What Comes Around (Again) - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
Before getting to newer items, I'll s tart this week with a sub-theme and the simple yet grand reminder that we're the first era to have such a huge pool of film and tv entertainment at such ease of access. Even the oldest of us missed the majority of it along the way. The necessities - or maybe let's just say obligations - of life take up so much of our time and energy, and ideally we've spent large chunks of it directly and indirectly on family and friends, and beyond all that our tastes and interests change. Yesterday's "who cares?" often become tomorrow's "that's pretty cool." Dipping into, and generally soaking in this vast, shifting ocean of amassed recordings can find us being serendipitously pointed in the same direction by different sources. Recently, on a whim (and isn't that how most entertainment should be?) I finally got around to watching the 2004 Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The...