Brother accused of embezzling from Dane Cook

by: ViewsOnNews

Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 00:32:10 AM MST

Such terrible news to start of the New Years. Dane Cook is one of American's most beloved and most respected funnyman and I'm sure the entertainment community is as very distraught abut this as I.

Cindy Smith: Teach-in, performans

by: hhex65

Wed Dec 10, 2008 at 16:11:58 PM MST

if we can't have slaves at least we still have horses

by: hhex65

Sat Dec 06, 2008 at 21:08:51 PM MST

The reason it is the most important is that it was the song that made rock 'n' roll acceptable to the upper class. Having dipped a toe across the color barrier, rock 'n' roll was still a low class thing, profitable but not extremely lucrative. Apparently "Peppermint Twist" changed that and led us to where we are now.

Let us play a little "bloodlines" from out of the era of the mists before recorded time.

The touring band for Joey Dee and The Starlighters included Eddie Brigati, Gene Cornish, and Felix Cavaliere-- The Rascals minus drummer Dino Danelli. I love The Rascals, every record they did. Once I did an interview with someone from High Times who knew Gene Cornish and I came this close to meeting him but I had to leave town before it could happen.

Also a member of The Starlighters for a time was one Jimmy James, later known to the world as Jimi Hendrix. On his LP Electric Ladyland, the song "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" featured Chris Wood from Traffic on flute. He married Jeanette Jacobs from the vocal group The Cake who sang background on "Why Are We Sleeping?" by The Soft Machine. Chris Wood died in 1983 of pneumonia in Birmingham, England. He has a tribute website [Chris Woz Ere] that has an interesting sound collage loop that plays when the site loads. Hendrix is dead, as you may know. Jeanette Jacobs is dead.

The Rascals are all alive and kicking. And Joey Dee and The Starlighters?

The Hare regrets the snare. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.  ~Aesop

Music Movies

by: hhex65

Sat Dec 06, 2008 at 04:09:05 AM MST

Actually, I could make a far, far longer list of great movies not about music that resonate with me in almost the same way that great music does-- I mean, they motivate the body  or the same braincells with similar consequences.

Off the the top of my head I can only think of two movies that really seemed to honestly evoke the bitter alpha seed I recognize but could never express adequately, movies that show-don't-tell where music comes from and why music is important the way power, money or love are important. It is difficult to capture in other media that 'starburst' and consuming quality only music possesses.

1. The Harder They Come (dir. Perry Henzell)-- It just has a story like an arrow that I think expresses exactly the drive to make music. Absolutely communicates the feel of a place where music weaves through everyday life and shows a lot of detail about the music making and music selling process.

2. Topsy-Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh)--The details here showing the development of 'The Mikado' -- somehow, the way it depicted the world in which Gilbert and Sullivan functioned infused something into a body of work that I had previously despised-- not only for its social exclusivity but for both its surface and its substance.

That's pretty much it for me.

There are some music movies that I fucking hate so bad but their negative effects actually make me energized-- so they're inspiring:

Velvet Goldmine (No Bowie music in the Bowie story and I hate the way they merged Iggy and Lou Reed into one character-- so mostly I was all huffy and offended about the 'inaccuracies')

Crossroads (captures the worst of everything that sucks about blues aficionados and their fucking bullshit)

The Wall (fuck this, I hate the record too and I like Pink Floyd. Though it was fun to see people getting all freaked in the midnight movie, expecting some trippy acid movie or whatever.)

The Commitments (die)

One Trick Pony (this is a perverse little film about Paul Simon trying to play a bizzarro world loser version of himself and failing, it is a total ego trip movie that he wrote and starred in. Lou Reed plays a record exec and that part is pretty great but he's supposed to be the bad guy.)

