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| Movie/film suggestions. Wow, so many great titles! One not yet mentioned (unless I missed it) is Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, a parody of Noir movies. Co-written by Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, directed by the former and starring the latter. An odd little movie I ... | |
| New In 2025 I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll by Mississippi Fred McDowell comes out April 11th on Jackpot Records. The album was originally released in 1969, and is I believe one of Chad Kassem’s favorite Blues albums. Jackpot Records is located in Portland ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Ooh yeah @ezwind, love Seven. Though I have to agree with @grislybutter that Pitt’s not a great actor, he’s pretty good in it. I think even better in Inglorious Bastards. I think I’ll get myself a copy of The Road novel, which I was unaware of... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. The darkest film I've ever seen is The Road, a 2009 post-apocalyptic tale with Viggo Mortensen in the lead role of a father wandering the land with his young son. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Beside watching music reviews on videos posted on YouTube by amateurs (the term used without pejorative implication), I also watch film/movie reviews. The quality of the reviews varies wildly, and I have discovered an unusually good reviewer---... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @thecarpathian: Speaking of Casablanca, I love all Bogie's Noir movies. I recently saw In A Lonely Place for the first time, and never miss a chance to watch your choice, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, Dark Passage, ... | |
| Progress at londondecca.com @oceanandmountains: In the early-90’s I had my Decca (not London) Super Gold mounted on a Rega 300 (first on an AR ES-1 table, then a VPI HW-19), a pretty good pairing. The Zeta is better. @dogberry: You got me beat! I have the London/Zeta/... | |
| Congratulations to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings! I was very happy when both of Levon Helms' last two albums won Grammy Awards, Dirt Farmer for best Traditional Folk Album and Electric Dirt for best Americana album. I fitting way to go out. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Years ago I saw the movie Nashville (directed by Robert Altman), and while perusing the soundtrack section in the good LP vendor booth at my local vintage marketplace store yesterday I came upon the soundtrack for the movie. All the musicians a... | |
| Congratulations to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings! A great article @mashif, thanks for the link. I knew nothing about the Woodland Sound Studio story. | |
| Progress at londondecca.com Back in the 80’s and 90’s a popular arm for use with Decca’s was the Zeta (a British medium/high mass arm), especially in the UK. It was known for it’s stiff, large diameter arm tube and excellent bearings. They show up used once in a while. I ... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I'm with you @77jovian. I have no idea what Barton Fink is about, and it's unlike the Coens to be so abstract. I find this film very disturbing. Mulholland drive is slightly more understandable, since we know Lynch likes to play around with dr... | |
| Congratulations to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings! Oops, they’re not their. | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Yep, forgot about The Big Lebowski, and I really need to rewatch Blood Simple again. I've seen it only once, and that many years ago. I need to see Miller's Crossing again too. | |
| Congratulations to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings! And whatta ya know, their including Portland, Oregon in their current tour, so I'll finally get to see and hear them live for the first time. Tickets don't go on sale til Feb. 14th, so I don't yet know what it'll cost me. |