I got a new high tech tape recorder last weekend and so I will have my Johnny Lloyd Rollins interview up soon as well as an interview with Orion from the Orion Experience. And if all you music fans in New York City are looking for something to do tomorrow night friday 3/7, check out the Orion Experience at the Luna Lounge in good old Williamsburg Brooklyn. The Orion Experience goes on at 10:30pm and there is an eight dollar cover charge. Also tomorrow night March 7th is Orion's birthday so when you see him buy him a birthday diet coke!
Well in light of yesterdays sad and shocking news about Patrick Swayze, I figured someone would have to have had posted that classic SNL skit of Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley as Chippendale dancers on Youtube. But instead I found this gem of a trailer for a film Patrick Swayze did back in the late 70's called "Skatetown USA". The film seems to be about rival roller disco gangs and Patrick's co stars in this film are Scott Baio and Maureen McCormack (aka Marsha Brady), Ruth Buzzi and Flip Wilson.
God Bless Patrick Swayze...he still looked like a total sexy bad ass when he was roller discoing, rocking a mullet and dirty dancing! And only in a late 70's could you have Ruth Buzzi, Dave Mason, Patrick Swayze, Billy Bardy as a roller discoing midget, Maureen McCormack, Flip Wilson and Scott Baio all staring in one film were the main plot line revolves around roller disco!
Something that has got me thinking.....have you ever really hated a band or an artist that critics and the masses have loved!? I ask that question because I was just reading that the Counting Crows are releasing an album fairly soon. And I know people just love that band and think Adam Duritz is a poetic genius.. two of my dearest friends feel that way about the Counting Crows. But me I absolutely HATE the Counting Crows, I hate Adam Duritz's voice and lyrics and I really don't like Adam Duritz, he strikes me as being a smug asshole! Duritz strikes me as the kind of guy who wants everyone to think he's this deep, sensitive and intellectual lyricist. He's a blatantly obvious Dylan clone and not a good one at that! The music combined with Duritz's nauseating deep lyrics reminds me of really bad music for soccer moms, drunk frat boys and helicopter parents who live in Park Slope Brooklyn and the West Village. It's the same melody in every song and Duritz's voice never seems to change tone and is so lackluster much like his lyrics. And why did Townshend and Dylan give the okay for this shitty band to open for them?? If the goal was to get the young folks to the shows there are far better choices then Counting Crows for opening acts. That should have been it for them after "Mr. Jones" and I always thought that song sucked.. it never was even on my guilty pleasure song list! Slightly before the Moldy Peaches, the Pineapple aka Adam Duritz totally brings out the hater in me! And I'm not a hateful person but every time I read an interview or see an interview with Adam Duritz on TV, it just so makes me want to kick him really hard in the nads!
I don't know I just don't get it!
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Patrick Swayze and other things....
I was very upset to read that Patrick Swayze has terminal pancreatic cancer and has a few weeks to live. I had such a huge crush I had on him when I was a kid and he was at his height with "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost". Oh my god... I soooo wanted to be Baby in "Dirty Dancing"!! I wanted Patrick Swayze to lift me in that lake!!
One of the all time greatest SNL skits ever... was the one where Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley were both auditioning to be Chippendale male strippers. I can't hear "Everybody's Working For the Weekend" without thinking of Chris Farley in the Chippendale's outfit and Patrick Swayze's mullet in that skit!! I tried to find that clip on Youtube but it doesn't seem to be on Youtube or Red Lasso, so instead enjoy the video for Patrick's hit 1987 song "She's Like The Wind". She's like the wind through my treeeee!! Very sad story!
Real quick music news, The Orion Experience will be playing the Luna Lounge in Brooklyn this friday 3/7. They are scheduled to go on at 10:30pm, it's an eight dollar cover charge and the Luna Lounge is located at 361 Metropolitan Ave in Willamsburg Brooklyn.
