Tuesday afternoon the actor Heath Ledger died of what is believed to an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. The whole story is very sad he was 28, a great actor and had a small daughter who will never get to know her father.
What pisses me off is the way that the media has decided to handle this story. My sister and her boyfriend live a few blocks from Heath's babymamma Michelle Williams in Brooklyn as does a co worker of mine. My sister's boyfriend told me last night that the media circus in front of Michelle Williams' place is totally crazy and this co worker was saying the same thing this morning. The media should really lay off this poor woman and let her and her child grieve in private.
As sad and shocking as this story is....... this story really isn't something that the media should devote all of it's time too. And to go slightly on a tangent in regards to this story now it was reveled that the housekeeper called Mary Kate Olsen when she found Heath lying unconscious and MK sent over her private security people rather then call 911. Apparently Mary Kate and Heath were supposedly dating....now I have to ask you male readers what is the sexual appeal of the Olsen Twins!? Ashley is cute I'll give her that, but Mary Kate reminds me of a cross between the beggar woman in "Sweeney Todd" and a troll. But I digress back to me making my original point..........
And then I know I shouldn't give people like Fred Phelps and John Gibson any attention. John Gibson, who is a Fox News host (no surprise there) mocked Ledger's death and called him a "weirdo" with a drug problem.
Phelps, is the head of the Westboro Baptist Church out of Kansas and basically the whole church is the Phelps family. These crazy cunts go around to the funerals of fallen US soldiers and tell their families they are rotting in hell because they were fags. The smartest thing President Bush did was sign a bill banning these people from going anywhere near military funerals. These wing nuts were also the people that told Matthew Shepard's mother at his funeral that Matthew Shepard was rotting in hell because he was gay. Their "motto" is "God Hates Fags". Anyhow they sent out a press release yesterday saying that they plan on protesting Heath Ledger's funeral in Australia all because he promoted the gay lifestyle when he played Ennis in "Brokeback Mountain". I just hope Australia prevents these evil people from entering the country. And I'm also convinced that old' Freddy is a big old queen and should just come out of the closet, if he did that he'd be a lot happier!!
Onto the next items...One of my many interview subjects Mr. Andrew Vladeck (aka Dory Honey of the Honey Brothers) is playing a solo show this saturday night Jan 26th at the Abrons Art Center in NYC. The address is 466 Grand Street, Andrew goes on at 8:30pm and the tickets are ten dollars. He'll no doubt be playing some tracks off his new forth coming solo album "The Magnet". Andrew's sound is very folky and unique...... worth a check out for sure. Here is his website: http://www.andrewvladeck.com/
There are two GNYC friday 1/25 and saturday 1/26. The friday night show is at the Mean Fiddler with The Johnny Strange and Dr. Mary (with a new lead singer!) on the bill the fun begins at 7pm. The Mean Fiddler is located at 47th Street between B'day and 8th Avenue in good old mid town Manhattan. The saturday show is being held at Arlene's Grocery and among those on the bill are MEANY Fest 2007 finalists John McGrew and the Sitbacks, like the friday show the fun starts at 7pm and the tickets are ten dollars each. Arlene's is located at 95 Stanton Street on the LES.
Uggh a few days ago I went out and I was talked into having a sip of absinthe and oh my god I still don't feel right! And that's after only one sip! No wonder why people like Edgar Alan Poe and Hawthrone had issues after drinking that stuff!! I've been a catatonic dream like tired state for the last couple of days!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Picture of the moon
Over the last couple of nights there has been a beautiful full glorious moon.
I live over by a Con Ed plant and last night the smoke stacks were smoking away at full blast and the moon was right behind the smoke stacks and the smoke would cloud over the moon. It looked really cool! This picture is taken of the smoke and the moon through my kitchen window last night.
I live over by a Con Ed plant and last night the smoke stacks were smoking away at full blast and the moon was right behind the smoke stacks and the smoke would cloud over the moon. It looked really cool! This picture is taken of the smoke and the moon through my kitchen window last night.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
At the movies with Amy..............
This past weekend was a three day weekend because of MLK day. And since I'm too broke to go out and be social and my boss had given me some movie passes to AMC theaters I decided to check out a few flicks this weekend.
