The Beatles "Get Back"

 

Just wrapped up the Peter Jackson Docuseries "Get Back" and though I liked Jackson's take on the original Michael Lindsay-Hogg Let It Be Footage a lot, I cannot conceive of a casual Beatles fan getting into this show!

I would say that you had to at LEAST know most of the songs and lore of the Beatles for most of this stuff to have any real meaning or interest... I mean, "I've Got A Feeling" and "Don't Let Me Down" are some of my favorite songs from the Beatles but even I was  getting tired of hearing it rehearsed for the umpteenth time over 8 hrs, LOL!

Still, LOTS of treasure in here, LOTS of insight into the inner workings of the band and a great many revelations about some of the songs, especially ones that became tracks on their subsequent solo releases after the band broke up that I had No IDEA started off as Beatles songs!

As someone who always had a bad feeling after watching Let It Be, it was nice to see a bigger picture that showed that there was more than the dark parts of this moment in their lives, and wrapped up on a positively POSITIVE note to boot!!!

And just think, even at this seemingly "low" point in their careers, "Abbey Road" was still to come !!!

A Ghostly Halloween Coincidence

As some of you may know, I've been a huge, huge fan of October Project since first hearing their debut album back in 1993. I had strolled into Tower Records one night and perused the Listening station to check out some new music. As a big enthusiast of Halloween and all its spooky fun, the cover of October Project's debut album instantly caught my eye with its almost archaic looking photo of a little jack-o-lantern faced ghost on the side of a road, Trick Or Treating at dusk...

That piqued my interest enough to give the album a listen, and it just took one minute of lead singer mary's Fahl's haunting vocals and I snatched that album up and they'd go on to be one of my most enduring favorites.In fact, Mary Fah STILL retains a high place as one of my favorite artists even now!

The cover of that October Project album always looked like one of the shady tree-lined back roads of Manoa to me, especially this one stretch of road which I always thought of when listening to them: I tried to make it easier for you to see what I mean by changing the color to the image to sepia and croppin it a bit...can you see the vibe I mean?

In any case, I ALWAYS got an October Project vibe driving through the groves of that street.

So a few nights ago, I'm driving down that long stretch of road, and looking up the road, I see this little blob glowing in the dark...

What WAS that? Getting closer to the yard,  I have to laugh out loud because it was a little GHOST, and right near the place where I'd always imagined that jack o lanterned trick or treater to be!

This had to be the most WONDERFUL coincidence ever! I tell you, it tickled me Halloween heart! And now, every evening I go home, I try to drive by that yard, just to see the ghost while it's still up!! Happy Halloween, everybody!

More Misheard Lyrics: " I Got A Dollar Bill"

 
BACK in around 1993 or so, a friend made a mix tape of some punk/alternative bands with some really cool music on there! The only problem was he had not bothered to list the artists or titles of the songs on the cassette card, and the only way I could refer to the songs was by the chorus refrains, etc.

There was a particularly catchy song which I really liked about a guy I presumed (through my mishearing ears) was low on cash as he sang about only having a buck to his name. The next time I saw my friend a few weeks later I said, "Who sings that song I Got A Dollar Bill?". To which he gave me an odd look and said "I Got a Dollar Bill?" I don't know any song like that.

I said, "Sure you do!", and then sang it to him. He shook his head in disbelief and said, "What? He's not saying I Got a Dollar Bill!"

The band in question was the groovy group the Hoodoo Gurus (whom I'd already loved for their awesome song "Like Wow~ Wipeout!"), the song was called "My Girl"...and the line that I THOUGHT was singing "I Got a Dollar Bill" was actually "My Girl Don't Love Me at All"!

WHHAAAAT! I was flabbergasted to find that I'd gotten the lyrics so wrong! So...this song ain't about a broke guy- Just a broken-hearted one! Nonetheless, a very catchy song and one which I still love to this day...though I can't get those original lyrics out of my head!

Outcast, Vol.8: The Merged

 
Though I was worried that OUTCAST was going to turn into another Walking Dead Rick Grimes "troubled anti-leader forced to lead ragtag team in the face of the apocalypse"  type, it  stayed grounded enough and brought the series in for a satisfying landing.

Knew they wouldn't let Kyle off with a happy ending without some kind of buzzkill, and yep, they HAD to mar it somehow, but still, a great series.

Scarlet Witch Service for the Comic Fans

 Though it's played for laughs,ya gotta admit that Elizabeth Olsen looked simply SENSATIONAL dressed in the comicbook version of her Scarlet Witch costume in this past week's episode of "WandaVision"!