Judging Amy and Gordon Lightfoot-What Do They Have in Common?
I'm feeling the old thing pretty tough lately. My bones are achy; my heart is still beating faster than it should be. But most of all, I've given up on the whole Anti-Television manifesto that I had running out of my head for the past 5 years or so. I don't know, maybe it's the age, or maybe it's suburbia. I try to stay away from what I would have called 'crap' so many years ago. But yeah, Judging Amy, that's pretty crappy. I'm going to tell you why I like her though. I am going to go on record and contradict myself. I'd like to catch my self in an act of self awareness. Here it goes.
Amy. Ah Amy. You're little show is sweet. Let me tell you how I came across this Soap--yeah it's soap. I had never seen the show when it was on primetime television. I heard of it like I had heard of many of the droves of pedestrian, pull at your heartstring dramas of the time. I thought they were all 'crap'. I still do. I don't care. I found Amy on a sick day from the jobby job.I remember when I was sick as a wee lad. Those days, it was Bob Barker who got the engines roaring. Man I loved Plinko. But what I found as I got older, out of school and into the working world was that daytime television was really set up for 3 demographics of which I didn't fit into. 1. Moms 2. Kids 3. Old People. So I came across Amy when I simply couldn't muddle through Days or Passions, or any of the talk shows or gameshows.
But let me just say some things about Amy. There is a real comfort level to that show. It's pretty melodramatic and over the top, but you know Maxine Gray. Well she's just the bees god damn knees. She takes Social Work to all kinds of levels. She's the anchor of that show. Her and Bruce. Bruce is the man. Cool and collected and guarded. When him and Amy got it on it was tender.That's all I really have to say about Amy for now. I'd welcome any comments on her. She's hott.
This leads of course to the next topic of convo. Gordon Lightfoot. I like him. I like him a lot. What does that mean? Am I getting old? The man has a voice that is smooth as butter. I don't know what else to say. I know that 'older' people like his music. At least that's what I used to say to myself. Well I like him too. I guess I'm 'older'.
Anybody have a show that they watch when they are home sick? Or better yet did it hook you?We want to know.
Dee
Amy. Ah Amy. You're little show is sweet. Let me tell you how I came across this Soap--yeah it's soap. I had never seen the show when it was on primetime television. I heard of it like I had heard of many of the droves of pedestrian, pull at your heartstring dramas of the time. I thought they were all 'crap'. I still do. I don't care. I found Amy on a sick day from the jobby job.I remember when I was sick as a wee lad. Those days, it was Bob Barker who got the engines roaring. Man I loved Plinko. But what I found as I got older, out of school and into the working world was that daytime television was really set up for 3 demographics of which I didn't fit into. 1. Moms 2. Kids 3. Old People. So I came across Amy when I simply couldn't muddle through Days or Passions, or any of the talk shows or gameshows.
But let me just say some things about Amy. There is a real comfort level to that show. It's pretty melodramatic and over the top, but you know Maxine Gray. Well she's just the bees god damn knees. She takes Social Work to all kinds of levels. She's the anchor of that show. Her and Bruce. Bruce is the man. Cool and collected and guarded. When him and Amy got it on it was tender.That's all I really have to say about Amy for now. I'd welcome any comments on her. She's hott.
This leads of course to the next topic of convo. Gordon Lightfoot. I like him. I like him a lot. What does that mean? Am I getting old? The man has a voice that is smooth as butter. I don't know what else to say. I know that 'older' people like his music. At least that's what I used to say to myself. Well I like him too. I guess I'm 'older'.
Anybody have a show that they watch when they are home sick? Or better yet did it hook you?We want to know.
Dee
posted by DeesKnees at 3:25 PM
2 Comments:
Honey, you don't have to be old to enjoy Gordon Lightfoot. While his live performaces do skew more, uh, mature, there are always teens, kids and 20-somethings in the audience. My then-16 year old daughter had a great time when we saw him at the "Church of Gord" aka Massey Hall in Toronto in May 2005.
The "voice like butter" is a little rougher around the edges now, but the emotions are deep and true and the phrasing exquisite these days, plus he has the tightest band in the business - they practically breathe in sync.
He's out there touring and loving every minute of it, having survived a near-death aneurysm in 2002 and several subsequent surgeries. He just keeps plugging along, putting out an album in 2004 ("Harmony") that he worked on from his sick bed. If you saw him in concert years ago he pretty much used to come on stage, play his songs, and leave. Nowadays he is incredibly chatty and very open with his audiences, clearly one happy man. We should all age so gracefully (he'll be 69 in November.)
That's a great story. I read about his aneurysm and the album that he recorded from his bed. I don't know much about Gord, but what I do know I like. He just seems so damn cool.
Dee
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