In no specific order:
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/FERRARI/TALK TO ME
Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY/AIR
Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER/THE COLOR PURPLE 2023
Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER
In no specific order:
Jessie Ware: THAT! FEELS GOOD!
Pretenders: RELENTLESS
Peter Gabriel: I/o (Bright Side Mix)
Son Volt: DAY OF THE DOUG (Doug Sahm tribute)
Flatt & Scruggs: ORIGINAL THEME FROM BONNIE AND CLYDE
Bruce Springsteen: THE LIVE SERIES: SONGS ON KEYS
The Beatles: 1962-1966 (expanded 2023 reissue)
The Who: WHO’S NEXT/LIFE HOUSE boxset
Bob Dylan: THE COMPLETE BUDOKAN 1978
Wilco: COUSIN/CRUEL COUNTRY
Elvis Presley: ALOHA FROM HAWAII 50th Anniversary
Cindy Wilson: REALMS
Billy Joel: PIANO MAN 50th Anniversary Dolby Atmos mix
Little Richard: LITTLE RICHARD IS BACK
Gene Vincent: I’M BACK AND I’M PROUD
Captain Sedition dealt at least a temporary blow
Now let’s see if some of the Republican Party will follow
An off-ramp where the Never Trumpers can try to grow
A base devoted to real issues instead of Immigrant baiting and going low low low
Will update later this month and, for the last time, in January:
In no specific order:
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/AIR
Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY
Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER
Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER
Now And Then may not be John Lennon’s best-ever song, but the new, orchestrated and augmented version has an undeniable poignance with the surviving Beatles in the final act of their solo careers.
At this writing, I haven’t gone on to Facebook and Reddit to experience the reactions of first and second generation Beatles fans, who are often less forward-thinking (usually spouting knee-jerk racism towards Yoko Ono) than the Fab Four were.
Kudos to Giles Martin, with the aid of Peter Jackson’s software, for a crisp, immediate remix of Love Me Do (the version with Ringo on drums).
here’s to the parents
you know which of them I’m talking about
the ones who default to discipline if humiliation doesn’t work
who slap and hit well into teenage years
who throw the approval preserver
only if the child abandons his/her/their dreams
taking junior on long summer vacations out of town
all the better to ward off bad influences
but what if the child gets hurt by others saying no
and the parent or parents choose to end this by saying:
don’t you know I’d pay her to go out with you
if I could
here’s to the parents
who create children
that become nervous adults
and choose not to have children
of their own
grain elevator, giant oil derrick, red/brown brick streets
train station which became Boy Scouts facility
elementary school that felt ultramodern in the 1960s
large and small churches teaching different versions of Jesus’s teachings
car races which some classmates never survived
drive-in eateries and motels which tried to survive the freeway bypass
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newspaper ad said help save our town, buy at home
but the next city was just a half-hour away by car
some migrated there, others to other small Texas towns
only a few dared move out of state
to see if neutrality healed wounds and strengthened bonds
WELL. WHY SHOULDN’T I GO THERE?
because old (mostly white) boys still run the world
and I make long TV shows
about old (mostly white) boys
with occasional girls in support
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please don’t ask me about Jann Wenner
