{"id":174,"date":"2009-09-18T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-01-31T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:03:16","slug":"jake-and-elwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Jake and Elwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.bluesbrothersgallery.com\/images\/bluesbros.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.bluesbrothersgallery.com\/&amp;usg=__JmMQkaWaszslTxHFp2ErstGLPCU=&amp;h=390&amp;w=576&amp;sz=46&amp;hl=en&amp;start=17&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=0c8A_-gYm5KjuM:&amp;tbnh=91&amp;tbnw=134&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bblues%2Bbrothers%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ADBS_en%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:0c8A_-gYm5KjuM:http:\/\/www.bluesbrothersgallery.com\/images\/bluesbros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OK, I like all types of movies.\u00a0 One of my favorites is<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tjGfnsjdJec\"> THE BLUES BROTHERS<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 I realize the plot is slim and the story just doesn&#8217;t always follow logic [like why were The Good Ole Boys so angry at them?\u00a0 They arrived so late that they couldn&#8217;t have played at the bar anyway].<\/p>\n<p>But, the movie makes me laugh.\u00a0 Jake and Elwood are one of the best teams in all of movies.\u00a0 It was never the same after Belushi died and there should have\u00a0<strong>never <\/strong>been a BLUES BROTHERS 2000.\u00a0 No Jake, no movie.\u00a0 But what is done is done.<\/p>\n<p>What also makes the movie so classic is it re-introduced me to so many amazing blues legends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Aretha<\/li>\n<li>James Brown<\/li>\n<li>Cab Calloway<\/li>\n<li>John Lee Hooker<\/li>\n<li>Ray Charles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The music in the film adds to the greatness.\u00a0 In addition to the legends listed above, the band that backed up Jake and Elwood are some of the best in the world.\u00a0 Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Matt &#8216;Guitar&#8217; Murphy, Tom&#8217; &#8216;Bones&#8217; Malone, etc&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 So damn good.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8212; all the great cameos and actors throughout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I will post more in the future, but wanted to get this strand started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 OK, I like all types of movies.\u00a0 One of my favorites is THE BLUES BROTHERS.\u00a0 I realize the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}