Movie Song of the Week: "Walking in Space"

I must admit that I have always had mixed feelings about the various songs inspired by drug culture -- perhaps because I know too many real-life examples of the downside of the lifestyle inspired by said culture that can't be explained away as DEA propaganda.

And yet there's no denying the poetry in such songs like this one -- even if it reminds me of the old saying involving moths and flames.

It doesn't hurt that this particular song from the 1979 movie Hair featured a nice solo by actress Betty Buckley -- an actress usually best known for having played the gym teacher in the 1976 thriller Carrie. Ms. Buckley did such a nice job on her solo that I did not realize until recently that the young Vietnamese girl who mouthed her words on screen wasn't the real singer of the song. The things one learns as one gets older...

Hey, I Remember This Show: Eight Is Enough

Apparently this is the one TV show that certain people on the Net love to hate, which is something that I cannot help finding strange since my siblings and I always loved this show when it was in its first run. Perhaps it is because I grew up with three siblings and had cousins who came from even larger families.

This week I post the intro from its first season in which the late Diana Hyland played the family matriarch...



...and the intro of the last half of the second season, after Betty Buckley -- yes, the same Betty Buckley who played Carrie White's gym teacher -- joined the cast as the family's stepmother.

I hope you all enjoy them.