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Rodney_G.:
Quote from: edubs31 on March 29, 2012, 08:29:42 AM
Quote from: Alixz on March 29, 2012, 08:08:13 AM
That would be The Rolling Stones "Sympathy For the Devil"" 1968.
That would be one point for Alixz in Round Three :-)
Classic song...I'm a pretty big Stones fan but sometimes you forget about certain things like their lyrics. I went online just to refresh my memory on all of the words to "Sympathy" and it's bloody genius! In the words of Greg Kihn..."they just don't write 'em like that anymore".
Actually that would be one point for Rodney_G., Erik. See post 122 earlier (5/6/11). But then, hey, who's counting?
edubs31:
Quote from: Rodney_G. on March 30, 2012, 10:55:54 AM
Quote from: edubs31 on March 29, 2012, 08:29:42 AM
Quote from: Alixz on March 29, 2012, 08:08:13 AM
That would be The Rolling Stones "Sympathy For the Devil"" 1968.
That would be one point for Alixz in Round Three :-)
Classic song...I'm a pretty big Stones fan but sometimes you forget about certain things like their lyrics. I went online just to refresh my memory on all of the words to "Sympathy" and it's bloody genius! In the words of Greg Kihn..."they just don't write 'em like that anymore".
Actually that would be one point for Rodney_G., Erik. See post 122 earlier (5/6/11). But then, hey, who's counting?
Shame on me! I knew I should have typed "Rolling Stones" into the search tool before opening my mouth. I could have guess you would have been all over that one Rodney :-) But it was more about the time & place of the reference (Wednesday Quizzo) then the fact that I've heard it sung by Mick Jagger about a thousand times, lol.
One point - Alixz
One point - Rodney
Alixz:
Another source.
A series of books by Dean Koontz about a character who can see the "lingering dead" called Odd Thomas. That's right Odd not Todd, his parents had a weird sense of humor.
In the book Brother Odd on page 237, Odd Thomas is with the lingering spirit of Elvis and he says this:
"When making his music, he had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scripts for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra."
Anyone interested in strange mysteries fiction with a tongue in cheek flair should check out the "Odd Thomas" series. There are five books in the series, but, in my opinion, only the first three are very good. The last two are just OK. In #5, though, Koontz brings in the spirit of Nikola Tesla one of the greatest inventors whose patents actually were filed before some of Edison's and Marconi's, but Tesla was a strange duck, stranger than Einstein, and he didn't get much credit for what he did do. Tesla was the person who proved that AC power was better and could be sent longer distances than Edison's pet project DC power.
I have been finding Tesla mentioned in a number of spooky fiction books and it got me to buy a biography of the man. I haven't finished it yet, but the man was truly a genius and Einstein and Mark Twain both knew him and agreed on that.
historyfan:
Thanks for the recommendation, Alixz - putting the series on my list now!
edubs31:
Quote from: Alixz on September 13, 2012, 07:57:05 PM
Another source.
A series of books by Dean Koontz about a character who can see the "lingering dead" called Odd Thomas. That's right Odd not Todd, his parents had a weird sense of humor.
In the book Brother Odd on page 237, Odd Thomas is with the lingering spirit of Elvis and he says this:
"When making his music, he had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scripts for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra."
Anyone interested in strange mysteries fiction with a tongue in cheek flair should check out the "Odd Thomas" series. There are five books in the series, but, in my opinion, only the first three are very good. The last two are just OK. In #5, though, Koontz brings in the spirit of Nikola Tesla one of the greatest inventors whose patents actually were filed before some of Edison's and Marconi's, but Tesla was a strange duck, stranger than Einstein, and he didn't get much credit for what he did do. Tesla was the person who proved that AC power was better and could be sent longer distances than Edison's pet project DC power.
I have been finding Tesla mentioned in a number of spooky fiction books and it got me to buy a biography of the man. I haven't finished it yet, but the man was truly a genius and Einstein and Mark Twain both knew him and agreed on that.
Colonel Parker I believe turned the down the role for Elvis that was eventually given to Kris Kristofferson in "A Star Is Born". That would have been filmed in 1975/76 and might have revived Presley somewhat who died the following year.
Sticking with the entertainment theme for a moment I always found one of the most clever band names in history was that of 'Tesla'. A forgettable band but I have to give the group members some credit. I'm certain they grew up fans of the rock group 'AC/DC' and decided to do some research on the namesake. Looking into "Alternating Current / Direct Current" the name Tesla pops up pretty quickly. Hope that biography is interesting Alixz...
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