Play it Again

Denro’s brother is living the radio DJ dream I lived for a while, but gave up, so long ago. He’s covering the overnight shift on MVY Radio, on Martha’s Vineyard. Yeah, the island off the Cape Cod shore where the Obamas have an expensive house, but without any top secret documents in the basement.

Just an image — don’t click!

Monday night Rich played one of my very favorite “recent” (2010) tunes, and I didn’t even request it.

This one you can click (or tap).

Lights! Camera! Magic!

Having watched part 2 of Light & Magic on Disney+…

… I could be completely happy seeing only the first two installments…

… because as familiar as I was with the story behind the making of Star Wars

… this documentary really brings back the delighted amazement I felt…

… of seeing it in a movie theater in 1977.

Ralph McQuarrie’s paintings were, for George Lucas, what the Decca audition tape was for the Beatles — the thing that sold the Big Thing. Speaking of the Beatles, Light & Magic makes for quite a contrast with the other big multi-part documentary that’s on Disney+, Get Back. One shows the struggles at the beginning…

… and the other shows the struggles at the end.