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June 1, 2009
Traci Lords: Rap Work Out
For more clips like this, visit the blog for the NYC cult cable-access show Media Funhouse, located here: www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
Ex-underaged porn star Traci Lords' (fully legal, and somewhat dressed) workout tape, but it's not the version that made the rounds as the "Advanced" tape. That one, which is excerpted on YouTube already, just has Traci saying "transition...!" over and over again (oh my TVC 15). In this version she raps on the soundtrack. I much prefer this iteration of her exercises for the crotch area. What a talented young woman she was. Sorry for the tape bouncing, but do you really care?
Traci Lords workout exercise video VHS cult movies Media Funhouse
BEST ELVIS ART INSTALLATION! "There is Something Nice About Everyone. There is Everything Nice About Elvis" [COURTESTY OF TUPEL
BEST ELVIS ART INSTALLATION! "There is Something Nice About Everyone. There is Everything Nice About Elvis"--Oleta Grimes
Elvis Presley's Fifth Grade School Teacher
Tupelo, MS
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The Liston Chronicles, Part 1 & 2: Setting Sonny [Nick Tosches]
ROUND 2
Tuesday Jun 2, 2009
Was The Punch legit?Or was Sonny looking for a soft spot to fall right away?
The Liston Chronicles, Part 2: Setting Sonny
By Gregory Toledo
“Though the fury's hot and hard
I still see that cold graveyard
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on.”
~Elvis Costello, "Complicated Shadows"
“LISTON” was spelled out on the back of the heavyweight champion’s robe as he walked into the weigh-in before his second title defense. Behind the lettering was the image of a sun. A setting sun.
Sonny Liston had every reason to be confident on the night of February 25, 1964. He was an eight-to-one favorite to defeat Cassius Clay. “The loud mouth from Louisville,” declared the New York Times, “is likely to have a lot of vainglorious boasts jammed down his throat by a ham-like fist.” That was an echo of the opinion of nearly everyone paying attention. Even the Nation of Islam was reluctant to get too involved on behalf of their recent convert. Elijah Muhammad himself believed that it was “impossible” for Clay to beat Liston. Malcolm X did not, and offered religious-based counsel to the jittery challenger, and then defied Elijah Muhammad by attending the fight in Miami.
He didn’t know it yet, but Liston had already made the mistake common to legions of history’s strong men. The mistake was hubris. His contempt for the skills of Cassius Clay was as pronounced as his training was casual. He drank wine and snacked on potato chips. Liston was prepared only to go the two or three rounds he figured it would take to cash in on Cassius –no more, no less.
The Liston training camp revolved around the whims and moods of Liston. Everyone, including his trainer Willie Reddish, was told what to do and when to do it. Liston listened to no one except James Brown singing “Night Train”. The only exceptions were a Roman Catholic priest who befriended him in prison and the only hero he ever acknowledged –Joe Louis. Apparently, Louis never told Liston the story of his own lackadaisical training that brought about his first loss against Max Schmeling. Nor did the priest open the book of Samuel in Sonny’s presence. Had he done so, the champion may have remembered that it was a mere stone in the sling of a youth that felled Goliath.
No less was the speed of an arrow in the bow of a youth that slew Richard the Lionheart.
Liston looked at Clay and saw a mere stone in his shoe, expecting to parry his arrows as if they were shot by Cupid.
And so it went that a twenty-two year old upstart fought like a mighty archer on wheels; And Liston’s clay feet followed wearily as the rounds sailed past the third. The new old king learned the hard way that hubris blinds a man more than the astringent his corner may or may not have put on his gloves before the fourth round. Liston refused to come out for the seventh round. That was that. Cassius Clay became the new champion, shocking the world and bouncing all over the ring proclaiming exactly that –as Liston sagged on his stool.
Barbarossa, one of history’s great warriors, drowned under the weight of his armor in a shallow river. Liston’s fall was just as anticlimactic. It was downright meek.
