ok, this weekend in rock wasn't
a/k/a: the oscar free film zone
Vocational irregularities prevented Charlotte's premier doombilly band from getting together this weekend. However, I did meet with Jimmy and Eric Cook to re-record "Billy Pilgrim Again" and a new song called "Boudicia." So once again
TYSM gets 100% of expected goals met.
The Blots score a ZED again. I felt like crap the next day as my sinuses have been giving me fits. One of my tear-ducts seems jammed with flotsam as well. I spent sunday in a 20' radius of the futon. In the post-cable era I find myself in, I luckily had procured three flicks from the
library. It must've been 'foreign film weekend' or some such...
I still don't know what this was about (aside from the geographic 'place' reference). But it was very enjoyable. "A virtually plotless,
gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its
most famous citizens." -Yep that's about it. I must get some more Federico Fellini films... (duh) roma |
This is the movie that was wholeheartedly remade into "The Talented Mr Ripley"
years later. I never saw "Mr Ripley" but I can only guess it was just some
hollywood dogs eating some french vomit. 'Purple Noon' was engaging and
extremely well shot. The VHS tape was marked as "Martin Scorcese presents..."
which I am still not sure what that means? I am guessing since I didn't
see his name in any of the credits that he shelled out some $ to get this
released in America. Oh yeah, he paid for the reprint. Fair enough. Thanks
Marty. Purple Noon |
This is the story of a rise of a group of capitalists in Gorby's Russia. There are numerous container comparisons to 'Scarface' and 'Godfather' but I
don't see it. It wasn't a bad flick. This seems to be more of a dramatized
version of the Mikhail
Khodorkovsky story. The only difference being that then ending appears
to be coming out completely hollywoodized and well, not with the Yukos
head rotting in prison. Tycoon |
Friday night I also watched 
with my child. If your kid loves singing/dancing movies this is really a treat for them. Plus it's a movie about a movie about a movie.
>You can explain to your child such unthinkables as, "
Movies used
to be silent. The also used to be in black and white."
As predicted, no amount of nudity could get me to watch much more than a few
moments of Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman. Undoubtedly the biggest achievment for this 'film' will
have been giving name to Eric/Jimmy's band: thank
you, spaceman. tysm
I did watch all of The Clash:
Westway to the World. This is a really good documentary on the Clash. The only shortcoming would have to be the insipid tendency for Letts & co. to cut away from some really great live footage of the band to intersperse the commentary of the principal players. Especially in this age of DVDs,the extras section would have been a great place to let at least SOME of those live tracks play all the way through. The Clash: Westway To The World
Hope you all have a groovy weekend
Things are coming along on the
Blots frontier. We have eight (or 9) songs. I have one to spring on them tomorrow's practice. And Eric Cook has one he's downgraded from
thank you, spaceman. Heh. There's a lot of incest going on with the former Frocky Jack, the new band [the blots], and Eric Cook's sideproj (tysm). Anyway, this week has sucked at work. I'm looking forward to getting my rock on tomorrow morning.
Worldwide, as you know things are still fuckedupbeyondallrecognition. I mean with the ratarses at Gator (a spyware company) being assigned to the Homeland Security Privacy council, Dildos being outlawed in OK (Steers and queers I tell ya!)...but 10am tomorrow the only thing I got to do is keep from going deaf. Doombilly has no internet at home anymore. So enjoy the silence.
May the Government be damned for it (Phil Gyford: Writing)Yeah
Brian (Labour MP for Hackney South & Shoreditch)
Sedgemore, stick it to the man!
I remind my hon. Friends that a gulag is a black hole into which people are forcibly directed without hope of ever getting out.
I have to say, the parliamentary form of democracy is a lot more enjoyable to watch. (ultimately from
BoinBoing)
blimey
God created love; God created boobs too :
metabloggin': COPYFIGHT. Grrrrrrrrrr. There are plenty of things I find offensive, yet you don't see the
doombilly clamoring to paint them over. I thought Michigan was one of those gritty, tough, northern states. It turns out there are as backwards as the southern bible-belt.
glandy
Gidget and Uncle Duke are dead,
and I don't feel so hot myself...
no, I'm not adding any links. If you don't get it, you don't get it.
metabloggin' Mykeru.com: of right-winged honey potsmetabloggin' Wonkette: Got Jeff?Hahahahaha. That's way funnier than Paris Hilton getting booed off stage. So by "values" the right wing were just going on about "cheap man-love," right?
right~wing~dingUpdate:now with mooooore metabloggin': Salt Lake Tribune"...when you have a changing media, it's not an easy issue to decide or try to pick and choose who is a journalist." - Scott McClellan White House Press Secretary.
I agree with John Yewell here:
"The White House press secretary doesn't know what a real journalist is..."
