by mike | Jan 6, 2025 | Life, Music, Uncategorized |
I’m not sure of the year; had to be late 1950s, early ’60s. I do know it was summertime when I had a chance encounter with Roy Orbison. DOWN TO THE SEA Every summer of my childhood, from the end of June through Labor Day, my parents rented a room in one of the old...
by mike | Dec 18, 2023 | Life, Music, Uncategorized |
Fear in the air, tension everywhere. Does that sound like commentary on the current condition of the country, if not the world? The line comes from the hit single, “Ball of Confusion,” released in 1970 by the Motown super group, The Temptations—one of my all-time...
by mike | Sep 11, 2023 | Aging, Death, Humor, Life, Music, Travel, Uncategorized |
“Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same.” Jimmy Buffett’s words. Good words…and true. Add to it, just about everything comes to an end. We lost this great entertainer a little over a week ago. I am crushed. AFFABLE SONGS Jimmy...
by mike | May 29, 2023 | Adventure fantasy, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Movies, Music, Uncategorized |
Seeing that title, most folks would immediately think of the animated segment in the 1940 classic, Fantasia, starring Mickey Mouse, which was remastered in the 1999 sequel, Fantasia 2000. But no, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was also a 2010 live-action fantasy/comedy...
by mike | Apr 25, 2022 | Movies, Music, Musical Theater, Uncategorized |
As an old(er) guy I’m kind of a curmudgeon when it comes to change. I like the old Broadway musicals just the way they are, not remade, reimagined, rebooted, or whatever. A few years back, when I first heard that Steven Spielberg planned on producing and directing a...
by mike | Jun 17, 2021 | Death, Films About Writers, Humor, Movies, Music, Uncategorized, Writing |
Still going strong at age 87: that’s Shirley MacLaine. This post first ran in 2017. It is always a pleasure to see eighty-something Shirley MacLaine on the silver screen. Sadly, not a whole lot of people saw her perform in the 2017 comedy-drama, The Last Word....