Disrobed of his invincibility, he went to St. Francis Hospital for X-rays on his left shoulder. Later a team of doctors confirmed that he had in fact suffered an injury that would be “sufficient to incapacitate him and prevent him from defending himself”. Liston’s corner claimed that the injury occurred during training and that they had to cease sparring earlier than planned. When asked why they didn’t postpone the fight, the answer was “we thought we could get away with it.”
A forgotten nugget of information is that the rematch was originally set for November 16, 1964 at Boston Garden. Sonny trained harder than he had since his peak in 1959 on the grounds of what is now the White Cliffs Country Club in Plymouth, MA –whipping himself into search-and-destroy shape at 208 lbs. Reporters swarmed and Liston’s mood swung between sullen and surly, even worse than usual. Ten sparring partners became casualties and some ended up in the hospital. Liston didn’t even have “Night Train” playing because the beat was too slow for a new pace of training. He was hell-bent on redemption. “When I catch him,” Liston promised, “you’ll know I’m bitter.”
It wasn’t all “meanness” with Sonny. He was known to be gentle with children and impulsively generous with the down-and-out. At times, he seemed to yearn for the peace his life and his choices never allowed. One evening at White Cliffs, Sonny noticed a beautiful scarlet sunset over Cape Cod Bay. “Look at there," he said to a reporter for Sports Illustrated, extending his giant hand and pointing to the horizon, "Isn't that the most beautifulest sight you've ever seen?”
He didn’t know it yet, but the setting sun’s appearance was inauspicious.
Friday the 13th was just a few days later and Ali was rushed by ambulance to Boston City Hospital for an emergency hernia operation. The fight was called off. Liston growled: “If he didn’t carry on in the street the way he did he wouldn’t have hurt himself.” Ali was no less disappointed. “I was really in the best shape of my life as was Sonny. Now all that hard work has gone down the drain,” he said. “Everything was set up. Now I have to sit back for another six months. It was such a letdown for me and for Sonny. All that work for a man his age.”
A man his age. Liston dissipated. He was picked up for drunk driving in December and got into it with ten policemen who had to wrestle him into a cell. Reporters noticed that he was looking “heavier and haggard”.
He spent Christmas in jail.
The infamous rematch ended up in a high school hockey arena in Lewiston, Maine. Ali came in four pounds less but was noticeably bigger than the previous year with inches added to his thighs, biceps, and forearms. Liston was simply older. Whatever fire he had captured at White Cliffs was gone.
Suspiciously, Liston was installed as a nine-to-five favorite.
Ali began round one bouncing and shifting and flicking shots. He landed one hard right hand and Sonny reacted as if it were a caress. Liston was moving in when Ali’s back was near the ropes, he threw a left jab and Ali came over with a right hand that was far more innocent than the previous one… and Liston went down. The fiasco that followed is incidental. Liston’s performance was anything but.
There are those who believe that Liston’s first round knockout was on the level. Others meet it halfway and consider the knockdown legitimate but assert that his refusal to get up suggested something else. Sonny himself spoke of it before the California Boxing Commission and stated that the knockdown was indeed real but that he refused to get up because Ali was standing over him. This doesn’t fit the film. Sonny was too busy trying vainly to make it look like he was hurt. He wasn’t even looking at the big butterfly fluttering about.
The fact is Liston had an exceptional chin. Mike DeJohn proved it. Cleveland Williams proved it. Cops did too –with hickory nightsticks. After Marty Marshall landed the right that broke his jaw, he said, "I never knew he was hurt. You hit him with your Sunday punch but he don't grunt, groan, flinch or blink. He don't do nothing; he just keeps coming on. He’s discouraging that way.”
Ali landed a flicking punch thrown with his legs out of position and no leverage. His first response to Liston’s going down was outrage and it is memorialized in perhaps the most famous boxing photograph ever snapped. “Get up you yellow dog!” –Ali’s shout at the horizontal Liston is frozen in time. It was only later that Ali and company came up with his “anchor punch” spin for posterity’s sake. It’s understandable. Dives taint both fighters, but a first round KO of the impossibly strong Sonny Liston after previously stopping him is a fitting aftershock for the world.
