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Classical Music, Classic Film, Philly Sports, Fedora Linux, Lyrion Music Server, Wharton PhD, Juilliard, Kings College London
Agoura Hills, CA
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Thanks! Really enjoyed your article. My personal pick is Celi/Sony. We’ve been holding an annual Brucknerthon (all 11 symphonies, no repeats of recordings) in SoCal for 27 years. The video of Celi conducting the Adagio from the 6th is one of my most indelible memories. Nobody could move.
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The first Clay / Liston fight always gets mentioned, whether Ali/Clay was in on the fix or not. I’ve heard sketchy things about Ali/Lyle. Watched it live and they never showed a replay of the knockout at the time.
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Mike Brown is a great defensive coach, but possibly the worst offensive coach I’ve ever seen.
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He did a line of coke right onstage. Zero attempt to hide it. He was not engaged in making music in any meaningful way. So I can say I saw him, but really little more.
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Saw him in 1982. Three hours late and high as a kite, but I saw him. So much talent, so much of it wasted for far too long.
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Why??
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Co-sign.
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Elon can just hang in the Seychelles for a while and work from there as a home base. As long as he has a phone, a laptop, and plenty of ketamine he’s fine. An underling or two to impregnate also takes the edge off.
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1) There are plenty of goods to be had. An embarrassment, actually. And money can buy most anything.
2) Musk is one of the richest men in the world.
No, Musk will not stand down nor flame out for lack of goods.
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Did the Steelers miss the entire Jets saga? That’s fine because they now have a front-row seat to the replay. Personally, I’ll pass. It wasn’t that interesting the first time around.
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It’s pretty tough to pivot your image once you’ve gone full Hitler. He and Kanye should pool PR resources.
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I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. I thought personality issues would trigger the unraveling, but it turned out to be divergent grift planes.
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I’ll bet those rights are sitting on their balance sheet at zero. A non-corporate savvy person might say, “that’s good, right? Nothing but upside and unexpected profits for them.” But the answer is almost always no. Nothing encourages dysfunction more than holding assets with value at zero.
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Bobby Eli, the guitarist of MFSB used to come into my dad’s store. He gave me an autographed copy of the “TSOP” single. Your mental image of Bobby Eli is probably completely wrong. He was a skinny medium-height white guy.
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They were the house band for Sigma Sound Studios in Philly. They played for the O’Jays, Harold Melvin, Teddy Prendergrass, the Spinners, and many others. Bowie recorded “Young Americans” there with them too. Luther Vandross worked there as a backup vocalist and Bowie discovered him.
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The screening schedule is very nice. I’ve only gone to one due to…parking :) It’s also a bad drive for me.
BTW - saw your “Shampoo” intro at the Egyptian. Great job!
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I was severely disappointed with the museum. You’re the first person I’ve heard praising it.
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An American’s American list:
Psycho
The Apartment
The Manchurian Candidate
The Last Picture Show
Raging Bull
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I saw “Play it Again, Sam” at Radio City with a floor show centered on Charlie Chaplin - perhaps because of his honorary Oscar? - when I was 10. It is forever etched in my memory.
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I’ll go with “The Tingler” or “Theatre of Blood”. But Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe hits the spot too. Or “Last Man on Earth”. Or “Laura”.
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I was there for the home games. Answer - Bill Walton was an all-time great. Possibly the greatest passing center of all time. Maurice Lucas was a beast. And Jack Ramsey was an infinitely better coach than Gene Shue. The Sixers had great talent but Portland was a better team.
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I like your list, but I think I’d switch 1 and 4.
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Pittsburgh has a long history of selling WR at their highs. Not nearly as bullish.
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Remember the “will Netflix become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix” debate? Netflix won handily. I canceled my Max subscription long ago.
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There’s such genius in Mankiewicz choosing to tell the darker version of the “42nd St” fantasy. Having one of the most overwhelming actresses in Hollywood history playing possibly her most overwhelming character provides perfect subterfuge as well.
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“Save yourself. Kill them all.”
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Saw this restoration in LA about a year ago. Beautiful.
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Would they have done it if he hadn’t fallen off last year?
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Who cares? Neither one is remotely available.
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If you haven’t figured it out yet you never will. Canceled my multi-decade subscription long ago.
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It’s even more stupid than it sounds. Foreign films represent < 10% of US box office. However - reciprocal tariffs will inevitably be applied to U.S. films. Foreign receipts represent 70% of total revenue. Unless his real idea is to shame, take down, or shake down Hollywood.
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Is NYC contemplating a nuclear program? I understand the importance of full disclosure, but how is this relevant?
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I don’t see it as a song cycle but I just don’t see it as a symphony either. I respect the rights of Bernstein and others to feel differently. And obviously people will (and should) put much more weight on Bernstein’s opinion than mine.
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The first movement is in a quasi sonata-allegro form if you make large allowances for what’s in the middle. The other movement - not at all. Do you have the YouTube link? I can’t find a reference where Bernstein specifically discusses the Eighth.
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Basketball. Team sport.
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However not sure of the current state of decent 35mm loanable prints.
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There was a beautiful 4K restoration performed recently. It was shown at the Aeto in LA. Its rights are no more difficult to obtain than any of the other Selznick Hitchcock’s, so it must have come down to the programmers’ choice.
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By saying “I’m on an island” I mean that I don’t expect others to agree. I don’t find anything symphonic about the piece other than it being written in Mahler’s musical language and that most of Mahler’s mature output were symphonies.
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You could, but I don’t need to define which box it fits in to say it doesn’t belong in the symphonic box. I was trying to think of a dramatic orchestral work that is comparable and I thought of Schumann’s “Scenes from Faust” which he labeled as an oratorio.
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I love DLVDE but it’s an orchestral song cycle. It’s not symphonic at all.
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I am on “the 8th is not a symphony” island. I realize it’s not a particularly large island but I’m happy here.
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I got a #1 last year and didn’t get in. But that was the Standby line for Theater 4.
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Which side of the transaction pays?
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Here’s a radical concept: use music representative of your listening habits. You don’t want to be saying, “why does my music sound like crap when Tracy Chapman sounded so good?” Don’t overweight specs, reviews, or other people’s opinions either.
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Another sleeper is Reiner’s first account with Pittsburgh (1946). The premiere recording, I believe. It’s even more fiery than his famous CSO account, but the sonics aren’t nearly as good. Sony did an excellent job remastering it for their Reiner/PSO box.
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I love Cleveland. I admire Szell’s craft but he leaves me cold as a musician. Solti is hit-and-miss. He increasingly became a parody of himself at the CSO. He became so brass-heavy and loud that my friend Ramon was convinced he had a hearing problem, or gave himself one.