Lady Sings The Blues (a crime against humanity)

And there are some other ones that are OK/Neutral from a musical perspective, and they're decent movies:

Selena
Purple Rain
Kansas City
Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (featuring Sneezy Waters as the man himself)
Cisco Pike (Doug Sahm is in this)
Satisfaction (I have a Justine Bateman fixation)
Masculin, féminin
The Music Lovers (about Tchaikovsky)
Dreamgirls (especially Eddie Murphy)
Coal Miner's Daughter
Bird
Night and Day  (with Cary Grant as Cole Porter)
This is Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Georgia
Hilary and Jackie
American Hot Wax
That Thing You Do
Eddie and the Cruisers
American Pop (cartoon)
Nashville
The Temptations Story (made-for-tv)

Now I think I'm forgetting a bunch. I guess there are about a billion others. I don't really like to talk about movies at all. It's a really, really bad subject to bring up most of the time. Everyone has a fucking list and it starts to make my head swim.

from the inbox

by: hhex65

Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 13:30:06 PM MST

www.balkanbeat.org Imamo ast da Vas obavestimo da e se konferencija BalkanBeat, posveenoj muzikoj industriji, održati 12. i 13. decembra u Kulturnom centru Rex, u organizaciji Kulturnog Fronta iz Beograda i Larkin Company iz Londona.

the harmolodic manifesto

c/o billy and jean-paul finds the rhyme, rattle and hum of human harmolodics once perpetually, necessarily---being connected to, aware of this the harmolodic way of being functions without a presubscribed mode of thinking and behaving and in accordance with natural

Spilt Derivatives

by: hhex65

Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 21:41:58 PM MST

Earth Junk: The Movie

by: hhex65

Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 21:39:39 PM MST

Earth Junk: The Movie. First, let me make it perfectly clear that this is a collaborative movie made mainly by musicians. It develops a theme. Some of it was shot on video some of it was shot on film; in Chicago, New Mexico, Elsewhere. Variations on this theme include: China during the Mao era, Western Wear, Acrobatics, Frank Stanford, Dogs watching tv, Music, Birds, Youth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hardcore small town New Mexico politics of the old school, Flashy jackets, Topsy-turvy, Musical instruments, Animation, Medicine, Surveillance, Adobe construction, Art, Drug wars on the U.S./Mexico border, Old movies, Social Darwinism, Memory arrested at the age one first smoked dope, The poetry business, Higher education, Egomania, Collapse, Lake Tahoe, &c.

...and the word was hotdog

by: hhex65

Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 21:53:33 PM MST

NO--We've not been trapped near the inner circle of thought. In fact, we've been working on the movie that's going to be screened next weekend (see Event calender yonder)-- we'll have more on that in a day or two BUT-- today we want to announce that Drag City Records will be hosting a special listening party in Chicago, Wednesday, September 10, all day at Hot Dougs Hot Dogs. They will be unveiling the new Howling Hex Record Earth Junk while offering for sale the very special limited time only HEX DOG-- the first ten consumers of which will receive a free prize. SO, if you are in the area go in there. I know the dogs are good.

Hot Dougs
3324 N California Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 279-9550

The Howling Hex: Earth Junk available on Drag City Records, September 23, 2008.

And the "premiere" screening of Earth Junk: The Movie is September 13th 8PM, at the Millenium Theatre, 66 East 4th street, NYC. And then it's going back in the vault.

PS: someone apologize to panopticpants, he has been sulking.

The Trillions

by: hhex65

Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 15:36:39 PM MST

Continuing our survey of the Regional New Wave Counter Reformation, we focus on the Mississippi band The Trillions. The Trillions formed in 1982 as a jazz band originally named Cooter Scooter. They soon changed the name to The Trillions in the wake of New Wave's rise and their passion for body morphing and electronics.

The band played instrumental music and this enabled them to thrive, allowing them to perform at dances, frat parties and concerts with equal ease. Thus they escaped subjugation to the New Wave Hell of southern clubs and house parties. Their jazz background, and pronounced affinity with progressive rock, gave them a level of musicianship which carried them beyond the narrow confines to which their 'New Wave' styles might otherwise have relegated them.

They slowly gained in popularity and began doing shows at the University of Mississippi opening for more popular national bands. Just as they were attracting the attention of recording labels, the band was involved in a bitter lawsuit with the famous Mississippi punk entrepenuer Francis Sadileko.

