Posts Tagged by Watching
On my way to where the air is sweet
| November 10, 2009 | Filled under Blog |
Today is Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. I wrote post for the Houston Press highlighting my 10 favorite musical performances over the show’s long history:
Sesame Street was one of the first programs to combine research with television production and as a result, was the first children’s program with a set educational curriculum. The creators discovered that children learn better when their lessons are paired with music.
Read the full post at Rocks Off.
I am so smart!
| October 29, 2009 | Filled under Video |
I say this all the time, and no one ever knows what I’m quoting. So if you know me, this is what I’m quoting.
Gay marriage
| October 22, 2009 | Filled under Video |
He’s a little hard to understand in parts so here’s a transcript.
Fantastic
| October 3, 2009 | Filled under Video |
I love Wes Anderson but I’ve grown weary of his earnestness in recent films.
But this? This looks amazing.
Mad Men
| October 1, 2009 | Filled under Video |
“Good work, sycophants.”
That last line just illustrates how clever Sesame Street has always been at entertaining parents in addition to chillenz. Related: MObama to help Sesame Street celebrate its 40th birthday.
Boogie Man
| August 19, 2009 | Filled under Video |
Watched Boogie Man on BBC last weekend. Lee Atwater was a terrifyingly evil mofo, and is probably most likely responsible for the fact that W was ever elected.
Coming from a person who really likes documentaries: this is a very good documentary. My seal of approval.
This health care protest gun toting Hitler-referencing stuff is scaring the daylights out of me. A recent visit to the JFK Museum in Dallas didn’t help. Did you know that a month before JFK was killed Adlai Stevenson was assaulted by a protester in Dallas? Stevenson later said of his detractors, “I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.” Adlai Stevenson = swoon. Smart and witty people = swoon.
You know who else equals swoon? Barney Frank.
Don’t you forget about me
| August 6, 2009 | Filled under Video |
The “Try A Little Tenderness” scene from Pretty in Pink is an odd amalgam of my childhood love of John Hughes movies (esp. The Breakfast Club) and my current obsession with all things Stax.
Singin’ fa fa fa fa fa fa
| July 9, 2009 | Filled under Blog, Video |
Falling in love all over again with the Stax/Volt catalog after re-watching the Stax/Volt Revue from 1967, filmed in Norway. We bought the DVD on our trip to Memphis last year. BTW, the Stax Museum is one of the best museums I’ve ever visited, literally.
The Wikipedia page for Otis Redding is full of delicious nuggets I never knew before.
- Redding was only 26 when he died
- Bob Dylan wrote the song Just Like A Woman with Otis in mind to sing it
- (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay was recorded only three days before Redding’s death. Redding considered the song unfinished, having whistled the tune of one verse for which he intended to compose lyrics later
- Barry Gibb has stated in numerous interviews that the song To Love Somebody was written for Otis Redding, who died before he was able to record it
The Stax/Volt Revue is viewable on Youtube in six parts, but some performances on my DVD are missing from the Youtube version.
Dah dah dah dah daaaaaaa!
| June 26, 2009 | Filled under Video |
My obsession with the Beales seems to have reached critical mass. It started with Jezebel but has been fed in recent months by the documentary’s availability on Netflix, then the HBO movie, and then the musical coming to Houston. We have the DVD at home now, and we’ve been watching it in chunks, and because YouTube is like a bag of Lays potato chips (you can’t watch just one) I’ve been obsessively Googling clips from all three versions of their lives.
Since last Sunday I’ve been singing verses of this song aloud in the kitchen every time I do dishes. Christine Ebersole won a Tony for her performance as Little Edie.
