How about a movie thread?

[Rajoo]

The Reader (2009)

[Rajoo]

Danny Deckchair (2003), an Aussie movie that I really enjoyed.

[d-ray657]

Went to see Love & Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic. Pretty well done. I had to put on Pet Sounds when we got home.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Went to see Love & Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic. Pretty well done. I had to put on Pet Sounds when we got home.

Regards,

D-Ray

The "Beach Boys" played here at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, 3 blocks away, last Thursday night. I coulda walked there and paid $5.00 (senior) admission but, somehow, that group didn't wear well with me.

I did see War there the year before last and that was good. Very good and very close to the original, even though Lonnie Jordan was the only founding member left.

[catswiththum]

Recently (in the course of a couple of weeks) I watched Apocalypse Now for the umpteenth time, reread Conrad's Heart of Darkness, then sat through Apocalypse Now once again for a fresh comparison.

The exercise of noting the comparisons and contrasts was enjoyable, but for the next couple of days I was left with little regard for the human species and would have been unmoved if a sudden plague threatened to return us all to the mud from whence we crawled.

I eventually pulled out my Calvin and Hobbes collection to snap me out of it.

[d-ray657]

Thank goodness that my wife has become a fan of the blues over the years that we have been married. We were scanning through Netflix last night, and she noticed Life of Riley, a documentary on the life of BB King. It was nominally narrated by Morgan Freeman and included interviews from dozens of musicians who trace at least some of their licks to the King of the Blues.

Regards,

D-Ray

[donquixote99]

thanks for that pointer, D.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Thank goodness that my wife has become a fan of the blues over the years that we have been married. We were scanning through Netflix last night, and she noticed Life of Riley, a documentary on the life of BB King. It was nominally narrated by Morgan Freeman and included interviews from dozens of musicians who trace at least some of their licks to the King of the Blues.

Regards,

D-Ray

Not Wm Bendix then?

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[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Not Wm Bendix then?

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No, but a nice play on words considering the struggles that young Riley faced, being born to a sharecropper on a plantation in Mississippi, orphaned at an early age, and living in the depths of segregation. He talked about the impact of having seen a black man hanging from a tree after having been lynched. He went on to play as many as 365 shows a year, both before and after he earned his chops.

Even his greatest success carried with it some irony. His had a smash hit with The Thrill is Gone after his young white producer added strings to blues music. He became famous world wide by touring with musicians who tried to imitate his work - The Stones and U2. Bono acknowledged BB's towering presence as a musician and performer, but also recognized that it was the drawing power of the Stones and U2 that introduced his work to a broader audience. Kind of like Pat Boone having a hit with Tutti Frutti.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Not Wm Bendix then?

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Cool!

I had forgotten all about that show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rks0hOeDgmU