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sam:
If anybody who’s been to Los Angeles ever stops by, please let me know if it’s cool and relaxed
or serious as a heart attack
or light-hearted and Newmenesque
Did you drive all the way through flyover country, Randy?
sam:
In all my hitchhiking I never caught a lift with these guys.
(love it when the woman covers her ears @2.46)
The opening may bewilder those weaned on phonecards, never mind iPhones.
Less musical than it looks
It's a fun song because it ends before going all the way into Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
sam:
The penultimate test of cerebral fitness is remembering the lyrics to quirky old favourites. If the portal into YouTube is gray, don't let it put you off, this video hasn't gone anywhere yet.
From the comments: "He's still walking. He just passed my house."
Shoutout to Hastings!
sam:
Guess who
Given a choice between Bach and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the Canadian rockers win access to my ears. (It’s a false but alliteratively pleasing dilemma, beating Beethoven vs the Beatles.) Sorry decomposing composers. Should a few points be taken off whatever my IQ is because I don’t listen to classical music except by accident or when I'm in a rare mood for greatest hits from the Baroque period?
Bach's autograph of the first movement of the Sonata No. 1 in G minor / Bachman "fooling around"
The coolness of the band may have been negated by this video
As a bonus, the B side of the single – I just about remember singles – was an instrumental called Free Wheelin'.
sam:
Jack Sheldon of Schoolhouse Rock fame has died. "He lost the use of his right arm after suffering a stroke in 2011, but he was eventually able to resume playing using one hand."
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