Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Thursday, November 24, 2016
For a Memorable Guitarist*
See Bonanza and Magnificent Seven in this journal.
* Al Caiola, who reportedly died on November 9th.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sunday April 6, 2008
Synchronicity
"Something isn't real until it's on TV."
— Folk saying quoted, for instance,
in Postmodern Times
Time of this entry: 11:07:48 PM.
Overheard yesterday, on the night
of Charlton Heston's death:
"He's a good gun, and we aren't
heading for a church social."
— Yul Brynner to Steve McQueen
in The Magnificent Seven
(AMC, 8 PM ET Saturday, April 5, 2008)
"Lord, I remember!"
— Bob Seger
— Bob Seger
Related material:
this date last year
(Good Friday)
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
Thursday August 19, 2004
Angel of the
First Degree
A few words for M.C.C.
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Honey Blonde She’s as sweet as tupelo honey She’s an angel of the first degree. She’s as sweet as tupelo honey Just like honey, baby, from the bee. — Van Morrison, 1971 |
Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer, Dies at 82
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:22 a.m. ET
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004
LOS ANGELES (AP)– Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as “The Ten Commandments,” “The Magnificent Seven,”‘ “To Kill a Mockingbird,”‘ “The Great Escape” and “True Grit,” died Wednesday. He was 82.
Bernstein died in his sleep at his Ojai home.
That, M.C.C., is what
Fritz Leiber means by
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Friday, September 12, 2003
Friday September 12, 2003
Into the Sunset
I just learned of Johnny’s Cash’s death. On Google News, the headline was Johnny Cash rides into sunset. The source was the Bangkok Post.
“Don’t you know that
when you play at this level
there’s no ordinary venue.”
— One Night in Bangkok (midi)
No Ordinary Venue
“They are the horses of a dream.
They are not what they seem.”
— The Hex Witch of Seldom, page 16
A Singer
7-Cycle
The Magnificent Seven:
CLICK HERE for
“the adventures of filming this epic
on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico.”
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“He is the outlaw the people love, — The Hex Witch of Seldom, |
“Words are events.”
— Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
“…search for thirty-three and three…”
— The Black Queen in The Eight