One of the reasons I blog is so that when someone puts my name into a search engine on the Internet (which people rarely do!) and the name Jimmy Page (or James Patrick Page), which they do a whole lot, my name and his name will be associated.
Joking... but I'm intrigued by Jimmy Page, not just as a legendary Led Zeppelin rock and roll guitarist, but as a person. I ACTUALLY BELIEVE HE MAY BE A REINCARNATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, or at least from the same soul group.
Are we having fun yet?
So what's good about this DVD, is that, though you get to hear these three musicians jam a bit, and give each other instructions, this is not a concert film. I don't think they do a single song all the way through. What's good is that it's a bit like biography, with snippets of their memories of how they go their career going, and how that went, so I got to learn more about Jimmy Page than I did, and was surprised that he did start out in bands as a kid.
The marketing on the back of the package calls this an "unparalleled music summit." That's right.
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to say yes instead of yea... yea .... yea.
Can't say this summer is LAZY because it feels STRESSFUL, but I find myself watching more old films than I have in years, and not reading as much, in the evenings. Is that bad?
Isaac Bashivis Singer's ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY is one of my favorite books.
It's also a book I've gifted to one particular person in my life years ago who seemed to be in a dilemma a bit like the character Herman Broder, who has three women, "wives," in his life. This is the story of a Holocaust survivor who comes to New York and there lives with the Polish gentile woman who saved his life and who wants to get married and have his baby, has a mistress who is probably best suited to him who is married who has a phantom pregnancy, and the wife he was married to in Europe, who has been presumed dead, along with their two children, but makes it to New York.
So this film, which stars Angelica Huston (the wife presumed dead), Ron Silver (Herman), Lena Olin (the mistress who is married), and Margaret Sophie Stein (the Polish gentile) stays true to the book. I thought the acting was excellent (which means I forgot who the actor's were and believed their characters), and film and acting did add a dimension not in the book.
It's a Paul Mazursky film.
Go get it!
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Elton John wrote LOVE IS THE CURE - On Loss and the End of AIDS, and Amy Winehouse's dad. Mitch Winehouse, wrote AMY, MY DAUGHTER. I have both in hand, and am hoping to read them soon. Both fall into one of my favorite genre, pop music.
Now where is that wine and cheese?
Just a few years ago, unconscious people were suggesting that I use my degree in Literature and Creative Writing to work at a book store and I actually thought that was highly inappropriate use of a very expensive and yet unpaid for college degree. I wanted to keep loving books too and admit that I was wary that the average bookstore clerk did not love books, like many city employees who work at libraries but do not love books or even read many of them. Would books be equal to say, cabbages, to my co-workers? There were two independent book stores that I wanted to work for, one Duttons on Laurel Canyon, and the other The Bodhi Tree in West Hollywood. Independents.
Those were the days... Every bookstore I could have applied to work at has gone belly up like cockroaches sprayed with cockroachacide. At best they go online where you can order what you heard about somewhere else.
So yes, it is remarkable that someone is opening the store of his dreams despite the independents and many of the big stores deader than dead. (If it will make any of you feel any better, I bought a used book today called "Gallop!" by Rufus Butler Seder, a Scanimation Picture Book, at one of those hole in the wall, where-is-the-little-man-behind-the-cashregister?-stores.)
The article I'm linking to is about Tony Jacobs who just opened SIDESHOW RARE AND REMARKABLE BOOKS, on Idaho Avenue near Sawtelle. The book started with years of personal collecting of books, pulp fiction! It's written by David Suissa who is President of the Jewish Journal.
click on the title!
