Comments on: Three Things About Motion Pictures and Music; and a Fourth Thing About Music Technology (also, a tangent)..

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:46:07 +0000

And by “Amarillo,” I mean “Lubbock.” Though, there are just as many mountains in Amarillo.

By: Mr. Lost His Way

Mr. Lost His Way — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:28:04 +0000

I go too far. Not sure it’s worth throwing back in the queue just to listen to the commentary. That might have to be part of the rating system: commentary so good, you should re-rent just to listen to it.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:06 +0000

You know, I don’t remember whether I watched the commentary. I suspect if it’s that good I would remember it, so probably not. Maybe I’ll throw that one back into my Netflix queue.

By: Ghost of the Machine

Ghost of the Machine — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:19:41 +0000

I also have one of those old 2 second Digitech loopers. In fact, I used to have 2, but I sold 1. They also had 4 and 8 second models.

By: Mr. Lost His Way

Mr. Lost His Way — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:30:04 +0000

re: Buddy Holly – I might be more into Gary Busey now. There’s a line in the movie where he says “I like Elvis fine but I’m Buddy Holly.” Busey was once asked to sign an autograph with his name and Buddy Holly’s name to which he replied “I like Buddy Holly fine, but I’m Gary Busey.”

re: R. Kelly – a midget. Don’t tell me? I’m disappointed. I’m not surprised. And, now I must watch.

re: shanghai – well I’m not sure deride is the right word. I know of a thing Andy Walker would call “a KTRU Classic” which is that abstract stuff –which is a hard place sometimes to take yourself but yeah I’m there brother. You are a wise and observant dude.

re: jamman. – played with some folks tonight with the jamman. I’m starting to like its limits. Want something else, but I always like to ride the wild walrus so I think it’s a keeper. Where were we all those years ago? Fuck!

re: the Maysles – ah but did you like the commentary? That is the thing.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:57:44 +0000

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY

Did you notice the mountains that were supposed to be in Amarillo? Har.

Paul McCartney produced a documentary called The Real Buddy Holly Story which you might enjoy, if you like you some Buddy Holly.

Your comma is properly placed.

TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET

This series starts off fantastic, but eventually devolves into self-parody somewhere around episode 10. Or would that be self-parody parody? I don’t know; I’m going to try not to think about how many layers that onion has. Anyway, about the time R. introduces a midget, you know he’s just phoning it in.

SHANGHAI

In parts, this sounds dangerously close to the sort of thing you used to deride ktru for filling their Sundays with.

DIGITECH JAMMAN

It would be a shame to comment on all of these except this one, but I can’t think of anything to say about this other than that I used to have a DigiTech two second delay that had a looping feature. I bought it in New York City in 1989 and it was subsequently stolen when my apartment was burgled in 2000.

A TANGENT

I also enjoyed Grey Gardens. You might also enjoy the Maysles’ Salesman. I did.