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Silent Sunday or: The Haul 5/27/17

28 Sunday May 2017

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Salutations™!!

Underdog Records closed on Saturday (through this Tuesday) for a bit of “respite.” Never fear though, I still went there Friday (twice) and got a nice haul for the weekend. This is what it looked like:Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

  • Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Friday was the 50th Anniversary of its release, new).
  • Depeche Mode – Music For The Masses (new)
  • Kiss, Ace Frehley – Ace Frehley (new)
  • The Beatles – Let It Be (new)
  • Led Zeppelin – Untitled (actually Led Zeppelin IV, but Discogs has it as “untitled”)
  • Various – Big Band Jazz: From The Beginnings To The Fifties (six LP set of great big band jazz)
  • Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
  • Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection
  • Krokus – The Blitz
  • Jefferson Starship – Freedom At Point Zero
  • Foreigner – 4
  • Burt Bacharach – Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Original Movie Soundtrack)
  • Boston – Don’t Look Back (completes my “trilogy” of the first three Boston albums)
  • Various – The Big Chill – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Mozart, Robert Casadesus, George Szell, The Columbia Symphony Orchestra – Mozart Concertos – No. 22 In E-Flat, K. 482 / No. 23 In A Major, K. 488
  • Nino Rota – The Godfather (Original Soundtrack Recording)
  • Steve Martin – A Wild And Crazy Guy
  • Rod Stewart – Foot Loose & Fancy Free
  • Steely Dan – Katy Lied
  • The Costello Show Featuring The Attractions And Confederates – King Of America
  • The Kingston Trio – At Large
  • Sonny & Cher – All I Ever Need Is You
  • Carly Simon – Boys In The Trees
  • Jethro Tull – Aqualung
  • Jim Croce – Life And Times
  • Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
  • Billy Idol – Billy Idol
  • Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
  • Various – White Nights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • The Kinks – Kinks Greatest Hits
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates – Big Bam Boom
  • Blue Öyster Cult – Mirrors
  • Stryper – To Hell With The Devil
  • Bad Company – Desolation Angels
  • Various – Heavy Metal – Music From The Motion Picture
  • Missing Persons – Spring Session M
  • Def Leppard – Hysteria
  • Cinderella – Night Songs
  • Waylon – Greatest Hits
  • ZZ Top – Eliminator
  • Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
  • Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
    • Robert Plant – Now And Zen

Man… we are certainly gonna need a new cabinet soon. We’ve started on the last cube of the 8 cube cab. It’s coming. Underdog will be open again on Wednesday. You can find them at 825 Burke Street in WSNC. Listen to The Less Desirables to hear what the weekly Underdog/TLD special is. And, use Discogs for your cataloging of LPs and CDs and hit me up, we can share collections.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“It’s all the same, only the names will change. Everyday, it seems we’re wastin’ away. Another place where the faces are so cold. I drive all night just to get back home. I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. I’m wanted dead or alive. Wanted dead or alive.” – “Wanted Dead or Alive” (Sambora/Bon Jovi)

Sixteen Candles or: The Less Desirables Movie of the Week

20 Saturday Aug 2016

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Salutations™!!

a/perture cinema, the Official Movie Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents The Less Desirables Movie of the Week, Sixteen Candles (1984), starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Shoeffling.

Per IMDb: “A girl’s ‘sweet’ sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.”

From one ridiculous absurdity to another, Samantha’s (Ringwald) sixteenth birthday is everything she wants it not to be. Her parents forget her birthday, a note meant to be a secret falls into the hands of the one person she doesn’t want it to, her grandparents getting her room while everyone is in for her sister’s wedding and her other grandparents feeling up her “brand new boobies.” What could be better, right?

Sixteen_Candles

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Sam spends the film avoiding Jake (Shoeffling), the boy she’s really into and skirting around Farmer Ted (Hall) and his adolescent advances. It’s typical John Hughes and it’s quite entertaining. To find out if Farmer Ted or even Sam get what they’re looking for, or something else or more, you’ll have to watch.

As I said, this film is what we know of John Hughes. It was John Hughes and it is John Hughes. It wasn’t his first screenplay but it was the first film he directed and he only directed eight, but wrote a slew of them. Molly Ringwald was sixteen when the film came out. So, they had that right. It’s very predictable but very fun to watch. It’s perhaps predictable because this is one of the films that set the pace for this genre, this “coming of age” type film; the “we get how teenagers work” type, even. I meant it when I said absurdity, there was plenty of that in the film, but it showed, too that Hughes doesn’t take himself too seriously.

