Shocked, man!

[sleepy]

Please. Do not speak of WKRP in the presence of that video of which I do not speak of!

 

[sleepy]

Dammit man. David Milch rear ended my car in '80-'81 and he ran off on foot.
I didn't know who he was at the time. Never saw him again, not until he won The Emmy for HSB: Best Dramatic Writing.
I was sitting at home, six months later, watching the ceremony on t.v., and there he was.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

LOL! Two songs? I think that's farther than I got!

true, but one of my primary objectives while attempting to simulate a human being is to put myself in others' shoes.

i recognised a certain logic to that goofy cher-trio effort. like, a confluence of the times, the location, the spirit of the thing (when a guy wearing a yellow submarine costume waddles past deliberately, you just gotta recognise), the location, et cetera.

this is perhaps a dickish comment, but i suppose you're like most of us moderns, bill-- life is forcing you to move a bit faster than you have time to fully process. so you do like most healthy people do and enjoy the ride.

haha, which sort of comes back to how weird a person i am-- going down the log flume ride and trying to analyse it at the same time.

 

[sleepy]

What year was the trio medley from?
Because it was probably earlier than I'm thinking, but if it was around 1978,
then it coincided with the "Sgt. Pepper" movie.

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[LeeVanCleef]

David Milch hit and ran you? You lucky sonofabitch! I wish that, when I were sitting in front of the TV in 2004, watching the first episode of what would be the Anno and the Domini of TV westerns, I could have said "The genius that created Deadwood once rear-ended me." Reminds me of the story told to me by my high school chum turned best-selling author Scott Phillips. He was on the freeway in LA when a car cut dangerously close in front of him. As Scott overtook him, he held out his middle finger to show the driver who was #1... and it was James Doohan. He said he felt like crap the rest of the day for flipping off Scotty.
I'm relatively sure Cher's time on the tube, with or without Sonny, definitely predated that... is it fair to call it a "movie"? Our Cowtown movie reviewer gave it four stars. Out of four. Seriously. Around 1989, our alternative college radio program decided to publish a... I guess they called it a "fanzine" back then? It had a monthly "Grievances" column which I inaugurated with an essay about Bob Curtright giving that lump of celluloid a perfect rating. One line I remember from my essay started off with a quote from the review: " 'Barry Gibb could be Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton could be seen as John Lennon.' Yes, and I could be a milk cow if I had an udder." Proof positive, Nic, that I was a caustic little asshole long before there was an internet.

PS: I love the idea of life being a log flume ride. Much more fitting than life as a highway.

 

[sleepy]

But you know? I'm tired of being treated like a fucking sonafabitch. I was 'The Dweeb'.
I'm still 'The Runt' on the outside of them, and I like it that way. It's my life, and not the Joel version. They were always the in-crowd hipsters. I just want my beer. I don't want to have to wet nurse their non-status when I'm feeling pleasant, and you know what I mean. The past is dead and they still want somebody else's tomorrows for themselves.

I e-mailed Tom Snyder about that accident. Milch was on The Late Show talking about it. Mr. Snyder was very nice about it, but he didn't know and couldn't say. That message is on a dead PC. But the drive still works.

Is Deadwood good? I have the pilot on VHS. Somebody dumped their stash of EMMY screeners in 2007 and I scooped them up because everybody around here is acting like they're a plumber or a stiff. Nowhere near the biz. I also have a copy of Carnivale and an empty box of EMMY-branded Dove chocolates.
I've kept the pilot sealed. It looks better that way, but the cats probably pissed on it.

I'm still fond of my outline from '67 about outlaw friends running out of time against 'the taming of The West' by the east coast establishment; a pirate's sunset. And that other one about the fly trapped in the gun barrel.

And it doesn't matter what they say. The concept for Hill Street Blues was based on Springsteen's "Jungleland". That is what I told them. Milch wasn't even in it at first. Strictly MTM/Tinker and Bocco. Btw, The downtown Superior Court of Los Angeles Building is on Hill Street. For lawsuits and Petitions.

This is my next one. Bower was a kid brother to an older brother. The school in-crowd was always ragging older brother in the hall, calling out, "Bower!" with a downward disparaging growl. Big brother was Surf, as in St. Christopher. As in Surfers, versus the inland Hollywood youth police of Burbank. And they were largely Catholic and always Incognito to their realities.
and little brother hit the dope. He may have ran with Randy Rhoads. Same move. Same peer. Not sure about that.

Little brother lay low in The Valley, pulled shit, then lay low in Redondo Beach, in sunny chromium sky blue days. He got stupid. The shopkeeper on the pier didn't like his five fingers.

It wasn't the dope.
Little brother was a dweeb with a gun. Smackwater Jack.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_17940101

http://www.lapdonline.org/april_2011/news_view/47794


Correction: The location of the break-in was reported as a home in North Hollywood.
This has since been updated to a home in Canoga Park, 7 miles from here.
It was also initially reported as a dispute, not a break-in.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

as a big fan of plain language it's likely predictable that i'm feeling completely lost at this point.

but carry on, maties... we'll meet again... dunno where, dunno when.

