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  1. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    I haven't heard this one yet. How do you like it?
  2. Mike1939

    What Are You Reading

    I'm reading The Road to Los Angles, by John Fante. Although completed in 1936 this book was not published till 1985 because of the provocative subject matter. The main character Arturo Bandini is a nut but I just can't put the book down.
  3. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    My favorite line from this movie is when Mitchum says to Russell, "I've been lonely in Times Square on New Years Eve."
  4. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    This one will be on TCM Thursday at 3:15 AM
  5. Mike1939

    Happy EARTH DAY!

    The air gets a bit thick in 1948. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103359330&sc=emaf
  7. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington: Blue Rose
  8. Mike1939

    Horrible movies, and the people who get duped into waching them....

    I'm not much of a Woody Allen fan myself and it's no skin of my nose if you like him or not but I just have to ask....Have you seen Radio Days?
  9. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yes I agree there are many kinds of pre-code films. I should have been more specific than to label them all as similar to noir. Movies like Babyface, 3 on a Match and Free Soul are the type of pre-code examples I see having similar elements and a gritty realism that you also find in noir.
  10. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    Although I like this album I hadn't listened to it in years preferring to go straight to the source, their inspiration I imagine, Louis Jordan. One or two of the fellas (not the singer) from Indigo Swing left and started their own band Swing Session which is a better band by far...Really solid.
  11. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I meant it when I said I can't wait to see it. Guess I should have put the winking smiley face after the crack about it sounding depressing. The more I watch pre-code films the more notice similarities between them and the film noir genre of the late 40's. The gritty hard life of crime, the...
  13. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    This movie sounds as depressing as the era in which it was made. I can't wait to see it. ;)
  14. Mike1939

    The French 75 Cocktail - Two Versions...

    answering my own question Well I got up of my brains and went over to the bookcase for my copy of The Big Sleep. General Sternwood from The Big Sleeps says, " I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of brandy beneath it."
  15. Mike1939

    The French 75 Cocktail - Two Versions...

    According to the Esquire's Handbook For Hosts (1953) it can be made either way and gives a alternate name of King's Peg for the brandy version. In the book Vintage Cocktails it gives the gin version only with a alternate name of 75 Cocktail, saying it was named by French officers after one of...
  16. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    Indigo Swing: All Aboard!
  17. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I love this movie. Noir on a train, it doesn't get much better.
  19. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Woke up early this morning while the house was still quiet, before the stampede of little feet broke the morning stillness and scared the song birds away. So I watched Road to Morocco (1942) with my morning java. Nothing puts a spring in my step and a smile on my face like old Bob and Bing...
  20. Mike1939

    What Are You Reading

    I'm reading Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon by Joe Gores. This is a great book, Gores brings 1920's San Francisco to life with that Hammett style.
  21. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    Gene Krupa: At His Very Best This two disc set spans the 1940's from swing to bebop influenced numbers.
  22. Mike1939

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Race Street (1948) George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen and Henry Morgan. Raft plays a bookie/night club owner whose pal is bumped off by a syndicate that's muscling in on all the local bookmakers. Classic revenge theme like many of the late forties movies such as Dead...
  23. Mike1939

    What are you listening to?

    Bing Crosby and Some Jazz Friends. My favorite song on this one is Crosby and Louis Jordan singing, Your Socks Don't Match.

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