Sam the Dorito thief

Barklessdog · October 10, 2009, 07:05:33 AM

Pilgrim · October 10, 2009, 12:37:13 PM

It's a one-boid crime wave!

Woo-woo-woo-woo!!

Dave W · October 10, 2009, 04:50:17 PM

They should give Baretta's bird a call. Stop that seagull in his tracks.

uwe · October 12, 2009, 04:51:11 AM

Jonathan Livingston Thiefgull

Dave W · October 12, 2009, 09:31:48 AM

Nothing screams 70s quite like J.L. Seagull. I can't imagine it being a success today. Come to think of it, I never understood its success back then.

uwe · October 12, 2009, 09:44:34 AM

You think? Nature flics still have their place, if anything the last ten years have seen a resurgence.

Highlander · October 12, 2009, 03:47:37 PM

Oooo... it's on DVD, man...

Gull-iver's travels, man...

I remember this gull some time back on our news channels...

I quite like JLS (kinda says it all, really)

uwe · October 12, 2009, 04:05:58 PM

I like Neil Diamond

(that new live album is touching in its intensity and I like the way his voice has worn with age). There, I (am, I) said it. And ordered Barbara Streisand's new CD. Not to mention my Barry Manilow anthology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKP15Q8qSM&feature=related

Highlander · October 12, 2009, 04:12:49 PM

Time for your med's Mr Hornung...

Dave W · October 12, 2009, 04:32:41 PM

Neil Diamond has always done pleasant pop and he's a good entertainer. I don't think his voice has aged well but he gives the audience what they want.

Streisand is revolting, as a performer and a human being.

OldManC · October 12, 2009, 04:43:20 PM

Quote from: Dave W on October 12, 2009, 09:31:48 AM
Nothing screams 70s quite like J.L. Seagull. I can't imagine it being a success today. Come to think of it, I never understood its success back then.

It was the Neil Diamond soundtrack.

I read JLS and then another one of Richard Bach's books, which described him doing astral projection and all sorts of other crazy stuff. I was around 22 at the time and remember wondering whether he expected his reader to take it seriously or not. I was certainly not a child of that 60s/70s...

OldManC · October 12, 2009, 04:47:17 PM

Quote from: Dave W on October 12, 2009, 04:32:41 PM
Streisand is revolting, as a performer and a human being.

Dave, I hope you will take it the right way when I tell you I love you, man...

Best line I've read online in ages.

I love Neil Diamond's Brill Building stuff up through the mid 70's or so. Not a big fan of a whole lot since then but that early stuff is great to me.

Highlander · October 12, 2009, 05:01:32 PM

He's certainly responsible for some classic melodies...

Pilgrim · October 12, 2009, 05:05:22 PM

I remember seeing Neil Diamond in concert at my alma mater in the early 70's...he did a great show.

I figure - anyone who has maintained popularity for 30+ years in music and showbiz is worthy of respect. Not many artists achieve that.

uwe · October 12, 2009, 05:14:35 PM

Streisand seems to provoke some emotion here whenever she is mentioned (mostly by me). Political convictions (the dreaded L-word!) and distaste for a perceived elitist West Coast glam lifestyle aside, do you really think her voice can't carry a song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHWuzoX1QM&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW1CSUV0dEQ&feature=related

(Im)Balanced judgements über Frau Streisand aside, Neil's voice on the recent Rick Rubin produced stuff is nice. He shouldn't be measured against how he sang Sweet Caroline as a young man (and not thirty years later at the end of a two hour concert as a sing-along).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws5A5d5vUXY&feature=related