One thing that I have always liked about John Hughes films is the soundtracks. While not as prolific as some other Hughes films, this one has a really good soundtrack. Tunes such as “Rebel Yell” from Billy Idol, “Rumours in the Air” from Night Ranger, “True” from Spandau Ballet, “Wild Sex in the Working Class” by Oingo Boingo and “Turning Japanese” from The Vapors are all included here as is “Young Americans” from Bowie and a few TV and movie themes like “Peter Gunn” and “The Godfather.” Hughes uses music to help tell his story, not just as background filler. That’s a trademark of his, I believe.

Rotten Tomatoes has the film rated at 86% Fresh with an Audience Score of 85%. IMDb has it at 7.2 stars out of 10. It’s certainly not my favorite John Hughes film but he does a great job with it, it was witty and fun. You can see this streaming on Netflix. I do recommend you see it if you haven’t, but keep in mind that it’s not going overboard on the serious side. I rate it 4.25 stars. Have you seen it? Do you agree with me? What would like to read and hear me review?

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“What’s happenin’, hot stuff?” – Long Duk Dong

Patton or: The Less Desirables Movie of the Week

28 Saturday May 2016

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Salutations™!!

a/perture cinema, the Official Movie Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents The Less Desirables Movie of the Week, Patton (1970) starring George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young.

Per IMDb: “The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.”

Francis Ford Coppola’s screenplay had gotten him fired because it was too “ahead of its time.” They thought the opening speech by George C. Scott’s Patton was unusual and they didn’t get it. Turns out it’s quite famous. Coppola won an Academy Award for Best 51LqvckTZ8L._SY355_Screenplay. That kept him employed on The Godfather. That opening speech, though, is an amalgamation of words spoken from several speeches that George Patton had delivered over a few years. It’s easily one of the most recognizable and most quoted scenes in cinematic history.

In 1943 North Africa, Patton takes over command of the ransacked American II Corps after the dismal outcome of the Battle of Kasserine Pass. He has his lackeys put on a three star pin, which General Omar N. Bradley (Malden) questions, saying that the Senate hasn’t approved his promotion, yet. He said, it’s all a matter of time. This scene, I think is important to show how seriously he takes his job and how hard-nosed he is. He lays down his laws about always being properly attired, with leggings, boots, ties and so forth. He tears down posters of women in the barracks stating that they are barracks, not a bordello. He enters the infirmary and tells the doctor to get any patients with self-inflicted wounds out of the infirmary as the “yellowbellies” have no business being in the same room, under the same care as the brave soldiers who got their injuries in battle.

Turns out that Patton was well read and understood a lot about history and believed that he had lived in another time (or times), talking about Roman battles and the defeat of Carthaginian commander, Hannibal in Zama, 202 BC. The film showed much struggle between his devout Christianity and his belief in reincarnation.

He leads the newly rejuvenated (and more disciplined) regimen to victory against the Axis in the Battle of El Guettar, this upon reading German General Rommel’s book on tank warfare. He’s disappointed that he didn’t defeat Rommel personally, but Rommel, also known as the Desert Fox, was in Berlin with a sinus infection. Patton is seen by many in the Allied ranks as being a loose cannon, some of which is echoed by American officers and officials as well. They abandon Patton’s plans for Sicily in favor of his British counterpart, Bernard Law Montgomery’s plan to have Patton flank him. Instead, Patton moves and takes Palermo, to the chagrin of Montgomery. When he receives a message from British General Sir Harold Alexander to not take Palermo, he asks if they want to give it back?

His iron fist and hard-nosed philosophies continue to make the troops uneasy.He even humiliates and slaps around a soldier who is suffering from shell-shock. For that he’s personally reprimanded by General Eisenhour; commanding him to apologize to the soldier and the medical staff who witnessed the act.

His insistence on beating Montgomery to Messina mounts to even more tension. As he does actually beat him there, Montgomery marches through the streets to find Patton there waiting on him, they exchange forced pleasantries. Montgomery marches with bagpipes playing “God Save the King!” and Patton soon has the band crank up “Stars and Stripes Forever” from the brass band to drown out the bagpipes.

