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Post by jrgreene6 on Feb 26, 2023 6:36:22 GMT
I was thinking about what I had to leave my daughter & those old albums came to mind. I had maybe 150 of them. Santana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Marvin Gaye, Credence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Ohio Players, Al Green, Elton John, War, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Aerosmith. After I left my wife, I asked what happened to those albums. "What albums?" I dropped it right there. I found a picture of my old cat Glory, sitting in front of the television. She was watching it. By the side of the TV were my old albums. Damn. I have a lot of those same artists in my collection. A number of The Beatles albums I have are first issues my uncle (who’s in his 70’s) bought brand new when they came out. I have every Chicago album up until they started issuing them on CD’s; an original Dark Side of the Moon with the two posters still folded up inside. A couple of picture discs (remember those?). I probably have a total of a couple hundred; have no idea what I’m going to do with them before we head south. Pretty sure they’ll not be making the trip, though. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 26, 2023 6:55:40 GMT
I was thinking about what I had to leave my daughter & those old albums came to mind. I had maybe 150 of them. Santana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Marvin Gaye, Credence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Ohio Players, Al Green, Elton John, War, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Aerosmith. After I left my wife, I asked what happened to those albums. "What albums?" I dropped it right there. I found a picture of my old cat Glory, sitting in front of the television. She was watching it. By the side of the TV were my old albums. Damn. I have a lot of those same artists in my collection. A number of The Beatles albums I have are first issues my uncle (who’s in his 70’s) bought brand new when they came out. I have every Chicago album up until they started issuing them on CD’s; an original Dark Side of the Moon with the two posters still folded up inside. A couple of picture discs (remember those?). I probably have a total of a couple hundred; have no idea what I’m going to do with them before we head south. Pretty sure they’ll not be making the trip, though. GO DODGERS!!! My late brother Dave had Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd. I didn't like that kind of rock before then. Then I got into Aerosmith. |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Feb 26, 2023 19:08:11 GMT
I have a lot of those same artists in my collection. A number of The Beatles albums I have are first issues my uncle (who’s in his 70’s) bought brand new when they came out. I have every Chicago album up until they started issuing them on CD’s; an original Dark Side of the Moon with the two posters still folded up inside. A couple of picture discs (remember those?). I probably have a total of a couple hundred; have no idea what I’m going to do with them before we head south. Pretty sure they’ll not be making the trip, though. GO DODGERS!!! My late brother Dave had Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd. I didn't like that kind of rock before then. Then I got into Aerosmith. I think one of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar (after Smoke on the Water, of course!) was Last Child (off the Rocks album, I believe). My first band was three guitars and a drummer and just like the Beatles, we needed a bassist so just like Macca, I agreed to switch to bass. I’ve never been able to shred leads like some of these guys, but there are a few I can pull off and I know all the chords, even though I play them differently than most guitarists. I’ve been in dozens of bands playing either bass or rhythm guitar (and occasional keyboards). Most of them I was also the lead vocalist or shared lead vocals with another dude or two. The last band I was in that stayed together any length at all (@ five years) I came in and was only singing a few songs initially, with the lead guitarist handling most of the vocals. But that didn’t last too long as I had a much better voice than him and he had a lot of respiratory issues with smoking and asbestos poisoning. Pretty soon after I joined, he was only doing five or six lead vocals a night and by the end, I was singing every song but one (our other guitarist covered a song by Bush) every night. We all had full time jobs and after five years of playing two nights a week every other (and sometimes EVERY) week, playing just started to be ANOTHER low paying job. From loading everything into our trucks, then into the bars, setting up and wiring (WAY before all the compact units that can be run on a iPad like they have now), playing three one hour plus sets, then tearing everything down and loading back into our trucks, it usually worked out to around five bucks an hour. But we weren’t really doing it for the money. We all loved playing and getting the applause and of course, the groupies that got two of the four of us divorced and me on the brink. Thank God I chose my wife and she forgave me. My groupie was SMOKIN’ hot, built like a brick shithouse and wild in the sack. But she was also a pill head with little to no ambition or job, living off that government teet on partial disability with two young daughters and a completely absentee baby daddy. She OD’d on heroin a few years later. True confessions of Dodgersnation! GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 26, 2023 23:41:43 GMT
