Comments on: What are you doing New Year’s Eve? https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659944 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:03:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659944 Huxley: thanks for the Gall video. Nice. More French stuff for you–black and white footage from behind the scenes on the making of “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort” (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, her even more striking sister Francoise Dorleac (who was killed in a car crash that same year), and Gene Kelly speaking French:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NkoVBXliEk&t=57s

With subtitles. Very 1960s.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659898 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:51:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659898 My birthday was December 30 but I had a gig so I went out for my birthday dinner Dec. 31 at a local restaurant. Got home before 9PM.

“Boom Boom”

Apparently not the one by John Lee Hooker.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659875 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 01:26:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659875 Huxley: more Trenet, this time his “Boum”, from 1938:

Hubert:

Boy, those 30s/40s songwriters wrote tight! (I’m also thinking of Hoagie Carmichael.)

France Gall did a Ye-ye song. I’ll raise you a Boom.

–“Boom, Boom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04nfZ4eWmHk

It’s about a young woman overwhelmed by her lover. There’s a death in the middle of the song I don’t understand, but in the end she discovers that not only is she overwhelmed but her lover expects children, many children.
____________________

It’s wonderful to live like this
A crushing love
But I shuddered when you told me
“I want lots of kids”
Rosalie, Lucas boom boom
Virginia, Francois boom boom
Julie and Bruno, Janette and Janot
And then boom boom twins
____________________

I wonder if the song was influenced by Trenet’s.

The video shows Gall’s 1967 look — blonde bangs cut straight at the eyebrows. I swear Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary copped that look for their ’67 album, “Late Again”, when PP&M were updating their image and sound for the psychedelic era.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659872 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:46:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659872 Steve57:

Good to hear from you! Happy 2023!

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659861 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:45:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659861 All the San Diego liberty incident reports involved a snot slinging drunk Sailor or Marine turning up back at the border with no cash, no keys, no wallet, and no shoes. That’s the part that always killed me. The Mexicans always stole the shoes.

Even when we’re not proud of you, Sailors and Marines, we’ll still claim you. My favorite was Airman Favorite. No kidding. I sent the duty driver to pick him up when he crawled across the border. He thought he still had his ID. So he reaches into his back pocket and whips out…

The switchblade he just bought in TJ. The security police had some fun with him and I had him brought to me in irons

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659860 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:44:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659860 We had a nice time at a neighborhood party we walked to. I so much enjoy this group. Many racial and ethnic backgrounds, all friends, all nice people. We are blessed.

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659857 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:24:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659857 When i was in the Navy i used to trade duty with other officers just to make sure I had duty on New Year’s Eve. The stories in Tijuana-adjacent San Diego practically wrote themselves. The only thing more fun as a duty officer was when we dropped the brow in Subic Bay/Cubi Point. We placed bets on which squadron would have the first Sailor coming back to the ship to submit a special request chit to get married.

Yes. Junior Sailors had to ask permission to get married

Anyhow, it was always at least 2 hours before the last Sailor in line had a hope in hell of getting off the carrier

]]> By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659820 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:55:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659820 Spent the evening quietly at home, watching Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I’m Going!” (1945) with a friend.

Huxley: more Trenet, this time his “Boum”, from 1938:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBFeoikELo

Trenet was an original. One of Francoise Hardy’s favorites when she was growing up.

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659815 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:47:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659815 Very quiet NYE and my wife, who loves college football, had a wonderful day watching the games. I felt sorry for the kid who missed the field goal for Ohio State.

Happy New Year everyone. I only hope it is.

And thanks for the blog again.

]]> By: SHIREHOME https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve-4/#comment-2659813 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:26:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123308#comment-2659813 We went out for dinner with friends, then Monopoly. I was in bed by 11:30. Wife stayed up to watch one of the Korean shows she watches.

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