Simply Brilliant

I will not even preface this piece of brilliance with words...

R.I.P. George Carlin

I'm so mixed on Carlin. Listening to his work so much of it is cheap, cheap humor; in his later years it seems like he is dependent upon his reputation for laughs, as many of the jokes themselves are just, what my mom would call, "bathroom humor". Not funny unto themselves, but funny coming out of him. And then, every so often, he drops in a brilliant piece of work like this, and I'm reminded of why he is brilliant.

If I Were Wes Anderson: A Fictional Soundtrack

Part 2 in our ongoing fictional soundtrack series...Today I'm channeling my beloved Wes Anderson.

Presenting:



The Flying Finklesteins

The ups and downs of a multi-generaltion trapeeze circus family.

The Finklesteins are Jewish French trapeeze artists, famous for their part for fighting the Nazis with the French Resistance and then finding themselves on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall...until their daring escape back to France in the late 60s which is when we catch up with them. Francois Finklestein, the family patriarch has been cursed with 4 rebellious daughters who seek to escape the circus life and live ordinary, normal lives...a lofty goal that they are ill-prepared to achieve.

1. Morning Song by The Kinks
2. The Arrival of The Queen of Sheba by Swingle Singers
3. The Partisan by Leonard Cohen
4. A Well Respected Man by The Kinks
5. The First Cut is the Deepest by Cat Stevens
6. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan
   
7. I’ll be Your Mirror by The Velvet Underground
8. I Think I See the Light by Cat Stevens
9. Badinerie by Swingle Singers
10. Green is the Colour by Pink Floyd
11. Je T’aime Moi Non Plus by Serge Gainsbourg
12. Unknown Soundtrack Music by Unknown (Can you identify it?)
13. La Mantilla by Esquivel
14. The Pilgrim’s Tale by T-Rex
15. Sunny Goodge Street by Donovan
16. I Wish I Wish by Cat Stevens
17. Malambo #1 by Yma Sumac
18. Concerto Grosso Op6 No 1 by Swingle Singers
19. La Fin De L’ete by Friends of Dean Martinez
20. In My Life by Judy Collins

Get the soundtrack here.

Speaking of contact juggling

Here's the behind-scenes from Labyrinth about the contact juggling. The 20th Anniversary edition is available on DVD etc.

My Friend Arlen's Review Of Indy IV

No words are necessary....