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captainsblogWe usually eat outside in the summertime, but these past few days have just been too brutal for that, so we've gone with some unexpected, and unexpectedly good, DVD choices each of the past two nights.
A few weeks ago, an order of Amazon swag came through, mostly things the grrls had requested, but one addition on my part was the CD of the 2007 James Taylor/Carole King concert at Los Angeles's Troubadour. I'd somehow missed this collaboration entirely until videos of their current tour started showing up on my Wall. The closest it got to us was Cleveland- last night. We were in our living room instead, watching the DVD performance of the same songs as are collected on the live album, which included some additional banter between the songs and created major roving bands of goose bumps for both of us.
Both Tapestry and Sweet Baby James were among the count-on-one hand albums I can remember buying, in vinyl, very early on. (There aren't many others from that era which I will admit to.) While I have separate recollections of both, I knew there was crossover, since Carole's composition "You've Got a Friend" is in both of their solo repertoires. They sing it together in concert, alternating verses and combining their talents and memories in a very touching way.
For me, though, the one that did it even more so was the one that followed: "Up On The Roof," a much earlier King-Goffin composition which I have numerous distinct versions of in my head. Not only each of theirs, but the Drifters original, a lovely Nylons a capella version, and probably others. Yet hearing them alternate the verses in the same way- only each really nailing their original performances on their parts (their band from the Troubadour from 40 years before, including Lee Sklar, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar and Russ Kunkel, joined them and kicked ass all these years later). Taylor's version is the one I probably know best from radio airplay, and hearing his and Kootch's guitars taking over from Carole's keyboarding was a neary-teary experience.
From Cleveland (where they may not have been paying particular attention to the concert last night?), they head way west, so we won't see them in the flesh, but we very much enjoyed them last night in the ears. And the heart.
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Then, tonight, Cameron was over, and the kids voted to watch I, Robot. It's been ages for me since reading the original Asimov, and I don't know how this adaptation managed to escape me, either, but it was very well done and, best I can remember, just as faithful to the Laws as it was to Fox's Profits.
So many one-offs to riff on here. James Cromwell, getting in a gig as the inventor of the positronic brain to go with his discovery of the warp drive. Firefly's Wash as the voice of the principal Robot (I asked at one point if Sonny played with rubber dinosaurs). The female lead, Bridget Moynahan, was one I didn't recognize, but I thought she did a good job, and there was some IMDB speculation about her being in the running for the Wonder Woman feature. Yeah, she'd be cool in the new do.
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LeBron to the Heat. You probably read it here first despite it being supposedly a 9:00 announcement. Take our Heat with you on the way south, willya?
A few weeks ago, an order of Amazon swag came through, mostly things the grrls had requested, but one addition on my part was the CD of the 2007 James Taylor/Carole King concert at Los Angeles's Troubadour. I'd somehow missed this collaboration entirely until videos of their current tour started showing up on my Wall. The closest it got to us was Cleveland- last night. We were in our living room instead, watching the DVD performance of the same songs as are collected on the live album, which included some additional banter between the songs and created major roving bands of goose bumps for both of us.
Both Tapestry and Sweet Baby James were among the count-on-one hand albums I can remember buying, in vinyl, very early on. (There aren't many others from that era which I will admit to.) While I have separate recollections of both, I knew there was crossover, since Carole's composition "You've Got a Friend" is in both of their solo repertoires. They sing it together in concert, alternating verses and combining their talents and memories in a very touching way.
For me, though, the one that did it even more so was the one that followed: "Up On The Roof," a much earlier King-Goffin composition which I have numerous distinct versions of in my head. Not only each of theirs, but the Drifters original, a lovely Nylons a capella version, and probably others. Yet hearing them alternate the verses in the same way- only each really nailing their original performances on their parts (their band from the Troubadour from 40 years before, including Lee Sklar, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar and Russ Kunkel, joined them and kicked ass all these years later). Taylor's version is the one I probably know best from radio airplay, and hearing his and Kootch's guitars taking over from Carole's keyboarding was a neary-teary experience.
From Cleveland (where they may not have been paying particular attention to the concert last night?), they head way west, so we won't see them in the flesh, but we very much enjoyed them last night in the ears. And the heart.
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Then, tonight, Cameron was over, and the kids voted to watch I, Robot. It's been ages for me since reading the original Asimov, and I don't know how this adaptation managed to escape me, either, but it was very well done and, best I can remember, just as faithful to the Laws as it was to Fox's Profits.
So many one-offs to riff on here. James Cromwell, getting in a gig as the inventor of the positronic brain to go with his discovery of the warp drive. Firefly's Wash as the voice of the principal Robot (I asked at one point if Sonny played with rubber dinosaurs). The female lead, Bridget Moynahan, was one I didn't recognize, but I thought she did a good job, and there was some IMDB speculation about her being in the running for the Wonder Woman feature. Yeah, she'd be cool in the new do.
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LeBron to the Heat. You probably read it here first despite it being supposedly a 9:00 announcement. Take our Heat with you on the way south, willya?
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