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Gentlemen,
My wife and I have seeming frequent discussions about "what an odd goofball I am".
The discussion pertains around the odd and eclectic things that I like for entertainment. My common rejoinder is "that certainly somewhere in the world someone else shares my same strange taste". After perusing your two main websites for the past few days, I have come to the conclusion that I have found not one, but two clones of me. :-)
It started when I was a kid-watching L&H
shorts on local early morning TV in the 60's. From there I progressed
to wanting to see W.C. Fields movies because my mother bought that Gary
Owens narrated L.P. containing Fields films soundtrack dialogue for me
for Christmas in 1969. The next stop on the train was Chaplin and
Keaton during my high school years. The Marx Brothers caught my eye
during a screening of the Paramounts at the local College in the mid
70's. In the late 1970's I began collecting every Beatles L.P. I could
get my hand on; both legit and bootleg (I only just now have a digital
Beatles collection that satisfies me, although I still want a copy of
the overpriced 22 cd U.K. mono singles set).
As a young adult in the 1980's, I formed an appreciation for the John Ford-John Wayne collaboration movies. In the meantime, I had acquired a VCR and suffered the paucity of available material from my favorites (it was still the 1980's after all). The Beatles collecting continued unabated until 1989 when vinyl had pretty much dried up, and Beatles cds were nowhere to be found (yet).
Here I am all these years later, happily married to a Star Wars fanatic (who doesn't share MY entertainment passions, nor I hers) who kindly endures my obsessions with the occasional DVD purchase. And we wonder how strange my tastes are. And then I find YOU. :-)
Thank you for showing me that I am not all that "weird", and that perhaps maybe, just maybe there is some cosmological link amongst these entertainments that can tend to make them attractive at once to the same person. In other words, what do Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, The Beatles, John Wayne, and John Ford all have in common? That if somebody likes one of them, they tend to like ALL of them.
Maxim Muir
Gentlemen,
My wife and I have seeming frequent discussions about "what an odd goofball I am".
The discussion pertains around the odd and eclectic things that I like for entertainment. My common rejoinder is "that certainly somewhere in the world someone else shares my same strange taste". After perusing your two main websites for the past few days, I have come to the conclusion that I have found not one, but two clones of me. :-)
It started when I was a kid-watching L&H
shorts on local early morning TV in the 60's. From there I progressed
to wanting to see W.C. Fields movies because my mother bought that Gary
Owens narrated L.P. containing Fields films soundtrack dialogue for me
for Christmas in 1969. The next stop on the train was Chaplin and
Keaton during my high school years. The Marx Brothers caught my eye
during a screening of the Paramounts at the local College in the mid
70's. In the late 1970's I began collecting every Beatles L.P. I could
get my hand on; both legit and bootleg (I only just now have a digital
Beatles collection that satisfies me, although I still want a copy of
the overpriced 22 cd U.K. mono singles set).As a young adult in the 1980's, I formed an appreciation for the John Ford-John Wayne collaboration movies. In the meantime, I had acquired a VCR and suffered the paucity of available material from my favorites (it was still the 1980's after all). The Beatles collecting continued unabated until 1989 when vinyl had pretty much dried up, and Beatles cds were nowhere to be found (yet).
Here I am all these years later, happily married to a Star Wars fanatic (who doesn't share MY entertainment passions, nor I hers) who kindly endures my obsessions with the occasional DVD purchase. And we wonder how strange my tastes are. And then I find YOU. :-)
Thank you for showing me that I am not all that "weird", and that perhaps maybe, just maybe there is some cosmological link amongst these entertainments that can tend to make them attractive at once to the same person. In other words, what do Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, The Beatles, John Wayne, and John Ford all have in common? That if somebody likes one of them, they tend to like ALL of them.
Maxim Muir