random amazing things i learned this week

Yul Brynner in drag picking up Roman Polanski in The Magic Christian

John Lennon singing background vocals on David Bowie’s Fame

The F blues scale easily works over Ab major which shouldn’t be so surprising since it is the relative minor, but I never saw my particular blues scale that way. This makes my thin version of All The Things You Are much more worthy of entering the Gong show.

The Tranzac community has achieved 20% of the 50k it needs to finish the bar renovations.

A German carpenter named Georg Elser almost killed Hitler in 1939, with much precision he infiltrated security and planted a bomb which did go off, but Hitler by chance left the podium 15 minutes earlier.

I saw Lina Wertmüller’s film Swept Away four times and each time thought it was about something else.

David Ruffin’s older brother Jimmy. I heard about him but never actually heard him and then I heard Stevie Wonder say something flattering bout Jimmy in an old interview and I searched him out. Totally awesome.

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