For all Floyd Patterson knew, everything was on the level. He went to Liston’s dressing room after the bout. Liston sat there alone, staring at something far off with that permanent scowl that wasn’t a scowl. Floyd said, “I know how you feel. I’ve been experienced this myself.” Sonny didn’t acknowledge him. Finally, Floyd went to walk out and Sonny ran up, put a hand on Floyd’s shoulder and said “thanks”.
Liston became a persona non grata after the fiasco. He fought on against mostly nondescript opposition in Sweden and then returned to fight a 6’4 truck driver named Bill McMurray. By this point it is not unlikely that Liston was forty years old, although he still had the strength of ten men. With Ali stripped of his title and out of the picture, Sonny was fixing his sites on Joe Frazier by 1968. Emboldened with a fourth round KO of McMurray, a new trainer in Dick Sadler (who would also train George Foreman) and Sammy Davis Jr.’s interest in his career, Liston was feeling upbeat. “I’ll beat [Frazier],” he declared. “I won’t have to chase him. It’ll be like shooting fish in a barrel.”
Henry Clark was ranked ninth by Ring Magazine when Liston faced him four months after McMurray. Liston won every round behind a jab and became the first man to stop him. Amos Lincoln was his eleventh straight KO since the Ali rematch, and Lincoln ended up draped over the ropes for three minutes while his handlers tried to revive him.
The old ex-champion was coming on, straight for Frazier, and the boxing world was buzzing. It couldn’t last if the word on the street was accurate though, and the word was that Liston was boozing it up regularly and addicted to heroin. It couldn’t last because Liston was Liston. Leotis Martin put an end to Liston’s redemption delusions and brought the sheep in with a right hand, followed by a left hook and another right. Liston fell hard and didn’t move. There wasn’t much doubt that this was his only legitimate knockout loss.
Liston’s last bout was held in Jersey City in June 1970 against Chuck Wepner. A strangely silent guest appeared at the back of the armory where the fight was held: it was Muhammad Ali. Ali remained confused and fascinated by his predecessor for many years after their bouts and admitted that Liston scared him. He once went so far as to privately claim that “Liston was the Devil.” Either way, Liston was applauded as he entered the ring against the 6’5, 228 lb challenger.
It was a brutal fight; and Liston wins those.
Wepner, stopped after nine rounds, was in shock for three days after the bout with a broken nose, a broken left cheekbone, and seventy-two stitches to close his face. Sonny had hopes that this, his 50th victory, would qualify him for a bout against Jerry Quarry. It was not to be.
The Grim Reaper showed up instead, tapping him on one of those massive shoulders. Sonny Liston died alone, probably on December 29, 1970, and apparently from a drug overdose. No one really knows. Black daisies sprang up in the bedroom where his body lay for days before anyone found him.
It was a brutal life; and no one wins those.
PREVIOUSLY
ROUND 1
The hard scrabbled and colourful characters that populate the world of boxing have often made for great books and film.
Until the recent tragedy involving his daughter, Mike Tyson was garnering attention for the documentary that bears his name.
While I found it so-so, predictably most movie critics less familiar with the ex-heavyweight champ have taken to it.
But there are several more compelling figures whose stories would make for great documentaries. Some, amazingly, even had tougher roads and upbringings than Tyson.
Sonny Liston
There's no chronological imperative with this sort of thing otherwise we would have seen Sonny Liston and George Foreman tackled, two heavyweight champs just as intimidating as Tyson at their peak.
It's surprising no filmmaker spring boarded from the critically acclaimed
Nick Tosches book The Devil and Sonny Liston and the Liston chapter in David Redneck's King of the World.
