Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Radio City Rockettes - Macy's Parade (+playlist)

2010 Radio City Christmas Spectacular Rockettes Kick-Off

Russian folk music Kasatchok (+playlist)

'The Americans' Show Is Back

MATTHEW RHYS AND KERI RUSSELL came back strong in the first episode of a clever new season in 'The Americans' on FX last night.  This gem of a show makes for oustanding TV in my opinion.  Arresting clever-styling shines in the writing of this one for it is a shrewd ghoulash of espionage, thriller and some wily, sensual appeals as the chic denizens might say.  Rhys and Russell are Soviet spies in the D.C. area of the U.S. way back when.  American society was furious and tense in the rugged cold war environs that were a part of the American atmosphere in that era.  Russell remains a sleek, stunning woman who manages to bring "high concept" material smolderingly to life.  I figure Russell is the new Streep.  She radiates lovely, mesmerizing feminine attributes that compel one to plunge right along with these merry souls into the intricate TV multi-faceted story.  The people of the grand FX unit have a terrific winner in this TV saga called 'The Americans.'

Christina Aguilera - I'm a Good Girl (Burlesque)

Marilyn Monroe & Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra - "The Girl From Ipanema" (Concert Collection)

Monday, February 24, 2014

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Classical - Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries

Odd German Film Master, Fritz Lang

GERMAN MOVIES have coiling, sensuous, creative messages throbbing within thir cinematic membranes. An artful exponent of the sleek Teutonic, Germanistic movie joy happens to be in the cranium of the cunning work of febrile German director, Fritz Lang.  This gentleman orchestrates film madness that gives a ribald flavor to his unusual stories.  The film 'M' indicates a profound nihilistic and so Germanic profundity with its sleek movie tale of the hunt for a violent criminal in the German huge city life of the early 1930s.  Lang's characters shine and yet are archaic for at the same time as their ethereal qualities one sees the succinct dullness of their mechanistic torpid brains.  Interesting is the fact that in the movie called 'M' it does not resonante as just another crime story for the matter happens to be that Lang delves deeply into the weird, macabre and indeed wacky edges of characters who cavort around on so many psycho-social levels that the viewer feels that he has had a grand prime rib on his plate when he dances along through the orgasmic furor of Fritz Lang elucidating upon his oddball shall we say as the simpletons term it...stories.

THE THINGS WE DID LAST SUMMER - FATS NAVARRO

Wynton Marsalis, "Cherokee"

Buck Clayton - Teddy Wilson Quintet 1945 ~ The Golddigger's Song

Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca Quintet - Just Friends

Stan Getz at Storyville 1951 - Full Album

Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 (1888), playe...

J.S.Bach - Air & Gavotte - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 -...

Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis (1/4) I. Allegro (Yale Symphony Orch...

Franz von Suppé : Light Cavalry - Overture

Jacques Offenbach "La belle Hélène" Overture

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Tolstoy Snow Land...Giant ATL Style

SNOW, ICE  has  been strong in my area.  I am jumpy.  I have been reading a lot of Tolstoy helping me deal with this snow...Listening to the invigorating, fine man of Poland, F. Chopin.

Debussy "La Mar" Muti/Berliner Philharmoniker

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 5 in D. 3rd movement - "Romanza".

The French 'New Wave'

LAST NIGHT, I watched the intricate. flippant Jean Luc-Godard film, 'Breathless.' This cinematic jewel tickles me with all its intricacies. The superlative Belmondo and the crafty Seberg represent glowing movie art in this one. Enjoy the cunning 'French New Wave' films. Put bursts of creative fire into one's life.

Nice Writing

THE GOOD terse writing of Ernest Hemingway is a real joy.  He does not use too many adjectives.  His 'Torrents' is a fine tome.