Here we see the famous Gateshead Multi-Storey Car Park being demolished.
The building was made famous by the 1971 Michael Caine film "Get Carter".
This is the 16th short movie showing part of the demolition taking place on 3rd September 2010.
Showing the east end of the car park being demolished.
Here are some pieces I never got around to finishing since I got "Tron: Legacy" on DVD.
Dance and Differently Abled People.
I Wish I Could But It's Too Late:
Echoes of the Tolstoyan ideal of passive resistance in the music of Black Sabbath.
Classified 80s:
The CIA's legacy of wealth creation and its influence on the pop music of The Police and REM.
Nob Turning:
A mixed method study of a mindfulness-based intervention on gender-related communication differences and awareness of gender-related communication barriers on communication effectiveness and its influence on energy consumption behavior in commercial music production and sound reinforcement 2000-2007.
Ella Guru:
The proliferation and increased acceptance of European jazz singers in the wake of Ella Fitzgerald's interpretation of popular rock music on the 1969 live album "Sunshine of Your Love".
The things that of which children could have once known as a "carousel of wooden horses mounted on posts" have been greatly changed in my day. I who never even imagined as a child that I might live in the same universe as a thing like CinemaScope 55. These days when you ride you don't exactly get a chance to sit on the animals as they are elevated away from the platform with bars and instead they usually have just seats that you sit on now.
Anyways, hey I am working, on set, as well. I'm surrounded by much greater artists, looking like a loser surrounded by dragons, these monsters who also dance and sing and guarantee the movie's box office.
Sometimes I wonder if I could ever play that role. Y'know, like Peter or Jerry from the "Zoo Story"-- or even Ethel Rosenberg from "Angels in America"? I wouldn't like to just change things from what they do traditionally in the sense that they'd compare the two: ie, an Elvis might have done it with rotating his hips like a carousel, another saint of flying horses-- a deterioration that isn't entirely worthless, spinning the character down like a roundabout or merry-go-round full of airplanes or cars.
"Any pills?" Someone just asked me. I said: "no." I read today (you read a lot in this line of work, wait a lot) that there is another weird Sinatra Frankenstein coming up the pike now, can't remember his name. There's only always room for ONE crooner. For me it will forever be Josh Groban-- if I'm showing my age, forgive me.
Someone is going to get that role. I wouldn't chair-press or bench 1 pound to win the right to spiral down that road like a sea carousel (from what the French call: lente accident de train motion sous-marine.) Sometimes I rediscover what I have to tell, sometimes I don't,-- but either way I can't ever quite see things through to completion. What I felt was not worth discussing in 2004 hasn't gotten any more interesting since.
April 28th & 29th.2011.8pm
wind set-up Seasonal winds carry more than the morning paper.
Wind set-up is a surreal view of the everyday;
a new movement theatre piece with object puppetry.
directed & designed by Lake Simons
live music composed & performed by John Dyer
dance and other archives Ellis Island to Eastern Parkway.
New movement for memories we wish we had.
created by Michael Bodel
choreography and performance by
Liz Beres, Michael Bodel and Kristin Swiat
ONE ARM RED 10 Jay Street 9th Floor
DUMBO Brooklyn, NY 11201
www.onearmred.com
The Howling Hex presented a concert of improvisations upon the works of Chilean composer Ernesto Calla.
Calla's music for synthesizer, steel guitar and piano features static non-melodic pieces often demonstrating that holding two notes at an interval for an extended period of time is not static: the sound pulsates-- to some, it sounds like wheels within wheels. The surfaces form into patterns with three geometries of abutting harmonies and electric guitar. The song patterns have either 49 surfaces or 2 surfaces.
The significant effect of this concert's sales number suggested that Calla will one day be considered a legend, particularly for his work on the SmackTownRaw concert video.