There are a lot of great elements at play in the life of the scowling man who came from a family of more than 20 children – the Mob, prison, Muhammad Ali, heroin, and Las Vegas, namely.The passage of time makes it a trickier proposition but that hasn't hindered good-to-great docs in recent years on Jack Johnson, Joe Louis vs. Max Smiling, and Emile Griffith.
George Foreman
Maybe in the near future someone will take on Foreman. Sure, he was a bit ubiquitous a few years back but it does nothing to diminish his story, one of the more remarkable second acts of any public figure in American life, let alone athlete.
From patriotic Olympian to scowling champ who scored comic book worthy knockouts to upset loser to retiring reclusive preacher was interesting enough. But then the improbable comeback and upset KO for a portion of the heavyweight title at 45, the Teddy Bear persona and raking in mammalians in one of the few examples of an athlete doing well on a product endorsement.
Matthew Said Muhammad
A man with three identities. He was abandoned on a Philadelphia parkway as child and sent to a Catholic orphanage. As Matthew Franklin, he learned to box and engaged in some of the most fallacious bouts of all time – the fight clips alone would be an eye-opener for any non-boxing fan. He eventually converted to Islam and found out after he became champion that his birth name was Maxwell Louche. Like a lot of fighters he hung on way too long, although he's not the sad, pathetic figure so many become.
Johnny Tap
Mi Vida Local, Tap's large tattoo, doesn't begin to describe it. Tap's father was killed why he was still in his mother's womb. When Tap was nine, his mother was raped and left for dead at the side of the road. It was only decades later that police could publicly ID her suspected killer (he'd long since died).
Tap, a colourful and entertaining champion, beat fellow Albuquerque native and bitter rival Danny Romero in a brilliant performance in the biggest fight of his life. Managed by his wife, Tap was undefeated for nearly a dozen years but that prowess has been overshadowed by a life filled with drug addiction and suicide attempts. An appearance on the voyeuristic Celebrity Rehab – which has been rumoured – Wildon’t do him justice.
Bernard Hopkins
Grew up in the Philly projects and was not yet 18 when he went in for a long-term bid for armed robbery. Learned to fight in prison and never re-offended upon his release. Lost his pro debut and didn't step back into the ring again for another year, a most inauspicious start for a future Hall of Farmer. He was a solid pro for many years but had to watch others take the spotlight and the paydays until his first masterpiece – over previously unbeaten Felix Trinidad in the first big sporting event in New York City after 9/11. While a self-made man, he's managed to burn many bridges in the boxing world, but at the same time is now a business partner of a former rival, Oscar De La Goya.
And three documentaries that are real:
HBO in August will present the documentary Assault in the Ring, which had languished for a couple of years and was originally known as Cornered. The recent Antonio Margarito illegal hand wrap controversy may have figured into the timing.
The doc centres on the 1983 fight between undefeated Billy Collins and Luis Rest. Collin's face was a pulpy mess afterward, and it was discovered that the horsehair had been removed from Recto's gloves. Rest and trainer Panama Lewis served prison sentences while Collins, 22, was unable to fight again and turned to the bottle, dying in a single-vehicle crash less than one year after the bout.
No word yet on any such airing for Passim the Dream, which screened at the Tribe Film Festival last year.
Junior middleweight Passim Um was a child soldier in Uganda, as were several of his brothers. He would eventually reach the U.S. and became a top contender, though his best days are behind him. But can someone brought up amid death and violence ever escape it? He was shot in the abdomen in 2002 in Florida and tested positive for marijuana after one of his fights.
Finally, Facing Ali. By the looks of the trailer, this doc of Ali through the lens of his opponents promises to be weightier than the book title of the same name.
Information concerning Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad derived from Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “New Muslims”, a publication by the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO). “Liston was the Devil” comment found in Nick Tosches “The Devil and Sonny Liston”, p. 219. Unless otherwise acknowledged, information for this article was also derived from contemporary editions of the New York Times. Gregory Toledo can be contacted at scalinatella@hotmail.com
Traci Lords: Hot for Teacher
Traci Lords: Hot for Teacher
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MR. HORACE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SUCH AN ASSHOLE. SHE IS JUST LOOKING FOR ADVICE.