My late brother Dave had Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd. I didn't like that kind of rock before then. Then I got into Aerosmith. I think one of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar (after Smoke on the Water, of course!) was Last Child (off the Rocks album, I believe). My first band was three guitars and a drummer and just like the Beatles, we needed a bassist so just like Macca, I agreed to switch to bass. I’ve never been able to shred leads like some of these guys, but there are a few I can pull off and I know all the chords, even though I play them differently than most guitarists. I’ve been in dozens of bands playing either bass or rhythm guitar (and occasional keyboards). Most of them I was also the lead vocalist or shared lead vocals with another dude or two. The last band I was in that stayed together any length at all (@ five years) I came in and was only singing a few songs initially, with the lead guitarist handling most of the vocals. But that didn’t last too long as I had a much better voice than him and he had a lot of respiratory issues with smoking and asbestos poisoning. Pretty soon after I joined, he was only doing five or six lead vocals a night and by the end, I was singing every song but one (our other guitarist covered a song by Bush) every night. We all had full time jobs and after five years of playing two nights a week every other (and sometimes EVERY) week, playing just started to be ANOTHER low paying job. From loading everything into our trucks, then into the bars, setting up and wiring (WAY before all the compact units that can be run on a iPad like they have now), playing three one hour plus sets, then tearing everything down and loading back into our trucks, it usually worked out to around five bucks an hour. But we weren’t really doing it for the money. We all loved playing and getting the applause and of course, the groupies that got two of the four of us divorced and me on the brink. Thank God I chose my wife and she forgave me. My groupie was SMOKIN’ hot, built like a brick shithouse and wild in the sack. But she was also a pill head with little to no ambition or job, living off that government teet on partial disability with two young daughters and a completely absentee baby daddy. She OD’d on heroin a few years later. True confessions of Dodgersnation! GO DODGERS!!! We had live entertainment at The Bar Melody in Westchester, by LAX when I worked there. It's where I met Bob Miller, famed announcer for the Kings. Also Rudy Tomjanovich of basketball lore. The bands were universally pasty white & wearing black leather. The Gothic look. They were okay. The joint was a bit small for a band though. I would try to hang out with them after hours. But we had this one crazy bitch of a bartender there. Susan. She worked days because she was usually too drunk to handle nights. I would come in & she smelled like a distillery. After I would remind her to replace the empty bottles, she would finish her behind the bar shift & start a sickening journey towards unconsciousness. Scotch & water. Baileys & coffee. Amaretto sour. Long Island Ice Tea. I can put it away, but the mixtures made me queasy just watching. She would tell on me. Like if I comped a drink for a musician. I finally fell out with the alleged owner because Susan told him I stole TWO DOLLARS. What had happened was I accidentally shorted myself giving change. So the next item was eight dollars. I rang it up as six. I didn't take anything out of the register. I was balancing it out. My boss said it's not working out. I agreed. He asked me if I wanted to come pick up my final check, or have it mailed. I told him mailed. I don't ever want to see you again. He asked where I lived. That moron had been trusting me with maybe 3,000 dollars a night & didn't know how to get ahold of me. If it wasn't for Susan, that place would have been alright. She later got fired for stealing. I could have told him that. But at that time, I didn't want to get involved. I came in one day & she had more in her tip jar than sales rung up. Another bar had live jazz style music. We got EVERYBODY in there. It's where I met Maury Wills. It's where that drunken cop stiffed a cabbie. THERE I could hang out with the musicians afterwards. One guy was a baseball trivia buff like me. He would ask me questions from the stage & shake his head as I gave him the answer. "That's your bartender, Tom!" |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Mar 1, 2023 5:25:01 GMT
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicholas Cage as Nick Cage, an out of work actor deeply in debt and forced to take a “job” for a million bucks as a “star attraction” for the birthday party of a HUGE fan in Mallorca, South America.
This fan also happens to have a screenplay that he thinks would be the perfect comeback vehicle for Cage.
Upon landing in S.A., the CIA kidnaps and recruits Cage to spy on this super fan who they think is part of a huge drug cartel.
The fan has an entire room devoted to Cage’s career, including many movie props as well as a life sized replica figure which Nick offers to buy for $20,000.
Along the way, Nick’s alter ego / conscience (Nicky), who just happens to be his over-the-top character Sailor Ripley from Wild at Heart pops in and out for comic relief.
Nobody plays Cage like Cage, and he finds himself in typical movie style action car chases, fist and gun fights, etc.
Some pretty funny moments throughout and definitely worth a couple hours.
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GO DODGERS!!!
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Post by jrgreene6 on Mar 1, 2023 5:45:58 GMT
Babel with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett was on last night and intertwines three stories on three different continents which all end up having a common element.
