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The Drive, 7/13/07: 1977
« on: July 13, 2007, 08:02:19 AM »
My eyes all a-mist from the Smoke From a Dist-ant TOTHK!

Bob mentioned the NYC blackout (30th anniv is tonite!) -- did anyone else watch "The Bronx is Burning" on ESPN this week.  Still can't get past Turturro's fake Billy Martin ears, but everyone else is doing a fine job.
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2007, 08:12:59 AM »
VHM da Money Man, channelling the DC5 on "Baby Hold On".
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2007, 08:22:41 AM »
It's So Easy to give Ms Ronstadt a BOS!
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2007, 08:23:55 AM »
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It's So Easy to give Ms Ronstadt a BOS!


I knew you were gonna say that!
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2007, 08:26:36 AM »
BOS2 Foreigner, "Long Long Way From Home", one of my faves from that LP.
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2007, 08:28:39 AM »
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BOS2 Foreigner, "Long Long Way From Home", one of my faves from that LP.


I often feel that much of Foreigner's work doesn't stand up well with age, but this one sounds, if anything, even better to my ears.  BOS #2 from me.
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2007, 08:34:10 AM »
"Was it heavy? did it achieve total heaviosity?"  VHM Woody, ever the culture snob.

MMMM! Cheeze for breakfast!  BOS3 Styx.
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2007, 08:35:21 AM »
LOL!  I love that Bob's series of movie clips ended with Close Encounters and then segued into "Come Sail Away".

I thought that they were angels, but much to my surprise
We climbed aboard their starship...
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2007, 08:35:53 AM »
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BOS2 Foreigner, "Long Long Way From Home", one of my faves from that LP.


I often feel that much of Foreigner's work doesn't stand up well with age, but this one sounds, if anything, even better to my ears.  BOS #2 from me.


and yet another NY reference: "I left a small town/For the Apple in decay"
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Re: The Drive, 7/13/07: 1977
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2007, 09:01:32 AM »
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My eyes all a-mist from the Smoke From a Dist-ant TOTHK!

Bob mentioned the NYC blackout (30th anniv is tonite!) -- did anyone else watch "The Bronx is Burning" on ESPN this week.  Still can't get past Turturro's fake Billy Martin ears, but everyone else is doing a fine job.


Belated BOS to Sanford-Townsend.  I watched some of "The Bronx Is Burning" (copy editor note: their non-capitalization of "Is" bothers me every time I see it) and thought Daniel Sunjata (sp?), whom I'd seen in "Take Me Out," made for a vibrant Reggie, but the script is way too modern-soap-opera; despite what Desperate NipTuck values would have you believe, a crisis does not need to arise in Every Scene for the show to have dramatic value.
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« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2007, 09:12:12 AM »
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My eyes all a-mist from the Smoke From a Dist-ant TOTHK!

Bob mentioned the NYC blackout (30th anniv is tonite!) -- did anyone else watch "The Bronx is Burning" on ESPN this week.  Still can't get past Turturro's fake Billy Martin ears, but everyone else is doing a fine job.


Belated BOS to Sanford-Townsend.  I watched some of "The Bronx Is Burning" (copy editor note: their non-capitalization of "Is" bothers me every time I see it) and thought Daniel Sunjata (sp?), whom I'd seen in "Take Me Out," made for a vibrant Reggie, but the script is way too modern-soap-opera; despite what Desperate NipTuck values would have you believe, a crisis does not need to arise in Every Scene for the show to have dramatic value.


Sunjata is VERY talented -- he's one of the firemen on Rescue Me and I saw him as Langston Hughes (!) in an indie flick a few years back whose name escapes me.  The show seems to want to make some sort of connection between the Yankees-in-crisis and Son of Sam, which is pretty "WTF?" I'd say.  But I'll continue watching for the recreation of time & place and the characterizations (Oliver Platt makes a great Steinbrenner, I think). I'm especially interested in the portrayal of Thurman Munson; I was working at ABC the day he was killed -- I remember the sports dept going into a tizzy, as it happened about 5 in the afternoon -- and then hearing guys say, essentially,  "well, now he'll be canonized, and everyone will forget what a jerk he was".
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« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2007, 08:07:53 PM »
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BOS2 Foreigner, "Long Long Way From Home", one of my faves from that LP.


I often feel that much of Foreigner's work doesn't stand up well with age, but this one sounds, if anything, even better to my ears.  BOS #2 from me.


My sentiments EXACTLY.
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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2007, 08:10:18 PM »
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The show seems to want to make some sort of connection between the Yankees-in-crisis and Son of Sam, which is pretty "WTF?" I'd say.


I'd say, too.  Although the exaggerated "Take uh PICK-cha, it'll LAST lawnguh!" cracked me up.
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Re: The Drive, 7/13/07: 1977
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2007, 10:08:45 PM »
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The show seems to want to make some sort of connection between the Yankees-in-crisis and Son of Sam, which is pretty "WTF?" I'd say.


I'd say, too.  Although the exaggerated "Take uh PICK-cha, it'll LAST lawnguh!" cracked me up.


As I'm sure you know by now, when it comes to the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, there's no such thing as "exaggerated" (as the woman who sat behind us at the Yanks/A's game proved in spades).  LOL!
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