Lightning Bolt
Providence, RI.
Providence, RI.
"Dear Visitor, I’m happy to report that the people have selected the oak as their choice for America’s National Tree in the nationwide vote hosted by The National Arbor Day Foundation on this Web site."
Heart of Gold
, Neil Young's that is
Lucinda Williams, preview sound clips from new album : Essence / due out 6/5
Lucinda Williams, preview sound clips from new album : Essence / due out 6/5
Not too sure what to make of this, but BMW is now in the film business. Or at least on the edge of it that rubs up against the advertising business. John Frankenheimer leads off an impressive list of directors (also: Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro González Iñárritu) all producing 5 minute shorts to be shown on the BMWfilms site. The Frankenheimer is already there (in Quicktime, Real, and Windows Media formats.) And you guessed it, each piece features a BMW automobile. Is this the future of free content? High end commercials? And if it is - and keeping in mind the relative quality of television shows compared to television commercials - is this a bad thing?
Cinema of Transgression
"Where Evil Dwells' was about suburban life, kind of crashing in on itself. Ricky Casso was a high school kid. He grew up in the suburbs and he went to some extremes to get some attention. He talked a bunch of his friends into doing these rituals. They killed cats and dogs and shit like that. They tried to get into the satanic world because other kids would be scared of them, fear them, respect them. Ricky eventually killed Gary, who was a friend of his, supposedly because he stole angel dust. So then, Ricky said if he ever got caught,he would chase Gary's soul to hell and track him down. Which is what we did in 'Where Evil Dwells', after the other kid gets killed, he finds Gary and the devil and that's where the movie ends. He's happy; 'cause he like, got what he actually wanted."
- Tommy Turner
and the rest
"Where Evil Dwells' was about suburban life, kind of crashing in on itself. Ricky Casso was a high school kid. He grew up in the suburbs and he went to some extremes to get some attention. He talked a bunch of his friends into doing these rituals. They killed cats and dogs and shit like that. They tried to get into the satanic world because other kids would be scared of them, fear them, respect them. Ricky eventually killed Gary, who was a friend of his, supposedly because he stole angel dust. So then, Ricky said if he ever got caught,he would chase Gary's soul to hell and track him down. Which is what we did in 'Where Evil Dwells', after the other kid gets killed, he finds Gary and the devil and that's where the movie ends. He's happy; 'cause he like, got what he actually wanted."
- Tommy Turner
and the rest
great night in nyc
Prune, an awesome and funky, yet slightly buttery meal
71 Clinton Fresh Foods for a hang and a glass or two
Florent for a crab cake sandwich at 2am
Prune, an awesome and funky, yet slightly buttery meal
71 Clinton Fresh Foods for a hang and a glass or two
Florent for a crab cake sandwich at 2am
what's up with these cnet auctions? some people at my office have gotten very cheap computers, laptops, all (i think) new.
Factory speedfreak Brigid Berlin gets her own documentary, now playing at the Film Forum. It must be included in the films press release because both the NYT and VV pointed out how early on she developed and created art aplications for tape recorder and Polaroid camera (concepts Warhol would pick up and run away with).
A few years back you could easily find a video moniter to buy and hook up to your vcr to receive cable. No need for the duplicate receivers in both your TV and VCR. Now all those moniters seam not to be avavilable as much. (Tom got one back in the day.) Whats keeping you from plugging any old computer moniter into a vcr for cable purposes ? The plugs are different ? How about adapters ? This is a cross post and should realy be filed under alt.sytstems_junk , but what the hey.
Seems like this happens every week: it's Thursday again. Local? Back to 8 mile Creek? Sunset in Central Park? More art? What say ye socialites?
