One of the most overlooked youtube shows ever. Old people reviewing the music of today.

 Breakfast at Sulimay's critics Bill Able (left), Ann Bailey and Joe Walker.

In the back booth of Sulimay's Restaurant in Philadelphia, you'll regularly find three saucy old-timers. Between them, they've lived almost 100 years in Philadelphia's Fishtown, but these three aren't just fixtures of the neighborhood diner scene. Ann Bailey, Bill Able and Joe Walker have become surprisingly popular — as pop music critics.
As Walker, 84, explains, "It is the music of the age — it is the music of the young people. And it's what they're going to remember years from now, with nostalgia. I don't know how, because it really doesn't appeal to me. But I try to listen to it and give an honest review."
Breakfast at Sulimay's is a viral success. Their reviews are posted on YouTube almost every other week. Marc Brodzik, of Philly-based Woodshop Productions, is the man behind the reviews. Brodzik is a frequent diner at Sulimay's, where you can't avoid Walker, Bailey and Able.
Apparently, Brodzik was "dazzled by the wit and humor and the erudition of these guys sitting in Fishtown, in a little restaurant, talking," — at least, so Walker says. "I couldn't believe he was asking us to review the music, because I know nothing about rock 'n' roll or rap. He put it on tape, and it sort of caught on."
Pitchfork, The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones and others are impressed with the candidness of the three diners.
"I think some of their reviews are actually really brave," says Philadelphia Weekly music editor Brian McManus. "There's a community of critics, and we all kind of live within a bubble. If you don't like the new Animal Collective, it might be a scary thing to say in front of critical company. I think what makes Sulimay's so great is they come with none of that baggage. They're honest."
In fact, the Sulimay's critics did pan the critically acclaimed, hipster-idolized Animal Collective single "My Girls."
"It's giving me a headache," Bailey, 66, said. "The lyrics were repetitious; it was as bad as 'Rocket Man.' "
"I don't think this band is going to make it very far from Baltimore, Md.," Walker added.

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Bush explains slow reaction to September 11 attacks

By Jill Serjeant

Former President George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the September 11 2001 attacks was a conscious decision to project an aura of calm in a crisis.

In a rare interview with the National Geographic Channel, Bush reflects on what was going through his mind at the most dramatic moment of his presidency when he was informed that a second passenger jet had hit New York's World Trade Center.

Bush was visiting a Florida classroom and the incident, which was caught on TV film, and has often been used by critics to ridicule his apparently blank face.

"My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America? Then I immediately focused on the children, and the contrast between the attack and the innocence of children," Bush says in an excerpt of the interview shown to television writers on Thursday.

Bush said he could see the news media at the back of the classroom getting the news on their own cellphones "and it was like watching a silent movie."

Bush said he quickly realized that a lot of people beyond the classroom would be watching for his reaction.

"So I made the decision not to jump up immediately and leave the classroom. I didn't want to rattle the kids. I wanted to project a sense of calm," he said of his decision to remain seated and silent.

"I had been in enough crises to know that the first thing a leader has to do is to project calm," he added.

The National Geographic Channel will broadcast the hour-long interview on August 28 as part of a week of programs on the cable network called "Remembering 9/11" that mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

The interview was recorded over two days in May, without any questions being submitted in advance, the channel said.

National Geographic said Bush gives "intimate details" of his thoughts and feelings in a way never seen before. Most of the interview is about the first minutes and hours of the day that Islamic militants hijacked four planes and crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Executive producer and director Peter Schnall said Bush, who has adopted a low public profile since leaving office in January 2009, brought no notes to the interview.

"What you hear is the personal story of a man who also happened to be our president. Listening to him describe how he grappled with a sense of anger and frustration coupled with his personal mandate to lead our country through this devastating attack was incredibly powerful," Schnall said.

U.S. television networks are planning a slew of specials to mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks. Those on National Geographic also include a documentary on the continuing U.S. war on terror, and stories of ordinary people on Sept, 11 2001 called "Where Were You?"

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