One of the all time greatest SNL skits ever... was the one where Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley were both auditioning to be Chippendale male strippers. I can't hear "Everybody's Working For the Weekend" without thinking of Chris Farley in the Chippendale's outfit and Patrick Swayze's mullet in that skit!! I tried to find that clip on Youtube but it doesn't seem to be on Youtube or Red Lasso, so instead enjoy the video for Patrick's hit 1987 song "She's Like The Wind". She's like the wind through my treeeee!! Very sad story!
Real quick music news, The Orion Experience will be playing the Luna Lounge in Brooklyn this friday 3/7. They are scheduled to go on at 10:30pm, it's an eight dollar cover charge and the Luna Lounge is located at 361 Metropolitan Ave in Willamsburg Brooklyn.
Monday, March 3, 2008
RIP Jeff Healy, a GNYC/Eyeball records show and NIN
Just a real quick blog post for today. I just read that blind guitarist Jeff Healy passed away from cancer that plagued him ever since he was a kid and was the reason he was blind. He was 41. You've got to admit what he accomplished is really incredible. What's sad is that to some people he'll be forever known as that guy who sang that song that was played at every school dance and wedding in the early 90's "Angel Eyes". And to others he'll be known as Cody the blind musician in that Patrick Swazye film masterpiece "Road House" and not the proper musician he was. RIP Jeff Healy!
For all you NYC area music fans or those who will be in NYC this up and coming Tuesday 3/4/08 there is a GNYC/Eyeball Records showcase show at Crash Mansion. Among those on the bill are Kiss Kiss who played the MEANY Fest '07 finals show as special guests. The schedule is below and it's a ten dollar cover charge. Crash Mansion is located at 199 Bowery at Spring in Manhattan. The fun starts at 7:30 and it's a night that is not to be missed!
8:00 - Sleep Station
9:00 - Tiger Lou
10:00 - Baumer
11:00 - Kiss Kiss
http://www.myspace.com/kisskiss
sleep-station.com
http://www.myspace.com/tomte12
http://www.myspace.com/baumer
www.eyeballrecords.com
I've been trying to download the latest Nine Inch Nails album "Ghosts i-iv" but I've been having some issues downloading it... something to do with a zip file! Since I'm technologically retarded and I don't what a zip file is and how to make my computer accept it...if anyone can help me with this zip file thing and to download the new NIN album properly that would be appreciated!
http://www.nin.com/
And one last thought for the day that Moldy Peaches song from "Juno" "Anyone else but you"...has the same melody as "The Macarena" anyone else notice that??
For all you NYC area music fans or those who will be in NYC this up and coming Tuesday 3/4/08 there is a GNYC/Eyeball Records showcase show at Crash Mansion. Among those on the bill are Kiss Kiss who played the MEANY Fest '07 finals show as special guests. The schedule is below and it's a ten dollar cover charge. Crash Mansion is located at 199 Bowery at Spring in Manhattan. The fun starts at 7:30 and it's a night that is not to be missed!
8:00 - Sleep Station
9:00 - Tiger Lou
10:00 - Baumer
11:00 - Kiss Kiss
http://www.myspace.com/kisskiss
sleep-station.com
http://www.myspace.com/tomte12
http://www.myspace.com/baumer
www.eyeballrecords.com
I've been trying to download the latest Nine Inch Nails album "Ghosts i-iv" but I've been having some issues downloading it... something to do with a zip file! Since I'm technologically retarded and I don't what a zip file is and how to make my computer accept it...if anyone can help me with this zip file thing and to download the new NIN album properly that would be appreciated!
http://www.nin.com/
And one last thought for the day that Moldy Peaches song from "Juno" "Anyone else but you"...has the same melody as "The Macarena" anyone else notice that??
Sunday, March 2, 2008
At the movies with Amy part trios
In this current day and age where sexism runs rapid through the current presidential election and Paris Hilton is held up as being a role model for young girls. And with reality TV shows such as "The Bachelor" and films such as "Enchanted". And women getting their lips pumped full of goo, eliminating wrinkles by injecting a form of botulism in their faces and dieting down to the point of where they look like walking skeletons, all in an effort to live up to this unobtainable and cartoonish standard of youth and beauty society puts on females. All I can say is thank goodness for Resse Witherspoon and a little film she produced called "Penelope".
