500 Johnnie Walker Jukebox Entry - BBC RADIO 2 - Sounds of the 70s

My formative years are up till 1979ish in West Germany where I was born. My father was in BAOR, and we were rotated in and out as is the way of military life.

Later eras are reformative because (for example) we might be discarding the flared trousers to adopt the skinny jeans. Our formative years however are unique because there's only virtual history to compare with or even reject. So, it uncoils slowly creating new forms and is imprinted on our memories. To a greater or lesser degree.

The sounds of the Seventies are not just my soundtrack to those formations. Often, it's only the music that stood out to the exclusion of everything else. That's how nourishing music in the 70s was.

The music production broadcasts on British Forces Radio in those days are my leitmotif to the past, and in those moments, one friendly optimistic and in love with music voice narrated those times. That voice sounded like Johnnie Walker. 

Was it Heraclitus who said all flows? I'm not great at remembering names but ideas are easier to retain, and Heraclitus might be misinformed about formative years music broadcast on the wireless as my Northern pals called it. When I listen to Sounds of the 70s the immersion in the past is complete. I'm more present there, than in the here and now as it were.

Johnnie Walker has hit the 500th mark towards his stated 1000  today. Congratulations Johnnie.

What a tribute. Decades later and I'm still swooning head over heels to the 70s.

Keep it up Johnnie and Thanks for the time travel. I mean it

Glen Close; Hayley Mills | The Wife, Kill Bill (part 1) & Twisted Nerve

Glenn Close name-checking Hayley Mills is the BEST.

— Jennifer Abella (@nextjen) January 7, 2019

Is Donald Trump Channelling Elvis?

This is one of the delights of Being Gen X. If you first got to listen to the music and then subsequently get to see the visual, it adds a special layer of nostalgia and meaning that is impossible to describe to younger people who grew up with Youtube and full media or multimedia as it once was called.

I'm posting this Elvis clip as it claims to be new video footage though I doubt it is. However it is notable for a drunk and barely able to breath Elvis launching into song and smashing it out of the park.

I also find the first few seconds of Elvis in the video remind me of Trumps body language.

The Rockford Files - Backlash of the Hunter

Actor James Garner died recently and I remembered that I felt warm towards his Rockford Files character from the days when I used to watch television as a child. He was more modest than most detectives and lived on the cheap as I recalled, so I downloaded the first series to see if it's the sort of thing I could relax to without thinking to much.

I watched the first episode from around 1974 last night and it was spectacularly badly-written with plot holes wider than a crack hookers spread, and characters that would do well in the yearly pantomime at the Southampton Gaumont. 

But still, it was kind of enjoying to watch and the guest star of this first episode is Lindsay Wagner, a stunning American babe from that period in the 70's when things were a lot less complicated than they are today and women were a lot slimmer. 

She now does new age spiritual retreats which I think is the perfect way for a beautiful lady to age gracefully and make a contribution. 

There's lots of episodes up on Youtube. 

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