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  1. Posted

    I was stoked to see Johnny Burnette.

    Another one of his train songs went on to be covered by The Yardbirds and when Jimmy Page left that group and started up Led Zeppelin, they'd also cover it in the early days before they had enough songs to do. Legend is, it's actually the song the four Zep guys played when they first got in a room to meet.

    Yardbirds version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y078n95ApAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y078n95ApA

    Zep:

     

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  5. Posted

    29 minutes ago, ChunkStyle said:

    This was the only HDTGM live show I've been able to attend.  I didn't think of a question to ask during the show until too late and then there was no discussion forum for the episode so I've just been having to carry it around myself lo these many years.  Finally a chance at closure.  And that is way too big of a build up because it is a silly question.

    I went to the show too. I've also listened to the ep on Stitcher. But it's been so long, it still feels like a fresh episode for me haha

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    1 hour ago, Omaxem said:

    Don't know if these are helping anyone, but here are some of my most heard this year so far + a couple of my all time faves. 20 songs, 1 hour 24  minutes.

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4r2bP9TF57giu6ImaNwzt1?si=dTWScdAsSLaCG3CWplc9xQ

    that Aldous Harding record is really cool. i wasn't into her first one, but last year's was a knock-out. such a strange and beautiful writer.

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    Just some random thoughts as I listened to this on my daily self isolation walk:

    I was on the bubble, but listening to Paul & Amy, I voted no. Their discussion was too inside-Hollywood, and I think the film being there hurts it. I tend to a bias against movies about movies, but I think this film is a good example why. It's distances me from relating to the point, puts up a slight barrier there for me.

    I think Paul & Amy said that you're instantly against Sullivan, but I didn't view it that way. I thought we were on his side throughout. Maybe I took it wrong. But this is one of the complicated aspects of the film that I really liked.

    Also, I'm not clueless about old movies, but I'm certainly no deep expert. But all these other Sturges movies that Paul & Amy bring up... I've never heard of any of them. Are any of them really in the zeitgeist as Sullivan's Travels is? I don't see how you can replace this with another Sturges for the list, if he must be on there.

    Are people really watching Coen Brothers movies and going "oh well it's fine"?

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    2 hours ago, DannytheWall said:

    But neither are they clearly intending it to be a documentary or cinema verite.

    No, but it is shooting for realism, isn't it? This is about a real world case being solved by real world people in order to focus in on real life justice and human nature.

    Also, I do think it has developed a reputation of verite, even if unintended; Amy's story about Justice Sotomayor having to tell juries to quell their 12 Angry Men-inspired aspirations is proof.

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    1 hour ago, grudlian. said:

    It's great. I appreciate that it's original take on JFK and turning toward music/art in uncertain times. It's also unlike anything in his career except maybe Dogs Run Free (except good).

    I've been wondering a lot this year what is Dylan's next move after three straight albums of standards. This definitely fits into Dylan just dropping something unexpected out of nowhere but a 17 minute single on JFK definitely wasn't a direction anyone was going to pick, right? I'm very curious when this was recorded. I'm guessing around Tempest but that's just a shot in the dark.

    It's freaking awesome! It reminds me a little of some of his long songs on Tempest (those weird ones about John Lennon and the Titanic), so yea, I concur it's probably from those around then when he was writing about topics like that.

    5 straight albums of Sinatra covers is way too much, that's for sure haha.

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  15. Posted

    i haven't made a ton of playlists lately, but i used to do it all the time. maybe i'll get back to it.

    my only current one tho is one where i toss songs i like from 2020 on to a big list

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AMB8x0SPcEZJiBxl8GFFx?si=FcE29E2WRg2vm-LUX_ZSLQ

    also have some lists on there of my favorite albums of each year, which is something i compile and share with friends every December 

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    5 hours ago, DannytheWall said:

    I think criticizing this film for how unlike an actual jury room this is would be like criticizing Star Wars for having audible laser fire in the vaccuum of space. It's not really the point. 

    I think it is the point, considering how influential the film is about justice.

    Maybe they didn't intend it, but that's how it ended up.

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  18. Posted

    6 minutes ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Fonda's character definitely gets away with a lot that wouldn't be allowed (how did he manage to get a switchblade knife into a courtroom?). But I mostly forgive that for the sake of dramatic license.

    Yes, I mentioned similar on my Letterboxd review, though I am a bit less forgiving (though I still think the film is brilliant and should be on the list).

    I mean, a jury should not be bringing in their own investigation and facts. That's not their role, and shouldn't be! In fact, if they did that regularly, the whole justice system would probably fall apart. Lawyers, judges, juries: each have their own necessary function, and this jury in this movie takes on all three roles. It's kind of bizarre and the one thing I can't fully get my head around it, or why it was necessary to write that way.

    I liked hearing about the history of juries from Amy, because these 12 old men judging some kid bugged me too, but I guess that was part of the times and how it probably was then. 

     

     

     

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  19. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    I will say this, as far as music goes, the first two songs, “Porpoise Song” and “Circle Sky” are the best.

    My two faves were "As We Go Along" which I thought was gorgeous and I immediately went to try to listen to it a bunch, and "Can You Dig It?" was fun

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  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, GrahamS. said:

    I’ll confess I’m not an “all in” Cage fan. The films on the list are my preferred. There are a couple on Hulu that I might watch that I haven’t listed —Drive angry and some newer film with Laurence Fishburne.

    I don’t have Prime—because Jeff Bezos is fucking with my hometown, I don’t give him my money—but have Netflix, Hulu and Cinemax, and am willing to try any Cage movies that are on there.

    Oh same. I'll skip the ones that look way out of my interest zone for sure. I'll prob lean to the ones that seem HDTGM crazy, or have cool co-cast members.

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