Lou's ability to include the audience through his monologues is without equal: "You jive MarylandFarmer!"
And, yes, Stone Rollin' was what I was mixing with Mitch and the boys. Great album!

Mix of Raphael Saadiq and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels; I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack; Lou Rawls Live at the Century Plaza. Again, nothing newly recorded (no snark, just a reflection of me these days).

Yeah, I expected a "we don't serve her kind" remark toward Zamata, given that the announced time period was 1953. I was happy to see they went in a weirder direction.

Good summary. I brought a date, and she was expecting funny George Burns winking at the camera. The night ended early.

You got me! Loud inappropriate laugh when I'm supposed to be paying attention to something else…

That David Sedaris joke was well done.

I'm holding off viewing this until I finish the book, but this write up and grade makes me very excited!

All the commenters sound so interesting! I'm stuck in my old ways.
King Crimson: Lizard (Steve Wilson mix)
Schubert's Winterreise: Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis
Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard

We went to see Art Garfunkel live once (double date) and, damn, he was terrific. My expectations were really low going in, but he was superb and had nothing but praise for Paul Simon and Jimmy Webb.

I'm glad you're okay.

Absolutely agree about This Year's Model. I'm pretty sure it's Huey Lewis's band on the first album.

Which ones, DNA3? I keep going back to St. Dominic's Preview and Veedon Fleece these days.

Manhunter is one of my favorite films by any director, and I found Thief after seeing that one. What a great double bill they would be.

I haven't seen Legends of Tomorrow, but comments like this pique my interest. Where should I start? What can I skip?

An Evening With Groucho was often used in my experience: so many mix tapes had "Everybody Works But Father", "Lydia the Tattooed Lady", or "Hello I Must Be Going" on them. Even earlier, we had to program our 8 track tapes to avoid the fade out / click / fade in moments.

Yeah, this. Any jazz fan who ignores A Tribute to Jack Johnson or any other of that era's masterpieces is missing out. I have taught alongside folks like that and have lost patience. One of them told me jazz died with the demise of 78s, due to the artists' newfound ability to extend their musical ideas.

Thanks for that set up. I will seek him out!

Yeah, I disagree with the reviewer's take on the Pasek/Paul song, and its place in this episode. My face hurt from smiling through this show, and the proposal was — for me — perfect.

I'm not aware of any Borges fascist inclinations, but the Anglo-American Modernists did have skeletons in their closets. Pound, of course, supported Mussolini, and his friend Wyndham Lewis went through a pro Hitler period. Eliot may not have signed on publicly, but his anti-Semitism is pretty well known. And I say…

Tom Waits amps it up to "Chinese algebrassiere" on Pasties and a G String.