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I like this movie Cujo from 1983, for a younger generation who hasn't seen it.
It's basically a look into small town struggles in family life of the late 1970's, or early 80's.
It's about a boy and his parents and a divorce and a sheriff.

A really interesting movie to see start to finish and strongly suggest do not look up anything about the movie before watching it.

A bit of a struggle to follow at first but it builds to an interesting point and a moral of the story that everyone should follow.

Cujo. Anyone who hasn't seen it, (should have gotten best picture)
I suggest you load it and watch it without seeing what it's about, and
really have to stay with it 35+ minutes to get involved in the story and get the moral.

Cujo! It's about moving cross country and trusting your neighbors.
and the moral of car maintenece and determination.

A real encapsulation of a time in history.
Must See.
(you've never seen it before? oh even, better.)

I liked the part where Cujo chops a hole in the bathroom door for his head and says "Here's Johnny!". So funny! I love a good comedy.

He would have made a post about toasters then.
I was impressed he stayed as close to the topic as he did.

Saw that for the first time in 2018.

Caused me to read 8 minutes on Lee Morgan, hmm, some interesting stuff.

Lee Morgan was responsible for some of the most exciting, "seat of the pants" solos I ever heard. Where folks like Diz and Clark Terry played with passion and aplomb, Lee played his solos like a car on a twisty mountain road- with no guardrails or brakes.

Some of those solos leave me breathless- even though I've heard them countless times before.

Might be worth getting a Netflix accounts just to see this movie.

Thanks for the tip.

When my dad gave me his vinyl collection, Night Dreamer (Wayne Shorter) was a part of it. I didn't realize until many years later that Morgan played on it.

Good stuff.

That was actually funny!

I’ve never heard of him - not a big jazz buff fan although I love some of it - but that sounds like an interesting doc. I love music documentaries, even if I don’t particularly care for the person(s) being documented, because I enjoy learning about the processes of notable musical acts.

Thank you for the heads - up.

I just watched a documentary on Gordon Lightfoot. Really well made. Told the story of a song writing legend. He’s lived a pretty extraordinary life. The doc is free on Tubi TV.

I recently watched it (assuming it’s the same doc). Fascinating stuff.

I knew he was a highly regarded songwriter and a Canadian legend, I just didn’t know much about his private life. Or his rise through the ranks. It was cool to know that Dylan respected him so much. I also didn’t realize he was such a boozing lady’s man. They kinda glossed over some of those details but the reference was there. He had epic parties... I’d bet money Joni Mitchell, amongst others, ‘stayed late’.
I do wish they’d maybe spent some time in the studio with him breaking down some of his classic tracks. Talking more about how he arranged his songs. The behind the scenes stuff about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was cool.
All in all I thought it was an enjoyable doc.

The math is just amazing. Morgan would have been 19 and played on Blue Train.

I pulled Blue Train.... Lee Morgan was on Trumpet.