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Sunday Music: Find Another Fool

 Second single (after Harden My Heart) off of Quarterflash's self-titled 1981 debut album, which peaked at #16, certifying the band as no mere one-hit wonders, and propelling their opening album to platinum status, courtesy of another hard-rocking tune with Rindy Ross doing both lead vocals and playing saxophone.

R.I.P. Gene Hackman

Aged 95, at home with his wife and dog (sounds suspicious, but probably a gas or carbon monoxide problem - time will tell). Double Academy Award-winning actor with about a million movies to his credit (he was doing 2-5 movies/year in the 1980s and 1990s). His big break-out role was alongside Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as a member of the gang in Bonnie and Clyde. 

Followed it up a few roles later with his Best Actor performance, with Roy Scheider in The French Connection. 

Then made the rest of his 79 career movies. Not counting TV roles and plays by the dozen.  (If, for one example, you haven't seen March Or Die, it's apparently temporarily available in full and free with ads on YouTube. Great Foreign Legion flick.) Even in mediocre roles or movies, (and most of his were anything but that) Hackman could always be counted on for an eminently watchable performance, and could captivate an audience in even a small role, and probably just reading a cereal box. 

Phenomenal actor with a monumental body of work over 4 decades in Hollywood, and with the good grace to generally keep his personal opinions to himself, and focus on being a great actor, a trait far too rare in many lesser lights (and beside him, most of Hollywood is a lesser light). Most of SAG-AFTRA heaved a sigh of relief when he retired in 2004, because it meant any five other actors could finally get some work.

Reference Reminder

 

For Informational Purposes, the above list of keywords is the ones that set the NSA's e-mail and online post-searching machinery into hyperdrive. Feel free to sprinkle them liberally into anything from blogposts to gumbo recipes, or avoid them altogether, depending upon whether you wish to Cloward-Piven their Cray supercomputers into letharagic fits, or avoid further scrutiny of anything you send online.

If you have a sense of humor, using some form of simple encryption far less secure than PGP, (Think Aurabesh, Klingon, or an A=1, B=2, Z=26 cipher), and writing a series of letters and replies between two dead and anonymous email accounts describing their upcoming terrorist operation(s) - purely as research for your unpublished thriller novel, of course - would be quite a hoot.)

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Bonus Pro Tip:

Ciphers are generally encrypted in blocks of 5 numbers, e.g.:

68768 79667 52894 57823 49571

98235 79037 21974 13745 10983

79087 23409 81231 67981 65874

87649 76494 87489 46498 64948

94654 33748 97345 98352 37352

The assumption on the part of TPTB is that anything encrypted is probably nefarious.

And you can find random character generators online that will spew out thousands of characters of gibberish using the entire keyboard assortment, absolutely free.

Ain't technology grand?

Department Of Malicious Compliance

h/t Peter ...and Skippy

Sunday Music: Crash

 

A little slice of the 80s, this confection of perfection (if you can't fall in love with platinum blonde lead singer Tracy Tracy, I don't know you) was the one hit of one-hit wonders The Primitives in 1988, re-appearing in the soundtracks for Dumb and Dumber and Mr. Bean's Holiday, and also being currently the perfect soundtrack choice for any airline flight powered by DIE, or for any one of two dozen Leftard judges currently issuing unconstitutional injunctions against the current administration.

O Please

 h/t WRSA

How Sweet It Is

 h/t Peter