Try some with water crackers and a good ruby port.
I’ve had Wensleydale plenty of times since I first heard of it
It certainly wasn’t a widespread influence, but it had a profound effect on a segment of the population. I’d say it was/is more influential on people’s outlooks and habits than 90% of the output of Hollywood.
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Seriously. What’s with the secrecy about the movie’s damned title JustinC? Just tell us already.
My vote is for The Blues Brothers.
Ever wonder how they could get so many of the greatest names in Blues in that movie? Those folks were all hungry in lean times. The movie breathed new life into the genre (if I recall correctly).
Nah, though it’s the Blues Brothers, the only pure Blues act in the movie is John Lee Hooker IIRC, it’s mostly about Soul music. I don’t remember a distinct Soul revival at the time, but anyway it couldn’t have caused a push for Blues because there was so little of it in the movie.
EDIT: to clarify, I do know the close connections between blues, soul, r&b etc. and of course most of the songs were somehow related to the blues, but overwhelmingly leaning to the r&b/soul side of the coin, with the exception of Hooker (I think it was Boogie Chillen)
The one movie I know of that revived an interest in a form of music is The Sting. The public had mostly forgotten about Scott Joplin and ragtime, but when the movie came out in 1973 people got excited about it. The Entertainer was a top 40 hit, and several LPs of ragtime music became popular.
Point taken.
I actually retyped my post a couple of times thinking about this precise distinction, then went with Blues. Nevertheless, it was really cool growing up as I realized one-by-one that the whole cast was top notch musicians.
Even the songs that weren’t sung by the cast were great. For example, when the Blues Brothers get pulled over prior to driving through the mall they are listening to Sam and Dave singing “Soothe Me” on their 8-track. That’s how I was introduced to Sam and Dave.
It was only recently that I found out that Steve Cropper and Donald “Duck” Dunn, featured in the movie, were session musicians for Stax records and were in the backing band for that Sam and Dave album.
They were part of the famous house band of Stax, Booker T And The Mg’s, who played on almost all the Stax recordings and still had time to lay down some of the coolest and most influential instrumental music of their time on their own. They were one of the best bands in all of pop history, maybe only comparable in their special function to Motown’s Funk Brothers or the Wrecking Crew, but with many albums on their own. Yeah, I love them, and I’m proud to have seen them playing live once (in '93 on the European tour with Neil Young. They played Dock Of The Bay, and Neil introduced it with: "Here’s a song you might know. And there’s the guy who wrote it (pointing at Steve Cropper)). A very exceptional band, also in the regard that they were a mix-raced band in the South in the early 60s with a seventeen year old black band leader.
He won’t talk about it.
The first rule…
Idiots getting Border Collies after seeing Babe (much like 101 Dalmations landed many Dalmations in shelters after folks figured out they’re not great with kids).
Most BCs are hyper-driven, scary-smart dogs who need lots of running room and intellectual stimulation (at least mine do; they have an acre+ to run on and go to herding classes).
A lot of beautiful BCs ended up in shelters :mad:
If we’re including memes, that one too.
Okay, I have to ask – Herding Classes?
Obedience classes I can understand, but how do you teach a dog to herd? Do they get a dog yummy every time they round up another herd animal? I thought it was part of their genetic makeup.
MTV got away from videos because videos were hard to sell advertising for. Unlike a 30/60 minute show, you have no “stickiness” to keep viewers for longer than a few minutes or for them not to switch channels once their song was over and/or a commercial came on. After all, it’s not as though you were going to miss the plot if you didn’t switch back right away – there’s always more videos. Traditional programming like Beavis & Butthead or Singled Out was a lot easier to sell adverting time since you were generally assured an audience of a specific demographic for that entire time block.
For a while, “count down” video shows held on since, again, you’d see Number Seven and want to know what Number Six is but those phased out over time as well.
Not easy to get data on this, but possibly the Fifty Shades of Grey effect counts.
Which is funny, as the wine that was Miles’s treasure, that he was saving for a momentous occasion and ended up drinking it, IIRC, by himself at a McDonalds is Chateau Cheval Blanc. Cheval Blanc is, most years, about 40 to 50 percent Merlot, with the remainder Cabernet Franc. And though I don’t remember the line, I’ve read that in the movie, Miles bashes Cab Franc too.
I guess they could have made his wine a bottle of Petrus, but that might be a little too obvious.
I’ve thought it was a deliberate in-joke from the moment I watched the movie. Funny movie, BTW. Makes you cringe in the way that Alexander Payne’s movies do so well.
Oliver Stone’s JFK had a big impact on the passage of the JFK Records Act of 1992, which mandated that all government records relating to the assassination be stored at the National Archives and made public by 2017.
Culturally speaking the film also drove a renewed interest in the assassination and various conspiracy theories. I was an impressionable 13-year-old at the time, and the film inspired a lifelong interest in the assassination despite the fact that I no longer believe in a conspiracy.
I’ve never seen any evidence that Fight Club had any impact on the amount of stuff people buy, or consumerism in general. On the other hand, a bunch of people started real-life fight clubs around the country.