NOT FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS

¶ After two episodes of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, we’re ready to give Liza Minelli the rebound award for “Best Save: Marriage and Career in Flames.” And she shouldn’t thank wardrobe, which hopefully is part of her character.


¶ Prison conversation between Spector and Jacko:

“What are you in for?”

”Murder…You?”

”It’s just a BIG misunderstanding…”


Could be rife with subtext about how Phil recognizes Michael, but Michael doesn’t seem to know who Phil is.


“Is that a toupe?” etc etc.

”Hey, you’re not one to talk about HAIR, my friend…”

or “No, is yours?”


“Hey Jacko, have any gangs approached you yet?”

“Is that what that was?


”Hey, Jacko, after we cut loose these chains, how’s about I do up your next album? I swear getting dissed by Paul McCartney after 30 years is worse than a murder rap…”

”Paul is such a sweetie, and his catalog performs so well…”


¶ Over the weekend I listened to selections from THE ESSENTIAL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, remastered by Bob Ludwig, and the sound delivers wondrous funky detail, depth, and nuance–much of it even more revealing than his work on 1995’s GREATEST HITS. The three DARKNESS tracks alone make you hope the whole catalog will get this treatment. After the Beatles remixes on YELLOW SUBMARINE and the 5:1 dubs for ANTHOLOGY, the Stones ABKCO SACDs, and the Dylan SACDs, it’s enough to make you curse the industry for coming out with CDs in the early ’80s LONG BEFORE they figured out how to make’m sound decent. Now, with reluctance, we have to restock everything AGAIN. Still on the fence over SACD vs. DVD-A.


¶ If you liked W’s weekend Air Force One theatre, scroll down and click on “Idiot Son of a Bastard.” Then write a letter to your local newspaper about how such gestures are still meaningless since he’s yet to attend a single soldier’s funeral.