bdp24
Responses from bdp24
| I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading? Discovering great music new to one’s self leads to more musical fulfillment/pleasure/enjoyment than does the purchase of most components, assuming one has already assembled a system of "adequate" quality, adequate being a matter of personal sta... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @slaw: Oh yeah Steve, one night a few years back I came across the Three Billboards movie. I hadn't heard of it, and was very pleasantly surprised. Frances McDormand again. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Okay @grislybutter, I admit it. Dumb And Dumber is a guilty pleasure of mine. Is Bad Santa in that same category? I’m pretty lenient when in comes to movies, though I have to draw the line at super hero and "action" ones. @winoguy17: The Ma... | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). @wharfy: Ha! I tried on his spare, and damn I don't know how they can play with those things on. I started feeling pretty claustrophobic. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @winoguy17: Speaking of the Coen Brothers, have you seen The Man Who Wasn't There. Fantastic! A modern Noir instant classic, with the most beautiful B & W cinematography (by Roger Deakins) I've EVER seen. I also love their little-known A Se... | |
| Woodstock 1969, or 1967? I’ve been deliberately avoiding this thread since my last post. A few days after responding to the first few comments from others that followed, it occurred to me that I should have pointed out to @zlone that I had NOT in actual fact "trashed a... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: That Band album contains one of my favorite Robbie Robertson songs, "It Makes No Difference". Just beautiful. | |
| Progress at londondecca.com @noromance: Was that magnet used in the Decca Mk.IV? I'm on the hunt for a MK. IV. | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). @wharfy: A former fellow band member friend of mine is a week younger then I (we met the first day of 7th grade in September of 1962, and played our first show together at the Jr. High Talent Show in the spring of ’64. A year later we were both... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @noromance: I didn’t mean for my use of the term ridiculous to be taken literally, as a pejorative dismissal. I love Eraserhead, but I knew the store manager would consider my choice ridiculous. Which she did. @hifiguy42: My favorite of Kub... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @noromance: The manager at my video store in the early-2000’s one day asked me what my favorite movie was. A ridiculous question, so I gave her a ridiculous answer: Eraserhead, of course. I recently read that Stanley Kubrick cited it as his all... | |
| VMP (Vinyl Me Please) new. Oops, news not new, choice not chose, and a colon after "(first release on LP". Duh. | |
| Here's a really, really great video on Richard Manuel (and oh yeah, The Band). @wharfy: I turn 75 in June. Damn, where’d the time go?! In three years I’ll be the age my Pa was when he croaked. Colon cancer. But I never smoked, drank only moderately, ate sensibly, and got plenty of exercise hauling band equipment in and ou... | |
| Elvis Costello's favorite album of his own. @onhwy61’s post makes obvious that in my response to @slaw’s comment, I should have included the qualifying "of the Elvis albums I’ve heard." I’ve heard far less of his than than those I have heard, but I read the reviews of every album he rele... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Portland (Oregon) has a pretty good Classical music station, which sounds nice coming out of my Mac MR78 (with companion piece MPI 4, a useful diagnostic tool). |