Allisyn Says
I gotta stop putting up boring posts or people will stop reading, so...
Ed from the Dead I got an Ed Sullivan tape from the public library specifically so that I
could see Spanky and Our Gang, my favorite mersh pop group of the 1960s.
As expected, their segment was weird and surreal, even though the tune,
"I'd Like to Get to Know You," is pretty straighforward S&OG.
I have no use for ugly suits The Brooklyn Bridge. Their singer looks like he's been
taken for a beating out the alley somewhere. Gary Puckett is definitely stuck on himself,
and a decent confederate skirmish would have made waste of his purple jacketed Union
Gap in an Yankee minute.
The Chambers Brothers, practically alone in this crowd, rocked. They were playing in a
place that looked like Circus Circus - did Circus Circus exist in 1968? Smith was like a
burned out Seattle band with a chick singer on drugs. I didn't remember them, but I
remember seeing The Fifth Dimension clip with "The Age of Aquarius" when it first
aired. How could you forget that - The Fifth Dimension floating around in space on a
little platform - how do they not float off into space?
You flash forward from watching it live on a black and white zenith at age 8 to seeing a
fuzzy video of it at age 44. Now your thoughts are, "Why does space look like that? Why
do the planets look like styrofoam balls? God, the lyrics of this song are so stupid. "Hamony and understanding. Sympathy and trust abounding. No more falsehoods or derisions, something something dreams and visions, mystic crystal revelations, a-quareeUUUUUUSSSSSSS"
This song has nothing to do with Universal Harmony and Peace. It has everything to do with booty-shakin,' hip-shakin,' tamourine slappin' and hi hi howdeeyadoo.
I asked Allisyn if she liked "Aquarius." She said, "the thing I remember about it is that it always seemed so DAMN LONG...."
The Brain Bone Connected To The Butt BoneThere are only three reasons to watch the TV series "Bones" on Fox, now moved to Wednesday night at 9pm. They are, as follows, Micheala Conlin, Micheala Conlin and Micheala Conlin. Very dishy, cute and fun to watch.
I don't much care for the show: It makes pretensions towards semi-seriousness in regards to forensics, but really at it's core it's just stupid, wandering off into vague semi-science and fantasy. On the most recent episode they found an ancient corpse that "has Pictish features." Wow, that's really cool dude, becuase as far as I know, no one has ever verified the existence of actual Picts. They still yet belong to the realm of legend. However on "Bones," here we are with the corpse of one.
They also give Micheala Conlin's character stupid, even offensive lines to say like "I'm going out to have sex. What're you going to do tonight?" In general the writing is so bad I don't even pay attention to the plotline, I just look up when Micheala Conlin's on and go back to my book when she isn't. Hopefully she'll get a good part on a better show.
The new timeslot is better for me. It comes on before "Project Runway."
More soon.
Uncle Dave Lewis