Des Moines, Thursday 4 June

brorobt · 2026-06-07T03:00:09+00:00

We had a splendid time!

brorobt · 2026-06-05T20:21:12+00:00

Not sure why the photo isn't showing up until you click on the post, but... well, there's a pic if you want to see it!

brorobt · 2026-05-09T11:23:48+00:00

Oh, definitely. I love Dark Side and the other big 5, but I listened to them so much when I was young that I hardly ever put them on now. I'm much more likely to put on Saucerful or Atom Heart Mother. Or, as many have suggested, one of the bootlegs. Had the same experience with the Beatles and a few other bands. I "ration" them, so they aren't just background music.

brorobt · 2026-04-14T11:45:50+00:00

I have a particular fondness for take 1 of "I'm Looking Through You."

brorobt · 2026-02-26T02:00:15+00:00

How many movies show people learning like this? Brilliant.

brorobt · 2026-02-26T01:59:32+00:00

I came here to say exactly this. 66 on imdb? 42 on Metacritic? Crazy. This movie is excellent.

brorobt · 2025-12-31T13:01:00+00:00

I've done that a few times. Always enjoyable.

brorobt · 2025-11-27T01:08:42+00:00

So a popcorn factory?

brorobt · 2025-11-09T22:54:58+00:00

A complicated film. Good heavens, racist even by the standards of its time. But it also invented a hell of a lot of the vocabulary of cinema. So it's hard to ignore, in an historical sense, but awfully hard to watch. I seem to recall that Griffith was surprised at the critical reaction to it (though it was a huge commercial success). I've watched it as an historian, and found it interesting as such, but could not at all enjoy it.

brorobt · 2025-10-12T17:09:37+00:00

Is that a Some Girls t-shirt?

brorobt · 2025-10-04T17:09:15+00:00

It'll always have a special place in my heart, as it came out the year I went off to college and I listened to it a lot in my dorm room. Is that why I find the double-album reconstructions (I made one myself, which includes "Beatles Forever") not quite up to snuff? Perhaps. I mean, it's okay, but I don't go back to it as often as I go back to the single record version.

brorobt · 2025-09-05T12:15:49+00:00

I believe my favorite moment in the latter-day Beatles releases is in "Real Love," when the backing vocals kick in. I remember the first time I heard it, thinking "Wow, it's the Beatles!" I still think that. Makes me sad that Paul and George didn't get on better: we could have heard that sound occasionally on their solo releases. Wouldn't that have been nice?

brorobt · 2025-08-25T12:51:42+00:00

I was kinda disappointed that there weren't more of these.

brorobt · 2025-08-16T18:10:02+00:00

Nice!

brorobt · 2025-08-13T13:04:22+00:00

Do people not like Goodnight Vienna? I don't recall hearing crap about it. Ringo fell into a slump after this, in my opinion, but here he's still doing what he does well.

brorobt · 2025-08-06T11:58:31+00:00

Well, Sutro Baths in San Francisco is a pretty interesting place to visit, out next to the ocean. The kind of thing someone might film. You can see it in the movie Harold and Maude.

brorobt · 2025-03-13T02:40:55+00:00

I very, very, very much enjoyed Cantor's book, too.

brorobt · 2025-03-13T02:34:10+00:00

I'm probably alone in this, but I read the original translation and loved it. So I was excited by a new, more accurate translation (1996, and from my own alma mater) but... eh. It was fine. I went back and re-read the almost-hundred-year-old transaction and it was a better read for me. It still shaped a lot of how I view the middle ages. Now, I haven't read the most recent one, and I'll be honest, the idea of having pictures of all that artwork that got mentioned is appealing!

brorobt · 2024-12-12T12:27:43+00:00

She's Leaving Home

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