Shadow Wolves November 2022
The boyz discuss what they're watching/reading, answer some calls from the ABZ phone line, and talk about The Last Waltz (1978)!
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Hell yeah
I don't think I've ever seen anyone more in love than Martin Scorcese with Rick Danko
The Starbucks call is totally wrong. It’s real tea. Source: I worked there 2007-2010 and my wife works in marketing there now.
When the boyz talk about their parents it always hits so hard in relatability and funniness. Brilliant ep as always
The ages of some of the performers when this concert occurred: Rick Danko 33 Levon Helm 36 Garth Hudson 39 Richard Manuel 33 Robbie Robertson 33 Paul Butterfield 34 Bobby Charles 38 Eric Clapton 31 Neil Diamond 35 Dr. John 35 Bob Dylan 35 Emmylou Harris 29 Ronnie Hawkins 41 Joni Mitchell 33 Van Morrison 31 Ringo Starr 36 Stephen Stills 31 Muddy Waters 61 Ronnie Wood 29 Neil Young 31
i would have guessed i was 10 years younger than everyone onstage. neil being 31 is sobering
Scanners
Megaforce
The Band isn't necessarily my cup of tea. Great musicians, but they’re classic Americana/folk/jazz white dudes ripping off the blues. But hey, Mavis Staples took part so who am I to judge?
https://youtu.be/jO9mxISvLic
A + name there
I got the cops called to my apartment the night Levon Helm died because I was watching this movie too loud.
Weird to think I know more about the family secrets of the ABZ than my own fam. Maybe this weekend I’ll ply my old man with a couple IPAs and see if he ever shanked a man at a donkey show or something
Just going to pop in here with a quick fuck Robbie Robertson
Oooo, why is that?
Love this movie, saw it for the first time at a tiny 2 dollar theater ten years ago half drunk and super stoned, perfect setting
Stanger’s story about his dad is so relatable. Every time i see my dad, without fail, he tells me how his older sister’s house still isn’t paid off. Her and her husband are still working jobs they enjoy and will have social security. It’s gonna be fine.
“MTV was basically dead by 1993” might be the dumbest thing I have heard Rodgers so confidently say.
Dead as in no longer cool, and I sand by it. - Ben
You can tell something is truly funny when Gabrus busts out the Rich Evans laugh.
Tulsa King got renewed for season 2: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/tulsa-king-renewed-season-2-paramount-plus-1235445674/
Loved the Tar talk. I am deeply engaged with the thing at the end of the movie and it hit as extra funny. I'm confident what the first song would have been
Great sode fellas
I was a TA for an Arts freshman colloquium class and I hosted a screening of this movie for the class in a theatre (thinking i was so fuckin cool) ... none of the class showed up, lol.
Rick Rubin’s four part documentary series about Shangri-Li studio has a few outtakes of interviews from Last Waltz and details of their Malibu period just before they broke up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_(miniseries)
Jaw dropped when they made the connection between magic and ppl in "the lifestyle". Former coworker of mine's best account was the Chicago Magic Lounge and she was always talking about her open relationship and other orgy crap i didnt care about at all
From my IMDB trivia addled brain: Scorsese directed at least one music video I know of...Michael Jackson's Bad...featuring Action Boy superstar Wesley Snipes!
The only videos he directed were that and a Robbie Robertson video from the 80s that’s a great example of cringey 80s cheese that most people haven’t seen: https://youtu.be/4KP9PNSUME4
I know people are kinda obnoxious online with how good Andor is, which sucks because it's REALLY good, maybe my favorite show of this year, and I loved HOTD
The obnoxiousness definitely stems from Star Wars taking L after L since 1999 and fans finally getting something they can point to as legitimately great cinema
All five hours of the Last Waltz are on youtube. They filmed it on a video camera for preservation's sake
Starring The Lump of Coke in Neil Young's Nose
I loved seeing Van Morrison, that sparkling little Rebel ✨️
Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger was an interesting but sometimes tedious read. Closer in tone and language to Suttree than the spare prose books he wrote in the last twenty or thirty years.
An interesting book, but the chapters in italics were not great.
Tar is a great movie. Btw, the last scenes took place in the Philippines. I recognized the dialect.
My funny uncle used to tell that limerick too what's the deal with that? "Ladies and gents, bowlegged ants. There's a women's meeting tonight for men only"
Nah the magic castle is fun, definitely expensive but the food isn’t bad. The move is to find the random impromptu shows in small rooms not the big shows.
ABZ Library: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/162873.The_Action_Boyz_Library (5 new books added.)
Stanger mentioned the Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) Memoir at one point and I read it based on that. It’s good! I’m a dummy and don’t know how to add it or if I even can do I’m just dropping it here.
Old Man Neil Young is the best. Not just because he puts his money where his mouth is, or still releases plenty of new stuff, but he's also just been busy relentlessly combing through his archives the last few years. The amount of unreleased stuff he's steadily been putting out is staggering, whether it's live performances or like half a dozen lost albums or huge box sets or documentaries. The guy never stops.
Happy Hanukkah you dumpy cunts. Love you all!
You guys should definitely watch Tulsa King. It's not The Sopranos but it's fun and Sly is good in it, it's good to see him give himself over to someone else's vision. I'll be disappointed if there's no Season 2, it has potential.