They Might Be Giants
Anna Ng (1988)
Between Sunday night’s movie and hearing Anna Sun a lot lately, I’ve had this song stuck in my head for several days. Now you can too.
Month: July 2012
They might be giants
After being in something of a mood, I opted for my semi-traditional Sunday night torta followed by a movie on Netflix. I’d had this one in my instant queue for a while, not knowing much about it, and I decided tonight would be a good night to give it a shot.
It was a good choice. Aside from being a really quite wonderful movie (which lent its name to a really quite wonderful band), it was full of those gritty New York in the 1970s location shots I’m such a sucker for, including Times Square and what I assumed to be the interior of the now-demolished Rialto Theatre. But I hit the jackpot with the final fifteen minutes, most of which were filmed inside a vintage Pathmark store:
Suffice to say I’m in a better frame of mind as I go to bed.
My co-called life
How sad is it that I regularly spend my weekend nights pausing reruns of 1970s cop shows and trying to pick out locational clues so I can find contemporary views of the same spot on the iPad?
Note: That was a rhetorical question and I don’t really find it especially sad.
SoCal pictures
Thank you for waiting so patiently (yeah, like anyone was doing that…). Following are 270 photos from my recent trip to the part of California I still actually like. flickr link here if you prefer.
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Bad log
One more thing the world probably didn’t need is a jazz guitar cover of Robert Plant’s “Big Log”. I don’t know who recorded it nor why, and I don’t care enough to try to find out. I just know that it made it that much harder for me to fight my way through the traffic on I-40 this morning while scrambling to change the radio station.
Incidentally, the world could also have done quite well without the original in my view. But that’s another story.