I didn’t see that many of the nominated films, but I did see “The Hurt Locker” and was blown away (no pun intended). So I’m happy that it won Best Picture, because it accomplished something I’ve never seen before.
By completely avoiding standard “war is hell” cliches, instead showing what serving in the Iraq war does to one man’s psyche, this just might be the strongest anti-war picture I’ve ever seen.
And for that, I salute Kathleen Bigelow.
Jules Shear duets with Susan Cowsill (yes, of those Cowsills). This song always reminds me of what it was like going out to dinner with one of my exes (the lawyer):
Jules Shear live on Unplugged, 1990. I spent a night talking and drinking with him in a bar one night during a power failure. He couldn’t play until the power came back on, so we sat and talked by candlelight. When the lights came up, the rest of the band was gone so he played an acoustic set. (He uses open tunings and plays with his thumb.)
Other women always thought I was a groupie, but I never, ever was – I’m a music geek. When I meet someone whose music I like, I’d rather talk music:
You know, I looked at that site and was completely baffled about what they actually wanted to do.
Richard Thompson live:
To allow someone who “heard the voice of God” in Mayan ruins telling him to “stop America’s decline,” and then started an extremist religious militia, to have access to nuclear materials.
Just sayin’!
Neil Finn live:
Jules Shear and Freedy Johnston from Jules’ duets album “Between Us”:
The Walker Brothers hit cover of the Frankie Valli single (I like Keane’s cover, too):
