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Interview:--> Lance Threet (Clocks)

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"Summer... gonna make you feel like runnin' away   do it...do it...do it." ~ Clocks ~ In 1982, the Clocks hit the streets with a glorious self-titled album   filled with catchy new wave splash and summer flash.  For fans, it would sadly be the bands only record. (At least until their 2004 reunion.) But mercy, what a tasty piece of shag to leave behind. The album remains both endearing and enduring and begs rediscovery. Not to mention spawning one of the most underrated singles of its era. The Clocks , from Wichita, KS, had their glorious moments in the sun and were a successful rock n roll band, however you want to measure it. I caught up with guitarist Lance Threet and we talked about those times. ~ Lance Threet, Gerald Graves, Steve Swaim, Jerry Sumner ~ Interview - May 13, 2014 Casey Chambers:  Everything has its beginning, so let me ask, how did the Clocks come together? Lance Threet:  Well, we came together in junior high b

Lost Stream Gem: "Arsenic And Old Lace" (1944)

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"I'd like to lick the coil some day... Like Icarus, who had to pay with melting wax and feathers brown. He tasted it on his way down." -- Phish -- This surprisingly twisted film, directed by legendary Frank Capra ...rolls comedy, horror, romance, and drama into one long, smooth and satisfying smoke. "Arsenic And Old Lace" (1944) is a whacked-out tale revolving around a hyperactive longtime bachelor...Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) who finally takes the marital plunge and returns to his hometown to announce the good news to his two favorite aunts who are now running a boardinghouse for elderly men. Crazy Aunts - Jean Adair & Josephine Hull These delightful old sisters are perfect as the sweetly naive and macabre spinsters who share a very strange secret. Mortimer, of course, accidentally stumbles upon his aunts..."charitable activities"...and quickly realizes his favorite relatives have been loitering just a little too close to Insan