More January Music

I know, I know, I've done January music already, but this is different. This is the headbanger edition. I ran across a list of the top heavy metal albums. I forget where, I think it was Billboard, but it was supposed to be my January order but it got bumped into February, so I called it my January Order even though it didn't get ordered until March. Confused? I know I am. Well, if you like Heavy Metal...Who cares? It's Metal.

Ace of Spades by Motorhead
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
British Steel, by Judas Priest
Fearless by Taylor Swift (Okay its not metal its Country but I needed it.)
My son the Greatest: The Best of Alan Sherman (Okay another non metal album, its comedy and to be truthful I don't remember why I got this one.
Necroticism by Carcass (This one's gotta be metal!)
Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying by Megadeth
Primera Fila By Vicente Fernandez (A #1 from south of the border but not metal.)
Reign In Blood by Slayer
Roots by Sepultura (Death Metal)
Ultimate Peter and Gordon (Folk Rock from Britain but definitely NOT Metal)
Van Halen
Very Best of Stan Freberg (More Comedy)
Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera

Ops! I'm late with posting my January DVD order.

January was a grabbag of various themes. There were some things I'd missed before, some actors I hadn't covered, a whole lot of Chick Flicks were requested, and some things I'm replacing that I just have to have. For instance I recently went went through the films and found these Bruce Willis films I didn't have;

Billy Bathgate with Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, and Bruce Willis.
Blind Date a Blake Edwards film with Bruce Willis, Kim Bassinger, and John Larroquette.
Die Hard With a Vengeance Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, and Jeremy Irons.
Fifth Element, Bruce WillisGary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, and Mila Jovovich.
Pulp Fiction John Travolta Samual L Jackson, Bruce Willis Harvey Keitel Uma Thruman and everybody else you can think of. (It has a great sountrack which I bought late last year.)


These are some Classics (And not so classics)I've missed or couldn't get until now;



Bedford Incident Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier in a relic of the cold war.
Breathless Jean Seberg Jean Paul Belmondo in this ground breaking 1959 French New Wave film.
Cannery Row Nick Nolte and Debra Winger in the funniest movie you've never heard of. (Narrated by John Huston)
Charge of the Light Brigade David Hemmings, Venessa Redgrave, John Guilgud and Trevor Howard, Very realistic movie for true history & military buffs.
Dune Directed by David Lynch, this monstrosity is for Herbert fans only. (But hey, I'm a Herbert fan.)
Eagle Has Landed Michael Caine, Robert Duval, Donald Sutherland, Jenny Agutter, Anthony Quale, and Larry Hagman in a WWII adventure film from a novel by Jack Higgins.
Ghost Patrick Swayze Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg Directed by Jerry Zucker.
Godfather (I need another copy)
Gorky Park William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy Based on the Robert Cruz novel.
Hallelujah Trail Lee Remick Burt Lancaster, Pamela Tiffin, Brian Keith Martin Landau, a comedy western with a great cast, (I like this one a lot better than the critics do.)
Miracle of Morgan's Creek A Preston Sturges Comedy with Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, and William Demerest one of the great screwball comedies of all time, from 1942, and unfortunately almost forgotten today
Odessa File Jon Voight does a Frederick Forsyth novel, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Preston Sturges: the Filmmaker Colection. This collection has many of Preston Sturges best films but I got it for the Great McGinty and Hail the Conquering Hero two must see film classics that I can't get anywhere else.
Russia House Sean Connery Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox and Klaus Maria Bandauer, in a movie based on the John le Carre novel.
Some Like it Hot Need more copies of this one too.
Warriors the cult classic of Gang warfare.
Young in Heart. A forgotten comedy with Janet Gaynor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Billie Burke, and Paulette Goddard. I haven't seen this one but reviewers all rave about it.

Some Chick Flicks for "Couples Night"
Abre Los Ojos with Penelope Cruz.
Vanilla Sky Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Kurt Russel do Abre Los Ojos in English.
Atonement James McAvoy, Keira Knightly in a British period piece.
Brothers McMullen an indie written and directed by Ed Burns that won big at Sundance.
City of Joy Patrick Swayze plays a doctor working in the Bombay slums. (Ops this was a customer request.)
Elizebethtown, Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, and Alec Baldwin Directed Cameron Crowe.
Ever After Drew Barrymore is a Cinderalla for Feminists.
Love Actually Every British star falls in love. No really, every one, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Keira Knightly, Rowan Atkinson, plus Americans Billy Bob Thorton and Denise Richards.
Serendipity John Cusak and Kate Berkinsale.
Singles, Bridget Fonda, Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bill Pullman, and Paul Giamatti do the Singles scene in Grunge Seattle.

Odds and ends I thought I needed.

Bass Guitar from Scratch
Beginning Banjo
Harmonica Basics - Blues
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vols 1-6
Night Court the Complete Second Season
Pete Sears - Learning Piano
Your Road to Passing the US Citizen Test

March Music

It's been so long since I've had a chance to blog I'm worried there is no one left out there. Last year I made three large big music buys but that didn't work out very well so this year I'm going back to monthly purchases. With Classical music I'm continuing to build the major repertoire by instrument. I started with Cello and now it's Violin. The following is what Grove Encyclopedia of Music considers the most important works by some some of the more important musicians.

Beethoven Violin Concerto - Isaac Stern Violinist, Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic.
Schubert: Violin Works Gidon Kremer
Beethoven Triple Concerto with Sviatoslav Richter piano, David Oistrakh violin, Mstislav Rostropovich cello
Joshua Bell Edition Vol 3 (he plays four great violin concertos, Tchaikovsky in D Major, Wieniawski no. 2 in D minor, Schumann in D minor, and Brahams in D Major)
Isaac Stern a life in music. (He does the Wieniawski #2, Bruch Concerto no. 1 in G minor, and some smaller works by Tchaikovsky)
Schumann: Sonatas for Violin and Piano 1-3
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Khachaturian Violin Concerto (The Khachaturin was written for Leonid Kogan who performs it.)
Artist of the Century Jascha Heifetz
Shostakovich Violin Concerto no 1 Violin Concerto no. 2 (Shostakovich wrote these for Oistrakh who performs them with the USSR state Symphony.)
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Saint-seans; Ravel
Paganini Violins nos 1&2 Shmuel Askenasi (If you like your violinists to show off. Ashkenasi is a Paganini specialist)
Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas Schlomo Mintz Violin
Schubert Sonatas and Duo for Violin and Piano
Spohr Concerto no. 8, Double Quartet and Beethoven Serenade Op. 8 Jasha Heifetz violin, William Primrose viola, Gregor Piatigorsky cello (I'm impressed.)
Brahams Violin Sonatas
Franck, Strauss: Violin Sonatas
British Composers ; Elgar, Delius Violin Concertos Yehudi Meuhin violin