Sadileko had secretly stolen the band's trademark and copyright when they signed a contract with him to open for The Ravyns at 3 Mississippi shows. The band signed the deal without reading it carefully, and when recording offers from Epic Records began to come in, Sadileko stepped forward.

Sadileko's intention was to take some large percentage of any recording contract fee but he was soon killed in a steam shovel accident and The Trillions were left in a legal limbo long enough for their popularity (and major label interest) to fade. Unable to control their name and music, unable to legally work with this tangle hanging over them, the band drifted apart.

The Trillions left no official recordings behind, although purported live tapes surface from time-to-time-- they are of poor quality and difficult to obtain. Live photographs of the band are included in the seminal work "Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art: Volume 5."

Currrently, the members of The Trillions are all out of the music business. Calvin Jimson works as a producer for Greenville Television Channel 50, Peter Robinson is a researcher at a Bio-Defense lab in Flora, and Randy Kucharek runs a large apparel screen printing company.

Martha and the Muffins

by: hhex65

Sun Aug 10, 2008 at 17:13:25 PM MST

Continuing our survey of the Regional New Wave Counter Reformation, we now examine the Toronto band Martha and the Muffins. The group started in 1977 at the Ontario College of Art. Instrumentation consisted of synths, guitar, bass, drums, vocals and sax. They released their first album in 1979. It included the hit Echo Beach: from 9 to 5 i have to spend my time work my job is very boring i'm an office clerk the only thing that helps me pass the time away is knowing i'll be back at echo beach some day.

Back in those days of only semi-coherent 'big media' all one needed to patch different chilly flavors of music together was a razor blade and some tape as evidenced by Martha and the Muffins 1981 LP, "This is the Ice Age," which paired random noises with wan sci-surf music in a prefiguration of various euro-styles. The great thing about Martha and the Muffins was that they had a fairly good-sized hit on their first record so they had the chance to put some interesting things out to a larger public via radio and video plays. They hewed proudly the mathy course in the title song:

Note the exclamation point! Another cool song from that LP was Women Around the World at Work. All in all, not as deranged as Toto but pretty coked-out in its own right. I heard a funny story in rehab about one of the dudes in Toto. He was convinced that his 'coke bugs' were actually caused by real microscopic bugs. Even though doctor upon doctor assured him it was just a symptom of addiction he refused to accept it. He went so far as to razor blade off a square-inch piece of his skin and ship it to a specialist in Europe, demanding every kind of test money could buy. They found nothing.

In 1983, Martha and the Muffins had a shake-up and some original members left. The name was changed to M+M, with the original Martha henceforth being augmented by studio musicians. M+M went on to have better commercial success, dance music hits &c. until about 1986, when the entity then began to cool its heels. A semi-reunited Martha and the Muffins have recently emerged and they are due to release a new album sometime this fall.

The Mojo Goblins

by: hhex65

Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 15:53:16 PM MST

They focussed initially on a minimalist funk sound redolent of later Human Switchboard and Rip, Rig and Panic. After a brief but substantial era of relative financial success in the 80s, they withdrew from the national scene and concentrated on their home state and a more Ski Lodge Party sound featuring music from the 50s through today's hits. Their own original bio described The Mojo Goblins as 'uninterrupted entertainment with DJ-style polyrhythmics.' I would describe them as a collection of four incredible musicians responding to the aggressive hegemony of Los Angeles and London by reforming their own approach rather than capitulating to the designs of the international system that dumped talentless bands on the market through their powerful monopoly on marketing and distribution. And compact discs were still a few years away.

The Mojo Goblins were led by songwriter Carole Hensley. Lyrically, she evinced two distinct obsessions:

1. Western geography.


2. Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth.

The Mojo Goblins released one single on their eponymous label (Synergy b/w Dazzle--sold only at their shows) and they toured extensively in the west 1981-1985. The Mojo Goblins also had two live tracks recorded in LA featured on KROQ's The New Music Live Vol. 3 compilation cassette.

