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RGMike

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« Reply #240 on: June 10, 2007, 08:05:34 PM »
I just turned on the Tony Awards and... OMFG! whatthehell happened to Marvin Hamlisch???  He looks like Alfred Hitchcock!  Yikes!

But the princess will be happy to hear that Angela Lansbury looks fabulous.
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« Reply #241 on: June 10, 2007, 09:45:11 PM »
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I just turned on the Tony Awards and... OMFG! whatthehell happened to Marvin Hamlisch???  He looks like Alfred Hitchcock!  Yikes!

But the princess will be happy to hear that Angela Lansbury looks fabulous.


Oh, and this was news to me: Spring Awakenings, which seems to be the fave to win Best Musical, has music by Duncan Sheik.
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« Reply #242 on: June 11, 2007, 10:27:54 AM »
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I just turned on the Tony Awards and... OMFG! whatthehell happened to Marvin Hamlisch???  He looks like Alfred Hitchcock!  Yikes!

But the princess will be happy to hear that Angela Lansbury looks fabulous.


Oh, and this was news to me: Spring Awakenings, which seems to be the fave to win Best Musical, has music by Duncan Sheik.


of course, she does!!

i was wondering where duncan was hiding. his debut* album wasn't all shabby.
*i don't know if it was his debut album, or not. it's the one that spawned the hit.
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« Reply #243 on: June 25, 2007, 05:39:34 PM »
For those of you with HBO, you'll want to check out "Flight of the Conchords".  Pretty funny stuff, with a couple of funny songs thrown in each episode.
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« Reply #244 on: June 25, 2007, 10:00:37 PM »
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For those of you with HBO, you'll want to check out "Flight of the Conchords".  Pretty funny stuff, with a couple of funny songs thrown in each episode.


Yeah, I saw some of that last night at a friend's.  Good stuff.
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« Reply #245 on: July 07, 2007, 09:58:34 PM »
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For those of you with HBO, you'll want to check out "Flight of the Conchords".  Pretty funny stuff, with a couple of funny songs thrown in each episode.


My new favorite show!  The songs are absolutely freakin' hilarious. My fave so far is "The Humans are Dead".

Meanwhile, anybody else catch any of the Live Earth stuff today?  I'm lucky enuf to have Sundance Channel, which had London & NY acts live all day. Saw Keen and Metallica and KT Tunstall this morning; just caught Roger Waters doing a hefty chunk of DSOTM and "Another Brick...". Right now Lenny K is letting love rule.  My only quibble: the highlights montages they've been showing in between sets didn't identify the artists being shown, some of whom were obvious and other of whom I had no clue who they were.
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« Reply #246 on: July 08, 2007, 06:20:13 PM »
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My fave so far is "The Humans are Dead".


"Digital solo! 010001001 01000100 10010001...!"  (That bit was over the final credit -- geek genius)
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« Reply #247 on: July 08, 2007, 07:19:57 PM »
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My fave so far is "The Humans are Dead".


"Digital solo! 010001001 01000100 10010001...!"  (That bit was over the final credit -- geek genius)


I just caught up with Episode 2 -- the one with "Inner City Pressure", their dead-on Pet Shop Boys parody.  These guys are brilliant.
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« Reply #248 on: July 08, 2007, 11:20:38 PM »
Have you seen their sendup of David Bowie circa early 70s? Also brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ
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« Reply #249 on: July 09, 2007, 06:12:16 AM »
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Have you seen their sendup of David Bowie circa early 70s? Also brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ


Heh: "Do they smoke grass up there in space, man, or do they smoke Astro Turf?"
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« Reply #250 on: July 11, 2007, 07:49:21 AM »
For those with digital cable or a Dish, Fuse TV is starting it's own variation on Idol/Rock Star etc.   A Battle of the Bands, with John Lydon as one of the judges.  Begins Wednesday, July 11, 10:00pm, on FUSE.
 
http://www.bodognation.com/celebrity-gossip/reality-tv-check-bodog-music-battle-of-the-bands-916972.html
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« Reply #251 on: July 22, 2007, 08:06:31 PM »
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Have you seen their sendup of David Bowie circa early 70s? Also brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2L98gobTQ


Heh: "Do they smoke grass up there in space, man, or do they smoke Astro Turf?"


That song ("Bowie's in Space") was the centerpiece of this week's episode. HI-larious.
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« Reply #252 on: July 31, 2007, 10:06:07 PM »
Dunno why, exactly, but Fox SportsNet used the JS, "Ride the Tiger" for the usual late-in-the-game montage of A's highlights.
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« Reply #253 on: August 03, 2007, 11:28:02 AM »
according to a post on the NYRMB, PBS's latest "pledge month" acquisition is Respect Yourself: the Stax Records Story, a 2-hour docu with lots of music, narrated by Samuel L Jackson. It's supposed to be quite good. So look for it on KQED, KTEH, KCSM... I'm sure it'll be played MANY times.
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« Reply #254 on: August 05, 2007, 10:58:22 AM »
Yet another PBS Pledge Drive where-are-they-now music special, this one devoted to "'70s Pop". A good one-third of it was recycled from the previous Disco Specials (KC, Taste of Honey) but some new perfs from Orleans, John Ford Coley (without England Dan), Starland Vocal Band -- it was quite Gaz-tastic.  Highlight: Andy Kim, in full '70s Neil Diamond-lookalike mode (he's clearly had work done and dyes his hair raven-black), doing "Rock Me Gently".
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