Movin with Nancy

Here it is in all its glory and gloriously goofiness. The 60's TV special by Nancy Sinatra, Movin with Nancy.

I have been trying to find this special for many years to watch it. I have the album and it is wonderful.

But I've at last seen the special...

Some Velvet Morning is a straight up pure psychedelic classic.

I'm a fan of Frank and Dino's music so having them in this is a pure bonus.

The dance sequences.... um, they were ridiculously goofy but pure fun.

I really recommend checking this special out.

Yours in TV Watching,

Count Robot

 

Three of Some Other Kind

 

Three of Some Other Kind

A pirate, a monkey, and a junkie walk into a bar

The pirate orders rum

The monkey orders rum

The junkie orders the monkey off his back

Why is it three that I always see?

A goblin, a troll, and a pin up model walk into a bar

Then one of them opens the door

Get it?

They actually all walked right into the wall outside the bar

What a bunch of morons

Who can swim across lagoons or play drum solos on spoons

A plumber, a mathematician, and Dr. Frankenstein, walk into a hotel bar

The name of the hotel is as relevant as the irrelevance of the post

nasal drip condition of a Hawaiian wolf dog's beekeepers local honey farmer

Once the trio sat down, Dr. Frankenstein offered the plumber five thousand clams for his brain, then the doctor offered the mathematician one thousand clams for his brain

The mathematician was shocked, he wanted to know why the doctor offered less for his clean, precise, brain

The doctor explained that plumbing can't be outsourced but math can be 

It's all you, you, and me

Bicycle Man

 If this were a true story, it should have a beginning, middle, and ending.

Instead its more like an idea or a description.

Under the highway overpass there lives a weatherworn man.

In a sense he might be called homeless, but this is home to him.

Its also where he works.

He repairs bicycles. Any kind, any make, it doesn't matter to him.

He takes whatever payment people will give him, a can of soda, a sandwich, a couple of dollars, a thank you, a few kind words, whatever anyone can spare.

He scours the city for parts for his repairs. He fashions whatever he can find into what he needs.

I don't know how he lives with the summer heat, the noise, the exhaust fumes, the punishing pavement, or the winter cold.

He sleeps in a small tent behind his wall of stuff. Discarded and broken material dreams that he builds into new stuff or keeps simply because he feels they must be kept. 

How long will the city let him remain there?

Will he stay there until he chooses to close his repair shop or will some bureaucratic red tape wind its way around his unshaved neck?

Yours in repair,

Count Robot

You Want

You want the friendship without all the pain

You want the friendship without the open vein

You want it all easy with laughs and fun

No days without a bright sun

The pain is where we shine

Yours in unfinished poetry,

Count Robot

Superman 2025

 

Recently I got the chance to see the latest Superman movie at the Omni Theater at the Museum of Science.

The screen wasn’t completely  filled since the movie was shot in Imax but still the image looked rather amazing and it was a unique experience considering the Omni Theater usually just shows films shot in the Omni format which are usually short documentary style subjects.

The Omni Theater screen is 5 stories high! 

Many years ago I saw a movie shot for that size screen about the Nile in Egypt and it was like I imagine flying over the Nile would be, if I was ever lucky enough to have that experience.

The Omni Theater is intensely immersive.

Now to Superman itself…

With one watch it became my favorite live action version of the Superman story.

James Gunn knows how to direct a super hero movie.

A lot has been written about this movie and far more eloquently than I will, so

I’ll just say it kept Superman as he was/is a good hearted immigrant who wants to do good things in his new home.

And it's about time Krypto and the Superman robots made it into a movie!

Yours at the cinema,

Count Robot

Stupid Songs I'll Never Write

What if i wrote a song about a stripper and called it money mounds?




Would that be the biggest hit Astro Al has never had or would it be another thing for the world to ignore?

Or would it be the sexist thing that crushes me?

Put your answers below or not…

Into the desert

 in 2023 our audio project Static Apparitions played at the experimental music festival Wonder Valley in the 29 Palms desert.

The desert is an amazing place. It is another world.

While there we did a lot of recording in the desert both in Joshua Tree and in 29 Palms.

Some of the material has been released on a compilation album that helps pay for trees to be planted.

Give it a listen here

Our track is called Cactus Lullaby.

   Yours in desert beauty

    Count Robot