I saw "Penelope" last night, I loved it! Christina Ricci, stars as a young woman named Penelope who is from a wealthy family whose great great great grandfather is cursed by a gypsy woman after he rejects the gypsy woman's daughter. The curse the gypsy woman puts on the family is that the first born daughter will be born with a pig snout and the only way the curse can be broken is if she marries a fellow blue blood. For generations sons have been born into the family and Penelope is the first daughter born into the family and so she is born with a pig snout. Her mother who is played the amazing and very funny Catherine O'Hara who is obsessed with keeping up all appearances of a beautiful and wealthy family, all the while trying to get her daughter married off to a fellow blue blood in order to break the curse and continue the tradition of being part of the elite. A tabloid reporter played by "The Station Agent's" Peter Dinkledge along with another one of Penelope's scared off blue blood suitors tries to get an average guy masquerading as a blue blood to try and get a picture of Penelope. The average guy Max is played by my new boyfriend "Atonement's" James McAvoy. After talking with Penelope through a two way mirror over the course of a few days, Max starts to have feelings for Penelope, when he sees her in person he is startled and runs off.
Penelope runs away to find Max and to find herself and in the process she finds friends who accept her for who she is. One of these friends is a tough as nails rocker delivery chick played by Resse Witherspoon and another person she befriends is a bartender at a pub Max tells her about. The evil blue blood suitor who was working with the tabloid reporter comes back into the picture and wants to marry Penelope all in an effort to make himself not appear crazy and to further his father's company. I will say this without giving anything away Penelope realizes that it's her and her alone who can break the curse. But you have to see the film to see how that all unfolds!!
This film is a smartly done chick flick!! The story is a very cute and quirky one and I thought there was not one bad acting performance in this film. The message was a great girl power message of loving and accepting yourself for who you are and riding your own wave and making your own mark in life! My only complaint with this film was that even with the pig's snout Christina Ricci still looked cute!! It's worth the eleven dollars and it's worth taking all of our young girls to see!!
Today I saw the documentary film "The Chicago Ten", the film is a very unique look at the Chicago Seven trial. For all of you who aren't history geeks such as myself the trial of the Chicago Seven (actually there was ten) was ten anti-war activists including Bobby Seale, Abby Hoffman and Tom Hayden were brought on trial for conspiracy to incite violent protest during the 1968 Democratic Convention. William Kuntsler, who many remember as the defense lawyer for Colin Furgeson and Lenny Bruce acted as the defense attorney for the Chicago Seven.
The anti-war activists wanted to have a protest in Chicago's Lincoln Park during the duration of the Democratic Convention. Most of the protests got ugly with police on orders from the Chicago mayor at the time Richard Daley (who pretty much made Chicago a police state) beating the protesters, at the time the US government was so afraid of the anti war movement and what was going on, on college campuses. Most of the charges that were brought up against the Chicago Seven were fabricated charges due to government paranoia and just about all of the Chicago seven were acquitted.
Seeing what was going on then is very much what seems to be going on now. We have an unjust and illegal war going on where US service people are being killed everyday as are innocent Iraqi civilians, much like the Vietnam war. Just like the Vietnam era, there also seems to be a lot of government paranoia about all those speaking out against the Iraq war. And the film uses Rage Against the Machine and Eminem as musical choices rather then music from the late 1960's to make that exact point.
This film uses the transcripts from the actual trial and the trial scenes are animated as are a few other scenes. The rest of the film used archive footage from the '68 convention and footage of the Chicago seven.
Actors such as Hank Azaria, Jeffery Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schriber and the late Roy Schider all provide voices. The animation was really well done, the trial scenes are computer animated with what looks like that computer program Simms and the rest is traditionally animated. There is one animation sequence where the art almost reminds me of that of the animation from the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall".
