sheilakathleen.bsky.social
Writer. I review films at Ebert. Essays at Criterion, monthly column at Liberties Journal. NYFCC / NSFC member. I’ve been blogging at sheilaomalley.com since 2002. I have a newsletter: https://sheilaomalley.substack.com/ I write a LOT about Elvis. TCB! ⚡
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and thank you!
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same!
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my cousin Mike was a regular in the 4th season where he played a really scary heavy named Nick Augustine lol
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really love that show.
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This has been haunting me for 24 hours. I am glad they fixed!
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Of course in Season 2, they have an entire Shining-inspired episode.
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and the great Rhiannon Giddens!
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it just blows the roof off right?
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glad we didn't! if there is a biopic ever it'd need to be someone indigenous. Link was Shawnee.
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Link Wray's story is the first chapter in the doc Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, - which you def should see if you haven't. I have all of his stuff. I'm never "over" it. It still LEAPS out of the speakers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzV...
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Here he is playing Mystery Train. You can pick his sound out of a lineup. a fingerprint! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZd_...
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Here's Link Wray telling the story of how “Rumble” was born. (Naturally, I am happy about the shirt he is wearing). It was born out of a need for "filler". I love this: “Now the kids are screaming because now something is happening.” they KNEW. they HEARD IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjj...
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I’m trying to picture turning on the TV in 1959 and - with no preparation or context or anything else - seeing … this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5h...
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His Fever is pure sex. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmr...
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Those who were afraid of “Rumble” sensed - correctly - that the song was part of what was shattering the status quo. It was distorting what was "supposed" to be a clean melody line. It didn't NEED words to convey its message. scary.
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“Rumble” was considered so dangerous at the time some radio stations refused to play it. It was banned in Ny and Boston. It’s one of the only instrumentals to ever be banned from radio play in America. And you know what? The people who were afraid of it weren’t wrong.
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Elvis sings "Good rockin' tonight" and makes you want to join the party. Link Wray sings "Good rockin' tonight" and you think maybe you should call the police. It's Marlon Brando riding into town on a motorcycle. when he goes up the octave (shivers) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MekC...
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Mesmerizing! omg.
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it was embarrassing! It literally was exactly my life as I was living it at that moment. only time that's happened to me.
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as someone who spent her 20s in track 10 of Exile in Guyville, I didn't expect any of this - but I will say I did appreciate the gestures. these guys had no idea what I would say. I know no one asked me but if you feel like you want to send that email ... don't be a chicken. Take responsibility.
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which says it all.
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and NOT hearing from the ones who actually SHOULD apologize.
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I'm sure my experience is not unique. Or maybe it is. Maybe every one was hearing from their ghost hookups of yesteryear.
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it was kind of interesting. I hadn't talked to some of these guys literally SINCE the hookup in question, lol. Very impressed w/their bravery. I'd think, "I wonder if I'm gonna hear from [guy who actually did Me Too me]." Of course not.
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I said to the guy who used it as a verb "you did not Me Too me. You made a pass at me - there's a difference - and I enthusiastically said Yes please. You're good." I felt for him.
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and these were going way WAY back - like, college years - one from high school too! decades ago!
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The horrible and predictable irony of this was that not one of these guys owed me an apology.
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That whole episode was about an impending standoff - and a group of scared people trying - and sometimes failing - to get on the same page so they can fight back. There were so many of these "nods", it was my "way in" to the showinitially- the visuals were so creative.
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congratulations!! excited to read!
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Some great anecdotes in the interview: one about Lian and the young Bono and Willie Nelson - and also the story of Lian and Charlotte Rampling, during filming, going to a Merle Haggard concert. I love the picture of that!
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A sound and rhythm like no other: watery voice just behind the beat, Trigger with that almost warbling melody. A true natural wonder.
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"just behind the beat" yes!! it's all such a WHOLE - so COMPLETE - but the separate parts are just mind-boggling.
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His guitar had a mind of its own and its own things to say. it was so right-brain left-brain I lost myself in it. It was worth it, sweet-talking a loaner out of a grizzled unimpressed mechanic. He was a Willie Nelson fan. I dropped the car off and showed him the pictures I took at the concert.
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And I know this is not news and it wasn't news to me either but it didn't really HIT me until I saw him live: his guitar playing is otherworldly. It's not the melody. It's TALKING, riffing, going off on its own, gently, in conversation with him. CHILLS. I was like "... how does he do that."