In a message dated 2/29/00 10:24:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, keythkeyth@netscape.net writes: << anyone else watch the beach boys show from the last two evenings? >> Oi Vey! For those who don't know, the Beach Boys are the end-all-be-all of music for me. The only band who can top B&S in my book. With this in mind, yes I trudged through the mini-series for the past two nights hoping to have my mind changed with regard to TV movies (i.e.- I fucking hate them). All in all, I thought it started out pretty spot-on and then turned a bit crap. The one scene that totally made my skin crawl was were the boys were doing the vocals to "Wouldn't Be Nice" and, as usual, Mike and Brian were going at it. Mike said Pet Sounds was "worthless ego music" when Carl steps in and, with perfectly stomach-turning drama, sighs "Michael, what does that matter when you have music like THIS?" as he motions to the headset playing the FINISHED vocals of WIBN, "How can you hear music like this and not want to be a part of it?" Other than that scene I found it pretty decent. I thought the guy who played Murry Wilson was pretty ace, and the scene where the boys' mom chews him out for selling the songs was GRATE (as everyone seems to be spelling). I watched the Brian Wilson Biography on A&E a few days before the TV movie and I just found it hilarious how they took scenes and memories straight out of that special and put them in the movie. It insured historical accuracy and probably kept alot of unnecessary tear-jerking out of the mix, but it was just like watching the Biography twice (except Marilyn is alot hotter in the movie). You've also got it backwards, Mike Love is the fucking prick of the group (as anyone on Sinister will tell you). He sued Brian for $5 million dollars last year, he tours under the Beach Boys tag by himself, plus he bragged to everyone how he was the one who purposely drove Brian insane. I hate that fucker and his stupid hats. Keith- if I were you, I'd save my money on "Smiley Smile" and try to pick up the "Good Vibrations" box set. Its so amazing! 5 discs, and the 5th disc is nothing but tracks of Brian building the songs in the studio, or stack-o-vocals type stuff where its strictly them singing. The stack-o-vocals mix of "California Girls" will send shivers up your spine! You know, I also think this album "could" be B&S last. Not because of any rumor I've heard, but as taxing as its become to make this album, plus Stuart D's departure, it would seem to make it likely. I hope its not, thats for sure. I have to write a college essay as though it were a personal journal entry for September 20, 2030. This is so lame I could cry. Love and Cabinessence Steve C. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Which Paul?" "BLAH!" visit http://callowkids.tripod.com or your crush will hate you forever +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+