Cat Stevens — Peace Train I’ve been smiling lately. I really have. Photographed by Julie Lansom. Now I’ve been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be, something good has begun via. Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could […]
From the album In My Life, compiled by Sir George Martin, 1998, this is a shockingly good cover of the Beatles’ cryptic classic by a dude who holds a special place in my heart. Jim Carrey — I Am the Walrus (Lennon/McCartney, 1967). I do not care one whit about the Ace Ventura movies or […]
This post originally appeared on Nov 15, 2009 at 12:12 pm. Peter and Gordon – World Without Love Please lock me away And don’t allow the day Here inside, where I hide with my loneliness I don’t care what they say, I won’t stay In a world without love Birds sing out of tune And […]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1989). The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters — Male Kalikimaka. Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day That’s the island greeting that we send to you from […]
This entry was originally posted on January 12, 2010 at 3:55 pm. It contains the second of my New Years’ Resolutions for 2010. Over the next several Flashback Fridays, I will be taking them out, dusting them off, and seeing how well I followed through. I do not anticipate it always being pleasant, but the […]
I’m hustling to get things together to substitute tomorrow for an ill colleague (some might call her the illest of my fellow staff) and the Madness song “Baggy Trousers” came on. Reminded me of this Liberated Negative Space which originally appeared on Nov 27, 2009 at 8:48 am. By ryrpizza on flickr. “So, what kind […]
Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005). Jessica Alba portrays Nancy Callahan. Rescued from kidnap and rape in her youth by Detective John Hartigan (Bruce Willis), Nancy is now an exotic dancer at a divey downtown night spot guarded by my crowd-pleasing favorite character, Marv (Mickey Rourke). Nancy as drawn by Miller in the […]
If you skip the Music Moments normally … don’t skip this one. Banned from the airwaves and all-but-lost to obscurity, this song is one of the best Vietnam tell-it-like-it-is protest songs and one of the greatest soul singles I have heard in recent memory, period. The Mighty Hannibal — “Hymn No. 5” I wrote my […]