I mean, with today's changing face of terrorism it also stands to reason that the government can't be arsed to get actual anti-terrorist agents involved with protecting our people. It's much more important that we just pay people to lie to us.
Police & Thieves
you know, when I get sad...
I go to this
link.
ding
thank you, spaceman: an update
I mixed down what could be construed as
side one of the ten
tysm tracks last night.
They are prelim mixes so that Cookie can lookie and decide what (if any) overdubs he wants to make.
I am kind of halfway hoping he wants to play some analogue synth on there in a few spots. Just for shiggles.
I will probably create a
myspace site for tysm so I can get a few mp3's out in cyberville. Stay tuned.
tysm
No Grammy For Me Again!
Gah durn it. What do I have to do? Get played on the radio or something?! Anyway, in other rock-n-roll news I did the replacement recording of
thank you, space man this weekend. Finally mother nature gave us a reprieve. Actually the weather was quite agreeable. We set up the drums (Jimmy Van Poplin custom made these knockers) and the big hoss amp (Fender Bassman 70 head / Fender 1- 15" cab) in my finished basement room..errr studio. For the soundcheck they actually recorded the first two songs. We got the next day. By 3pm Jimmy was back on the road for Eastern, TN. So to say it went quickly, would be somewhat of an understatement. I recorded Eric Cook & Jimmy all live. 5 tracks of mic'd drums, two tracks of guitar, one vox. A special Tally Ho thanks goes out to audio wiz Scott Thompson for the loan of the 3 CAD drum mics, and the Sennheiser I used for one of the drum overheads. I got the Bassman amp down with a SM57 pointed slightly off axis on the big 15.
As Eric Cook said, "John Holmes would say, 'That's one more'." The Bassman also has a direct recording out so I got that as well to ensure a guitar track with no drum bleed. I also bought a Blue Ball.
ping
We used this for vocals. And I wish I would have A/B tested it against the AT30305 condenser I (ultimately) used for the other drum overhead. But initial reaction from the vocalist was positive. I'm gonna try and get this all prelim mixed for Eric to take a listen to at the next
Blots practice Wednesday (re-scheduled from Sunday eve).
tysm
So look for me next grammy cycle. I'm sure to not get over looked next year, what with the Producer/Engineer AND Artist categories now. Heh.
p-i-n-g-o
CMS Schools Volunteer Arrested
"There was no indication to us he should not be involved at our school," said Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools spokesperson Jerry Haigler (to the
Charlotte Observer). And according to her he'd filled out the requested documentation. Well then his legal problems dating back to
1994 are no issue. Too bad they couldn't be arsed to just go to the arrest inquiry on
CharMeck.org and type in "Duane Hill. If they had, they would have found:
MISDEMEANOR COMMUNICATING THREATS 6/9/02ASSAULT OR SIMPLE ASSAULT AND BATTERY 6/27/02
and two more counts of
MISDEMEANOR COMMUNICATING THREATS 6/27/02In case you are keeping score, or making Duane Hill felonious trading cards...
here's his arrest from this week. Arrest#: 01226644 PID#: 166513
Name : HILL, DUANE Alias:
Case Description Process
0001981001 PROBATION VIOLATION OFA
MISDEMEANOR 5000.00 SEC
0225837201 INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY WAR
MISDEMEANOR 1000.00 SEC
0225837401 VIOLATING CIVIL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTIVE WAR
MISDEMEANOR 1000.00 NBD
0225837501 TRESPASS - CRIMINAL DOMESTIC WAR
MISDEMEANOR 1000.00 NBD
0225837601 COMMUNICATING THREATS WAR
MISDEMEANOR 1000.00 NBD
0222850501 ASSAULT OR SIMPLE ASSAULT AND BATTERY - AGG.P OFA
MISDEMEANOR 5000.00 SEC
0222567201 COMMUNICATING THREATS OFA
MISDEMEANOR 10000.00 SEC
0225016001 VIOLATING CIVIL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTIVE WAR
MISDEMEANOR 10000.00 NBD
0002234401 PROBATION VIOLATION OFA
FELONY 10000.00 SEC
But apparently that was too much trouble for CMS to check out. I mean, what's wrong with the "honor system" for background checks? I mean, only a criminal would lie about a thing like that. Oh snap.
Insert joke about Michael Jackson running a daycare here.
ping
here we go again
Charlotte Observer | 02/11/2005 | Lawyer challenges assignment plan: "Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members will hold an emergency meeting this morning after one of the nation's top civil rights attorneys challenged the constitutionality of the district's student assignment plan."
