A few items to cover this week, so let’s dive in.
Movie recommendations-
“If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You” is a tense, sometimes darkly funny look at the troubles a mother of an ailing child encounters when a flood chases her family out of their apartment. Rose Byrne stars and earns her Best Actress Oscar nomination in the lead role as the therapist/overwhelmed mom who awaits her husband to return from a road trip. She’s already won a Golden Globe for this part. Conan O’Brien plays an interesting part as a no-nonsense fellow therapist.
Here’s the preview for “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
“Sheepdog” is worth the 7 bucks you’ll put out on pay-per view to see the troubles Iraq war veterans face when they return from active duty. It’s a realistic drama that raises hard questions and some hope for those who serve our country. Virginia Madsen co-stars a social worker/counselor in her most mature role to date.
The preview for the gritty drama “Sheepdog.”
I also liked the new Paul McCartney documentary “Man on the Run” which is now on Amazon Prime. The feature tracks Paul’s career and life from the day he quit the Beatles up through 1981. We see his solo work along with formation of Wings and of course past and present thoughts on the death of John Lennnon.
The trailer for the new Paul McCartney documentary.
Music Notes- I was late to the prom on being into a rising country star but it seems like every week I’m reading or hearing more about singer-songwriter Ella Langley. Her second album “Dandelion” comes out next month but music videos from that pending release like “Be Her” and the #1 smash “Choosing Texas” are already scoring lots of views and listens. Ella Langley is bringing ‘real country’ sounds and sensibility back to the genre.
Ella Langley’s #1 hit ‘Choosin’ Texas’ is real country music.
I came across a real gem on You Tube. The full video of the seventy-five minute set the Rolling Stones played in 1997 in a surprise show at Chicago’s Double Door bar. This gig happened a week before they opened their Bridges to Babylon concert tour which started at Soldier Field then played other mammoth sized venues. However, THIS show is the best way to see Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie and company. Highlights being a rough and ragged playing of “The Last Time” plus “Honky Tonk Woman” and searing reads of “Jumping Jack Flash” and “Brown Sugar.” Click this link and you can zero in on their setlist and pick which songs you want to here and see.
The 1997 Rolling Stones ‘surprise show’ at Chicago’s Double Door.
Online alert- If and when you need a mood elevation, by all means Google ‘K-9 Konvoy’ which is a social media platform that shows the daily goings of a woman who drives a short bus full of dogs to their daily play field. The canines (all breeds and sizes) get snacks and lots of attention from their driver-guide. The dogs are so sweet and playful and remind me how therapeutic being with four legged creatures can be. You can find K-9 Konvoy on Facebook and this group of pooches has also been featured in People magazine.
Question-I’m a longtime watcher of The Andy Griffith Show and one issue puzzles me. Aunt Bee was always shown to be the ultimate cook of tasty lunches, mouth-watering dinners, pies, cakes, cookies, etc. Yet in “The Pickle Story” episode Bee fails in producing home-made pickles or as Barney Fife calls them “Kerosene Cucumbers.” And at the end of that episode, we also see Bee can’t make marmalade that’s edible. How can Aunt Bee show such culinary so skills except when it came to pickles and marmalade?
Aunt Bee’s ‘Kerosene Cucumbers’ get a taste.
Next blog- Music Memory #3 featuring Bruce Hornsby.