Electrode
Electrode
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Recent Finds
I had no idea that the Uriah Heep title track was used for the background story roll in "Water Margin", the film
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what would you play at a naval base bball tourney?
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2024 RIP Thraed
(I met her at an Amoeba LA show several years ago)
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Recent Finds
Swap meet finds. Fredera is the only LP from the Som Imaginário guitarist who played with the best of the best in MPB. Astrud is in unplayed condition. Egberto Gismonti is the LP he released after the excellent "Corações Futuristas" but before he signed with ECM, starting with "Dança Das Cabeças". Rare Bird is their debut. I owned a Uriah Heep record before. This is their second one.
Hopefully this won't be the last finds post I'll make here as I'll make an effort to do some record shopping while in Salvador, Bahia in two weeks, which coincides with SS going offline soon after.
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Old movies you've only seen recently...
"Images" (Robert Altman, 1971): Years ago, all I knew previously about this is that both John Williams and Stomu Yamashita collaborated on the soundtrack. I found it at a local video rental store (yes, they still exist!) and checked it out. Susannah York's character, a poet, retreats with her photographer husband to her childhood home in the UK. Things get weird when her former husband "appears", she sees herself in the distance and a friend of the couple, with a daughter who looks like a younger version of herself, comes over and imposes a little too much. This is a dive into the mind of someone who doesn't know what's real and what isn't.
This also led me to rent "California Split", another Altman film, about gambling addicted friends who learn about the highs and lows (no pun intended) of the "lifestyle".
I also saw "Buck And The Preacher" (Sidney Poitier's directorial debut) with Harry Belafonte hamming it up and the two fighting off Cameron Mitchell's posse of thugs.