Saturday night I went and saw and walked out of "Cloverfield". For all you kids living under a rock "Cloverfield" is the big budget film that JJ Abrams of "Lost" and "Mission Impossible" fame wrote and directed. The story is about a group of friends who survive a man eating monster disaster in New York City. Normally I really hate disaster films..... they freak me the fuck out! But since the ticket was free and this movie has been hyped so much I figured what the hell. Well first off the characters seriously annoyed me, they all seem to be trust fund beautiful hipster types who either have no jobs or shitty jobs but live in really fab huge loft- like apartments on the LES, they all look to have stepped out of the pages of an American Apparel catalogue... the extras in this film included! And they were very self absorbed. They were the type of people that seem to be moving into my hood the LES like gang busters these days. Second off the film was filmed with a hand held camera and all the running with the hand held camera was giving me serious motion sickness. The last thing was that all the action, the explosions, dust and the fear in the air reminded me too much of what went down on 9/11. Part of me felt a little disturbed over that and the other part of me wanted the man eating monster to devour only the trust fund hipsters and spare everyone else in New York City! I couldn't take and so I walked out. It wasn't like I was out $11 because of it!
One last thing in regards to "Cloverfield", I have to question people's judgement on choosing movies to take small children too. Sitting in front of me was a family with what look to be a girl of about six and sitting behind me was a family with a boy who looked to be about four. Now if this film freaked me out I could only imagine what those children must have thought of this film!
Sunday I saw "Sweeney Todd" with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Johnny Depp is one of my very favorite actors, I've had the biggest crush on him since I was ten and he was on "21 Jump Street"! Tim Burton directed this film, he is one of my favorite directors "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" are two of my favorite all time films. "Sweeney Todd" is based on the Stephen Sondheim musical about a murderous London barber and his land lady who plot revenge on the judge who wrongly accused Sweeney Todd of a crime and sent him to prison and stole away Sweeney Todd's beloved wife and daughter. So yes there is singing in this....it is a musical kids! Len Cariou and Angela Lansberry originated the two lead roles of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett on broadway in the 70's. I can remember watching a tape of an Angela Lansberry/Len Cariou performance in music class in the 7th grade while we were learning about Sondheim.
Besides Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in the lead roles, others who are known in the film include Alan Rickman as the evil judge and Sascha Barron Cohen in an uprourious part as deceitful Italian barber. The rest of the lead characters are played by unknowns.
Vocally the entire cast does a fantastic job with the music. Johnny Depp has a rock music background and it's never easy to sing Sondheim with a rock music background,but he really pulls it off as does Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman who really don't have musical backgrounds. Sascha Barron Cohen's song is more comedic and he sings it very well!
Visually the film is absolutely stunning. Tim Burton's vision of 19th Century goth London is so spot on to the story. And the costumes and make up are really ghoulish and amazing! I really wanna be Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett for Halloween this year!
Be warned "Sweeney Todd" is a very gory and grim musical. It's not a typical nice and sweet musical were everyone dances and sings their cares away. It's not for the squeamish! But so worth the eleven dollars!!
Then today I took my last movie pass and saw the latest Woody Allen film "Casandra's Dream". That film stars Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor (another crush of mine), with his last few films the Woodman has moved from his usual location of NYC to London. And "Casandra's Dream" isn't a typical Woody Allen comedy, it's a thriller/ drama. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor are two brothers who find themselves in financial dire straights. They ask their wealthy uncle for a loan to help bail themselves out and their uncle asks them to do something for him in return which has the brothers questioning their morals and how far they would go for a family member.
I was meh on this movie. I found it to be very slow moving and serious which is totally different for Woody Allen. And serious is something that Woody Allen doesn't do very well, there was not one funny or witty typical Woody Allensque line in the entire film. What till this one comes on HBO. One of the previews shown during "Casandra's Dream" was the Scorsese/Rolling Stones concert film. The Stones did a performance at some event that the Clinton's hosted last year at the Beacon theater here in NYC. The film is called "Shine a Light" not only is it the concert footage from this event but it's also a career spanning doc on the Stones. It looks like it's gonna be really very good.
