Amazing!
Think Ahmad Rashad might like a mulligan on his groomsmen? pic.twitter.com/cMuM8hCmNf
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 14, 2020
Tweet on Ahmad Rashad’s groomsmen
Amazing!
Month: March 2024
Paul Simon on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Paul Simon was interviewed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on March 14, 2024 (last night when I am writing this).
I saw him speak once in a discussion with Clive Davis around 1974.
Older appearances with Colbert:
Tweet on Repo Man
I saw Repo Man when it was released in 1984 and really liked it. It’s available on discs from the Criterion Collection.
Covers: Detroit City/I Wanna Go Home
“Detroit City/I Wanna Go Home” has been recorded by many artists under one of the two titles. I like the Solomon Burke version.
Tweet with link to a discussion with four film directors
My first AI image
A friend really likes bacon. I decided to use Microsoft Copilot to create an image of bacon with a candle on top in honor of her birthday. It generated four images. There are some strange things. In the first image, there is one blue candle. Where did the hot dogs come from? How about the hot dogs covered with strawberries?
Update: I tried a similar query and got different results:
Tweet on Trump praising Hitler
This is terrible, even by Trump’s standards. He loves dictators.
Covers: Happy Trails
“Happy Trails” (1952) was originally recorded by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. There’s a brief version by Quicksilver Messenger Service on the 1969 album Happy Trails (which has a great alum cover).
The Beatles took risks
With hindsight, I have enormous respect for the risks the Beatles took with their music. They could have kept repeating the successful formula of hits like “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” but they chose to be much more adventurous. There was no guarantee that the public would follow them there. When they were on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, would anyone have guessed that just three years later they would be making music like “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Penny Lane” and “I Am the Walrus”?
It’s amazing that it’s less than four years between “She Loves You” (1963) and “All You Need Is Love” (1967) which repeats a small part of the earlier song.
The Beatles are hardly the only artists to drastically change their style and risk losing their popularity – look at Marvin Gaye, for example.
Covers: Sweet Marijuana/Marahuana/Lotus Blossom
I was watching the 1934 film Murder at the Vanities last night and recognized this song. I knew it from Bette Midler’s 1976 version. Here is information from the great site SecondHandSongs.
Sad! 