Accordions on the silver screen
Wow. Here’s a blast from the past. I stumbled into Google Groups from my Gmail account, and decided to see if I had made any Usenet posts in the past that could come back to haunt me if I ever run for office. The two posts for apartments are pretty innocuous. But then there’s this post from someone named Maggie, who ran the Squeezeboxes on the Silver Screen site, and who, if I recall correctly, was in a band called Polkacide.
Such a flashback to the pre-dot-com web, where a stuff like “a list of all the appearances of accordions in movies” was super cool, where people felt compelled to help out and send in additions to the list. And such a flashback to my hardcore accordion days! I forgot how into it I was.
The other funny thing here is that one of the sightings I sent in was about Fargo, which was on UPN today, and which Terri and I watched. I was wondering how they were going to show it on UPN with all the violence. They had no problem showing Steve Buscemi getting shot in the face, bleed profusely, get killed by an axe, and have his body shoved into a woodchipper. But don’t let the kids hear the F-word. (”Drop that f-ruitful bag!”)