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What are you listening to? Part III
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Used to have that on CD many decades ago. Doesn’t Tom look young.
Agreed, I'm not a fan either: Can you believe that he was seriously considered for the role of Andy Dufresne? This is/was a role which called for someone to be able to convey quiet and contained self-control, someone self-reliant - determined and defined - an individual with integrity, an incredibly intense and fulfilling interior life, and incredible internal strength - in other words, the strengths of an introvert. Someone who preaches an ethical existence in appalling conditions.
Anyway, no, not a fan, though I will admit to a guilty pleasure when I watched the movie. (Val Kilmer rocked).
As for the here and now: Listened to the classic Vienna by Ultravox.
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I didn't know that. You're absolutely right, too. I have a hard time imagning him in that role and doing it the justice that Tim Robbins did. Tim was perfect for it and because of him, and Morgan Freeman it's a classic and always watchable.
Now, I've moved on to another LP.
Exactly: Tim Robbins owned that role, - the only expression of visceral and fierce and savage emotion he ever expressed in the entire movie - was not when he was convicted (wrongly), not when he was abused or viciously raped, or tortured, in that prison, not when they threatened to wreck his carefully constructed library (a life line and metaphor for civilisation) and not when they savagely murdered his mentee (Tommy) - there was controlled emotion when he explained about Tommy's testimony to Warden Norton, (another superb performance, this time by Bob Gunston) not realising that Norton never intended to have him released as this would have put an end to the lucrative and illegal schemes - was when he stripped off in the downpour of the thunderstorm having successfully escaped Shawshank, alone, primal and unobserved; this was a (superb) contained and closed performance - of a repressed, educated and controlled man, a man who had integrity and a rich interior life, perfect for a man who admitted (very late in the day, heavy with belated and bitter self-knowledge) - to Red (Morgan Freeman) that he couldn't ever openly express his love for his wife which meant that he drove her away from him into the arms and false charms of another. It required an actor capable of expressing understatement.
It was a brilliant performance by Tim Robbins (Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Kevin Costner - none of whom I rate, least of all in such a role, one that requires an interior life - and being able to convey that you have an interior life - that you think (about rocks, geology, chess, tax law, book learning, grammar) - were all considered for that role and all (thankfully) turned it down; Brad Pitt - who had been contracted to play Tommy - having (subsequently) achieved success with Thelma and Louise - also decided to decline the role, and turned it down, to seek fame and fortune elsewhere - and a superb and empathetic and powerful performance by Morgan Freeman - absolutely compelling and awesome - a movie that repays watching a number of times.
And I dare anyone - who has a heart - not to want to howl at the blend of terrifying beauty and appalled horror in the awesome Mozart scene (and how wonderful that the movie chose to play the piece in its entirety).
Spandau Ballet: They rock.
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"Buddy" - Mahogany Rush... from their debut album Maxoom
Fronted by Frank Marino.....great band from Montreal
Fronted by Frank Marino.....great band from Montreal
Recently, when I was testing a set of new Phase Tech (7T) speakers in my HT system, I was stuck on John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". Otherwise, something has me listening to part or all of Enter Shikari's "The Spark" nearly every day this week.
My dad's been setting up a new system at his place, so I may stop over and try out my only vinyl records (The Dear Hunter's "Migrations Annex") on some early-90's KEF speakers he just bought and paired with some Carver (pre-)amps.
My dad's been setting up a new system at his place, so I may stop over and try out my only vinyl records (The Dear Hunter's "Migrations Annex") on some early-90's KEF speakers he just bought and paired with some Carver (pre-)amps.
Today's standouts where ELO's "Rockaria!" and Rush's "Big Wheel".
Takeshi Furukawa - Flight of a Lifetime
Distinctly American sound (reminds me of the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves theme)
First heard the tune on Northrop Grumman's "B-2 at 30: Soaring with the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber" video(YouTube).
Distinctly American sound (reminds me of the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves theme)
First heard the tune on Northrop Grumman's "B-2 at 30: Soaring with the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber" video(YouTube).
Jazz guitar for me tonight. Tracks from Ambar, an album by Chilean jazz guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Camila Meza. She sings in English or Spanish, has studied in NY, influenced by music of her homeland plus the likes of American jazz guitarists Pat Metheny, George Benson. Album features her jazz octet, The Nectar Orchestra. The album includes a cover of Bowie/Metheney "This is not America". I'm drawn to the orchestration of a few of the tracks, with strings having the near-romanticism of early Bartok, more polychromatic than atonal.
W A Mozart - "Laudate Dominum" K.339 (with the French soprano Sandrine Piau, and the Vienna Boys Choir).
Panorama: The Best of Craig Chaquico
One of my favorite instrumental albums.
And fwiw, did not realize he was the lead guitarist for Jefferson Starship.
One of my favorite instrumental albums.
And fwiw, did not realize he was the lead guitarist for Jefferson Starship.