"you'd think I was Hannibal Lecture or something"

 

On the last post here, I typed in the title, "Law & Order, the SUV" - of course the correct name of the TV show is "Law & Order, SVU" (special victims unit).  

        What I typed referred to a moment in The Sopranos where Christopher and, I think, one of his New Jersey associates are in Hollywood, trying to get Christopher's career as a screenwriter started.

        I believe it was the other character who says, "I'm a big fan of your show, Law and Order the SUV!"

Eehhhh - funny.

An hilarious element of The Sopranos is the periodical inclusion of a moment like this, where they kind of know what they are talking about, but they misspeak.  It adds texture to the atmosphere of the show:  like, this is who these people are.

        They know some stuff, but they don't know other stuff.

"He's the hair apparent."

The term is heir apparent, and heir is pronounced "air." - it's the person who is going to inherit.

Christopher says "hair", pronouncing the "h," like the hair on your head. ...

In a way, it's off-putting, and in another way, it draws you in, because you come to know these characters better and better, one little layer at a time.

        (Now, whether these are people you would want to know...that's another question...)

The misnomers and malapropisms of these crass, wily, murderous North Jersey Mafiosi just make me laugh, every time.

"the sacred and the propane"

"Law and Order the SUV"

"you know - Quasimodo predicted all this"

        L-l-l- to the o-l

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"Law And Order, The SUV"

         Sometimes when I am listening to videos on You Tube and reading the Comments under them, I come across a comment where I read it and think, "I agree with this!" and then I see the screen name and realize, 'Oh, that Comment was typed by me, two years ago...'

Usually, I see comments and they have a number of "Likes" under them - like, 49, or 250, or 17, or 2 K.

        Any comments typed in by me mostly have no "Likes," or 3, or 11.

This evening, watching Law and Order clip compilations, I saw a comment written by me two years ago, with 591 Likes clicked on it.

Goodness.  That was unexpected.

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Law & Order is similar to The Sopranos in that the guest stars who show up - Yowie.

Hal Holbrook, and Lauren Bacall on The Sopranos. ...

Jane Alexander (All The President's Men) on Law & Order - (and that's only the tip of the iceberg...)

  

(Lauren Bacall, 60 years before her appearance on The Sopranos)

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Tucson is a weird place

 It's a hundred days since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, in Tucson, Arizona.

The investigation continues.

(The reason this case receives a lot of attention is because the missing woman is the mother of Savannah Guthrie, a television personality on a daytime talk show.)

Notes:

    * An independent journalist named Brian Entin has followed this story, he puts up videos - I see them on You Tube - they get broadcast in various places - for example, it sounds like he did a show on this topic which appeared on CW.

    * The investigation was massively fumbled by Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.  Pretty shocking.  Latest news says he committed some kind of perjury.  Citizens are collecting signatures on petitions to recall him.

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                Podcasts on You Tube discuss the Nancy Guthrie case on an ongoing basis - they have these guests - retired detectives, retired policemen, retired FBI agents, local experts, etc.

        Listening to one from four days ago on the channel Surviving The Survivor, I heard a commentator finish off his thought / description with the sentence, "Tucson is a weird place."

Okay . ...

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that ol' black magic

 

The movie Green Book, currently available to stream on Netflix, is based on a true story.

        The movie opens outside the Copacabana nightclub in New York City - cars pulling up, people hurrying across the street to go in.

        Inside, an orchestra plays and an actor portraying Bobby Rydell sings an upbeat rendition of a song called "That Old Black Magic," which was a hit for Frank Sinatra. 

 

(Written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, in 1942, "That Old Black Magic" has been recorded by other artists, including Bob Dylan.)

        ([Harold Arlen also wrote the songs for The Wizard Of Oz, along with lyricist Yip Harburg.])

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On You Tube, there are two different videos with the Green Book version of "That Old Black Magic."

Green Book Movie Clip - Opening Scene (2019)

uploader / channel:  Fandango at Home

        8 minutes, 41 seconds

        you hear part of the song, then some scenes with people talking, then back to the song - then going forward into the movie with scenes after the nightclub part

 Green Book Soundtrack - "Old Black Magic" - Green Book Copacabana Orchestra

uploader / channel:  Milan Records USA

        2 minutes, 13 seconds

        you just hear the song, straight through

    

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some road trip

 

Green Book, now available to stream on Netflix, is a good movie.

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couldn't make it do what I wanted

 Last night I tried to type two blog posts, one for Tuesday, May 5, and one for Wednesday, May 6.

I typed the May 6 one after midnight, so it should have been dated May 6th, but instead Blogspot put only one date at the top, May 5th, and then put both titles under that date:  "one of these days" and "wake up in the morning."

        I'm not getting mad about small frustrating things like this anymore, so it is only an inexplicable frustrating detail.

        The Relationship between Technology and Me is sometimes a tad dysfunctional.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn with a giant 1950s computer behind them, in the movie Desk Set

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"wake up in the morning"...

         In the film on Netflix called "The Wrecking Crew" they talk about recording "These Boots Are Made For Walking."  Carol Kaye played bass on that.

        I wanted to look up the info on when Buckingham and Nicks went to L.A. - 1971, they moved there together.

1973 - their album Buckingham Nicks came out.

1975 - they joined Fleetwood Mac.

        (The Mac was looking for a guitar player and contacted Lindsey.  When they invited him to join, he told them he and Stevie were "a package deal" and the band agreed to have both of them join.)

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On You Tube,

video titled:

RARE: Stevie Nicks Bob Welch Gold Dust Woman Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie 1981 HQ Version

uploader / channel:  LaVidaLocaHomie

        - play and enjoy -

-- viewer comment:

Damn.  I feel I've been elevated to a new level of rock wisdom now.

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