blues brothers movie

 this morning i put in a DVD movie, a recent purchase from amazon, 'blues brothers'. it is a double feature disc so the '2000' version is on it as well. i first saw it on WGN-TV back in high school, and it meant seeing an edited version. i think i had seen the unedited version just once before, when i was in california on vacation staying with some shirt-tail relatives. it had been a while since i had seen it, so of course i had a different perspective than before. and it is nice to have it on disc as the existing copy is on VHS, and recorded from TV. i recall dating somebody who asked why i kept referring to the movie, well it is a classic and they hadn't seen it. and of course there are plenty of notables in the cast, besides belushi and aykroyd, who have small roles in it such as ray charles and aretha franklin. an early scene at a church, where james brown plays the preacher, listed chaka khan in the credits. an observation i had made a while back was how a few things in this movie reminded me of 'smokey and the bandit', also released by universal, 3 years earlier. both have a soul food cafe, and both are known for car chases. both have a scene where a police car crashes into a semi-truck. 

once the movie was one i watched the easter service on the fox channel from our lady of grace, a catholic church in edina. then it was on to the USFL game on NBC. houston was shutting out michigan at the half, 17-0, so i laid down and when i woke up another program was on. so it was over to '45', where the saints baseball game was on. saints beat indianapolis 5-1. i got a look at my postcards again and freed up space in 3 slots in my photo albums so there is space for upcoming orders. 'simpsons' wasn't on so it was over to a rerun channel that was showing 'alice', i watched 2 episodes. one mentioned a class reunion, for vera if i am not mistaken, but it was more about flo going to night school. then i did some more shredding of junk mail, one plastic shopping bag was filled. later on i went on a walk and found 24 cents.