What do I have that’s green for St. Patrick’s Day? I have bananas! Bananas that have been green for two weeks.
I’ve been told they will eventually ripen, and that putting them in a paper bag will help to hasten the process.
How long will it take for these bananas to ripen? Stay tuned to find out!
Something by Green Day. Will the situation with Russia get bad enough that Selective Service returns to having the Draft?
I watched the new Brian Wilson documentary, Long Promised Road.
Brian certainly deserves all of the credit and good will he receives, but it’s doubtful that he has ever truly been back — and that’s assuming he was ever completely okay.
The two bad guys in Brian’s life story — his father Murry and his longtime therapist Eugene Landy — are given the right amount of attention. There isn’t a lot of new information in the movie, but I didn’t know that Brian’s 34th birthday, in 1976, was celebrated with Paul McCartney, who was born two days before Brian. Which means they will both turn 80 in June.
Later on that year, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd set up this SNL skit, featuring the first appearance of the car that I assume inspired the duo to come up with the Bluesmobile. The generic use of “Highway Patrol” was probably a nod to the 1950’s TV series with Broderick Crawford.
When they were at the beach, Annie Leibovitz took this photo of Brian for a Rolling Stone cover.
The record Linda McCartney showed to the camera was 15 Big Ones. In the documentary Brian asks a couple of times to hear this song from the album.
Thanks, Jim Dawson, for the humorous acknowledgement.
Jim has taken up the radio reins on Luxuria Music that he shared for many years with the late Ian Whitcomb.
Ian’s stroke caused a marked change in his voice, as heard in this clip from a few years ago, during a pledge drive. Go to 32:00 minutes to hear my request for my sister Liz, who was delighted to hear this recording.
A few posts ago, “Little Green Bag” is in stereo. My copy of the recording, on a CD, is in mono, like the original single.
That very nifty record player looks like a Voice of Music A1272, from 1972. I had one, very briefly. Voice of Music record changers were everywhere on house brand stereos, but five years after the A1272 the company went out of business.
This video has a good view of the complete unit. Not an audiophile quality turntable, but good enough for all practical purposes.
When I happen to hear a less frequently played record from the 60’s, I check to see where it peaked on the Billboard Hit chart. This one is from ’66, the ultimate year for Pop music. The opening bass notes seem to have been borrowed from “Blue Bayou”.
Surely this perfectly romantic, swoony delight must have been a #1 hit. Boys liked it, girls loved it, and their moms undoubtedly did too. And yet “Mr. Dieingly Sad” only reached #17! Why? The answer is that it faced some very tough competition.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1966-10-05/
I suppose mothers may have been wary of the possibility their kids would go to the library to find out what “Kama-Sutra” on the record label meant. 😉
I’ve been watching movies featuring Hollywood tough guy Lawrence Tierney.
Tierney reminds me of a guy I knew in college, named Tom, who was a year ahead of me during my freshman year. Tom and his roommate were in the dorm room directly above myself and my two roommates.
We were a nerdy trio, while Tom was a tough guy majoring in Criminal Justice. He was also a major pain in the butt, taking delight in giving us a hard time. When I’d finally had enough of him harassing us, my roommates literally had to hold me back from taking him on. Tom seemed content that I would dare to challenge him, and from then on we were okay.
Tom is introduced a few moments into this video, and you will hear how he put his Criminal Justice degree to good use.
https://youtu.be/cpnU1tKpTKU?t=4336
One of the last screen appearances of Lawrence Tierney was in Quentin Tarantino’s first movie, Reservoir Dogs.
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