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Bratty Rock At Its Best

“Pushin Too Hard” by The Seeds has been one of my favorite songs since the moment I first heard it sometime in the late 70’s.  I first thought they were a new punk band at the time and only learned later, they came a decade or so earlier.  The song just grabbed me with it’s propulsive rhythm and some of the best bratty vocal stylings ever.  The nasal annoyance teams with the vocals to give it the perfect “get-off-my-back” attitude.

I’ve never seen them perform, but the bad lip-synch is worth the price of admission.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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