Vegoose Festival Report: Rage Against the Machine the Stooges…
The News Review:
- Vegoose Festival Report: Rage Against the Machine the Stooges…
- Pacific NW 10/28/2007 | Last Hurrahs | Seattle Times Newspaper
- Station WJEJ Staub turning 75
- Will Pfeifer: ‘2001′ ‘A Clockwork range’ and 3 more classics from …
Vegoose Festival Report: Rage Against the Machine the Stooges…
Rolling Stone – Oct 29, 2007
)From the start great music was plentiful. Gogol Bordello opened the festival with one of the strongest sets of the weekend. As with many of the afternoon bands the Vegoose set was only the beginning of their Vegas trip. After performing the band did a signing in a makeshift Zia Records tent in the Vegoose field before heading to downtown Las Vegas where bandmembers spun discs at Beauty Bar until 3 AM… Nobody wants another Woodstock ‘99 that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. This piss poor assessment of the greatest festival concert I have ever been to shows how anemic the old guard of the music industry has become. It’s on the effing death bed when it’s allowing journalists who call Daft Punk anti climactic to publish their comments. I almost impaled people with my glowsticks I was orgasming so hard the entire set.
Pacific NW 10/28/2007 | Last Hurrahs | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seattle Times – Oct 28, 2007
Her body was wasting away. Blaine’s death was imminent staring her in the face. So she put on some lipstick and blew death a kiss a pair of angel’s wings strapped to her shoulders and a couple of harpists thrown in for celestial good measure. Wearing an airy sheath of a white dress white Birkenstocks a fuzzy halo and those big white fluffy wings Blaine grinned like the Cheshire cat cheek to cheek and cackled like Phyllis Diller while greeting the 40 or so friends and relatives who turned out for her living funeral her dying party. “I’m dying!” Blaine said repeatedly in a tone that was both plaintive and joyously declarative. There were smiles and awkward silences a look of disbelief on some faces sadness on others and a glance from those who knew her plucky personality that said: “This party is so Gladys. “I’m so sorry to leave you all” Blaine rasped… She even picked which songs would be played. The memorial service would be at her home not a funeral chapel. The coffin would be made of wood not metal. Wood is warmer she said. The coffin remained in the living room of the grandmother’s house for two days of mourning during which loved ones prayed over her while a special attendant scooped away portions of a sand tapestry called a tapete that had been built on the floor. Family members would later pitch handfuls of the sand into the grave at burial time. And there would be a feast.
Station WJEJ Staub turning 75
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Oct 28, 2007
So early programming had to be live and WJEJ’s first announcer Earl Mentzer who came to be known as “Earl the Early Bird” had to be able to sing as well Staub said. Mentzer who was 74 in 1982 when the station celebrated its 50th anniversary recalled in an interview then that the live format made creativity a must. To create sounds for on-air skits cellophane from a cigarette pack was crumpled to mimic a crackling fire or sheet metal was flexed for the noise of a thunderstorm. Staub said that Mentzer who has since died began a Smile Club based on his use of “A Smile Goes a Long Long Way” as his morning show’s theme song. In all 10000 listeners joined the first year. He gave it a tryStaub came to radio after a short time of working for the BF Goodrich rubber company in Waynesboro Va. The manager of radio station WAYB there used to come around for advertising and one day he told the young Staub about an opening for a nighttime DJ “and he said ‘Why don’t you try it John?’”Staub did and liked it… Now you just cut it out by computer. It’s just done on a screen with a squiggly little line on it. “And now WJEJ has a music library of “somewhere around 8000 songs that we can call up at any given time and it’s all stored in a computer” he said. These days too the station broadcasts 24 hours a day seven days a week. n its first day in 1932 the broadcast lasted only a few hours. The early broadcasts were intermittent – the transmitter was turned on or off as WJEJ had something to say. Nowadays some radio stations are making use of the Internet putting their programming on the Web Staub said.
Will Pfeifer: ‘2001′ ‘A Clockwork range’ and 3 more classics from …
Daily News Tribune – Oct 29, 2007
Just find the biggest TV you can and let “2001” blow your mind. “A Clockwork range” (1971): Another movie that divides audiences mostly thanks to gleeful violence committed by the film’s “hero” Alex de Large (Malcolm McDowell). Like “2001” it’s a visual stunner with brilliantly used music. “The Shining” (1980): Author Stephen King hates it but I’d rank this as one of scariest films ever made. Jack Nicholson goes terrifyingly over the top but it’s the verlook Hotel (an elaborate set) that’s the real monster. Disturbing visuals and a bold use of the Steadicam ratchet up the intensity. “Full Metal Jacket” (1987): The first half focuses on a drill sergeant (actual former drill sergeant R… Jack Nicholson goes terrifyingly over the top but it’s the verlook Hotel (an elaborate set) that’s the real monster. Disturbing visuals and a bold use of the Steadicam ratchet up the intensity. “Full Metal Jacket” (1987): The first half focuses on a drill sergeant (actual former drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey) putting his Marine recruits though hell during basic training. It’s so startling and realistic that it leaves the viewer exhausted. Unfortunately it’s also a very tough act to follow and the film’s second half which follows one of those Marines into Vietnam suffers by comparison. “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999): Kubrick’s last film was released after his death and the studio tinkered with it to ensure an R rating.
Written by admin on October 29th, 2007 with
no comments.
Read more articles on News.