stack the food high so i can see it better than add a couple sexy greens and a dab o'special sauce so my eyes can wiggle a round in bliss-----my posts are my views as all of yours are to you, they are like the scripts to our movies-----my movie is about food, wine, others brain changers, ecology and travel
but what matters is the taste or is it how sexy the room and the people are next to me-----if i wasnt in the food biz i would go out to eat to eat food i cant cook or dont have the time too or to get something in my belly-----i go out to eat to see whats up, visit clients, entertain, learn...-----for some reason El Cid came to mind today @ 322 W 15th
the wine company i am a partner in is about soul, we try to find the "spirit of wine", this means how does the sun & soil influence the vino, the winemaker is the alchemist or the chemist-----a pure wine is an expression of the vintage on the soil blessed by the energy of a human-----there has been in the last few years many changes in the wine making many of these changes have been called "spoofalations"-----reality may be "spoofed" so maybe wine is ok to be also, but not to me-----food can also be "poshed up" but the soul is still the guiding force
at El Cid i tasted some baby squid in garlic sauce that was pure, a wonderful authentic sauce, the wine list is old school but gen-u-wine, clams in a spicy sauce that needed to be licked dry, no posh, no spoof-----i have seen the twisted modern fermenting technique's, doing the malo in barrel, toasty new oak, very posh, very spoof-----i am blessed to have true un poshed friends whom are searching for soul amongst the spoof--YOU ARE THE BEST
but what matters is the taste or is it how sexy the room and the people are next to me-----if i wasnt in the food biz i would go out to eat to eat food i cant cook or dont have the time too or to get something in my belly-----i go out to eat to see whats up, visit clients, entertain, learn...-----for some reason El Cid came to mind today @ 322 W 15th
the wine company i am a partner in is about soul, we try to find the "spirit of wine", this means how does the sun & soil influence the vino, the winemaker is the alchemist or the chemist-----a pure wine is an expression of the vintage on the soil blessed by the energy of a human-----there has been in the last few years many changes in the wine making many of these changes have been called "spoofalations"-----reality may be "spoofed" so maybe wine is ok to be also, but not to me-----food can also be "poshed up" but the soul is still the guiding force
at El Cid i tasted some baby squid in garlic sauce that was pure, a wonderful authentic sauce, the wine list is old school but gen-u-wine, clams in a spicy sauce that needed to be licked dry, no posh, no spoof-----i have seen the twisted modern fermenting technique's, doing the malo in barrel, toasty new oak, very posh, very spoof-----i am blessed to have true un poshed friends whom are searching for soul amongst the spoof--YOU ARE THE BEST
a lady walked by my friends store--she loved this little chair @ $150 bucks she had only 40 so she said it come back with the money in a couple months so i said "hey just send me 2 checks for 110 over the next couple months"--off she goes with the chair--inside the store another two friends of the owner are talking one sez "the children of Palistine should learn Hebrew in school and the Jews should learn Arabic so they can talk in each others language..."--simple thoughts big meaning--karma all a round
"I invented lighting matches at concerts. Sorry, I did."
- Kim Fowley
Wilson A. Bently [1865 - 1931] Vermont farmer
photographed snowflakes in the field on pieces of velvet
photographed snowflakes in the field on pieces of velvet
Find Terry Southern.
Invasive emigrants displace natives in metro area. plants
The new issue of Cinefex (#85) is out. The feature article is on the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Oddysey. Author (and Cinefex senior editor) Don Shay began the article 24 years ago by interviewing many of the film's technicians (some of whom are no longer living) but until now could never seem to get around to finishing it.
Loads of rare color stills and some even rarer production shots make this one of the most beautiful publications I have ever seen on the subject.
As the title implies, Cinefex is dedicated to the subject of special effects. These days of course it mostly focuses on digital effects. It's nice to see 42 pages of text and photo's devoted to the purely analogue mechanics of one of the greatest technical achievments in human history.
$9.50, find it at Barnes and Noble or any comic book shop.
Loads of rare color stills and some even rarer production shots make this one of the most beautiful publications I have ever seen on the subject.
As the title implies, Cinefex is dedicated to the subject of special effects. These days of course it mostly focuses on digital effects. It's nice to see 42 pages of text and photo's devoted to the purely analogue mechanics of one of the greatest technical achievments in human history.
$9.50, find it at Barnes and Noble or any comic book shop.
Old friend Laura Nash is in a photography show. Let's see if I've got it straight: the show is through one gallery, but actually at another one; it's already up, but the opening is this Friday 4/27. The gallery page displays poorly on my system, but if you work at it, you can see some nice images from the intersection of nature and culture.
section : aRTiFaX
subseciton : PoRnAdO
I'm realy hoping pornado takes off. Maybe Samoa would guest dj.
I find this perverted little mag by young canadian junkies for free @ OM. vice
subseciton : PoRnAdO
I'm realy hoping pornado takes off. Maybe Samoa would guest dj.
I find this perverted little mag by young canadian junkies for free @ OM. vice
For futrue reference: I'm thinking the next two Thursdays will be slightly more important (or is that boring?) than usual. I want to use this time to start explaining my thoughts on the new system (at least during the opening hours of the night.) I'm at the point of really needing some feedback, so please help if you are able. This week maybe Local again (nice to all sit around a table - we can go for dinner afterwards somewhere) and then on the 5/3 I'd like to host something at Rivington. Also this is my birthday, which I insist on celebrating in strict Hobbit fashion.
Also, the larger gathering is really taking shape now, so I'd like to throw out a tentative date of Saturday June 2nd. I won't consider silence a commitment to attend, but does anyone have any unavoidable conflicts with this date? Shaping up to be quite an interesting event.
Also, the larger gathering is really taking shape now, so I'd like to throw out a tentative date of Saturday June 2nd. I won't consider silence a commitment to attend, but does anyone have any unavoidable conflicts with this date? Shaping up to be quite an interesting event.
Setting up Tom's archive led me to discover that this system was fairly broken. Apparently no one could access any individual days through the archive for any date in 2001. Accessing whole months at a time was still working. Did anyone tell me about this before? Please speak up. It's fixed now. I think I got everyone's page, but let me know if I missed someone.