Two original members left to relocate to Seattle, Washington but Carole continued while dropping most of the original material from their repertoire and touring mainly in Idaho in the following decade. The latest incarnations of the band have continued more along the lines of a classic casino show-band and they have performed at many Tahoe, Reno and Las Vegas venues.

Zeitgeist

by: chill

Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 14:08:47 PM MST

People often ask me why I fail to rake in the big bucks and/or accolades and I explain why: Zeitgeist. ...expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as time (Zeit), spirit (Geist). I simply don't care for it. I think, you know to chase after it, that's a little desperate and needy. It's enough to be sensitive to it, that is important-- but, ultimately, it's funnier to actively go against it. Haha!

...in German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.

Vienna Sausage Weights, For You

by: hhex65

Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 19:00:00 PM MST

Like a foul fly ball and a beer cup, The Mets and Billy Joel intersect: Someone must sing a proper song of farewell for Shea Stadium, the nice try of a coliseum in Queens, as its dismantling draws near and a new ballpark rises just yards away. Of course the meeting...to discuss who should sing this farewell probably lasted as long as it took to say: Billy Joel. 50,000 tickets were sold in 48 minutes.

And what about that apple?

Congratulations: Neil Diamond

by: hhex65

Wed May 14, 2008 at 22:49:41 PM MST

1. Before the army, my dad used to earn money during the summer tending bar at the beach. Just before Diamond's first Bang Records release he did some out-of-town gigs, including one at the beach where my dad worked. It was at that concert that my dad met my mother. And that is why I am named Neil.


2. Diamond's only other record to almost make number one was the (pretty good) 1973 soundtrack to the awful film of that piece of shit self-help fable for dumbfucks: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It stalled at #2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is about a "seagull" who wants to "fly"-- he "soars" into a realm of enlightened "seagulls" from whom he learns "valuable" lessons. He then returns to "Earth" to teach unenlightened "seagulls"-- ugh. Another volume in the Library of Masterworks so beloved by the cavalcade of citizenry who brought us Ronald Reagan and W amongst other plagues.
Luckily, Diamond soared past that today.

Since I'm sharing I'll tell you, I used to go up to the Brill Building every now and then and drink a beer across from it and just soak it in. Seriously: Johnny Mercer, Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Bacharach and David &c. It was a thrill for me to see this bit of history and get drunk. The last day I went there I saw Neil Diamond pull up in a 1963 Bentley S3 Continental. He gazed at the building for a while and left.

And wither Jonathan Livingston Seagull? By the end of 1972 over a million copies of that book were in print. The book reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list where it remained for 38 weeks. It is still in print as of 2008.

Home Before Dark was produced by Rick Rubin.

COMIC: Foxy Brown

by: hhex65

Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 09:11:45 AM MST

Pope

by: chill

Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 12:53:35 PM MST

Pura-Raza-Chalino-Sanchez

by: hhex65

Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 13:54:07 PM MST

3 Patron Saints for Musicians

by: hhex65

Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 23:51:37 PM MST

1. Cecilia: Before her marriage she took a vow of virginity and she demanded her new husband respect that vow. An executioner attempted to behead her but failed after three blows.

   lesson: if you must marry, marry for money not sex.

2. Genesius: He was a comedian performing one day before the Emperor Diocletian in a skit ridiculing the Sacrament of Baptism. When the water was poured on him he had an epiphany and actually became a Christian. The Emperor had him tortured and then beheaded.

   lesson: don't mesmerize yourself with your own music.
   

3. Gregory the Great: Best known for his identification of Mary Magdalene as a sinful woman.

   lesson: for the love of it, I do not spare myself from communicating it.

Far Away...

by: hhex65

Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 08:06:24 AM MST

...with Scarlet Witch under Seventh Ave. Their minds erased, unknown their fate. What good is being beautiful if there is no one to see? What good is what one must obey? Who gets to ride your dump truck, Sally, when volts enough to hold are generated? I think the world will never know.

(Avengers #88)

Ubix
Minute Maid

Skull Muff Custom Mod

by: hhex65

Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 02:39:55 AM MST