Topic: IT'S A GAS (Read 4774 times)

bk · « **on:** June 06, 2023, 12:09:46 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a gas and smelled, and now it is time for you to post until the gaseous cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2023, 12:10:43 AM »

And the word of the day is: ENDEAVOR!

John G. · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2023, 12:40:48 AM »

First post after BK!

John G. · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2023, 12:41:44 AM »

I don’t think I have ever seen The Opposite Sex before. I can’t believe how bad it is.

DR Iris · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:22:51 AM »

That gas valve experience sounded really scary.
Glad everything was resolved quickly and safely.

What is it about the location of your driveway that cause so many people to use it to turn around?

DR Iris · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:25:56 AM »

Funny, I was talking about Marc Ginsburg tonight with a friend who has been a fan of Rupert Holmes since 1976, like me.

We were discussing the fact that Rupert’s album, Adventure, was never released on CD in the U.S.
His copy is from Japan.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:27:22 AM »

I have that Japanese CD, too.

George · « **Reply #7 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:27:23 AM »

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DR Iris · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:29:36 AM »

Anyway, we both like the song “I Don’t Need You”, and I shared the video of Marc singing it at the Kritzerland Rupert Holmes show.

He was impressed that anyone could sing a Rupert Holmes song standing right in front of Rupert.
He wouldn’t have had the nerve.

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:30:32 AM »

So, I watched the rest of Air Patrol. Anyone who loves LA needs to search it out on YouTube. It's a really good transfer for starters. After all those great Lee Towers shots, eventually we get Producer's Studio - almost the same shot that opens Nudie Musical and when the turn in and drive down the main street had they gone a tiny bit further you would have seen our offices on the left. Later, there's a shot where they store the scenery that's also in Nudie Musical. Amazing. Tons of street shots, presumably right around there. You want the 1962 Hollywood Bowl - you got it. You want Hollywood from a helicopter with an amazing overhead shot of Hollywood and Highland - you got it.

DR Iris · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:32:13 AM »

Bruce, maybe you could reissue it here in the U.S. (?)
My friend has the original Widescreen, but not the one you reissued with bonus tracks.
Now he wants that.

DR Iris · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:36:01 AM »

Widescreen, The Collector’s Edition, is selling for almost $50 on Amazon.
Love those bonus tracks.

DR Iris · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:36:27 AM »

TOD

Richard Crenna in Marooned

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:36:38 AM »

But then the most amazing thing of all - I sat with my mouth on the floor. At the end, the bad guy is driving north on the 101 freeway. First of all, it's amazing how EMPTY LA was back then - tons of still unused lots. Anyway, he's being followed by the Air Patrol's helicopter. The shots from the car are moving just a bit too fast to read the exit signs, but then they definitely pass Laurel Canyon Blvd, my old off-ramp. And then - wait for it - he gets off at MY off-ramp - Woodman Ave. You can see the one store that was there (the May Company) where the Westfield Mall is now. He turns left, which is what I do. He passes what is now our local car wash - empty lot. He turns on the first street, Valleyheart, which runs along the Valley wash - all houses on the left rather than the ugly apartment buildings. He passes - wait for it - MY street. I was so hoping he'd turn and we could see the 1962 version of my street but he goes straight, to Hazeltine and then past Hazeltine and past my FIRST house on Valleyheart and Calhoun. I don't think you could see it but I'll rerun that bit. He ends up at the Sepulveda Dam. Just incredible. Plus, while most of the actors are just barely okay, I've always been a fan of Merry Anders, the leading lady.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:37:06 AM »

That's our Widescreen release, right? I still have a few copies of it.

DR Iris · « **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:39:22 AM »

I’d like to see Air Patrol.
Seeing what L.A. looked like then has always fascinated me.

DR Iris · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:40:13 AM »

Yes, it’s yours.
May I buy a copy?

DR Iris · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:43:59 AM »

Not to get all morbid, but I just finished watching the news coverage of RFK’s murder at the Ambassador Hotel, June 5, 1968.
I still remember everything about that day, 55 years ago.

DR Iris · « **Reply #18 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:45:58 AM »

I was just waking up for school on the East Coast, with my trusty transistor radio by my side.
Heard the news, and woke up my parents.

George · « **Reply #19 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:46:33 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 06, 2023, 01:36:38 AM

But then the most amazing thing of all - I sat with my mouth on the floor. At the end, the bad guy is driving north on the 101 freeway. First of all, it's amazing how EMPTY LA was back then - tons of still unused lots. Anyway, he's being followed by the Air Patrol's helicopter. The shots from the car are moving just a bit too fast to read the exit signs, but then they definitely pass Laurel Canyon Blvd, my old off-ramp. And then - wait for it - he gets off at MY off-ramp - Woodman Ave. You can see the one store that was there (the May Company) where the Westfield Mall is now. He turns left, which is what I do. He passes what is now our local car wash - empty lot. He turns on the first street, Valleyheart, which runs along the Valley wash - all houses on the left rather than the ugly apartment buildings. He passes - wait for it - MY street. I was so hoping he'd turn and we could see the 1962 version of my street but he goes straight, to Hazeltine and then past Hazeltine and past my FIRST house on Valleyheart and Calhoun. I don't think you could see it but I'll rerun that bit. He ends up at the Sepulveda Dam. Just incredible. Plus, while most of the actors are just barely okay, I've always been a fan of Merry Anders, the leading lady.

That's really cool, BK!

DR Iris · « **Reply #20 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:49:43 AM »

That really is cool.

DR Iris · « **Reply #21 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:53:28 AM »

I would have liked to have moved to L.A. when it was less crowded.
I moved there in 1976, and the freeways were not fun.
I did love driving around Sunset Blvd…enjoyed the billboards.

DR Iris · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2023, 01:54:23 AM »

Have a great day, everyone!

bk · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2023, 02:38:17 AM »

Let me go look in the box - I know I sold some in the last Indiegogo campaign, but I'll see if there's another here - if not, there may be some in storage.

singdaw · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:37:42 AM »

Widescreen: Collector's Edition is also available on iTunes.

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:38:10 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #26 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:38:52 AM »

~~~ULTRA TREATMENT VIBES~~~ for DH Keith as he begins his health journey today.

singdaw · « **Reply #27 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:39:28 AM »

DR John G. - thanks for bringing us along in your suitcase!

singdaw · « **Reply #28 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:40:24 AM »

Thsnks to DR DR Iris and DR John G. for the theater review links - interesting reading.

singdaw · « **Reply #29 on:** June 06, 2023, 03:40:35 AM »

Just one more.

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