Spitball Army

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This is a tape that reflected the pushmi-pullyu part of my brain that, at the time, couldn’t decide if it was into songwriters, oldies, classical or blues. That’s pretty representative of my brain all of the time.

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The Oscars: it’s like a three-hour live version of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

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I hadn’t seen this video until today. Looks like I’m way behind the curve, as it already has over ten million views on YouTube. No matter, I still had to watch it three times in a row, and laughed heartily and at full volume. Particularly hilarious are the girl’s take on the “shiny guy,” and the Darth Vader take-home lesson. Enjoy!

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I hesitated barely a millisecond before touting my yard sale coup after scoring a $3 Polaroid camera some while back. I still consider the camera a bargain, especially since, after finding some fresh film, I discovered that it works almost perfectly.

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The first 45 minutes to an hour were nearly unendurable. Mamma Mia! follows the standard Hollywood musical formula, with characters singing a song where a mere sentence would suffice, in conveniently improbable settings.

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What an odd year for me and music. By that I don’t mean that it was an odd year for music (which it may have been), or an odd year for me, necessarily (though I might say that was true, as well). It was an odd year for me and music, together. For the first time in about twenty years, I wasn’t around the music “scene” every day, 24/7. All of the new music that I encountered, I had sought out, after reading about it online or in the news, or it was recommended to me by friends and former colleagues…you know, the way that music discovery is supposed to happen.

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Bet you didn’t know that you can have the daily Los Angeles weather announced to you by David Lynch, on camera and straight onto your computer screen, from his California home.

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Here’s a great and hilarious scene from WC Field’s 1941 film, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.  There are at least ten great quotable moments here, plus the appearance of Margaret Dumont, foil for many a Marx Brothers antic.

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