So Elon Musk and the casting of Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY has meant he has threatened to re-make it (with AI 😂) so that it’s historically more accurate! It is a work of the earliest fiction so there’s that! It is written by Homer in Ancient Greece
This is the actor chosen to play Helen . . . . She is the simply breathtaking Yale graduate Mexican actor Lupita Njong’o
If ever you needed proof that Musk is a cretin this is it
P.S. Go Woke , Go Broke doesn’t exactly work as they should have encouraged a Muskrat critique as the film has opened with $260 MILLION! (is that a record breaking opening weekend?)
N.B. Alec Baldwin (random?) has noted that Lupita is simply “the most beautiful woman in the world” no argument here
What I think of as pop music is broadly defined. Some songs are, by consensus, mainstream, but even some of those often push at the edges. Others take the format, length and shape of pop songs, but to my ears they don’t sound anything like the ones considered more mainstream. That said, they’re all equal in my book, I don’t think of any of them as inside or outside - as I’ve seen those definitions change with plenty of exceptions that prove the rules are meant to be broken.
I’m still on tour. As of August 1, we’ll have about 1 ½ months to go. It will be a year total. It’s a long one, but it’s going extremely well and the general vibe among the band and crew is, amazingly, still good.
The whole band has folding bikes that we travel with- if I have an afternoon off I’ll often go for a ride to clear my head, and if I’m on my own and it’s a secure path or not a busy road… I’ll listen to this playlist.
Somebody asked me the other day about Ian Dury changing the lyrics of ‘England’s Glory' over the years ( he wrote it back around the time of Kilburn and The Highroads pre-Blockheads) and he did sometimes quite often but they asked me about a reference to "Spider Rowe" and this answers that query . . . . . .
Ian needed help from the effects of his polio as a child to get on stage and rather than be embarrassed about it often became a feature of his arrival on stage with an ‘assistant’ Spider Rowe was an early one of these and is pictured below adjusting the height of Ian’s microphone
‘Spider’ Rowe,
One of Ian Dury’s helpers/minders etc who helped him on stage
gets a shout out in England's Glory at times early on
Revisiting an old favourite edition of OGWT is never a miss! This is what turned me onto Ry all these years ago and went straight out and bought Boomer’s Story (still a favourite record desk vinyl, tape and CD!)
Ry Cooder performing and being interviewed on the Old Grey Whistle Test on March 20, 1973
Maureen O’Sullivan was one of the most stunning and iconic stars of the pre code era in Hollywood. However, for some odd reason, I have not been able to find many photos which do justice to her amazing beauty. I thought this did
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Struck as a callow youth by one of the greatest blues songs of all time this is a perennial favourite and I hadn’t heard Fred’s version here slow start fire burn, lifting, building and a’chooglin (it’s a word!) this’ll start the weekend for yew!
Here from the more recent discord of Sonic Surprises!
BABY PLEASE DON’T GO - MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL
1971
Hill country blues that won’t let go
Mississippi Fred McDowell turns this blues standard into a deep, rolling groove, his guitar and voice locking together with hypnotic force.
Recorded live, on November 5, 1971, at the MacDougal Street Gaslight II, in New York City.
This is actually the seventh version of Baby Please Don’t Go to appear on the blog, with a few of the others hiding in my Double and Triple Doses.
