It seems to take me days or weeks to write a traditional blog entry, so I am trying some smaller random observations.
1) When I hear the new Taylor Swift single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the spoken word section reminds me of the Frank Zappa song "Valley Girl". For what it's worth, though, Taylor Swift is moving to a mansion in Hyannis Port, and not to a really good part of Encino.
2) On television commercials in which people brush their teeth, they never use toothpaste.
3) This is not exactly current events, but I have been thinking that virtually every character on the show Happy Days had a name that ended in an "e" sound—Fonzie, Richie, Potsie, Joanie, and Chachi. The only one of the younger generation of characters whose name ended with a consonant sound was Ralph Malph. (When I watched Happy Days as a very young child, I was not clear on phonetic concepts, and so I thought that Ralph Malph was Ralph Mouth.)
4) I recently learned that former Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark and former Dire Straits saxophonist Chris White have formed a band (along with the drummer from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and some other people) called the Straits to fulfill the demand for public performances of Dire Straits songs. (Dire Straits, in case you didn't know, broke up twenty years ago.) That is not too surprising. What is surprising is that they are writing and recording an album of new material, presumably in the style of Eighties Dire Straits. But what will it sound like without Mark Knopfler (who will be touring this fall with Bob Dylan)?
have you checked out the numerous Youtube videos of live performances of Dire Straits? some of the guitar solos go on and on and on and on... gave me chills when i watched for the first time.
ReplyDeleteI try not to watch concert videos on Youtube, because I'm afraid that all ending up spending all my time doing that. I did see Knopfler live in 2001, though.
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