RIP Honor Blackman

"I must be dreamin'...."

She might've been the oldest Bond Girl,
wait no, that is Monica Bellucci in Spectre, but that was a Bond wo-man, and a widow too .),
but she made HIStory, back there in 1964 and GOLDFINGER
The name is/was and always will be Pussy Galore, and that's plenty :)
Mrs. Honor Blackman was very English and very 38 years at the time, which would made her a veeery mature woman in Bond's swingin sixties world !
She might have died also the oldest Bond woman, on April 6th 2020, at 94 !!!
She was also a fierce  Avenger, that is before those Marvel comics...she left the series to to Bond and that is her major legacy, but lookie here:
Blackman learned judo for the role. The experience helped spur her to co-write the 1966 book Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence, a book that, as NBC News notes, was “among the first books about martial arts aimed at young women.”
obituary in Rolling Stone, here 

                                                    "You can turn off the charm, I am imune !"
well, now...:(

RIP Bill Withers (& SOTD)

Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone...
Bill Withers was 81 and he retired from the music scene back in 1985.


(SOTD) 2day: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and John Legend perform "Lean On Me" at the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Essential listening: Live at Carnegie Hall, his album from 1972, released in 1973
*Rolling Stone ranked the recording 27th on the magazine's list of the 50 greatest live albums.*

Bob Dylan-Murder Most Foul (SOTD)

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...what better time than now (that is y-day, Saturday 28.03.2020), an overlong dark and bleak song about apparently JFKs death, and more so about pop culture, name dropping galore, and finally about the CH 19 pandemic...

-Better not show your faces after the sun goes down-

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title comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet act 2, 

(Ghost): Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.                                                                  ***

-Bare with patience and listen to the lyrics, they're on the screen, 

It's Dylan-s longest song 2 date (17 mins) and his 1st original material since 2012s Tempest. 

Of course, like all things Dylan, “Murder Most Foul” isn’t for everyone. It’s length alone will be off-putting to all but the most diehard Dylanologist. (NBC News, comparing it with The Irishman of songs ;) 

must be a sign, wrote about this rambling on for an hour, saved it, and now erased it by myself....

                  Play "Love Me or Leave Me" by the great Bud Powell
                      Play "The Blood-Stained Banner", play "Murder Most Foul"
Dylans message about the new song fom his own site here.

RIP Stefan Sileanu

Gone again :(
Stefan Sileanu avea 80 de ani. Actor de teatru si film, voce impunatoare, prestanta, a fost imaginea lui Vlad Tepes in singurul film romanesc facut in perioada Ceausescu despre...Vlad Tepes (1978). Film care a mers bine la import si care a a parut si pe dvd, si il dam si noi la Dracula Film Festival, speram sa il dam din nou in octombrie, in memoria lui. RIP...
Filmul il puteti (re)vedea deocamdata pe youtube aici. Regia Doru Nastase, -parintele-lui Margelatu.
Notă: Pe Vlad Tepes l-a jucat și Virgil Ogasanu dar într-un rol seundar, în Sageata Capitanului Ion (1973, Aurel Miheles).