IBM Data Center, Toronto, 1963

photos by George Dunbar

I bought more CDs this year than I probably have in an entire decade!  it’s TRUE!!!! I WILL NOT LET PHYSICAL MEDIA DIE!!!

here’s what I listened to in 2016!!  all certified thightastic!

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you know my theory – see your favorite musicians in concert before you or they die…

Live By Night!

Raul Malo @ City Winery

31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Deep Purple / Ste ve Miller / NWA / Chicago / Cheap Trick(  @ Barclays Center

David Gilmour @ Madison Square Garden

Pearl Jam @ Madison Square Garden

Flight of The Conchords @ The Heath at The McKittrick Hotel

Ellie Goulding @ Madison Square Garden

Guns N’ Roses @ MetLife Stadium

Paul McCartney @ MetLife Stadium

Pitbull @ the Prudential Center

Willie Nelson @ the Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk

The Bangles @ Irving Plaza

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O. @ Radio City Music Hall

Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam @ Beacon Theatre

Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin @ Beacon Theatre

Tidal X 10/15 @ Barclays

Sia @ Barclays

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here’s a bunch of misc music junk from TWS in 2016…

The The and They They

believe it or not, in my adolescents, I used to be even angrier about really dumb stuff

stuff auctioned off from The Estate of the late Syd Barrett, in 2006

Bantha 8-Tracks

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it sucks the most when musicians die, cause you can never relive their greatness visually like you can with actors.  it’s true!

Goodnight Sweet
Prince & Princesses

La La Land
Gosmancing The Stone
Official Site | Trailer & Mo
PG-13 | 128 min

You can have your Manchester By The Snoozes, I’ll have what Damien Chazelle is serving in La La Land – life, love, and the pursuit of making movies magical and fun again!

I hope you saw Damien’s Whiplash.  It’s like La La Land, but painful!  Pain is good, and usually makes for a better movie (and in this case, that is true, and in the case of Manchester By The Sea, it’s false), but pleasure is also important, and La La Land is a delectable slice of pleasure!

There is no current screen pairing more pleasureful than the screen pairing of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.  They made Crazy, Stupid, Love, not so stupid, and rather lovely!  They made for a welcome distraction in the distracting piece of garbage that was Gangster Squad.  In La La Land, they make us go ga ga for even more Gostone/Stonling pairings.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – they need to never stop making Gosling-Stone movies.  Never.  They, being Hollywood, really should(n’t). Is there anyone out there that would disagree with such a statement?  Is there anyone out there in general still reading this site?  Gawd, are you there? It’s me, Margaret!

La La Land was a musical, but it didn’t really need all the jazz hands and songs and dances.  I mean, they were nice and all, but they could make a silent movie where Gosling and Stone work in a poop factory and we’d still fall in love with them.  Hmmm, I have a great idea for their next film – POOP FACTORY: A LOVE STORY!

Verdictgo: Jeepers Mos Def Worth A Peepers

La La already Landed at a theater near jews AND white nationalists

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Peace The Forks Out

to

Debbie & Carrie

&

George Michael 

+

The Carnegie Deli

Father Mulcahy

Bambi inspirer

Zsa Zsa

the man who gave the Beatles away

Tony winner

Kinder Surpriser

Watership Downer

sailboard inventor

Status Quo guitarist

Heimlich MANeuverer

TIFF co-founder

China Machado

ender of the My Lai massacre

some Beat poet

General Hospitaler

this Dollar rent a car logo??

he Hawed

he hated Chris

Craig Sager

Joey Boots

Dr Bombay

some British actress

Helen Hunt’s dad

dwarf who was tossed

Jerry Brown’s dog

&

the guy who gave us the red Solo cup!

you know the drill – 2016 was all Tronald Dump, and Gigi Hadon’t and bunch of other garbage szauce, but 2017 is gonna be different, and amazing, and awesome szauce.  There may be some KKK, but don’t worry, everything will be A-OKKKK.  How do we know?  We juss do.  Anywho, The Washington Post does a list thing, and so do we, cause old rabbits cry bards…

OUT	IN
Celebrity Deaths –	Celery Chefs –
Feel The Bern –	Peel The Perm –
Netflix & Chill –	DQ’s Grill & Chill –
Fake News –	Fake Mews –
High Ponytails –	High Ponies –
Believeland –	San DiegBLOWS –
The Mannequin Challenge –	Mannequin Three: For The Show –
Gene Wilder –	Gene Milder –
Keith David –	David Keith –
The Killing of Harambe –	Death to the word ‘Bae’ –
Zika –	FIKA –
Galaxy Note 7 Explosions –	Murder She Wrote ‘Northern Explosion’ –
CAPTCHAs –	Gotcha! –
Crying Jordan –	  Crying Neil Jordan –
Westworld –	Vestworld –
Liberal Bubble –	Puzzle Bobble –
Leslie Jones –	Joan Leslie –
Carpool Karaoke –	Rideshare Harakiri –
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Moving To Canada –	Gluing From Canada –
Russian Hackers –	Russian Lacquer –
‘Cake By The Ocean’ –	Cakes by Laotians –
Ken Bone –	Ben Koné –
Chewbacca Mom –	Mom Calamari –
Fuller House –	Perfecter Strangerers –
Pokémon GO –	Poke, Go Away! –
Squad Goals –	Squat Goats –

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and here’s what was In Oder Aus in the ’006, the ’007, the ’008, the ’009, the ‘010, the ‘011, the ‘012, the ‘013, the ‘014, the ‘015, the ‘016