May 31, 2009
Stephen Fry talks about ABBABBC4TV "better than it needs to Be" laughing out loudly
in the BBC4 TV special "Guilty", British comedic celebrity Stephen Fry talked about his various decadent indulgences - one of them being the music of ABBA.
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know bill? Jung: AA + Drug Seeking Behaviour
This clip describes the relation between the theories of Carl Gustav Jung, and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. It also elucidates the connection between Jung's pioneering theory and its more ...
Free Stiff CD! [The Independent: TV advert: 27.01.08]
Official TV advert for the Stiff Records CDs, given away free in The Independent newspaper on 27.01.08 and 26.01.08.
Stiff Box Set [Interview with Stiff Records' founder, Dave Robinson]
Interview with Stiff Records founder Dave Robinson about "The Big Stiff Box Set" - the briliant 4xCD + book release from Union Square Music. Broadcast live on 'Entertainment 24' on BBC News 24, 29th October 2007. More info on the box set at
Wigan Casino [for the Mancs]
The Wigan Casino was a nightclub in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Operating between 1973 and 1981, it was known as a primary venue for northern soul music. It carried forward the legacy
Blondie - Accidents Never Happen [All I do is watch Blondie videos over and over. Shit happens]
[that might be the first 'shit happens' I've seen in ten years.]
There is not any track where Clem doesn't play concentrically
weenie
Shit happens
MasterCard
All I do is watch Blondie videos over and over.
TENPOLE TUDOR: SWORDS OF A THOUSAND MEN [Stiff] ooh! When was he Adam Ant?! I don't remember!
this'll be the only tenpole that's less than turgid, in my opium.
NICK LOWE - CRUEL TO BE KIND [HQ New Audio] Reminds me of Shirley Brilleaux [nee Alford's] wedding to $tiff co-founder - Lee fr
NICK LOWE - CRUEL TO BE KIND [HQ New Audio] Reminds me of Shirley Brilleaux [nee Alford's] wedding to $tiff co-founder - Lee from Dr. Feelgood in Hammond, LA: this and booze! Best Wedding ever!
Little Nashville: Murfreesboro's Murphy Center [MTSU]
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Carl Wilson [Tomorrow 1981 (2/2)]
tomorrow Carl Wilson live at the (I think) Tom Snyder show (??), 1981.
This is part 2: an interview with Carl Wilson, after which he performs another song, Heaven...but unfortunately it's incomplete. When I bought on of my BB-video's this recording was at the very end of the tape...
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - Together Through Life
Bob Dylan 2009 Pate NJN Together Through Life Beyond Here Lies Nothing music Together-Through-Life Beyond- Here-Lies-Nothing
The Beach Boys - You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone [lip-sunk : Brighton Royal Pavilion Onion Dome Backdrop] *for Frank Bea
goddamnit~you think the rooftop scene in 'let it be' rocks, check out moscow onion domes as backdrop. this is like that zz topp visual.
*the only person not wearing a wool cap is named blondie. it's not exactly like it. but you get what i'm tryin' to say. it's more like it than the jfk/lincoln puzzle.
beach boys brian carl dennis wilson mike love al jardine ricky fataar blondie chaplin
The Beach Boys "Don't Go Near The Water" [Surf's Up with Blondie and Ricky] for Andrew McLenon
Don't Go Near The Water from the Surf's Up album. It's great to have Beach Boys footage with Blondie and Ricky.
John Whitney: "Catalog" [analog computer/film/magic machine built from WWII gun sight 1961]
John Whitney's demo reel of work created with his analog computer/film camera magic machine he built from a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight. Also Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull (special fx wizard) to use the slit scan technique on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Bob Wilkins: Last Show [Pt. 2]
Bob's last show on channel 40 in 1981. Part 2 features video tributes from some of Bob's friends and co-workers like Harry Martin. Also features an over the top performance by Big Time Wrestling announcer Hank Renner.