Saturday night I went and saw and walked out of "Cloverfield". For all you kids living under a rock "Cloverfield" is the big budget film that JJ Abrams of "Lost" and "Mission Impossible" fame wrote and directed. The story is about a group of friends who survive a man eating monster disaster in New York City. Normally I really hate disaster films..... they freak me the fuck out! But since the ticket was free and this movie has been hyped so much I figured what the hell. Well first off the characters seriously annoyed me, they all seem to be trust fund beautiful hipster types who either have no jobs or shitty jobs but live in really fab huge loft- like apartments on the LES, they all look to have stepped out of the pages of an American Apparel catalogue... the extras in this film included! And they were very self absorbed. They were the type of people that seem to be moving into my hood the LES like gang busters these days. Second off the film was filmed with a hand held camera and all the running with the hand held camera was giving me serious motion sickness. The last thing was that all the action, the explosions, dust and the fear in the air reminded me too much of what went down on 9/11. Part of me felt a little disturbed over that and the other part of me wanted the man eating monster to devour only the trust fund hipsters and spare everyone else in New York City! I couldn't take and so I walked out. It wasn't like I was out $11 because of it!
One last thing in regards to "Cloverfield", I have to question people's judgement on choosing movies to take small children too. Sitting in front of me was a family with what look to be a girl of about six and sitting behind me was a family with a boy who looked to be about four. Now if this film freaked me out I could only imagine what those children must have thought of this film!
Sunday I saw "Sweeney Todd" with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Johnny Depp is one of my very favorite actors, I've had the biggest crush on him since I was ten and he was on "21 Jump Street"! Tim Burton directed this film, he is one of my favorite directors "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" are two of my favorite all time films. "Sweeney Todd" is based on the Stephen Sondheim musical about a murderous London barber and his land lady who plot revenge on the judge who wrongly accused Sweeney Todd of a crime and sent him to prison and stole away Sweeney Todd's beloved wife and daughter. So yes there is singing in this....it is a musical kids! Len Cariou and Angela Lansberry originated the two lead roles of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett on broadway in the 70's. I can remember watching a tape of an Angela Lansberry/Len Cariou performance in music class in the 7th grade while we were learning about Sondheim.
Besides Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in the lead roles, others who are known in the film include Alan Rickman as the evil judge and Sascha Barron Cohen in an uprourious part as deceitful Italian barber. The rest of the lead characters are played by unknowns.
Vocally the entire cast does a fantastic job with the music. Johnny Depp has a rock music background and it's never easy to sing Sondheim with a rock music background,but he really pulls it off as does Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman who really don't have musical backgrounds. Sascha Barron Cohen's song is more comedic and he sings it very well!
Visually the film is absolutely stunning. Tim Burton's vision of 19th Century goth London is so spot on to the story. And the costumes and make up are really ghoulish and amazing! I really wanna be Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett for Halloween this year!
Be warned "Sweeney Todd" is a very gory and grim musical. It's not a typical nice and sweet musical were everyone dances and sings their cares away. It's not for the squeamish! But so worth the eleven dollars!!
Then today I took my last movie pass and saw the latest Woody Allen film "Casandra's Dream". That film stars Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor (another crush of mine), with his last few films the Woodman has moved from his usual location of NYC to London. And "Casandra's Dream" isn't a typical Woody Allen comedy, it's a thriller/ drama. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor are two brothers who find themselves in financial dire straights. They ask their wealthy uncle for a loan to help bail themselves out and their uncle asks them to do something for him in return which has the brothers questioning their morals and how far they would go for a family member.
I was meh on this movie. I found it to be very slow moving and serious which is totally different for Woody Allen. And serious is something that Woody Allen doesn't do very well, there was not one funny or witty typical Woody Allensque line in the entire film. What till this one comes on HBO. One of the previews shown during "Casandra's Dream" was the Scorsese/Rolling Stones concert film. The Stones did a performance at some event that the Clinton's hosted last year at the Beacon theater here in NYC. The film is called "Shine a Light" not only is it the concert footage from this event but it's also a career spanning doc on the Stones. It looks like it's gonna be really very good.
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