Archive for the 'Nostalgia' Category
James May’s Toy Stories
It’s a shame the BBC are holding back the final two episodes of Toy Stories for Festivus, when I will be out of the country, because I’ve really enjoyed them.
James May thrives away from Top Gear. He was quoted in the Guardian last week (in a story that was bizarrely reprinted in the Daily Hate [...]
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This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Nostalgia Commodity Fetishism
Must be a phase I’m going through this summer, or boredom, but I’ve been tracking down things-I’ve-always-wanted over the past week or so, attempting to bid on BOAC-branded vintage goods on eBay, and – after a sighting in a display case at a National Trust property – finally, finally getting hold of a set of [...]
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Wey-oh-wibble
I’m a long-term Jonathan RIchman fan, but with the advancing years and overexposure I stopped listening to my old records (in the same way that I stopped listening to The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Beatles, The Who, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, to name but two) and I stopped buying his new ones as [...]
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Tags: 1980s, 80s, Jonathan Richman, JR, Music
Why the name change?
Infected with nostalgia, because I was reminded of something I did a long time ago, I have renamed the blog, The AA Book of the Dead. Older readers may remember the Automobile Association publication The AA Book of the Road. You see what we did there?
Actually, I can claim no credit, for the idea was [...]
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Tags: blogging, twitter, zines
Blast from the Past: Avignon
Download link: Avignon
I wanted to write a road song, but without it becoming “2 4 6 8 Motorway” or some kind of truckers’ lament. This was inspired by a drive to the South of France a few years ago, which did indeed involve a stop at a hotel near Dijon for an overnight rest.
I’ve recorded [...]
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Cunning
I thought it was cunning for Mr Springsteen to promote a new album on the back of the presidential inauguration (could they not find a better word than that?). I was slightly nonplussed when a new album was announced less than two years after the last one. At his peak, he went five years between [...]
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Tags: springsteen
Christmas Telly
I don’t watch telly much when I’m in France. It’s not just because it’s all in French, but also because French TV just doesn’t seem to evolve quickly enough. They’re still doing the same peak time quiz shows they were doing 10 years ago, and those interminable panel programmes in which minor French celebrities make [...]
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Tags: steampunk
Whoops Apocalypse: Survivors
Survivors was one of my favourite TV things when it was broadcast lo those many years ago. I liked Abby, the woman who was looking for her son, and felt the life went out of the series when she left it. I believe the actress was fired for being an alcoholic or something, at which [...]
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Tags: Survivors
Roll Your Tapes
via BoingBoing, I came across this selection of recordings of Bob Dylan with that overrated charlatan Johnny Cash from 1968/69. Only one song from these sessions ended up on Nashville Skyline. There are also, so it goes, a few quadrophonic remixes of Nashville Skyline tracks – no Johnny Cash required. Regardless of my personal opinion [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Baby Boomers, Bob Dylan, Culture, Downloads, Entertainment, Music, Nostalgia, Songs, arts | 3 Comments
Tags: 1969, country music, johnny cash, nashville skyline, quadrophonic