Bob Wilkins John Stanley Creature Features Wilkens channel 40 KTXL Horror Film Hank Renner
Bob Wilkins R.I.P. [1932 - 2009]
From his debut in 1966 on KCRA in Sacramento to his legendary Creature Feature days on KTVU in the San Francisco/Bay Area, Bob Wilkins has remained one of the most cherished and beloved TV personalities in Northern California.
As many of you know, Bob is in the final stages of Alzheimer's Disease. Visit Bob's website: www.BobWilkins.Net to purchase DVDs - proceeds go to pay for his care.
Name: Bob Wilkins
Age: 77
City: Sacramento
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Murder! Faster! Moore! Kill!
The Mary Tyler Moore Show wasn't all sweetness and light as most of its viewers might think. Here's a slightly darker take on the television legend.
Burt Ward: "Boy Wonder, I Love You" [Audio with montADGE - w/b Frank Zappa] for baikinange
A montage of Robin set to a single called "Boy Wonder I Love You", as written and produced by Frank Zappa, with Burt Ward on lead vocals. Not to worry, he doesn't sing, but says hi to the "kids" and reads a "happy letter, from someone about your age". It's one of the funniest tracks Zappa ever produced.
Popeye the Sailor [Rotograph -Max Fleischer: patent #2054414-1936]
The rotograph, patent #2054414, was invented by animator Max Fleischer in 1936. Essentially an enormous, revolving, circular miniature set built in forced perspective, it enabled a fantastic sense of depth and parallax in cartoons produced by the Fleischer Studio in the 1930's.
The rotograph was used to enhance some of the Fleisher Studio's most popular properties, including Betty Boop and Popeye shorts. This montage comes from two Popeye cartoons, "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor" and "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and his 40 Thieves".
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George Putnam: St. Louis Blues [ LA Newscaster Sings Filthy W.C. Handy Medley - Telethon]
George Putnam (the LA newscaster) participated in a telethon to raise money for the LA library system. He decided to sing the blues. He looks like he had a lot of fun doing it.
Diamanda Galas: Positive [Rosa von Praunheim] World Trade Switchblade (say, 'i feel them.')
Excerpt from Positive, Rosa von Praunheim's 1990 landmark movie depicting the AIDS crisis in New York City
Christiane F.: Today
A little movie which shows us some places in Berlin, were Christiane F. was hanging around. Unfortunately the cityscape had most changed. P.S.: the music was composed for this video by ourselves!
Christiane F.: V2 SCHNEIDER (DAVID BOWIE: LOW) [Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo 1981] (deutsch pt. 1)
Einstein echoes angst's.genuine.
Such ageless book enlightening. yes, I have brides, Maids--both.
Is avg bunch.
even worse.
woo.
get where it always goes into the hospital overhasty.
The film is in the Magi bag.
dirt schooner.
If you have the angst, film makes Lavish red.
Film's measureless.
Weird alleys, lesser constellations etch gal, but the book is timestamped because everything is better.
Herr Schindler, ihre Liste/Mr. Schindler, her list (Schwarzer Humor...Black humor)
Mr. Schindler, her list
Schwarzer Humor.... Black humo
"Ich werde die beiden Synchronsprecher von meiner Liste streichen."
"I will both dubbing from my list."
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Venus De Milo Club "definably NOT the Venus i know"-- lollipop Savannah, GA
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definably NOT the Venus i know lollipop know when this was shot, but the Venus I go to every Thursday and Saturday is NOTHING like this. Still a great place to hang with friends.
I agree Venus is nothing like this on Saturday nights. I think it's the best bar in Savannah but you'd never know it from this ad. This looks like it's just a (old) commercial for the tourists.
Any tourist who goes there on Thursday or Saturday expecting this is in for a shock. lol
Howard Hughes' Houston
Incidently, the Houston Municipal airport was named for Howard Hughes in the 1930's. However, regulations in the 1930's prohibited the naming of an airport after a living person. Therefore, the name change was reverted. In the 1960s after the death of ex-Texas Governor, William P. Hobby, the city renamed it 'William P. Hobby Airport'.
