Happy day for Debbie!
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Absolutely amazing. I've watched this a dozen times tonite (I love the running teeth). I found this gem on VIMEO. You should set aside a few hours and explore this site. There is some really good stuff being done by nofi/lofi animators and filmmakers these days. Digital imaging and computer editing have had an amazing effect on the body of original work being created by both musical, visual, and performing artists. We must embrace the now.
Here's another one of my favorites from a local NYC studio:
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Halle Berry wowed the crowd at the LA premiere of "Wolverine" in a fabulous form-fitting Herve L. Leroux dress, gold cuff, and $450 Camilla Skovgaard Barbero strappy heels.Just goes to show what a little motivation can get you. I'm hitting the damn gym tomorrow...
Apparently 2009 only has Halle appearing in Frankie and Alice, so I will have to comb through tabloid photos to get my Berry-licious thrills and wardrobe malfunctions this year.
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NEW YORK - Experience the Passion of Christ — in 140-character bursts.
In a marriage of Christian tradition and digital technology, Wall Street's Trinity Church is using the micro-blogging service Twitter to perform the story of Jesus Christ.
The main characters will tweet the Passion play for three hours beginning at noon on Good Friday. The feed also can be delivered to mobile devices or e-mail addresses.
The lower Manhattan Episcopal parish also is offering a Web version of the Stations of the Cross.
The church was founded by a small group of Anglicans in 1697.
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15 years ago today Kurt Donald Cobain placed a shotgun under his chin, pulled the trigger and joined the ranks of other musicians who decided to pick the time and place of their own demise by biting the bullet: Joe Meek, Terry Kath, Del Shannon, Paul Williams (the one from The Temptations), Mel Street, Chuck Wagon, Doug Hopkins (founding memeber of The Gin Blossoms), Danny Gatton, Tommy Boyce, Leon Chappelear, jazz trombonist JJ Johnson, Danny Rapp (of Danny and the Juniors "At the Hop" fame), punk bassist Jason Thirsk, Frank Rosolino, honkeytonker Gary Stewart, Carlos Vega (drummer for James Taylor), Hillbilly Hearthrob Faron Young, and of course Ms. Wendy O. Williams.
I came home from work to watch Kurt Loder deliver the news of Cobain's death in his usual bland and jaded style, using the tone of voice one does when ordering a pizza.
Ironically enough I had suffered through the insufferable 80s living outside of Seattle, but left too early to enjoy the emergence of Cobain and his SubPop grunge compatriots. When I first heard them in '91 Smells Like Teen Spirit came on the radio (how quaint!) at work. I was stunned. "Holy shit turn that up" or words to that effect were used, along with various semi-pornographic superlatives after the tune ended. They had shoved the alternative scene into the mainstream and had poured sulfuric acid all over the sugary gingerbread house the music industry had built out of the post-punk 80s LA rock scene. Music was once again raw, emotional, underproduced and based on feeling and passion that can't be sampled, overdubbed or marketed.
That rebirth still lives on even today. I can see traces of grunge in the music played by my bands...Like thin pink rivulets of blood running down your face after you get punched in the nose in the rain. Heck, even Cobain's flannel shirts, ironic cardigans and poor hygiene have been adopted by today's hipsters to a great effect.
Last week MSNBC looked at the roots of grunge, and although it stated that it formed in Seattle, it gave a nod to what I think has always been the center of the musical universe: "...the emergence of Nirvana, and the stardom that came to singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain, happened in part via an assist from the New York-based post-punk band Sonic Youth."
But Cobain's contribution to rock cannot and should not be diminished by geography. The New Yorker said it best in a quote that could be about Elvis, Dylan, McCartney or Sinatra: “His singing style especially became the default template for rock music. He changed the way singing was done."
'Nuff said!
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It's our biggest show yet! If you haven't been out to see us yet, now is your chance! Stop by and say hi. First round is on me.
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