Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passionately hated, "Sylvia's Mother", because I was taking it much too seriously. Then I heard Dr. Hook, on "VD Blues," do a tune called "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most," which was written by Shel Silverstein, and he's nothing if not weird. Meanwhile, the new album is called Sloppy Seconds and Silverstein's almost writing exclusively for Dr. Hook. All of which sheds a lot of light, in retrospect, on the serious intent of "Sylvia's Mother," even though I still don't think it's nearly as funny...
...Sanders. Sanders was a Fug. the original social satire-cum-atrocity rock band. He's done some truckstop music, too as well as some stuff that's plain weird like that book on Charlie Manson Whether he's going to read or sing or variations isn't clear yet. Danny Kaib lead guitarist from the Blues Project the one that spawned Al Kooper and Steve Katz, also appears...
...final game that still has him wondering. Frankle played his usual Sicilian defense, but a weird position developed. "As far as I was concerned I was playing on my own after move three," he said...
...This is the story of a city, a portrait of Rome," Fellini's voice instructs as the credits flash by, "a mixture of strange, contradictory images." If only it were. There are two sequences that are virtuoso feats even by Fellini's elaborate standards: a weird, bloody and cacophonous entrance into a rainy nighttime Rome along a crowded highway, and a boisterous, affectionate re-creation of a night in a music hall during World War II, the audience far more vigorous and creative than the amateur talent passing in review. Fellini is at his best here, which makes...
Otherwise the story is a promising crime caper, involving the theft of millions of dollars worth of wine. Condon's throwaway lines have all their old weird wonder. Any one of the enormities he assigns to his characters at the rate of three a page would have fueled a complete farce. Jangling together they achieve only a certain frenzy, and give the odd impression of a man shouting desperately to avoid hearing something...