My Dad's Johnny Otis Movie

This is a video blurb from the local rag in lovely Sebastopol, CA, where my dad previewed a documentary biopic he is making on Johnny Otis.


Otis is an RnB composer, performer, producer, businessman, visual artist, preacher and was nearly mayor of Berkeley - a distinctly American renaissance man. His biggest pop hit was "Willie And The Hand Jive", the song from the dance-off scene in Grease (who didn't cry for Olivia Newton John?), but he is also the notable, but less than duly noted talent behind "(You Ain't Nothin' But a) Hound Dog", made famous by Elvis, but sung here by the aptly monickered Big Mamma Thorton:

Coolest Internet Music Thing

Mrs. Captain showed me this site: Pandora is the coolest thing I've seen on the internet in a while. You prompt the program with artists or songs you like and it plays songs it thinks you might also like. You give thumbs up or down and it tailors a streaming music channel for you, and it beaks down what it thinks your musical tastes are. Very interesting...Except I don't understand the name; it should be called "alright".