MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Given that Al wrote this song in 1980, it was very prescient of him to include the line about the “long-term contract”.
I completely agree about the multiple facets of Star Wars, Jung, especially with regard to the original trilogy. Seeing them as an adult was a completely different experience from seeing them as a kid, with different lessons learned. They are truly movies for all ages.
I haven’t actually watched them in a long time, but since the lockdown began I’ve started watching YouTube videos in which adults who have never seen Star Wars (and other famous movies) record their reactions to seeing them for the first time, and edit them down to about 20 minutes of highlights. The other day I found a YouTube user named Natalie Gold who has really entertaining reactions to her first viewings of the first six films, all just in the last couple of weeks. It’s fun to watch her watch them because she clearly becomes very emotionally invested in the characters and the story.
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Jung, if you like music that makes you laugh, you definitely need to explore Weird Al. He’s been doing great parodies of popular songs non-stop for over 40 years, including this one which may be of interest to MLT fans as of a couple of days ago:
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I’d love to respond to this, Jung, but I don’t even HAVE a smart device! But as far as groups that I like to listen to as much as possible, the big ones for me are (alphabetically) ABBA, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Carpenters, Dave Dee et al., the Four Seasons, Harmony Grass, the Mamas & Papas, MLT, the Monkees, the Osmonds, Peter Paul & Mary, the Seekers, the Turtles, and Weird Al Yankovic.
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Jung, it looks to the outside observer like your mouth is as relaxed as when you blow a whistle, but when you play the clarinet you have to pull your lower lip back over your lower teeth in order to create a firm bench for the mouthpiece to rest on. It’s not instantaneously uncomfortable, but after about an hour of your flesh being squeezed between your teeth and the mouthpiece you begin to feel like you’re doing some harm to your blood vessels. Then again, maybe I was doing something wrong all those years, but I was following directions the best I could.
I sang in grade school music class too, but frankly that wasn’t the same because we were all singing the same part, with no harmonies to make it interesting. Of course, as we’ve discussed before, we were exposed to some pretty good pop songs that way.
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I played the clarinet in band class in grade school and middle school. I wasn’t particularly good at it, but I did learn a great deal about music theory. And I have to say I’ve never been involved in a more enjoyable group activity than making music with dozens of people.
I developed two instrument-related physical deformities that took years to heal: a thumbrest-shaped indentation on the side of my right thumb which is still a little bit shiny, and a long groove just below the inside of my lower lip where I had to use my lower teeth (through the flesh) to support the weight of the mouthpiece.
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Given how iconic the Orange cover photo has become for us, it would have been cool if they had scraped up the paint and made little baggies of it available as a merch item.
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These are terrific, Jung! They rank right up there with the best of Saturday Night Live’s commercial spoofs in that they hold out for so long the possibility that they might actually be serious.
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And an emu! I’m not leaving Australia without an emu, Jung.
This is the first time I’ve ever shared that joke with a Canadian, so I’m glad you’re cool with it. Pass it on to anyone with a healthy sense of humor, which I imagine includes most of Canada.
Howard, thanks for that article! I love reading about history that might have been. The French settled the U.S. by boating up through the extensive network of rivers in the middle of the continent, and were able to live off the land. I imagine the fact that that strategy wasn’t available in western Australia may have been a large part of why they couldn’t establish much of a foothold there, notwithstanding the “no trespassing” measures by the British.
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Jacki, are you talking about the movie “The Nude Bomb”? If so, I agree with you wholeheartedly. That was the first movie I ever saw at a theater that left me thinking I had completely wasted my time. On the way out I was hoping the theater manager would say “Sorry about that, Chief.”
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Ha! “Get Smart” probably introduced more catch phrases into American pop culture than any other TV show.
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Ah, “Get Smart”! One of the very best. Some of that show’s ideas are actually being implemented right now. Just yesterday I saw a photo of a recently re-opened restaurant, with a table with two diners who were covered by what appeared to be the “cone of silence”.
I originally thought it might be Don Adams who said “Good heavens, what’s that?” on the “Future” track from the Orange album, but upon closer listening I noticed that he dropped the “h” in “heavens”, so it must be some British guy. (Unless it was Agent 86 doing a British accent…)
This may not mean much to those outside North America, but just a few days ago on YouTube I found this amazing collection from 30 years ago that I somehow entirely missed at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UO5R7tbqWQ
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I’ll come with you, Jung! If I could do only one cross-country road trip over the rest of my lifetime, the country would have to be Australia. Canada would probably be second. Both would be days-long trips with lots of natural variety, and people that I could successfully communicate with if my car broke down.
Long ago I came across this joke, which is now on the internet:
Canada could have had the best of three worlds. They could have had American technology, French cuisine, and British culture. Instead they have French technology, British cuisine, and American culture.
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And it doesn’t seem so long ago that we were laughing at this as a sign of the modern world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfjTfaeXbp4
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I know YouTube doesn’t need my help promoting cat videos, but I found some really cute ones posted by a user named Kittisaurus in which she covers her hallway with various substances (aluminum foil, bubble wrap, Dixie cups, etc.) and films her seven cats one-by-one as they try to find a way to get to the food at the other end without compromising their dignity.