I was first born in Medina County, Ohio, which is funky but also cold. My biggest influences are the comic book Moon Knight and the films of Don Knotts. Many people ask how true my work remains to its original inspiration-- answer: very true since there was no original inspiration and so it remains.
I have been asked many times about the injuries that musicians sustain. I do have quite a few music related injuries. Sometimes, if I play a guitar and the neck isn't set just right my arm will go numb. My left ankle was broke playing basketball drunk and I never bothered to get it looked at because I was leaving for a tour the next day.
I like everything about music, it seems about the future more than the past, it suggests there can be more.
They ask: what can you do? Well, during the show, at one point the words "don't be a scab" are flashed up followed by clips of the first five pages of The El Paso Times from July 26th, 1943. These pictures just fly by during the show and I don't think people really notice them, they might set a mood is all. That's the kind of thing I can do.
I never really ask about why we play where we do, so I don't know. To test out the feel of the audience I usually begin the set with a song about a guy who ran away to Cincinnati to work for the United States Playing Card Company. One day he realizes he must go home when he hears a certain song on the radio.
The name of the song he hears is "Ancient Future"-- it's nice. He says to himself: "I can make my old home right again, after all who wouldn't want to be there?" The hook of the song he hears is a saying, a commonsense kind of thing you'd say to try to talk people out of an insane obsession. But this meaning escapes him and so he goes back home to tragic results.
Do the different animals have a special significance to the audience? No, they do not. It's just that a certain viewpoint crystallized at a time when Mighty Mouse was on the TV. It is common to a lot of people, it isn't personal.
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Performed by Lake Simons, ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED is a comedic solo piece that spotlights the struggle to live an organized life when chaos prevails. To escape the mundane patterns of life, an unusual woman dives into her make believe world of imagination.
ONE ARM RED
10 Jay Street
9th Floor
DUMBO Brooklyn, NY 11201
"Charming!...Wonderful!...Lake Simons is a talented physical comedian and mime and always fascinating to watch." - nytheatre.com
We were watching this cable show, reality show, about two brothers who are exterminators. They look like Tommy Lee or some such, multicolored hair staggered in longer layers that shrewdly attest to their bad-boy image.
Now, the question was about the lineage of these guys' style and attitude, their general perspective on the life. These dudes are, I think, from Texas. I began to speculate...in New Mexico, for example, I know the primary and basic root of rock and roll is not, as it was to me, Chuck Berry etc but big-time hard rock and metal-- & there's a big influence from L.A. So the band is really Van Halen (mainly David Lee Roth) and their legacy, by extension Motley Crue, then G&R and so on. Bad ass sh&t but really not a hybrid of Blues and Country-- not the lineage that I would think of as historically accurate.
The question then followed: what really were the roots of David Lee Roth? What was his starting point? I contend that it is Roger Daltrey, others reminded me of Plant and Jagger but ok, it amounts to the same thing: their roots are in R&B and blues. Stage moves as pioneered by James Brown. And maybe Rudolf Nureyev? Or am I projecting?
I have been watching some old Dragnet episodes (the late-60s version.) I really like the show's stiff but brisk procedural style, like watching Indonesian rod puppets. The star, Jack Webb, produced the show and, as well, the show Emergency! I distinctly remember sitting in front of the TV in my PJs (with a TV dinner, no less) as my parents got ready to go out on the weekend. We were allowed to watch the show Emergency! and then one more (sometimes Hee-Haw) then right to bed. I recall one time when my mom passed by the TV and took note of two of the actors in the show, pointing out that they were (or had been) musicians of some popular repute. So, I checked out some of their music from the library.
Jack Webb produced Emergency!, which portrayed the fledgling paramedic program of the L.A. County Fire Department. Webb cast his ex-wife, Julie London, as well as her second husband Bobby Troup.