His rogue attitude gets him relieved of his command but it is told that he is in England that he is there to prepare the troops for battle in Europe. He’s being used as a decoy; left out of the actual D-Day invasion. He’s not happy about it. In France, he meets with Montgomery and the Brit brags that he’s going to face Rommel. Patton is nonplussed. But, he’s been given back a command, and he’s given some leeway to move how he sees fit. There’s stops and starts but he helps take control of several key locales and marches toward Germany. The Allies win and Patton is relieved of his duties once again after comparing the Democrats and Republicans to Nazis. The film ends with Patton walking his bull terrier named Willie through a field and a voice over from George C. Scott.

This film was released the year I was born, 1970, and I had never seen it, but knew it was a big deal. George C. Scott does a fantastic job portraying Patton, at least in the film version. I know very little about the man overall and can’t say if it’s an accurate portrayal or not. War films have never interested me as far as the war aspects go, it’s usually the human element within that I’m more interested in. Lately, though, I’ve noticed that many of the most famous or classic films have been war films. Many are masked by the stories within but this one, while about the man Patton, it was very much about war and its bloody and deadly toll and one man’s determination to win at all costs.

The film was ranked #89 on the 1996 version of the AFI Top 100 Films of All Time but failed to make the updated list in 2007, the list in which I’ve seen all 100. It was, still, of course, left on the 400 nominees for that 2007 list. I have completed the 1996 list and 17 left on the 400 nominees for the 2007 list. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 95% Fresh with an Audience Score of 94%. IMDb has it at 8.0 stars out of 10. Both are phenomenal ratings.

This film won George C. Scott the Academy Award for Best Actor, which he famously refused to accept, citing he wasn’t a fan of the voting system or the idea of an acting competition. The film won six additional Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Art Direction and the aforementioned Best Original Screenplay for Coppola. It was nominated for three more: Best Music – Original Score, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

This is available on Netflix, but it is only available via DVD. If you’re a subscriber with the disc service, then you can get it there. I have it on Blu Ray and watched it that way. I thought it was a really good film and I’m going to rate it 4.5 stars. George C. Scott is what makes this film. Have you seen it? What do you think?

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost, and will never lose a war… because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.” – George Patton (as portrayed by George C. Scott)

It Doesn’t End? or: The Count Continues

18 Monday Jan 2016

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Salutations™!!

If you’re keeping score of the celebs (near celebs) and the like that we’re losing at (what I’d call) a record pace, here’s the tally since last week:

Robert Banks Stewart, 84 (Doctor Who, Bergerac, Shoestring – writer)
Al Hart, 88 (American radio host)
Franco Citti, 80 (Italian actor – The Godfather)
René Angélil, 73 (Cèline Dion’s husband and manager; her brother died two days later)
Rex Morgan, 67 (NBA star)
Pete Huttlinger, 54 (gutarist for LeAnn Rimes and John Denver)
Dan Haggerty, 74 (Grizzly Adams)
Noreen Corcoran, 72 (Gidget Goes to Rome, The Girls on the Beach, Bachelor Father)
Ted Marchibroda, 84 (American football player and coach)
Gary Loizzo,70 (singer, American Breed)
“Iron” Mike Sharpe, 64 (professional wrestler)
Bob Harkey, 85 (racecar driver)
Dale Griffin, 67 ( drummer, Mott the Hoople)
Mic Gillette, 64 (Tower of Power)
Blowfly, 76 (American musician and music producer)
And, today, Glenn Frey (The Eagles, solo)

So, my plea to the universe to stop taking our celebs last Thursday has fallen upon deaf celestial ears. Sixteen since Thursday alone. Jon, from The Beer Dads, and I were talking eagles_reason_9_v_g_mpabout this very thing this evening. The elder celebs – the ones that our parents may have grown up idolizing – while having a lot of “press” for their days, didn’t have the mass media that we had at our disposal from the late 60s on. Therefore the celebs that we grew up with have been highlighted in movie soundtracks, MTV, VHS, DVDs, Netflix, etc. have been more, and constantly so, in our face and in our minds. So, it seems that they’re all starting to fall at once, or at least we’re noticing it more. Another thing to consider is that Mercury is in retrograde (whatever that means) and it could some weird circumstance on it, but I doubt that one. Anywhat, here is a plea to the universe, again, please, enough!

Sorry this was late today, but until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I got sick of my job, sick of my wife, sick of my future and sick of my life. I packed up my car and I got some gas and told ev’rybody they could kiss my ass. I’m goin’ to Party town.” – “Partytown” (Frey/Tempchin)

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