[FairfieldLife] Re: Cafe Nostalgia (musings about outlaws)
Here's a related (at least in my mind) treat. It's a marvelously creative animated open letter to J. J. Abrams telling him how not to screw up the future movies in the Star Wars franchise the way he and others have screwed them up in the past. And the rules these fans propose are both brilliant and right on. Star Wars is a Western, and it's about outlaws just gettin' by out on the frontier. Mess that up, and you mess up the whole concept. http://io9.com/a-beautifully-animated-open-letter-to-j-j-abrams-about-1\ 397273170 http://io9.com/a-beautifully-animated-open-letter-to-j-j-abrams-about-1\ 397273170 http://io9.com/a-beautifully-animated-open-letter-to-j-j-abrams-about-13\ 97273170 http://io9.com/a-beautifully-animated-open-letter-to-j-j-abrams-about-1\ 397273170 Following these simple rules is what made Star Wars work originally, and it's what made Firefly work. Heck, these rules were even what made the original Japanese film that Star Wars ripped off (The Hidden Fortress) work; that was an outlaw story, too. Mess with outlaws at your peril... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: that's excellent tho I prefer the Willie Nelson version Willie actually got the song from Emmylou, not from Townes Van Zandt directly, and then recorded it in a very popular version with Merle Haggard. He tells the story of that discovery (and performs the song with Emmylou) here. Their version was excellent, partly because both Willie and Merle are such outlaws themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIUe8iQPM0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIUe8iQPM0 From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cafe Nostalgia It was probably the use of Marty Robbins' El Paso in the final episode of Breaking Bad that got me thinking about it, but ever since I've been on kind of a music kick, finding and listening to classic outlaw songs. El Paso is obviously one of the greats in that category, but it's another old outlaw song that's stuck in my head tonight, and it's even brought back some pleasant memories about my time in the TM movement, so I'll share them with you. Back in early 1977, when I first heard the song, I was living at the TM National Headquarters at the end of Sunset Blvd. I was working there as personnel director for a few months before my Sidhis course, and lived on the premises in one of the rooms (it was formerly a motel, for those of you who never went there). It was a cool place to live -- a block from the beach, next door to the Yogananda Lake Shrine -- and even though I was making shit money I was earning precious (at the time) course credits, so I made the best of living there. It was there I first heard Emmylou Harris' version of a great Townes Van Sandt outlaw song called Pancho and Lefty. I remember listening to it one night with my girlfriend, who I had had to sneak into my room, the both of us feeling very much like outlaws ourselves for having sex there in the TM National Headquarters. :-) Anyway, it's a great song, and listening to it again in a Paris cafe -- all these years later -- I still love it. I also love -- all these years later -- still feeling like an outlaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LQeRqTBK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LQeRqTBK4
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cafe Nostalgia (musings about outlaws)
Very cool, turq, but about Rule #4, yeah maybe Star Wars isn't cute overall, but you gotta admit that those Ewoks of Endor were pretty darn cute. As well as being good fighters. And who doesn't think R2D2 wasn't cute sometimes?! From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cafe Nostalgia (musings about outlaws) Here's a related (at least in my mind) treat. It's a marvelously creative animated open letter to J. J. Abrams telling him how not to screw up the future movies in the Star Wars franchise the way he and others have screwed them up in the past. And the rules these fans propose are both brilliant and right on. Star Wars is a Western, and it's about outlaws just gettin' by out on the frontier. Mess that up, and you mess up the whole concept. http://io9.com/a-beautifully-animated-open-letter-to-j-j-abrams-about-1397273170 Following these simple rules is what made Star Wars work originally, and it's what made Firefly work. Heck, these rules were even what made the original Japanese film that Star Wars ripped off (The Hidden Fortress) work; that was an outlaw story, too. Mess with outlaws at your peril... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: that's excellent tho I prefer the Willie Nelson version Willie actually got the song from Emmylou, not from Townes Van Zandt directly, and then recorded it in a very popular version with Merle Haggard. He tells the story of that discovery (and performs the song with Emmylou) here. Their version was excellent, partly because both Willie and Merle are such outlaws themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIUe8iQPM0 From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cafe Nostalgia It was probably the use of Marty Robbins' El Paso in the final episode of Breaking Bad that got me thinking about it, but ever since I've been on kind of a music kick, finding and listening to classic outlaw songs. El Paso is obviously one of the greats in that category, but it's another old outlaw song that's stuck in my head tonight, and it's even brought back some pleasant memories about my time in the TM movement, so I'll share them with you. Back in early 1977, when I first heard the song, I was living at the TM National Headquarters at the end of Sunset Blvd. I was working there as personnel director for a few months before my Sidhis course, and lived on the premises in one of the rooms (it was formerly a motel, for those of you who never went there). It was a cool place to live -- a block from the beach, next door to the Yogananda Lake Shrine -- and even though I was making shit money I was earning precious (at the time) course credits, so I made the best of living there. It was there I first heard Emmylou Harris' version of a great Townes Van Sandt outlaw song called Pancho and Lefty. I remember listening to it one night with my girlfriend, who I had had to sneak into my room, the both of us feeling very much like outlaws ourselves for having sex there in the TM National Headquarters. :-) Anyway, it's a great song, and listening to it again in a Paris cafe -- all these years later -- I still love it. I also love -- all these years later -- still feeling like an outlaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LQeRqTBK4
