So nothing stays the same for long they keep telling me. Change is something that cannot be resisted! So in the mood of austerity and doing less for more I'm trying something new this week by changing my blog slightly for the few folks out there in innernets land.
It's been a mixed few weeks with bad news a plenty but I found this track that cheered me up. Yup, it sounds a little like Fats Waller but to hear a guy from 1937 riffing about smoking a five foot long reefer has to be worth a lesson. Is it just me or did those jazz grass hoppers play an upbeat kinda groove that is sadly lacking later in the decade when all the deadheads who smoked too much dope could do was take down nice and slow. Anyway, Bob Howard is your man this time out. It's the penguins sock suspenders!
Whilst looking for good cabaret turns I stumbled across Nellie Mckay as she had recently performed in Lahndan. I'm sure got some gals all steamed up and ready for a scrap. I was hopeful that we could snag her as a possible Burly Q 'til I found out she was Stateside! Darn it. Is she saying what most people think? I dunno but she's kinda cute and I dig her act!
I've also watched two flicks this last week that I dug for varying reasons. First up was Charade with the fantastically touped (it even withstands a shower) Cary Grant and the bony- ass Audrey Hepburn who's voice continues to grate on me. In this scene we have Cary mugging it up 30's style; frugging whilst trying to pass an orange. Groovey man!
Over on the flipside we have 'One crazy summer': a mid- rate Cusack film from the mid- eighties. This one is set in Nantucket (trust me peeps this will remain limerick free!) and has an 'alternative' Demi Moore in a band featuring backing singers dressed as waitresses (that's as good as they get!). The flick is OK but is made all the better with an appearance from that guy out of 'Revenge of the nerds' and the love-him-or-hate-him Bobcat Goldthwaite who in the best scene in the film wrecks a model village dressed as godzilla with a burning cigar in his costume!
