Talk amongst yourselves:
One of my all time favorite songs from one of my all time favorite bands, but when I was watching it tonight, about halfway through, I said to myself “Mark Knopfler really looks like Jerry Seinfeld in this video” and then immediately thought “Ok, that’s it, we are pulling this car over and going to bed before we start to make bad decisions.”
Sadly, at this point in the game, bad decisions means eating something I shouldn’t, so it’s not quite as glamorous or scandalous as I would like it to be.
Steeplejack
Everybody looked weird in the ’80s.
handy
This one’s good too John.
aangus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-J1wf2KHc
MUST like.
Janeform
Totally with You John Cole. Especially the part that goes All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme.
aangus
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1963/100460/
aangus
But…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2UIrxSgCpA
kindness
Saw the new Star Trek tonight. It was good. A bit melodramatic at times but fun still. Good visuals. They spent time on the film, you can see it. The story isn’t completely in keeping with the franchise tradition but good. Very entertaining if you’re a sci-fi geek. Maybe if you aren’t. JJ Abrams has some potential there.
aangus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhDevlc9OM&playnext=1&list=PL7D9F90CB5B66D8B5
Alison
Love this song. I’m probably the only person in my age group who digs Dire Straits, but wev, I like being unusual.
magurakurin
So, I just found about the Art Tax in my old stomping ground, Portland Oregon. Does anyone else feel that this is a hideously regressive and unfair tax that pretty much only the Sheriff of Nottingham could have come up with? It’s flat $35 tax on anyone who had income of $1000 or more. In other words a guy who made a grand will pay a 3.5% tax while a guy who made 50 grand will pay 0.07%. The money will go to pay teacher’s salaries and non-profit groups that “promote the arts.” Are you fucking shitting me?
Apparently there was little opposition to the tax. Where the fuck is the left and the progressives on this? This is a massively unfair tax and what it funds is of little importance to the unfair nature. Any tax like this for any purpose should be strongly opposed by the left.
What up Portland?
? Martin
@magurakurin: Most voters earn $40K or more. $35 is nothing. They didn’t think about the poor. In this country the poor apparently aren’t worth thinking about.
gregor
Is it just me or the new three column format really sucks, and makes the blog completely unreadable?
? Martin
@gregor: I have a stylish theme that helps.
dance around in your bones
I have always loved this song – I remember back in the day, driving up the dirt road to my farm and this song came on the radio and I just stopped in front of the house and listened to it with the car doors hanging open and tears running down my face.
You are right about the Seinfeld resemblance (thanks a lot!) and what was up with all the pseudo-athletic gear back in the 80’s? I think Mark Knopfler (blessed be his guitar) was just hiding his receding hairline with the headband – but it was definitely a thing back then.
magurakurin
@gregor:
that is so two days ago. The font in the comments is better and now the only thing I have trouble reading are the ads which no longer fit into my screen. So,happy, more or less.
magurakurin
@? Martin: That’s how it struck me. How can the “progressives” in Portland support such a tax. I always felt a lot of the “hip and cool” people in Portland were massively full of shit. It was the mountains that kept me there so long. Beautiful country the Pacific Northwest. But Portland definitely took a turn for the worse when it was invaded by the newly made rich who abandoned San Francisco and moved north.
dance around in your bones
This is a nice version of Romeo and Juliet at Wembley in ’88, with Eric Clapton and a nice sax solo.
Joseph Nobles
Why the hell were you watching YouTube videos while driving, Cole?
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
You mean bad decisions like watching videos while you’re driving?
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Joseph Nobles
@JGabriel: Hehe, we’re so funny.
mai naem
I like Romeo and Juliet but my favorite’s Skate Away.
Kind of OT was listening to NPR today. They talked about Dom La Nena who sings kind of french pop music. Really pretty music. I have no idea what she’s saying but it’s really pretty and simple.
http://domlanena.com/crbst_16.html
Lee Hartmann
Check this out if it isn’t upthread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls
He doesn’t look like Seinfeld any more…
JGabriel
Joseph Nobles: : Damn, I don’t know how I missed your comment. Must have been late night brain fog.Obviously, I would have skipped my joke had I seen yours directly ahead of it.
Ed in NJ
I remember first hearing this song as an Indigo Girls cover, which made me find the Dire Straits version (this was well before Spotify and Pandora). Two very different, but great, versions of the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiXkvsKpdk
Svensker
@Lee Hartmann:
What a lovely show.
The only problem I have listening to Knopfler now is that sometimes the nostalgia is so overwhelming.
Romeo & Juliet may be my favorite, as well, The lyrics slay me.
Fred
No no, you’re all confused. Jerry Seinfeld looks like Mark Knopfler.
Jerry Garcia was asked what guitar players he listened to. He said he didn’t really listen to any other guitarists and then corrected himself, “Well, Mark Knopfler.”
Fred
Just for the record, my favorite Dire Straits song is “Roller Girl”. With all the possibilities to pick from that one always hits me in the gut and sticks there.
debbie
@Fred:
Nothing can top “Brothers in Arms.”
Aussiesmurf
I’m a bit late to this thread, but Romeo and Juliet for YEARS was my absolute, clear-cut favourite song.
“How could you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?”
And then, in the next verse :
“You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin,
Now you just say, “Oh Romeo, yeah, I used to have a scene with him.”
Kills me, every time.