Topic: Separated at Birth: Clean-Shaven Levon Helm and Middle-Aged Holly Hunter
Concept: This idea was spurred by seeing Hunter on a late-night show in the last year or two. With that middle-aged, raw boniness that comes from desparately improved exercise regimens and sagging skin, it struck me that Hunter looked a lot like a middle-aged Levon Helm but without his trademark beard. I was sure this would be a killer image to share, but I noticed that in touched-up still photos of middle-aged Holly, she lost some of that sharecropper’s edge. I’m pretty sure it was an appearance on Letterman that sealed the deal, but I could not find her appearance on that show. Instead, you’ll have to see if you can catch a glimpse of Beardless Helm in this Late Show appearance from 2008.
Senor Moderator, if you only knew how many times I had had this same thought! Well, technically, none. But now that you mention it, yes: Holly does have that same sort of lockjawed backwoodsy drawl that makes you want her to burst out with, “Virgil Cane is my name / And I worked on the Danville train….” And in the old days when she still had a beard the resemblance was even more uncanny.
I should perhaps gently point out that there’s this thing called dialects, see? Linguistics fail.
I’ll take late peiod Steely Dan over Dave Matthews to show off my stereo any time.
Beatles LOVE is the Stereo Show- off CD of choice for me..esp now that you can go 5.1 with the DVD version… I just got a real 5-cable 5.1 set up (analog!) and now I am that asshole (time to crank up Goucho!)
Gaucho? Any audiophile worth his weight in salt knows that it’s Two Against Nature that needs to get cranked on the hi-fi!
I’ve got the DVD version of Love, but I don’t have the set up for it. Matter of fact, I’ve bought a few 5.1s in the past few years. Perhaps my Secret Santa will gift me one?
TB
Gotta go to bat for what I think is the ultimate audiophile album, “Bellybutton” by Jellyfish. Any time an album is so obsessively hyper-engineered that it breaks up the band, you gotta believe it’ll make your high-end ribbon speakers sing.
In all seriousness, I’ve heard it’s the go-to album for geeky L.A. studio engineers who want to test studio monitors.