Fake Punt (Arkansas v Alabama (11.20.21))

Nice.

Peter on a CNN Panel Show

"...I've tried all the herbs!..."

Tokyo Groove Jyoshi -- 'Funk #1'

Stays wild and dynamic when you can feel it wanting to drift into NPR territory, Deftly done. 

The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival

Cool! Surprising variety, a little bit of everything in there.

Denis Pauna -- 'Master of Puppets' (1960s style)

Weird but a game effort. This why God invented the internet. 

St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, Leningrad Military Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy -- Overture from Tchaikovsky's "1812"

A mind blowing ride. This is amazing from beginning to end. 

DJ Shadow -- 'Total Breakdown'

Shweet!

Bob Dylan -- 'The Hurricane' (Live 1975)

Whoa, check this out: the lyrics are different! Not uncommon for artists (especially Dylan) to be creative/sloppy with the melody or vocal phrasings when playing live but you wouldn't expect Mr. Nobel Prize to change the words just for PBS (especially since he doesn't take out 'shit', 'ass' and 'n*****''). Apparently the song, which had just been recorded, was felt to have the potential for a defamation lawsuit, so Dylan was cagey upon the release of this as a single. Interesting curio from arguably Dylan's peak as a live performer. (The sound here is not optimal but that's not why you're watching this, so don't sweat it)

The Last Farewell/That Hamilton Woman

The internet, for whatever reason, has set Elvis Presley's "The Last Farewell" to scenes from the film That Hamilton Woman. So...uh...this exists. This is utterly pointless in every way but honestly my only criticism is that I found the opening and closing credits intrusive and clumsy.

Did Elvis Presley imagine that his songs would live on in this way? Did Olivier and Leigh realize their mock romance would be re-purposed to suit the short attention spans of future masses? Indeed, did Horatio Nelson realize that in the future his imperial awesomeness, which was nothing but an albatross for him in his homeland, would inspire people to create homemade pieces of art about him? That people would create plastic-based mechanized operas about his sex life? Why haven't we made movies about Olivier's sex life? Elvis knew that he was built to be a sex symbol and Olivier had many high profile relationships in the public eye, so how is it that instead we get a movie about a dude that died well over a century before this movie was made (which is 4/5 of a century old right now)? Is it that in Nelson's time naval heroes (and their whispered extramarital exploits) were the best celebrity culture available? 

What is time marching toward? Will people decades from now be re-purposing this blog post in the name of something I could never even conceive of? Probably not...but not definitely not.

Kids in the Hall -- 'Minimum Wage'

 

(Aired 1991)