I thought this film was very timely and very uniquely done. And if your a political/history geek like me...you'll love it!! Worth the $11 I say!!
I saw "Penelope" last night, I loved it! Christina Ricci, stars as a young woman named Penelope who is from a wealthy family whose great great great grandfather is cursed by a gypsy woman after he rejects the gypsy woman's daughter. The curse the gypsy woman puts on the family is that the first born daughter will be born with a pig snout and the only way the curse can be broken is if she marries a fellow blue blood. For generations sons have been born into the family and Penelope is the first daughter born into the family and so she is born with a pig snout. Her mother who is played the amazing and very funny Catherine O'Hara who is obsessed with keeping up all appearances of a beautiful and wealthy family, all the while trying to get her daughter married off to a fellow blue blood in order to break the curse and continue the tradition of being part of the elite. A tabloid reporter played by "The Station Agent's" Peter Dinkledge along with another one of Penelope's scared off blue blood suitors tries to get an average guy masquerading as a blue blood to try and get a picture of Penelope. The average guy Max is played by my new boyfriend "Atonement's" James McAvoy. After talking with Penelope through a two way mirror over the course of a few days, Max starts to have feelings for Penelope, when he sees her in person he is startled and runs off.
Penelope runs away to find Max and to find herself and in the process she finds friends who accept her for who she is. One of these friends is a tough as nails rocker delivery chick played by Resse Witherspoon and another person she befriends is a bartender at a pub Max tells her about. The evil blue blood suitor who was working with the tabloid reporter comes back into the picture and wants to marry Penelope all in an effort to make himself not appear crazy and to further his father's company. I will say this without giving anything away Penelope realizes that it's her and her alone who can break the curse. But you have to see the film to see how that all unfolds!!
This film is a smartly done chick flick!! The story is a very cute and quirky one and I thought there was not one bad acting performance in this film. The message was a great girl power message of loving and accepting yourself for who you are and riding your own wave and making your own mark in life! My only complaint with this film was that even with the pig's snout Christina Ricci still looked cute!! It's worth the eleven dollars and it's worth taking all of our young girls to see!!
Today I saw the documentary film "The Chicago Ten", the film is a very unique look at the Chicago Seven trial. For all of you who aren't history geeks such as myself the trial of the Chicago Seven (actually there was ten) was ten anti-war activists including Bobby Seale, Abby Hoffman and Tom Hayden were brought on trial for conspiracy to incite violent protest during the 1968 Democratic Convention. William Kuntsler, who many remember as the defense lawyer for Colin Furgeson and Lenny Bruce acted as the defense attorney for the Chicago Seven.
The anti-war activists wanted to have a protest in Chicago's Lincoln Park during the duration of the Democratic Convention. Most of the protests got ugly with police on orders from the Chicago mayor at the time Richard Daley (who pretty much made Chicago a police state) beating the protesters, at the time the US government was so afraid of the anti war movement and what was going on, on college campuses. Most of the charges that were brought up against the Chicago Seven were fabricated charges due to government paranoia and just about all of the Chicago seven were acquitted.
Seeing what was going on then is very much what seems to be going on now. We have an unjust and illegal war going on where US service people are being killed everyday as are innocent Iraqi civilians, much like the Vietnam war. Just like the Vietnam era, there also seems to be a lot of government paranoia about all those speaking out against the Iraq war. And the film uses Rage Against the Machine and Eminem as musical choices rather then music from the late 1960's to make that exact point.
This film uses the transcripts from the actual trial and the trial scenes are animated as are a few other scenes. The rest of the film used archive footage from the '68 convention and footage of the Chicago seven.
Actors such as Hank Azaria, Jeffery Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schriber and the late Roy Schider all provide voices. The animation was really well done, the trial scenes are computer animated with what looks like that computer program Simms and the rest is traditionally animated. There is one animation sequence where the art almost reminds me of that of the animation from the Pink Floyd movie "The Wall".
I thought this film was very timely and very uniquely done. And if your a political/history geek like me...you'll love it!! Worth the $11 I say!!
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