL lines and situations. And what should pop up as the opening credits song but that old favorite by Rockpile, Teacher Teacher. For once the over loud theater sound level was appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Hey, I've been thinking of seeing *Bad Teacher* too -occasionally I have a weakness for semi-junky movies like that, and sometimes they're actually kind of good, in their way. ( Years ago, I finally broke down and saw *There's Something About Mary* - Cameron Diaz again ! - just to see what all the fuss was about. I was half expecting it to be wretched, but it turned out to be pretty funny and even kind of warm-hearted. I usually like Matt Dillon, he made it funnier.) By the way, apropos of nothing in particular, that band "Metric" is not named after the "metric system", the form of measurement thing, but is an allusion to a kind of timing in music. I'm pretty used to the metric system - when I went to the States last September, I kept calculating the temperature and distances ( kilometres vs miles) to "metric"/ "celsius". Yet oddly enough, I and most people I know (in Canada) continue to think in terms of the older system ( "imperial" ?) when it comes to height and weight. Love Rockpile, they're always so unpretentious and fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 The word "legend" is overused to the point of meaningless these days, but this person really does deserve that title. This is one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs: I'm Your Man. I really hope you guys have the "rights" to see this in the U.S (I know I'm always saying that), because the video accompanying the song is a National Film Board short, and it's really inventive and funny. But - yes, yes, predictable as a 1930s Italian train schedule, I'm including another link of the same song, just in case the NFB one isn't allowed where you folks live. Even if you can't see the NFB version, it's a dern good tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGOsIjLqPo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8rFho6In8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 "Imperial" is inches and pounds, or something else? The only imperials I know are Little Anthony and the........, the Chrysler......, and the margarine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 So what do you guys call your measurement system? ( I know...don't tell me...it doesn't need any kind of title, cause it's just the "normal" system. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I believe it's called the inchtric system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Some of those aggressive comedies are quite clever. Films by the Farrelly brothers. And the various people behind SUPER-BAD, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, and the crudely titled, but ultimately mature KNOCKED UP. Said and done, they're surprisingly funny. Must they be so ****ing vulgar? No. They'd be just as good, better, without that feature. But this is 2011. The market is young. This, at the very least, is what producers think they want. If you watch ME, MYSELF AND IRENE next to a comedy by Hawks or Sturges, the contrast is pretty stark. Compared to a lot of what's out today, a broad Jim Carrey vehicle is not so bad. Edited by: redriver on Jul 22, 2011 11:55 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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