Pitt & Blanchett play a married couple on the brink of divorce vacationing in Morroco. In a small neighboring village, a local man with two young sons purchases a rifle to kill jackals that are killing his goats.
He buys the gun from another villager who it was given to by a Japanese businessman man after acting as a guide on a hunting safari.
This businessman has a young deaf mute daughter who is desperate to lose her virginity and is deeply troubled by her mother’s suicide, which her father was a suspect.
Pitt & Blanchett’s two children are left with their Mexican housekeeper in San Diego.
While traveling in a tour bus, one of the two sons of the villager shoots at the bus to prove the bullets will travel as far as the seller has stated (@ 2 kilometers).
The bullet strikes Blanchett in the neck which sets off a chain of events that connect all three stories and continents.
At nearly three hours, it seemed to go by very quickly and the acting by everyone was excellent. Good flick!
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Post by jrgreene6 on Mar 1, 2023 7:16:50 GMT
Okay - I just watched The Men Who Stare At Goats from the beginning. I had tried to watch it a few days ago, but missed the first fifteen minutes or so and was pretty lost.
It stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
I have to say seeing the first fifteen minutes didn’t help much at all. I have NO IDEA what I just spent the better part of two hours on.
I normally like Clooney; his politics - not so much. But his acting is usually top notch and the movies he stars in the same.
This one was just too bizarre to explain and I won’t even try. All four were good in their roles, I just have no idea what those roles were or what this movie meant.
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GO DODGERS!!!
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 8, 2023 16:59:21 GMT
Watched 'The Chamber' last night. It starred Gene Hackman. It was about a Klansman locked up for something like 16-17 years on death row. He killed a Jewish guy & his two children. His grandson is a lawyer who takes up his case after the government FINALLY decides to go through with his execution.
Excellent movie.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Mar 8, 2023 20:10:57 GMT
Watched 'The Chamber' last night. It starred Gene Hackman. It was about a Klansman locked up for something like 16-17 years on death row. He killed a Jewish guy & his two children. His grandson is a lawyer who takes up his case after the government FINALLY decides to go through with his execution. Excellent movie. I saw that one awhile back. Hackman’s another one of my fav actors who never seems to have been in a bad movie. I think that’s why they have never remade The French Connection. There can be only ONE Popeye Doyle. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 14, 2023 2:01:14 GMT
'Breaking' is on Showtime EXHD right now. I watched it this morning before going to work. It's about a veteran screwed over by the VA. He holds up a bank to get his disability payment. It turns out this is based on a true story.
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 17, 2023 1:42:27 GMT
Spartacus is on. It reminds me how homosexuality was accepted in the ancient world. It became taboo with the advent of Catholicism. Then the priesthood was dominated by pedophiles.
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Mar 21, 2023 2:44:57 GMT
Post by Blunashun on Mar 21, 2023 2:44:57 GMT
Liam Neeson calls Jimmy Kimmel Irish jokes at Oscars 'racist' and admits gun violence makes him reconsider violent films
Story by Katie Gallagher • 10h ago
Liam Neeson says Jimmy Kimmel's controversial jokes about Irish people at the Oscars were "being a bit racist".
The US comedian has come under fire over jokes he made about Irish people while hosting the 2023 Academy Awards ceremony last week in front of a record-breaking number of Irish nominees in the crowd.
Neeson, from Co Antrim, was not in attendance at the awards but when asked what he thought, he told The Times: “I heard he was being a bit racist. Jokes about Irish fighting, drinking, and all that. I don’t know what to say.”
Kimmel kicked off the jokes in the opening monologue of the ceremony, saying: "It was some year for diversity and inclusion. We have nominees from every corner of Dublin. Five Irish actors are nominated tonight which means the odds of another fight on stage just went way up."
The Taken actor from Ballymena, who has also faced his own racism controversy in the past, did not discuss that in the interview, but instead reflected on his career to date, as he reaches his 100th movie and the milestone age of 70.
His latest film, Marlowe, which marks 100 in his wide-spanning catalog, sees him once again in an action role, playing Raymond Chandler's iconic detective Philip Marlowe, who is hired to find heiress Clare Cavendish's (Diane Kruger) missing former lover.
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 21, 2023 2:46:30 GMT
So it's laughing at us you are, wee Jimmy. My family traces back to County Wexford. I have half a mind to crack an empty bottle of Jameson's over your head. EMPTY bottle.  |
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 25, 2023 21:36:15 GMT
Old Henry just came on. I love this movie.
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 29, 2023 2:12:58 GMT
I just missed Cool Hand Luke. Dammit!
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