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DOB Podcast: Vinyl, Cards, and Blues

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Sometimes its better to talk than write. People much rather listen to you as they work on something else or walk along with their day. Call it the modern persuasion or whatever you’d like. It’s here. So along with the new look here, the Facebook page(which you still need to go like), and the fresh doses, I am going to start dropping DOB podcasts here. 30 minutes of sports, entertainment, real life and whatever else crosses my mind. Spur of the moment consciousness or a planned attack, they will be dropped here.

On the menu this morning:

*A review of the HBO series, Vinyl which concluded Season 1

*A look at the Cards and their new power ways

*A Blues-Hawks brief stop

*Quick movie recommendations

And more. I hope you listen and enjoy. If not, I’m just another guy talking to himself at 1130pm.

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Vinyl: HBO’s best series since Sopranos

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Bob Marley once said, “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

When I heard Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger were cooking up an HBO series about the music business in the 1970’s, I didn’t want to believe it. My brain wouldn’t compute what my heart was dancing around my chest about. Arguably the greatest director of all time and the greatest rock n’ roll front man baking a drama cake at the premium cable network giant that collects Emmy awards like I collect coffee mugs. Are you talking to me? No way. Then it happened. Vinyl was a reality.

Two episodes and three hours into this wonderful Sunday exodus, I want more. Right now. There’s a reason HBO renewed this series after one night. You don’t let gold leave the hotel room if you have it for the entire night. You don’t let gold get away so Lena Dunham can whine about her existential crisis for another couple seasons. Vinyl hits a cueball shot back to the glory days of HBO. Sopranos, The Wire, Oz and Boardwalk Empire. Shows that didn’t care if you dug them because they had swagger and walked like a heavyweight. (more…)