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claudine is coming! claudine is coming!

i love Claudine.  i don’t own it because…? *scratches head*

I was watching Frost/Nixon last week.  It’s a thoroughly engaging movie, chock full of information and nuance about a tumultuous period in our history.  Yet, I was distracted and fascinated by a quick aside.  David Frost was engaged to Diahann Carroll in the early 70s.  Of course, I go from Wiki to Netflix in just a few clicks.  I need to see Claudine, ’cause it’s been ages.

Here’s a little piece of Diahann Carroll’s Oscar-nominated performance.  I have to wait until tomorrow for the full experience.  No mail today.

Nikki♥

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mmmm the 70s | music

I don’t know if I needed a little aural palate cleansing or if it’s just nostalgia running away with me but, I LOVE digging through the iTunes Essentials 70s crate.  I know it’s a little NOW cdish.  Whatever.  When’s the last time you heard Eddie Money’s “Baby Hold On To Me?”  Hi, Kinda Badass.  Good to see ya.  Of the 72 songs in 1978, I think I draw a complete blank on 5 or 6.

For a few seconds, I tried to figure out why I knew such disparate songs and genres when we used to be fed the idea that certain people liked certain music and not other types of music.  Some people do stay in their corners of the world, I guess I was raised by folks who just listened and let me be curious.

Listening to the O’Jays, burning some incense.  Mmmm, the 70s.

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Nikki♥

(I think I need the Best of Eddie Money. For REAL)