Ron

Not bad for a first song on a Sunday evening.

Dang-it and Dang-it some more! I'm trying to listen to Peter Gabriel's US (remastered) and something Mr. Gabriel sang had me drifting (in my mind, no less) pushing me toward writing a goldarn (@Headstall would be proud) something or other for the 'Creature Feature' anthology. I'm doomed!

I'm just going to drop this here... Thanks to @Talo Segura for the secret (to me) know-how to post music videos. Yee-haw! <--- Wild West speak for: Yes! Anyway, some of the lyrics seem to me appropriate ...

Kind of like that not-cat (Flerkun) in Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie. Some things are just not what they appear to be!

I happen to like you, so I won’t twist your arm about it. Umm, as long as you don’t twist mine. 😉

Oh, Val! Val, Val, Val … it’s not the theme, it’s the writing part! 🙄

Oh, Canada! I feel safe in saying so since I lived in Toronto for three years … back in the olden days, before the turn of the century.

@Paladin Oh, those etymologists would have us empare the word impair and replace it, they being all conjunctive and such. Well, the damage is done!

I've been doing some "impaired" writing lately. (Sigh ...) Sadly, that probably means some heavy editing is in my future! * *This just in ... Ron meant to write impaired-writing and not ""impaired"" writing". One of those things is not like the other.

As some great sage once said somewhere in time: Drama - Llama - Ding-Dong!

I listened to Benson Boone's (BB, not to be confused with {political snipe -removed}) new release. Meh! As I usually do (on some nights, although some nights more often than other nights ), I was listening to BBs newest (not that BB consists of my whole listening repertoire), while reading Stereophile magazine on a Friday evening on my computer. After reading a review of BBs newest release in WAPO, I wanted to "listen" to what the reviewer was on about. Unfortunately, I agree with the reviewer, and I will say, I can't add anything (please read the review if you can, sorry I can't post a link that works). After my forgettable listening session with BB, I went on to Wilco's Schmilco on Tidal @44.1khz/24-bit (slightly above CD quality) version of this music and I was blown away!

And, and, Such high praise! Oops, wait a minute ... It turns out that Gary @Headstall has contributed to his own recommendations. Tsk - tsk. * * This just in: The editorial team makes an allowance in this instance. It seems that the defendant, er, I mean 'Pardner' is merely stating acceptance for the stroking of this author's ego (sucking up?). This is allowed in every instance, no foul! Please stroke the ego of your favorite author soon. See, Bud? I fixed it for ya (no it's not - you; yak; or yam (in this instance) Microsoft Editor )!

See, I'm woefully behind in my reading; I'm sure this is meant to mean something ... and, yet, I have no idea what it is that is meant. Is it adjacent to what Karen Pomeroy (Donnie Darko: Teacher; (the always wonderful) Drew Barrymore) said, "... of all the combinations of words in the English language, 'cellar door' is the most beautiful."? That is a conflict of doors (front? - cellar?) (how is that possible ) to ponder (<-- is that 'Western' enough @Headstall, err Gary?) (I feel confident that 'cellar door' will prevail over 'front door' as the most beautiful combination , but will it be relevant to @drsawzall's comment?)! * *Why, yes! I do think that my punctuation and most necessary grammar infarctions will hold up under examination.

As Cherita Chen (Donnie Darko; Jolene Purdy) might say, "Chut up!" What?!! With apologies ... I have been very lax in my reading these past years and I've much neglected you. Although, I can agree that you, Gary @Headstall, have a way with the Western genre that persuades one to ... as @northie put it: "... give it a go." - as it were. "Home, home on the range ... Cheers on the feature, Bud!

@Krista I’m going to ask you to beta-read my next writing adventure. If you make that much effort to critique a sloppy made-for-Amazon series then you’ll be the perfect foil for any sloppiness of mine. 😉

I think yours is a fair opinion of the series. I watched it through over a couple of nights and I agree with you overall on the acting, especially the two main characters — and their backstories weren’t all that great either.

