Topic: IF WISHES WERE HORSES (Read 27281 times)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #270 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:11:27 PM »

For once, I actually have some media going on media day. Bought the Residents CD entitled "Not Available," which I used to have on vinyl long ago. It's a song cycle about a porcupine.

DVD, I bought THE TALES OF HOFFMAN, because Elmore showed me a bit of it when I was helping him get his DVD player going, and it looked pretty nifty.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #271 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:13:17 PM »

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS, yeah, I watched that movie and when it was over I didn't know what I knew about anything in that sad affair. A real mind trip.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #272 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:14:23 PM »

JRand, hilarious commentary on THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS. It's as painful to type that title as I imagine it would be to actually watch the film!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #273 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:14:24 PM »

Would love to have seen the "Kismet" production.
When I was kid I loved "And This is My Beloved" and still do.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #274 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:15:41 PM »

I don't think Homer & Jethro did "Strange Looking Parasite" from the show.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #275 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:18:37 PM »

They did the music justice. Stirring version of that song, which I think I first heard on a Mario Lanza LP.

And the hit of "Baubles Bangles and Beads" here (and the first version I ever heard) was the lone smash for the inimitable Kirby Stone Four.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #276 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:21:14 PM »

The KSF had another top 40 hit here with "KIDS".

Peggy Lee's version of Baubles did well here as did Jerry Vale's "And This is" and of course Tony Bennet's "Stranger In Paradise".

Tomovoz · « **Reply #277 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:25:41 PM »

I must now sign off and attend a family BBQ which will certainly not be "Night Of My Nights"

Rodzinski · « **Reply #278 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:25:43 PM »

LP Cover of the night: Roslyn Kind "Give Me You." I know nothing about this woman. Has anyone here ever heard of her? The cover just kinda drew me in. Alas she is not a very good singer.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #279 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:26:31 PM »

Good BBQ vibes to you, sir.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #280 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:29:05 PM »

Ben, I had once almost bought that Hansel and Gretl on VHS. One of those non-purchases that always haunted me.

Also, the claymation feature THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN is on DVD now. It's a pretty solid exploration of Twain the man and his work.

François de Paris · « **Reply #281 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:32:48 PM »

Don't think anyone will care to know that but the French version of Stranger In Paradise here, Etranger Au Paradis, was the hit of wonderful pop-singer Gloria Lasso who passed away just a few weeks ago, at eighty three. And even recently she could warble a song like most new singers can't!

http://newsfromrussia.com/culture/2005/12/06/69245.html

Sorry for that French trivia!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #282 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:35:14 PM »

Hello France!

Did you hear that an American sportscaster who had signed to work for ABC-ESPN and wanted to leave to work for NBC was "traded" to NBC for the rights to Walt Disney's character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?

Seems a thorn in the Disney family's side was that Walt didn't have the rights to this precursor to Mickey. So when Al Michaels wanted out of his contract, the deal was NBC-Universal, which owned Oswald, would give the rights to ABC-Disney.

The guy got traded for a cartoon character!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #283 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:37:19 PM »

Interesting François. She also recorded it in Spanish as "Extranos en el Paraiso."

Rodzinski · « **Reply #284 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:42:33 PM »

A headline today read: Jefferson's Neighbor Dies, so of course, I'm sure I wasn't the only person thinking Paul Benedict (aka "Guffman" from WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, aka the weird painter dude on SESAME STREET, etc). But no, it was the guy who played Tom Willis, also a neighbor, I guess. But Benedict was their next-door neighbor. The Willis's lived on a different floor.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #285 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:43:40 PM »

DR Rodzinksi - You went to Kismet without me?!?!?!

HARRUMPHHHH!!!!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #286 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:44:20 PM »

But since it's a cheap ticket... I may go Sunday - if tickets are left... And if they have a show... -Snow, ya' know.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #287 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:44:23 PM »

Sorry Jose. Guess it was kismet!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #288 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:45:17 PM »

And is it really still a "blizzard" when the snow total is only in the single digits? Or it more a matter of how fast the snow is falling and/or the wind gusts?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #289 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:46:00 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on February 10, 2006, 10:44:23 PM

Sorry Jose. Guess it was kismet!

Well... I do have Stokes' number with me, so... Hmm...

Rodzinski · « **Reply #290 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:47:34 PM »

I think of a blizzard as something more prolonged, and more accumulation. Although a heavy snow for short duration can be a nasty thing, of course.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #291 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:49:02 PM »

Well, I've put away what needed to be put away tonight. And I've straightened up what needed to be straightened up tonight...

Alas, the more I put things away and straightened things up the more I realized just how much stuff was left here by the guy I'm subletting from. And not just in my bedroom... The kitchen, the bathroom, the coat closet... Even my roomies commented tonight about all the "leftovers". We're thinking of charging him a storage fee.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #292 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:49:38 PM »

Aaahh... Jane Monheit is on WLIW... Nice nighttime music.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #293 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:51:56 PM »

TPunk is watching that Jane Monheit show now. She saw her live and met her at the San Jose Jazz festival. Nice voice.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #294 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:52:21 PM »

Ohh!!!

I had two very nice pieces of mail waiting for me when I got in tonight:

1) My membership card for Local 802. I'm official!!! -And apparently, I'm somehow paid up dues-wise for the first half of the year already. One less check to write come April.

2) A card and fridge magnet from DR Ginny. Thank you.

François de Paris · « **Reply #295 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:53:16 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on February 10, 2006, 10:37:19 PM

Interesting François. She also recorded it in Spanish as "Extranos en el Paraiso."

Yes, that was her mother tongue!

I'd love to be traded for a Disney character!! LOL!
And a rabbit!!

I had heard about Disney getting its character back but not how!
Thanks for the info!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #296 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:55:18 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on February 10, 2006, 10:51:56 PM

TPunk is watching that Jane Monheit show now. She saw her live and met her at the San Jose Jazz festival. Nice voice.

...And just silly-talented at such a still relatively-young age. I believe she was just barely 21 when she placed second in the Thelonius Monk Jazz Competition a few years ago, and her debut recording is a great listen - it doesn't sound like a "first-timer".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #297 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:56:10 PM »

Well... I believe I shall toddle off to bed now... It's been a long day... but a good one.

Goodnight.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #298 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:58:58 PM »

Went to Ben Ash Deli after the show. Always a good sign when of 4,000 people leaving a show across the street, you're the only ones who choose to go to a certain restaurant. But we wanted cheesecake so we rejected our better judgment. Got the usual thing where a place is mostly empty and where do they seat us? Right by the door on a cold night. So we ask for another spot. Ok. Then the usual Ben Ash 10 minutes of nonexistant service. Then another pair of unfortunates come in, and where do they seat these people in this nigh empty place? At a table right beside us? So they ask for another spot. Ok. Cheesecake good. Overpriced, but good. And that's the story of my final visit to Ben Ash Deli.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #299 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:10:43 PM »

Congrats on the official status, Jose.

MBarnum, the moment has finally arrived. I am watching Allied Artists' FROM HELL IT CAME!

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