Well….just can’t get started this morning so I am reading and watching a little tv and I ran across a Bruce Springsteen concert on AXS…and guess what, there is a Hammond B-3 on the stage…and, I just realized a weird thing with it’s placement….most of the time, the B-3 is on the left hand side of the stage when you are facing it….not all of the time but 90%…strange….so, add another one to the B-3 count…
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Another one for the B-3 count
Well….just stopped for the first time today and came across John Mayer and Buddy Guy on AXS…I know I have cited Buddy before but I know I haven’t with Mayer…so, add another one to the B-3 count…
Oscar nominees….
Well…need to write about something different after all of the pollution from trump so I think I’ll talk about movies for a change. It was always a goal of mine in the past to try to see all of the best picture nominees before the Oscars…that used to be much more difficult before the advent of streaming videos, when I used to have to actually go out to theaters to see them…and that was sometimes a crapshoot to have them all still playing after the nominations were announced. And it cost money…but, back then, I had it so no big deal…this year, I have 6 of the 7 movies that were nominated on my son’s server and I have already seen 3 of them. Okay, one of the ones I saw, Kubo and the two strings, was not a best picture nominee but is up for some technical ones but I wanted to see it anyway. That’s one of them that I watched last night…an animated film but definitely not for kids…a pretty seamless combination of stop action, CGI, and live action and it told a pretty good story, too…probably not to everyone’s taste but I like to be challenged by film sometimes. The second one I saw last night was LaLaLand….a modern take on the old style musical/romance that I thought was done very well…it looks gorgeous but Ryan Gosling can only sing about as well as I can and that is not saying much….the lead in number on a stalled freeway is pretty cool to look at and the whole movie didn’t disappoint me…got through the whole thing and that is saying something these days.
RIP Mary Tyler Moore…
Well…one bad thing that came from ending the news blackout was having to read about actors that I have enjoyed over the years dying…and today that list was added to by the death of Mary Tyler Moore….it is going to really age me but I have enjoyed her comedic work from all the way back to the Dick Van Dyke show in the days of black and white television through to her guest shots on “That 70′s show”….her own shows consistently made me laugh and I thank her for that….RIP Mary…..
RIP Carrie Fisher…
Well….one drawback of my total news blackout is that there are times that news I want to hear isn’t heard….that happened this week when I found out that Carrie Fisher had died two days after Christmas from a heart attack…and then her mother, Debbie Reynolds, died a day after….now we all remember Carrie from her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars but she was an author, too, with bestselling books about her life….it is hard when people younger than you start to die off….RIP Carrie Fisher…
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well….as you can probably tell, I am bored out of my mind today and am watching way too much tv…and one thing I’m watching right now is the tribute to Bob Dylan on AXS tv…and, on the corner of the stage is a Hammond B-3….and, since there are multiple artists doing his songs, I’ll count this one for Bob…
Drone racing leagues?
Well….if you were here last week, you read about my incredulity of the existence of professional fishing leagues and I couldn’t understand why anyone would watch them….but today, I read of an even weirder type of league…a drone racing league…yep, you heard it…grown men standing around racing drones and the winner is awarded a championship in drones I guess…now I do have a new most ridiculous thing I have ever seen on tv…I wonder what’s next…a pro house painting league? Or how about a pro vacuuming league that you can play in your own house? Man, I need to find something else to do….
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well….watching a documentary on Fleetwood Mac and what do I see? Of course, a Hammond B-3 on stage…so, add another one to the B-3 count….
Professional fishing leagues?
Well…I know I’ve been quite bored lately and I have been watching way too much tv….but today I may have hit bottom when I actually clicked on a show about professional fishing leagues…yep, there are actually pro fishing leagues that people watch…and that is leagues plural, so there are more than one…how many people actually watch that weird stuff? I didn’t watch much because watching other people fish is about as interesting as watching grass grow…to me….I wonder what the pitch was like to fox sports when the show was being approved? That it is more interesting than baseball? Man, I need to find something to do…..more later….
How much profit?
Well…having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time…how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should be how much does it cost to air a commercial that many times? I counted the other day and in just the few hours that I watched, there were over twenty times that the commercial aired…and that doesn’t count the other flashlight that they run over with the military truck…which looks identical to the other one. This whole idea started with the commercials for The Addiction Network…whose commercials appear to be about half of all of them on tv these days and that same thought came to mind…how much profit is there in addiction? And how many people are really addicted to things…it has gotten so bad that they are making fun of themselves in a new commercial….just a few thoughts that I wanted to get down before I forget them….