quote:Originally posted by Chief Lardy: Tonight, I watched SNL. While the sketches and host were about average, the musical guest was fan-friggin-TASTic! Paul-friggin-McCartney! When I saw he was scheduled, I figured he'd be supporting some new album and might be performing some songs I'd never heard--NOPE! He performed "Jet" and "Band on the Run" from his Wings days, and astonishingly, he performed most of "A Day in the Life" which melted into "Give Peace a Chance"! "Day" is primarily an iconic John Lennon song from their Beatles days (albeit one with a McCartney interlude) and "Peace" is all John post-Beatles. This was such a touching tribute to John on the week of the anniversary of John's murder! Frankly, I teared up. Just beautiful! To top it off, they ended the show with Paul performing "Get Back" as the credits ran! I was in Beatles fan heaven!
Look, the old boy's voice may obviously be on the wane, but he still doesn't phone it in. I'm so glad SNL let him have more than the customary two songs. And again, it was a rare treat to hear Paul singing some of John's parts, a lovely tribute to John and of how much he and John have meant to popular music for four decades!
Thanks, Paul and SNL!
Didn't see this post the first time around, even though we facebooked about it when it was happening, Lardy. As you know, I totally enjoyed this as well! I was really shocked and beyond delighted when Paul did his John tribute (so much that I ran to facebook to post about it).
It was a really touching, cool as hell tribute that Paul did and I went to bed really happy that night.
Skits were only okay but that was the best musical performance I've seen in a long time.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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PS - I'm still on a huge House kick with my wife and have been steadily watching it for weeks and weeks. We're now up to Season 6.
Quite simply, it's one of the best shows ever with one of the best casts ever. Hugh Laurie deserves all the praise he's gotten and then some.
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Got the DVR set for "The Cape" on Sunday... let's see if NBC learned anything from "Heroes"...
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Getting ready to watch The Scarlet Pimpernel!
Can't believe I've never seen it! I've read at least part of the book, however!
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"The Cape" was good... a little campy but not overboard... good visuals... best line - "Say hi to Dorothy, bitch"...
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quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: "The Cape" was good... a little campy but not overboard... good visuals... best line - "Say hi to Dorothy, bitch"...
I just watched it, and was fairly impressed. There were things I didn't like about it, but overall it's got me a lot more interested than No Ordinary Family or The Event.
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I actually liked The Cape, as well! And I was ready not to. Keith David is a treasure as the leader of the delightful Circus of Crime (which is a great name, but not exactly accurate. More appropriate would be Circus and Anti-Establishmentarianism, I think). The whole setting--the villains, the city, the plot, the hero's appearance and abilities--has a wonderful, Golden-Age feel to it. I keep flashing on pre-Kirby Sandman, or Kubert's Hawkman, or the covers to the original Green Lantern, and their later descendants, like the Question, or even Aztek. In the Cape's world, bright colors and darkest shadows mix freely, a city can be subverted by rich and corrupt criminals, the lives of the virtuous sundered, and the heroic journey is about recovering that life, which includes a little boy who reads comic books and idolizes his dad, even in the face of damning evidence that his dad is a criminal, which places it in a 1930s/40s context, not the saccharine world of the 1950s. People are killed, but not gratuitously, and we see the suffering that killing leaves in its wake. The shows weakest link seems to be the actor playing the lead character, but maybe I expect too much.
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Yeah, I think the Golden Age or even pulp feel to The Cape is it's real strength. And visually it's brilliant. I thought the writing was kind of weak though. It seemed like they were trying to cram too much into the premiere episodes. But it was nice to see a tv super-hero with, you know, an actual costume and secret identity for once. I'm pretty much bored with the whole "ordinary people with secret super-powers" motif of Smallville/Heroes/No Ordinary Family. Anyway, it's definitely a show with a lot of potential. Though the odds on it's getting a chance to develop that potential don't look promising.
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I shall await Season One of the Cape to finish and complete reviews from Eryk, Sharky and Doublechinner on whether it stayed good!
I don't want to get burned like with Heroes which turned into a huge suckfest!
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