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Re: Live-Blogging Mad Men: The Debt to Cary Grant

David Halsted — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:32:00 -0000

For the past few days I've been wondering what the 1959 analog to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" could be.
"We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn is the best I came up with, though it was already (already?) used at the end of Dr. Strangelove in 1964.
Any better ideas?

Re: Popeye: The Optimus Prime of Early Animation

David Halsted — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:31:33 -0000

Funny what kids focus on.

Your daughter may enjoy the Out of the Inkwell cartoons, too.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: By the Waters of Babylon

David Halsted — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:21:26 -0000

Don, Don -- you ran away from your family, created a new identity, fought in the war, made it to the top of the advertising game, you have a beautiful wife and an artsy mistress who wears black underwear --
How did you become such a boring stick-in-the-mud?
Maybe one of the other Mad Men will turn out to be with the CIA and dose Don's scotch with LSD...but that's probably hoping for too much.

Re: Steely Dan’s Top 10 Guitar Records

David Halsted — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:06:10 -0000

I love Rick Derringer's slide guitar on "Show Biz Kids." Snarling and abrasive, it's the perfect complement to Fagen's contemptuous put-down of a vocal.

Re: Live Blogging Mad Men: When Don Met Sal and Dean

David Halsted — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:43:56 -0000

I'm gonna ask Peggy to that Hitchcock double feature.

Re: It’s an Angry Life

David Halsted — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:05:26 -0000

I used to love IAWL, but during the 1980s, when the film was in copyright limbo and Ted Turner was on the prowl for cheap programming content, TBS ran it into the ground and I grew sick of it.
I think I'll be ready to enjoy it again in 2015. Eggnog at my house!

Re: ‘I Want to Thank all the People at my Label…’

David Halsted — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:36 -0000

Oh, it gets much worse. The British equivalent of the RIAA is suing a chain of garages in Scotland for letting employees listen to the radio at work. They want royalties plus damages.

Re: “They Couldn’t Mold You, Huh?”: Something to Sing About (1937)

David Halsted — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:27:47 -0000

Whenever a non-white actor appears in any Hollywood movie made before 1940, I cringe in anticipation of the racist hijinks in store.
But every so often, there is a little surprise --
I'm putting Something to Sing About on my wish list.