(haha who am i bullshitting; it's likely another silly PN thread)

 

[sleepy]

Sorry about that Ike. I'm only fond of people who borrow for their glory.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

definitely a log flume ride, but that's also why i gotta use the damn plunger so often.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Wow! That whole Bower thing was interesting reading... well, for someone who watches far too much 48 Hours and Dateline (yes, that would be me). I found the title of the LAPD post to be... well, exactly what I've come to expect from police departments. Can you actually say a cold case is "solved" when there's still an unknown suspect on the loose?
Deadwood is very good! I always meant to watch Carnivale, but I have yet to do it. Sideshow freaks give me the willies. I do not want to be "one of us"!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I just rewatched the old Hill Street Blues pilot. Man, I remember being hooked on that show. Looks just slightly dated now. Having listened to Jungleland... I'm gonna guess well over 500 times in my life, I can say positively that this show has absolutely nothing to do with that song. In actuality, it's The Stand that one could say is based on Jungleland (in fact, that's where the book gets its title), but it would be one wiggy cop show!

http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/hill-street-blues

 

[sleepy]

But Bill. You're forgetting something. Prior to HSB, it was either Streets of San Francisco, S.W.A.T., Adam 12 or Dragnet.
EDIT: There was the Wambaugh miniseries, "The Blue Knight" though. EDIT: And Kojak or Baretta. Else Starsky and Hutch.

I wish Clint Eastwood would tackle his book, "The Blooding".

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

deadwood was very nice, if gloomy. pretty disappointed they couldn't get those last four eps produced (long story) before the bottom fell out.

i think the last police show i regularly watched was adam12 when i was...... well, 12.
still watch some rockford files, sometimes.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Ah, yes... I know that long story. Fucking HBO. Why couldn't they have left well enough alone? When I re-watch it now, I mostly just stop at the end of Season 2... because that Season 3 is dark and sad territory! That's right... I think the season with the horse accident is a trip to Toon Town compared to Season 3.
They've got Adam 12 on Netflix! I think they've got The Rockford Files, as well, but sometimes you just need a big block of Jack Webb cheese! I picked an episode at random, started watching it and there's a pre-Partridge David Cassidy!

 

[sleepy]

The Rockford Files is also on the MeTV network...if you can hack the info-commercials...

http://metvnetwork.com/shows/the-rockford-files

But 11 A.M is too early for Rockford. It's still daylight outside.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I usually save my terrestrial TV-watchin' for Me's sister GetTV. A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to catch Bop Girl Goes Calypso at 2AM, featuring soon-to-be Jack Webb's Emergency cast member Bobby Troupe. Ah, yes... it all leads back to Jack Webb. Just as Jack planned it.

BTW, Arne, speaking of Wambaugh, you forgot the Police Story TV series. Not quite Hill Street but better than most of the '70s cookie-cutter cop shows. My mom loved it because, every once in a while, Dandy Don Meridith would show up and play a cop. My mom loved her some Dandy Don! An episode of that show served as the launching pad for the "David Cassidy: Undercover Cop series. You know... David Cassidy? Who was once on Jack Webb's Adam 12? IT ALL LEADS BACK TO JACK!

 

[sleepy]

Was there a series? I only remember the episode where he plays a teen narc, and that immortal line, you know...

..."Man...I thought you were cool"

And you forgot "Police Woman". I still hear Angie on the phone.
I think she's playing my Mom. That's too much work for one 88 year old woman!

 

[sleepy]

Wasn't it something like, it only lasted 13 episodes before Dave got busted?

 

[sleepy]

That's not like the high school that I went to. At Poly, in drama class, I had Mr. Gostin. He wore a pony tail, looked like Robert Altman, and he smoked dope.
EDIT: I still talked like a cleft palate then. But it was a choice between taking that course or picking up the trash as 'school service' for credits.

EDIT: Damn! It's hard to find an early picture of Altman.
Does anybody here happen to have one?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

LOL! That's the clean-cut Altman? What I'm assuming were his Bonanza-directing days? I'm almost sure that Cassidy thing had a half-assed run as a TV series. Hope it shows up on Shout!

 

[sleepy]

No, you are right to balk. That's Mr. Gostin, but like so many of the teachers at Poly.
They never updated their faculty pics, so that is probably from around 1962-65.
He really did look like Altman, but I flip the cards. Nobody's got an early picture of Altman.

Gostin was starting to go bald then, at the front. He was similarly bald by '72.

EDIT: THe drama class was completely non-structured. It was totally ad-lib, else do your own thing.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Ebook collection to the rescue! I thought I had a book on Altman! He looks kinda goofy here and it's hard to tell if there's resemblance to your teacher or if all the guys in the '50s looked that way.

 

[sleepy]

Yeah, he had those looks too, outdoors. But not the hair.
But I didn't know about Altman working on Bonanza or Hitchcock,
and that's quite a coincidence given Mr. Sherry's connection to those two. That is verified.

 

[sleepy]

Something else funny. Back around 1980-81 when the local Chuck E. Cheese first opened and they had the adult-oriented "Video Game Forrest", I was going there nearly every night, eight blocks from my apartment, to play Super Breakout. But I got shut out one night when Michael Landon rented the place for the evening as a treat for the cast and crew of "Little House".

There was a Chuck E. Cheese closer to Studio City, Encino, etc.

And Mr. Sherry played horn on that soundtrack too...

 

[sleepy]

But no Count Yorga, Vampire?