Julie London was a popular, torchy jazz singer (e.g.: Cry Me a River, #9 in 1955.) Bobby Troup was a pianist and he wrote the songs Route 66 and Let's Keep Dancing, among others. The Rolling Stones recorded a version of Route 66, it was the 2nd track on "England's Newest Hitmakers" which I heard for the first time about 1975. I heard it and felt instantly familiar with them because in my mind they were associated with the show. Being so young, without any chronological sense of a past, this music flowed together as if it were all contemporary to me along with Cat Stevens, Louis Armstrong, Dvorak or TSOP by MFSB. Plus, the Stones LPs I had were on the London label, the same last name as the singer.
It is easy now to understand why Troup and London were in the show:
Jack Webb's personal life was better defined by his love of jazz than his interest in police work. He moved easily in the jazz culture, where he met singer and actress Julie London. They married in 1947 and had two children.
It's long overdue but I really have to say: Thanks, Jack Webb! I found a lot of great music because of the childrens' show Emergency! and the casting decisions you made for it.
I first heard Lucecita Benitez when she was featured singing Todas las mañanas (video link) in the La India María movie Tonta, Tonta, Pero no Tanto (1972). Here's the deal with La India María as portrayed by the great María Velasco (video link) :
Much like Minnie Pearl or The Beverly Hillbillies, Velasco has made a highly popular comedic representation of rural Mexico as a typical Mexican Indian woman named "Maria" who is often confused by urban life.
Lucecita Benitez is also really good, a great voice. She won the prestigious Festival de la Cancion Latina in 1969, went on the Ed Sullivan show &c. She's a legend in Puerto Rico, a pioneer of Nueva Ola. Here she meets another legendary singer:
Well, another Saint Frankenstein Day is upon us. I read that Sinatra was to be Billy Bigelow in the movie of Carousel-- that would have been great.
Sinatra even pre-recorded the songs he was to sing in the film. But when he arrived on the set, Sinatra discovered that he had to shoot the scenes two times: one for regular Cinemascope and the other for CinemaScope 55. Sinatra, who never liked to do two takes of a scene, walked away from the set.
Elvis might have been good in that role. Wouldn't that have been something? Clambake is not exactly in the same universe as Carousel. Clambake isn't entirely worthless, however, it is recorded evidence of Elvis' deterioration on fat and diet pills. I think he tried to change things for himself after that movie's lackluster box office performance.
Sometimes I compare the two: Sinatra vs Elvis. I think Sinatra was much the greater artist, lived better, longer-- but who cares? They both had great voices so the rest is irrelevant, I suppose-- not worth discussing.
WashMachine Productions Presents:
Visual ethnography and science fiction fantasy evoke transmissions of American noise. Generation Loss is Unstoppable.
Below is a chart of the progression in 4 weeks of the entertainment at a bar about 2 blocks from me. I could hear the band from my porch. Here's what happened:
You don't get to pick your parents so most of us just try and make the most of it-- including these 2 starcross'd progeny of successful A'mercan celebrities:
Frank Sinatra, jr in kidnapping hoax?... A rumor at the time was that this kidnapping was an attempt to gain publicity. In order to communicate with the kidnappers via payphone as they demanded, Sinatra, sr carried a roll of dimes with him throughout this ordeal, which became a life-long habit. Later, Frank Sinatra, jr stood in for his father on several TV appearances promoting the Nancy Sinatra/Frank Sinatra hit duet single "Something Stupid."
Eldest daughter of D. Wark Griffith pretends to be Adeline, Countess of Cardigan... In London, 1922, after the worldwide success of "Birth of a Nation," Griffith's estranged daughter capitalized on his fame by publishing a false memoir in which she claimed to be a descendant of the Earl of Stradbroke. In the book, she says Disraeli propositioned her at the age of 15 and she criticizes the Queen for objecting to the marriage of widows. The book was a huge bestseller-- even after her true identity was revealed. In old age she became eccentric. Relaxing in a coffin kept in the house she would ask for opinions on her appearance. She would wear thick make-up and organize steeplechases through the local graveyard.
