Forever Young

This weekend was a movie weekend. Woot! well, not so much- more like cough hack, groan oh Jesus another one died. Yes you guessed it (well you probably didn’t- im terrible at hinting). We went and watched Young at Heart at the Arclight in Sherman Oaks- and its not a feel good movie.

The whole movie is one really long group rehearsal. Yes, theres a chuckle the first time you hear an 87 year old mess up the rhythm to “I feel good“, but then you really start to feel like you are in the rehearsal when you hear it for the 15 and 16th time. you think- yes he can can oh yes he can, ye she can can- well no he can’t!

Mixed in with the rehearsals are videos which im really not sure if they were made for people to take seriously or as jokes, because neither one comes off really well. As amused as i am by seeing a really large old guy dressed up in the famed BeeGees suit and throw down strikes at a bowling alley, im also disturbed by ancient sexuality. icky……

The movie actually made me feel a little uneasy. Its about a bunch of old people who sing- well, umm- sing poorly for the most part. Maybe its my music background but i felt like i was back in music school and everyone was much older and not as good.

I’d love to say that the movie was like a train wreck and you couldn’t keep your eyes off of it. However, it was more like a train coming to a stop and the wheels just keep on squeaking- a really long train- umm yeah- it takes 2 hours to stop.

Thankfully it does come to a grinding, and breathing apparatus assisted, end. I give this one a died, umm- oooh- that was tasteless.

They are performing live in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Theater.

And to completely discredit my review they are a huge success and are on tv all over the place. So they must be doing something right, and I have to applaud that. They also do look like they are having a lot of fun and the music really does keep them alive- well most of them..

For more info on them you can go here.

1 out of 5

Why Flying Now Sucks (even more)

If you have ever flown with me, and most of you have not, cause i've really only flown with one other person, and you know who you are- i digress, then you know i'm deathly afraid of flying. Superman would tell me that my fear is irrational, that flying is still the safest way to travel. Yes, yes Superman I know you have said this many times. However, i recently came upon an article in the WSJ titled "Airline Regulators Grapple With Engine-Shutdown Peril!" about engine de-icing- more appropriately though- ENGINE ICING and SHUTTING DOWN!!!!! The point was that there is an alarming new phenomenon amongst large jet liners that makes their engines turn off. Its called high altitude icing and i guess what happens is ice forms then melts then the engine flames go out (they call these flame outs- i think rather appropriate- it was either that or HOLY SHIT!- but that seemed vague) When the engines turn off the pilot or pilots, should there be more than one, fill their pants and pray that the engines restart. The article went on to mention that the chances of this happening to both engines at the same time were like a billion to one, and right away they started to cite example after example of exactly the above scenario. Well, next time i fly i will be paying very close attention to the fire on both engines. If they go out I'm gonna just start making out with my wife.

More info on this available SAE International.

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