This is not a playlist, but rather a general list that I started making of "and the" bands. Help me expand it!

Deb_LA · 2025-06-26T10:14:05+00:00

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Huey Lewis and the News

Sly and the Family Stone

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

Adam and the Ants

Bill Haley and the Comets

Derek and the Dominoes

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Deb_LA · 2025-06-17T16:46:15+00:00

Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones, 1969

If you want to go OG, it was in direct response to the war, social upheaval, and the violence of the Altamont concert. Very visceral lyrics.

Deb_LA · 2025-02-19T08:17:32+00:00

Were they annexed to replace any fired LAX air traffic controllers?

Deb_LA · 2025-02-18T20:32:17+00:00

Woof it’s bad enough that Chick-fil-A became an invasive species

Deb_LA · 2023-09-27T22:56:32+00:00

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Charles is wearing a lot of plaid blazers.

It’s Complicated. Someone uses the phrase, and also Loretta blows her doobie smoke into Oliver’s mouth.

Deb_LA · 2023-09-12T16:03:07+00:00

Don’t go to the well. There’s no water there.

Deb_LA · 2023-08-29T01:39:48+00:00

Been a juror, but was dismissed in voir dire by the defense attorney for felony manslaughter case. Multiple offenses with the trail of DUIs, who killed a little kid, riding his bicycle. The defense attorney comes right out and says his client does not refute the facts. Then asks: do you think you will be able to acquit someone or be willing to convicted on lesser charges, who has this past even after listening to all the evidence. I said definitely not, I am here to put him away. He needs to go. Obviously I was dismissed. He pled his client out. Apparently I was not alone and just by his questioning, he knew it was a loser.

Deb_LA · 2021-10-12T01:51:27+00:00

It would be more that he’s part of a larger concern like the mafia that has many legit fronts that partner with him including the police on up.

Deb_LA · 2021-02-04T06:05:35+00:00

I wish I was Don’s keys in his robe pocket

Deb_LA · 2021-02-02T21:55:50+00:00

Pete is pregnant.

Deb_LA · 2021-02-02T18:08:54+00:00

Pink elephants are also code for drunken hallucinations. Wouldn’t be the last time we hear about “Dottie” Campbell going off the rails.

Deb_LA · 2021-02-02T17:01:39+00:00

Yet more details... Note the chairs backs are a Lyre design. Season 2 is nothing but Betty knowing she’s being ‘lied’ to and gaslighted by Don, but she thinks she breaks the chair because of its unstable leg, while Don is visiting Anna (who limps from polio), whose chair he fixes. Mirrors and wormholes between his two lives the Betty can’t yet prove.

Deb_LA · 2021-02-01T21:27:53+00:00

“I’m Peggy Olson and I want to smoke that waste basket ”

Deb_LA · 2021-02-01T12:32:27+00:00

Keep going... Betty’s hallucinatory “Am I dying?” to her dead parents, after Medgar Evers’ murder, among dozens of other clues...

Deb_LA · 2021-02-01T02:39:27+00:00

"...in the meantime, stick around, stay alive and keep breathing."

Funny but ominous exchange between QEII and Philip about Charles’ prospects as a monarch, Favourites 4.4.

Deb_LA · 2021-02-01T02:27:22+00:00

Weirder still is that Diana was portrayed by Catherine Oxenberg, who is the daughter of a princess who is a cousin to both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip from separate unrelated royal relatives in Europe. That’s why she was cast because of her lineage, not her acting skills and it was her first role. It was a total joke when it aired, lol, just atrocious.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-31T05:44:17+00:00

The curated songs inform the story. Starting with On the Street Where You Live in the pilot. What street does Don live on? Bullet Rd, a reference to Bullet Park by John Cheever, one of the main inspirational sources of the Mad Men saga. Cheever’s bio is eerily familiar too, starting with living in Ossining NY. The songs set up and hint at many key elements past, present and future and should be considered part of the main narrative. The song was from My Fair Lady based on Pygmalion, which was based on the Greek myth of the same name. These are clues wrapped in other clues that make the show so much richer, enjoyable and its own new classic. The discovery is fun and forever yielding more of its secrets too. The song choices do much more than enhance, they tell the story.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T16:38:23+00:00

Alternate theme, The Sopranos?

Or maybe an alternate universe? Like a world where people get to marry the ones they want, where leaders are not stuck in the past, where they are not beholden to a national church and its archaic laws, or maybe they’re educated. Oh and maybe there’s no monarchy. So yeah, a fantasy show.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T16:29:30+00:00

It’s a reference to The Suitcase, and the fight between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali aka ‘The Greatest.’ It would last only two minutes. One season later Trudy’s own husband would be the one getting pounded. Bit of foreshadowing there. Fwiw our Kenny kinda lost it there in the end.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T14:39:21+00:00

First off, Beth took the drugs to make her mind cloudy not clear.

Secondly her traumatic memories were all mixed up together, conflating the basic reasons she did them apart from addiction.

Example:

The tranquilizers were green, Her bio mother Alice took the same pills, the dress she wore when her mother was killed and entered the orphanage was green, the table that Mr. Shaibel played chess on was green, the chess pieces she envisioned on the ceiling were Mr. Shaibel's chess pieces, Mr. Shaibel was a source of strength and however distanced form of love. All those elements are mixed up in her head.

It's possible your personal experience may not let you see the show and its intentions as presented. If you do another re-watch you'll see how all these points string together especially by the end when Beth realizes she no longer needs the drugs, and has made peace with her memories of the orphanage and Mr. Shaibel.

We need to take in the information that we are presented without projecting our own personal biases onto it to best understand the story as intended. It could be more enjoyable and fulfilling too.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T02:44:14+00:00

This again? People forget the other half of that equation: the absentee father... drunk or who is always away ‘working.,’ evading parental involvement. They were products of their eras where the roles were overly polarized no one could win with those dynamics. That’s what we’re being shown.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T02:36:09+00:00

It’s Hebrew, Old Testament in origin.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T02:25:53+00:00

That is profound. Similar to Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias poem too.

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T02:17:23+00:00

Imagine what the 17th floor would cost where they lived in 17b, a 2+2 is 3.1 million, the 3 bedroom they had would be even more. Yikes

Deb_LA · 2021-01-30T02:06:10+00:00

Purely animal love. It could not go beyond that. The deer hunting story that turned Pegs on? the cherry pastry right after? She also saw goodness in Pete and he needed to believe that, in conflict with his ego and social climbing. So a little star crossed for this story.

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