An anomalous thing is that Amazon Prime updates the thumbnail photo for the series on their app as if it were something new and exciting — which it is (sort of) in that the creators have constructed a new interpretation of an original story. But here we are again with an episodic story cancelled before it has the opportunity to garner a larger audience just when it is on the cusp of achieving that goal. Amazon muckity mucks seem to have a poor attention span for storytelling but are high on advertising. Well, you shouldn’t be surprised when advertising doesn’t meet follow-through.

The author of this post posits*: "... the author sees there characters." I'm guessing this came from 'Otter-Steve' with which we are well familiar from the many, many posts on GA that will NOT be referenced forthwith (if you must ask - you don't belong). And, as @Headstall* (Secretly, but not so secretly ... Gary.) might say, "Cheers!" *Common mistake. They, They're, Their, Thiers and Thier's are all too commonly confused one for the other. Here there might be help ... They have a dog. (Yikes!) They're going to (Unthinkably) bring a dog to my barbecue. (No matter that I have repeatedly told them that I am allergic to dogs.) Their dog is going to be the death of me. (I can feel my throat constricting.) Thiers is an opinion that I do not hold. (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.) Their's is incorrect in every usage. (No! Don't ever use it! Or bring your dog to my house!) There (You didn't think I would let that one slide by, did you?) you have a list of all the homophones of them that I can think of. * @Headstall "Gary" has neither endorsed this post nor given permission to use his likeness nor nom de plume. (But it is public information. So, I feel safe. Thanks, Gary! Er, I mean @Headstall.) Cheers!

I hate to hear studios say that a production is financially unfeasible. Why? Instead of making a billion dollars in profit per season they instead make millions and call it unprofitable — greedy, greedy, and greedy. Now, I definitely wasn’t on board with everything they did with this franchise. But I wasn’t disgruntled enough to want to see the show cancelled. But it seems to me that the online squawkers also had an influence on the decision to cancel the show.

It's been a while, and I will be going through a necessary change of address (otherwise into the netherworld of on-the-street living I go), but I have been running some ideas round-and-round for the Creature Feature anthology inside the old noggin. I hope that I can bring those ideas to fruition. If that were to happen -- be prepared to be amazed. (You couldn't hear it but there was an actual snort there at the end.)

Ron is sad. There are no more excuses (er, season episodes) for him to rag on for in continuity, vis a vis the original, original. Oh, woe is me. What shall I do now?

Frankie Goes to Hollywood came out in 1984. What a bang it made on the dance floor of Gay venues. But it was more than just a one trick pony … Relax was an immediate hit, but as time reaches on one begins to appreciate the greater achievement of the album as a whole work. One of those songs is worth a mention — Two Tribes. But, The Power of Love was ‘our’ song back then — when I was young and in real love for the first time … and, Keeping the Vampires from our door was a real thing, because other men were always out to steal something that they didn’t have … even if it was just for a night. I still remember all of words, though. Unfortunately, YouTube has made it difficult to replay the original video for most music. All that it use to require was touching the screen and then copying the url and pasting it here. The copying doesn’t work for me anymore. If you have a workaround please let me know.

The new Imagine Dragons release is a rather hit and miss effort for me. And, to complicate things they’ve released at least two versions titled differently. Typically, I would listen to something new a couple of times to get a feel for the rhyme and rhythm of the work before beginning any critical listening … But, I have to say right off the bat that the songs presented here having a great amount of electronic manipulation, are the failings of this otherwise reasonably listenable album. FYI: I’m a fan of the band, so this isn’t some over generalized put down.

Listening to INXS (from the Way-Back history of 1987-88) because sometimes you just need a little KICK. Edit to add: @Jason Rimbaud You may appreciate my wording. 😎

After that last episode of season three I can honestly say that the show has disregarded anything and everything the books had to say about anything and everything. That is not me being funny! This season has been working loose and indifferent with the canon all along, but what with this last episode the producers have gone on a tangent all of their own creation. Any expectations of a conjoining of the series with the books is off limits for this series’ writers, and it is, sadly, a deficiency of remote accuracy. Yes, I know, they don’t give a rat’s patootie for canon but characters are subjected to situations and scenarios that don’t exist in the books — and they are beyond the pale. After having watched this episode twice, I deem the end result to be a failure of monstrous infidelity. Just my opinion.