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Martin Scorsese's 1995 documentary "Nothing but the Blues" about Eric Clapton and his musical influences, with lots of footage of the blues greats who influenced him, many of whom Clapton had the opportunity to appear with. On TV. This is a recently restored edition.
 
Anybody else who felt sick realising "Boys Don't Cry" is based on something real?
 
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I saw that original version as a kid while eating spaghetti. I remember after watching the characters with tubes and the baron getting his face drained, I couldn't eat spaghetti for a while thereafter 😝
 
I remember seeing Dune at the theater when it first came out. It's the only movie I've ever attended where they handed you a cheat-sheet containing a glossary of names and terminology at the ticket counter.
Now, I've seen it so many times I love anticipating and speaking the lines at the same time as the actors:
"Give the Harkonen a blade."
"The sleeper has awakened!"
"Usul no longer needs the weirding module."
"Long live the fighters!"
 
The one I remember is "the Bene Gesserit witch must leave"
 
Currently watching Gangs of London (series), it's on sky.
Would recommend if you like martial arts movies, the Raid's fight choreographer helped with the majority of the episodes, his style somehow, is even discernible in firefights.
Anyway, probably the best martial arts I've seen in a tv show. Up there with Warrior (Cinemax).
 
Shrinking on AppleTV+ has been really good so far.
 
While binge-watching YouTube reaction clips to Ram Jam's 1977 rip-snorting Hard Rock world hit "Black Betty" - the two-minute-plus live-in-a-back-yard version - I stumbled across a very different type of clip. The guy doesn't just delve into the history of the song, but even older history of the term. Trivia goldmine!


I own a four-CD box titled "Lead Belly's Last Sessions" by Smithsonian Folkways, recorded in late 1948. Here's the "Black Betty" version from those recordings:


And Huddie Ledbetter also recorded a version of "House of the Rising Sun" in that session:

 
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