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captainsblogStarting with music, the subject of the icon is that today was Bob Dylan's 80th birthday. My favorite station devoted its entire morning segment to originals by and covers of the man who meant so much to where today's music came from, is, and is going. He is also one of only five alive from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," four if you don't count QE2 because she's not mentioned by given name. ♫Can you name the other three, they range from obscure to easy, the oldest international, the newest just Noo Yawk....♫
I'd put in a request for my personal favorite, which oddly I didn't become acquainted with until college. "Blowin in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," "My Back Pages" and "Lay Lady Lay," I'd known more or less since their releases, but it was a college roommate who tipped me to the snarkiness of "Positively Fourth Street," a song about broken friendship which, like many of Bob's songs, does not contain the title in the lyrics.
(Odd local note: I always got a kick out of there being a boutique on Buffalo's Elmwood Avenue homaging the song named "Positively Main Street," and another on Main Street called "Everything Elmwood." Both, alas, are no more.)
Scott never got to it, but none of his other choices deserved pre-empting. He also didn't play this, which Bob doesn't sing on but I bet he wishes he did, as the immortal Frank Zappa spoofs him into his 90th year:
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Moving on to film, or more particularly a trailer for one, from events across from the house this morning:
In a world....where the town digs up a street tree and replaces it at the hottest time of the year,....
And the owner of the house SAYS she’s gonna water it but four days later there’s no sign,....
Except, now, of our hose running across the street from our spigot....
Arbordale Pictures,
In association with Twentieth Century Mulch,
Presents....
An Eleanor reimagining of Director Fernando Meirelles’ classic:
The Constant Gardener.
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And finally, television:
Mare of Easttown dropped its penultimate episode last night. Wow. They hung one hell of a cliff on us for the final hour next week, where despite seeming confessions and inevitabilities and tackle boxes full of danger, EVERYONE remains a suspect of at least SOMETHING, and it almost seems unfair that they only have about an hour next week to tie all these threads together. Until this series, I had a permanent mental block confusing Kate Winslet with Cate Blanchett. No more. K's Mare is so unique, so well written and so beautifully performed, I will never mistake her for anyone else.
Now off to the reviews.
I'd put in a request for my personal favorite, which oddly I didn't become acquainted with until college. "Blowin in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," "My Back Pages" and "Lay Lady Lay," I'd known more or less since their releases, but it was a college roommate who tipped me to the snarkiness of "Positively Fourth Street," a song about broken friendship which, like many of Bob's songs, does not contain the title in the lyrics.
(Odd local note: I always got a kick out of there being a boutique on Buffalo's Elmwood Avenue homaging the song named "Positively Main Street," and another on Main Street called "Everything Elmwood." Both, alas, are no more.)
Scott never got to it, but none of his other choices deserved pre-empting. He also didn't play this, which Bob doesn't sing on but I bet he wishes he did, as the immortal Frank Zappa spoofs him into his 90th year:
----
Moving on to film, or more particularly a trailer for one, from events across from the house this morning:
In a world....where the town digs up a street tree and replaces it at the hottest time of the year,....
And the owner of the house SAYS she’s gonna water it but four days later there’s no sign,....
Except, now, of our hose running across the street from our spigot....
Arbordale Pictures,
In association with Twentieth Century Mulch,
Presents....
An Eleanor reimagining of Director Fernando Meirelles’ classic:
The Constant Gardener.
----
And finally, television:
Mare of Easttown dropped its penultimate episode last night. Wow. They hung one hell of a cliff on us for the final hour next week, where despite seeming confessions and inevitabilities and tackle boxes full of danger, EVERYONE remains a suspect of at least SOMETHING, and it almost seems unfair that they only have about an hour next week to tie all these threads together. Until this series, I had a permanent mental block confusing Kate Winslet with Cate Blanchett. No more. K's Mare is so unique, so well written and so beautifully performed, I will never mistake her for anyone else.
Now off to the reviews.
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