You know, it's got to be a FUNNY thing. I HAS to be. I mean, isn't this the student assignment plan that Eric Becoats got in trouble for selling to other school districts whilst on the clock for CMS? You know, the one wherein after catching him doing it, they basically gave him a paid vacation as punishment. Oh wait no. he resigned. He now manages "non-profit entities" for University Park Baptist Church's Economic Development efforts. It figures, you know...such a rampant capitalist like Becoats...he couldn't even get a job in the private sector. I guess when it comes down to more than selling assets that don't belong to him he's out of tricks. Still it makes you wonder? When you
Google Jim Pughlsley, you come up with this quote by (School Board chairperson) "Coach" Joe White:
Pughsley could easily leave, and receive far more money than his current CMS salary.
Yeah, like he could be another officious waste of money in another municipality. I for one am up to giving him that opportunity as soon as possible.
ping
Safety @ Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Message from the Superintendent
In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools ensuring that students are safe continues to be a priority for the district. Goals 2005 directly address safe and orderly schools, and the district has developed plans and strategies to keep schools safe. Recent media attention and community dialogue have created a heightened sense of awareness to this issue.
Dear Mr Pughsley;
It wasn't the media that created the "heightened state of awareness" it was your own inadequacy to create a safe environment for our kids to attend class.
Furthermore your advice of telling your children,
'Hey chances are you won't get killed at school today...' are less than reassuring. Way to
prepare for greatness, Jim. How about you prepare for retirement by resigning?
arsehat.
Meta: Creative Loafing - Charlotte. Low-Performing Schools? We Don't Think So
Teachers: Discipline problems and distrust of CMS management curb enthusiasm for Pughsley plan.
ping
What's going on in Chapel Hill Next Weekend?
So the fiancee is coming up next weekend. She REALLY wants to visit scenic Orange County. Anyway, she must've heard something about the shopping. Any suggestions about other things of cultural signifigance going on?
Kim sent me this over the weekend. Funnily enough she thought I'd be the first to respond. Well kids, I had to let my DSL go.
For the price of cableTV+internet I could pay a major utility or two. So, anyway my spotty blogging will be more bespeckled.
No matter, there's not that much reading of Sticky Blog going on....
Welcome to the Winter 2005 edition of getting to know your friends.
What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail
and paste it onto a new e-mail that you'll send. Change all the
answers so they apply to you, and then send this to a whole bunch of
people including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you
will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not
know them already.
1. What time did you get up this morning? 05:30am EST
2. Diamonds or pearls? Swine
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Ray 
4. What is your favorite TV show? The News Hour with Jim Lehrer 
5. What did you have for breakfast? Coffee + cherry breyer’s yogurt
6. What is your middle name? Edward
7. What is your favorite food? Viet Namese seafood wraps
8. What foods do you dislike? Organ meat
9. What is your favorite chip flavor? Salt/vinegar
10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? X- Beyond & Back 
11. What kind of car do you drive? Today I rode the City
Bus, 1984 Volvo 240 SW
12. Favorite sandwich? Reuben
13. What characteristic do you despise? Herd-ism
14. Favorite item of clothing? Today, anything warm n toasty
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would
you go? TheAngkor Wat in Cambodia
16. What color is your bathroom? One is blue with fishy wallpaper border, one is cream
17. Favorite brand of clothing? Agent Provocateur
18. Where would you retire to? Malta
19. Favorite time of the day? First thing in the morning
20. What was your most memorable birthday? Usually I have trouble remembering what happened…
21. Where were you born? Hollywood, FL
22. Favorite sport to watch? Beach volleyball
23. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? Henry
24. Person you expect to send it back first? Elizabeth..no Jessica
25. What fabric detergent do you use? Whatever is 2 for 1…
26. Coke or Pepsi? Lime Perrier
27. Are you a morning person or a night owl? morning person
28. What is your shoe size? 9.5
29. Do you have any pets? nope
30. What did you want to be when you were little? popular
31. Favorite Movie? Brazil
32. Favorite Actor? Peter O’Toole 
33. Any exciting news to share with family and friends? Nothing they don’t already know.
MetaMetaBlogBlogging~No Rock&Roll Fun-|-Slashdot
So, in a nutshell, then: Clear Channel feel they're incapable of programming a radio station that does anything than play the same few songs over and over again; and they've got some expensive research which backs up their timidity. You can hear it in their output, can't you?
I think you could just put it this way.
Dear ClearChannel, you friggin' suck. Stop making excuses or pretending to be cool. You are arse-lickers. Greedy, greedy arse-lickers. Face up to the fact that you are crap merchants. That's what you want to be. That's what you are. You are not fooling anyone. No one likes your programming. I hope you all die. Thank you, doombilly.
ping
more fun with rocker quotes
Billy Zoom - "If I had my druthers, I'd still be playing R&B. I really liked that. I got out of it in the early '70s, when they started getting into funk. I didn't go there. I didn't do acid, so that whole Parliament/Funkadelic thing got kind of weird for me. I didn't want to wear the pink feathers and stuff."
