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May 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Taxi
he’s in the back of the car, as usual, and i’m his taxi driver. my son asks me if the day he was born was the best day of my life. and i say“yes. of course”. “what about when you and mum got married?”, he quizzed. “second. nearly as good. can’t have one without the other”. he nods. and i didn’t […]Archive
March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Box Brown: Is This Guy For Real? – The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman
Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman Box Brown First Second A graphic novel about Andy Kaufman written and drawn by the guy that paid tribute to Andre The Giant using the same form – I’m in!Archive
December 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 460
Mike Post, The Theme From Hill Street Blues [Single] (1981) Mike Post did the heavy lifting when it came to 1980s TV theme tunes – such a huge impact on my crazy little kid-brain; these themes all stay with me. None more so than Hill St. Blues though – a TV show I watched because […]Archive
April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Radio on the TV: My Top 10 All-Time Favourite TV Themes
The other day I was listening to Carl Stalling for the first time in a while – his bonkers-brilliant cartoon music puts you right there. You no longer need the images. The same is true of any great soundtrack composer, for film or TV. I regularly give Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened Theatre a spin […]Archive
April 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Trading: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I often see posts on Facebook complaining/warning people to be careful when buying records from TradeMe auctions. The warning/complaint usually suggests that – essentially – things aren’t always what they seem. This is part of buying goods when you can’t see/test them first. You can view pictures, sure, but with something as tactile as vinyl […]Archive
February 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 577
Bob James, All Around The Town (1981) I’ve been collecting up Bob James records ever since I reconnected with the TV show Taxi and of course Bob James’ Theme (aka ‘Angela’) – from there it’s been to whatever versions of the Taxi theme I can get – the original album, Touchdown, the compilation of the […]Archive
August 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 641
Bob James, The Genie: Themes & Variations from The TV Series “Taxi” (1983) If you’ve read almost any of my posts you’ll know I’m obsessed with Angela – The Theme From Taxi by Bob James. I set off to someone’s house to pick-up my first ever TradeMe vinyl purchase just so I could get a […]Archive
April 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
CeeLo Green: TV on the Radio
CeeLo Green TV on the Radio Soundcloud A wee novelty project, not quite and album and a wee bit more than just an EP, but mostly this serves as a reminder that before he sold/souled out and took the easy-easy money CeeLo Green had passion and vibrancy and was innovative and interesting and could rap […]Archive
March 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 1 – Taxi
Taxi was an American sitcom – it ran from 1978-1982. I was just a kid – but it was one of those Friday night fish’n’chips family-sits-in-front-of-the-TV shows. The characters were colourful – well Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito’s breakout role) and later “the Reverend” Jim (Christopher Lloyd) were colourful and wonderful. They shouted a lot. […]Archive
December 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Bryan Ferry: Avonmore
Bryan Ferry Avonmore BMG Rights Management Straight away this is that trademark Bryan Ferry sound – it is everything you should expect from a Bryan Ferry album in 2014, including the fact that it could never replace any of his absolutely vital work, nor even challenge it. That would be an unfair expectation obviously and […]Archive
November 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman