NOR: Do you like The Carpenters?

[StJoesFanboy]

PBS has a fundraiser tonight, and they're doing a show on The Carpenters.  What a group or duo. 

So, I don't have a stereo, and I don't know how to use Sonos; so, I'm pulling up their songs on my IPhone, which leads you to porn--just kidding.

And then Don McLean pops up on my YouTube.  and a video of maybe what "American Pie" means.  (Thin-slice pizza at Rocco's in Bayonne after baseball w/ the parents' drinking pitchers of beer, eating mussels, not paying any attention to us running around the bar--winning or losing the game just a memory.) 

and i pull up Luther Vandross's version of The Carpenter's "Superstar."  (5 AM, the day after Labor Day morning, 18 in 1984,  in the back of my friend's car with Anne Yencorelli (I can still remember her every curve and coming back down later that night) parked on Ocean Ave in Belmar on a hazy morning with all the Bennies gone back North, and my dingbat friend riding up on a bike with his dumb smile asking what's going on and when can he have his car back.  His uncle later became a ___________-crime-family Captain, but that's for another day.  I will say this now:  Several yrs later, many yrs after I had last seen him, he and his S. American wife robbed an armored car in S. America, and he tried to pass along the proceeds of the crime at a bank in Hoboken.  My brother, who was just a young patrolman then, had to be the guy who I.D.ed him on the bank film.  He went inside Fairton for 2 yrs for that.  Hadn't thought about that in decades.)

I'm reminded why Plato took music so seriously, and wanted it censored.  Gotta get my hate back on for tomorrow--back to being a sheep.  F--- The Carpenters.

 

[Cossacks]

Watch the Carpenters videos in reverse. It looks likes Karen is putting on weight.