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Post by Brian on Sept 26, 2009 0:07:59 GMT -8
while you were all out eating at Gourmet-a-Go-Go, I was placating myself with this:
www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb090925neil_finn
an hour long KCRW webcast of Neil, Elroy, Bic and Lisa performing select songs from 7 Worlds Collide II * The Sun Came Out.
Also includes a very nice interview with Neil. Bless you, Martine. By the way, nobody loves it more when Lisa Germano sits on the floor with her violin than Anni and me -- we watch her more than everybody else whenever she's onstage. Or in this case, on camera. And the songs are phenomenal. I'll block out some time this weekend to watch the whole thing. Thanks!
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Post by martine on Sept 26, 2009 7:04:40 GMT -8
i've always thought there was something very "anni" about lisa germano.
they resemble each other and i would love to be a fly on their creative walls because i think they may work from a similiar area of the brain !
lisa's contribution to this album is phenomenal. look how she gives elroy's song much more depth and atmosphere than it would've had otherwise.
it's taken me a while to warm to her (lisa), but i just love her now.
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Post by Jeanne on Sept 26, 2009 12:39:03 GMT -8
Thanks for the link. I play this show in my classroom sometimes but it's hard to hear with all those kids wanting to learn. Nice to know that it's reaching far, cool (sigh) .
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Post by martine on Sept 28, 2009 5:32:08 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Sept 28, 2009 23:15:25 GMT -8
Whoa, that interviewer asked Neil Finn questions I've wondered about for years, such as the apparent 9/11 prescience in the song "Turn and Run." We also learn about the Largo shows last month and what it felt like to be on that stage -- and that he has experimental music he doesn't consider commercial enough "in a drawer." He makes that new Crowded House album sound promising. By the way, he mixed it in Santa Clarita in the mountains just a few miles west of Tujunga. At the end of a very satisfying read, I see that you posted it here within hours of it being published. Thank you, Martine!
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Post by martine on Sept 29, 2009 9:32:02 GMT -8
Yea, Turn and Run was written/recorded before 9/11 but I've also noticed people commenting about the connection. Funny he doesn't mention "Love is all that Remains" which he definitely *did* write about 9/11 (but has never studio recorded) He played it at the very first gig of his I ever saw, Sebastien Steinburg's bassline almost gave us all heartattacks, it rumbled across the hall and vibrated the walls!
If Santa Clarita is so close to Tujunga, it's a shame we didn't run into the band at Starbucks stocking up on banana-strawberry smoothies (sigh...I haven't had one since I left....)
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Post by Brian on Dec 29, 2009 0:00:44 GMT -8
I've let this thread languish because usually there's something worth partially watching on television. Tonight, all the funny talk shows are reruns and the news talk isn't as serious as it should be about the causes of terrorism and how we can address them effectively. So I'm rambling here instead: Chris Matthews had Tyler Drumheller and Bob Baer on, the first time I remember seeing those former CIA guys together. Bob, not for the first time, said the U.S. needs to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan "as soon as possible" because every Muslim they kill creates more terrorists. Tyler, who was his boss as station chief for the Mideast until 2005, didn't get to say it first this time. They've always made me proud to be an American -- and wish they were still on the job for a country that heeded their wisdom. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#34613931I don't know why I'm sad that Jay Leno's show is failing, only attracting six million viewers nightly, according to Monday's L.A. Times. The idea of the same old program at 10 appealed to me initially, but I found that I'm somehow not interested in actually seeing it at that hour. The effect must be even more disconcerting in the Central time zone. Still, I'm fascinated by the unfolding story: Will Jay bow out gracefully? Fight like he did in the early 1990's when NBC undermined him yet lost Letterman to CBS anyway, then battle to top the ratings for years? Or will he go to ABC and steal Jimmy Kimmel's job? You have to be my age at least for this stuff to matter. Maybe it's time to start reading books again.
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Post by Sharon W on Dec 29, 2009 7:10:45 GMT -8
We got out of the habit of watching network news during the Bush years and now the ads are just too painful to watch. They all seem like SNL parodies gone wrong.
We never got into the so called reality TV either - it all seems like stupid people being manipulated, plenty of that in actual reality.
The new season of HBO's Big Love premieres Jan 10th. I like shows with story lines written by talented writers and no ads!
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Post by Brian on Dec 31, 2009 0:00:15 GMT -8
The new season of HBO's Big Love premieres Jan 10th. I like shows with story lines written by talented writers and no ads! Thanks for reminding me about "Big Love." I've read so much about it but somehow have never seen an episode. There was a time when HBO was the most indispensable channel we got, glued to "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under" most Sunday evenings. These days, we can catch up on the previous seasons on DVD and watch the new episodes on our cable company's On Demand whenever we want. At the beginning of the decade, I used to tape the great network dramas while Anni worked -- and get mad if some idiocy by Bush pre-empted "NYPD Blue" or, God forbid, "The West Wing." But the lack of programming during the writer's strike in 2007 and then the election squeezed out my old viewing habits. Anni tapes "Hardball" in the afternoon and if we watch the entire hour, it only takes 45 minutes. When she goes to bed, I park the TV on the Channel 5 news or one of the three C-SPAN channels and stumble around, talking to the cat, reading stuff on paper and on the Internets and posting here.
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Post by Roberta on Jan 3, 2010 22:04:47 GMT -8
We've been seeing lots of movies since John has had time off and is actually awake some evenings. As I've been telling folks at both vigils, Avatar is worth seeing. The only negative to me is that it is a bit on the long side. Here's an interesting link about it that Paige Eaves shared with our Read and Practice Peacemaking book group: www.laprogressive.com/2009/12/30/22100/
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