Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Abbott and Costello -- 'Jonah and the Whale'

This is from a time when movie stars strove to be TV stars. Now movie stars want to still be movie stars on your TV and (preferably even) your phone. If the medium is the message, then all stars will be phone stars in the future. And eventually just chip stars. Movie star still sounds the best and always was the best. This is the first bit on the first episode of "Abbott and Costello Show" which debuted in 1952. 

"It's clean." 

Frank Zappa -- 'Hot Guitars Out of the Box'

Random dude personally re-edited and re-mastered Zappa's guitar solos just to hear them better. I applaud. This is why god invented the internet. 

Svengali (1930)