Gerry Priesing

Bend in the River Epte - 1888
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (2006 Remaster) YouTube video by T Bone Burnett - Topic

One of the finest cover versions of any song - Lyle Lovett’s Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend:

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Much better film than PTA’s widely acclaimed overlong, heavy handed cartoon.

Train Dreams (2025): The Foundation of All Things The “great mystery” that the opening narration of Train Dreams gestures toward is, perhaps, love—a love that forgives and persists without guarantees, that remains present even after the people who in...

"The 'great mystery' that the opening narration of TRAIN DREAMS gestures toward is, perhaps, love. Specifically, the kind of love that survives damage, guilt, and time—a love that forgives and persists without guarantees, that remains present even after the people who inspired it are gone."

I did once but over tourism and high rents which turned Newbury Street into a suburban shopping mall have changed it for me. Still a lovely place with great transit but a bit soulless now.

Opened our front porch for spring - 73 degrees and sunny!

Remembering the Forgotten Movies of the 2026 Oscar Season A salute to the urgent documentaries, quiet dramas and provocative filmmakers who were ignored by Academy voters.

The Oscars are Sunday. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I paid tribute to 10 great movies from 2025 whose names we won't hear once during the show. Which is a shame.

Strong endorsement for A Little Prayer. Very useful list as the consensus of opinion inevitably overlooks so many worthy films. Sight & Sound foolishly keeps asking the knowledgeable film world for greatest when they should ask for overlooked & underrated films.

Still the Coen brothers finest and the beat film of its decade.

Yawn.

Same here as well.

And lets not forget the pioneer: Ida Lupino.

Some worthy additions:
Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird
Debra Granik: Winter’s Bone
Suzanne Bier: In a Better World
Jill Sprecher: 13 Conversations About One Thing
Courtney Hunt: Frozen River
Kathryn Bigelow: Detroit
Agnes Jaoui: Look at Me
Tamara Jenkins: The Savages
Lisa Cholodenko: The Kids Are Alright

Excellent luck for Cubs. He can’t do damage while on IL.

Country Joe’s Woodstock performance of the great Fixin to Die Rag - a song for all times.

Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."

Country Joe McDonald, one of the starring acts at Woodstock whose satirical anti-Vietnam War song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became an anthem, died on Saturday. He was 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Playlists - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart Browse and search the complete on-air playlist.

Perhaps watch Lilith Fair on Hulu or It’s international women’s day and WXPN is playing only music by Lilith Fair participants - you might give a listen: xpn.org/wxpn-playlis...

Thanks.

Heartworn Highways (1976) - Reference view - IMDb Heartworn Highways: Directed by James Szalapski. With Peggy Brooks, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell. The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.

Have you seen this? If so, would you recommend it?
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The movie upon which it is based is also superb - Infernal Affairs. Streams on Hulu or HBO.

John Hammond June 2016 complete interview YouTube video by Dave Lawrence

Here is an extended interview with John Hammond done in 2016 reflecting on his career. You might want to share it with your legion of followers:
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Yes, journalism’s job to be aware of emerging situations and call attention to them rather than reporting events by looking in the rear view mirror.

I recommended it to you last month:
Check out Driveways, Ghostlight, A Little Prayer, Rocks and Still Mine which might fit this category.

Kanopy is a treasure. My list there includes more than 250 films currently worth watching on Kanopy including two great TV series which no other streaming service offers.

Most overlooked and underrated film from last year.

No UK or foreign language representatives. Skewed totally to post 70s actors. That said, data driven analysis in the arts is pointless. Ranking is for sporting events.

Love to see data from US - sure to top UK for absence of reading.

Libraries?

Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers?
Yes.

And it is such a good song.