How did I get here??
Cello!
I watched Tár this week. The featured musical pieces include Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor (above). The subtleties are lost on my underdeveloped musical perceiving apparatus, but I rather enjoyed the passages from Elgar.
Also, and independently, I learned that the lyric from “A Quick One While He’s Away” is not
cello cello cello cello cello cello cello
but
jerrald jerrald jerrald jerrald jerrald jerrald jerrald
Doo-Wop, Doo-Wop
The Chats never let us down.
Sigh.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be staring at Audrey Hepburn.
I See Your Guitar Lesson & Raise You A Bass
Nigel Tufnel On Steve Vai
Steve Vai will attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Online Guitar Lesson!
Bad Decisions
Red Hook.
Another band we have to see when Fat Elvis takes us to Australia.
I Somehow Missed This One
Andrew Hickey mentioned this movie in his “Good Vibrations” episode (there’s a theremin somewhere in the soundtrack). I could not locate it in the giant heap of cultural garbage that festers in my brain, so I looked up this trailer. Words fail me on this one.
What’s Wrong With Kids These Days?
They lack the cerebral entertainment we grew up with.
Oh No, Stairs
Just what you need on your feet when you stumble out of an ale house.