IT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED BACK TO 'HOWARD HUGHES AIRPORT'!
Miriam Makeba: R.I.P (1 Afrikaans + 1 Xhosa) [film:Have you seen Drum Lately? Jürgen Schadeberg] 4 Liz Van Den Berg - Capetown
R.I.P
This stunningly-voiced footage features Makeba amongst the intellectuals behind 'Drum' magazine. Here she sings two songs for the small male-dominated crowd: the first has a sad and haunting tone and the next has a livelier feel.
The footage is taken from the iconic film: 'Have you seen Drum Lately?', dubbed one of the most important films to emerge from apartheid South Africa and filmed by the father of South African photography: Jürgen Schadeberg.
Johnny Thunders: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
Johnny Thunders: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
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you can't put your arms around a memory
vous ne pouvez pas mettre vos bras autour d'une mémoire
Sie können nicht Ihre Arme um einen Speicher setzen
Non possono regolare le vostre leve intorno ad una memoria
Não podem regular suas alavancas ao redor a uma memória
No pueden alrededor regular sus espeques a una memoria
William Eggleston: Organ [Father of Color Photography]
William Eggleston: Organ [Father of Color Photography]
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Eureka: Nicolas Roeg [Rutger Hauer+Theresa Russel - Trailer] MY FAVORITE MOVIE~
Eureka: Nicolas Roeg [Rutger Hauer+Theresa Russel - Trailer]
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Eureka (1984), directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the story of Klondike prospector, Jack McCann (Hackman) who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy (Theresa Russell) and his son-in-law (Rutger Hauer) are scheming to take his wealth and his soul; moreover, greedy investors (Joe Pesci and Mickey Rourke) are also hunting McCann's fortune.
* Gene Hackman : Jack McCann
* Theresa Russell : Tracy
* Rutger Hauer : Claude Maillot von Horn
* Jane Lapotaire : Helen McCann
* Mickey Rourke : Aurelio D'Amato
* Ed Lauter : Charles Perkins
* Joe Pesci : Mayakofsky
* Helena Kallianiotes : Frieda
* Cavan Kendall : Pierre de Valois
* Corin Redgrave : Worsley
* Joe Spinell : Pete
* Frank Pesce : Stefano
* Michael Scott Addis : Joe
* Norman Beaton : Byron Judson
* Emrys James : le juge
Eureka is loosely based on the true murder of Sir Harry Oakes, in the Bahamas, occurred in 1943.
Au Canada, en 1925, Jack McCann, perturbé par le désespoir et entouré par la mort, devient subitement un homme riche en découvrant un filon d'or. 20 ans plus tard, désabusé et installé sur une île jamaïcaine, il vit reclut avec sa femme alcoolique, sa fille mariée à un homme qu'il déteste, et son associé qui essaie à son insu, via la mafia, de construire un casino.
Réalisation : Nicolas Roeg
Scénario : Paul Mayersberg, d'après le livre Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?, de Marshall Houts
Production : Jeremy Thomas et Tim Van Rellim
Musique : Stanley Myers (additionnel : Hans Zimmer)
Kirkland Lake, Northern Ontario, Canada
May 30, 2009
Tara: [AKA] Hood Rat [Movie Stills (2001)] Starring: Ice-T+Joe Walsh+Laurie Garner
Tara
AKA
Hood Rat
2001
Vetta Taylor: "No need to panic" and "I'm going to set the ladder out" don't go in the same sentence, Levi.
Vetta Taylor: Now you tell me the truth.
Detective: Does this look familiar?
Levi: My heater. Look what the fire did to my heater.
This movie is bad, so bad that my mother who can barely stand the "suspense" of Discovery's Snow White, was chuckling through out the entire movie. My first warning would've been that it was in the $5.50 bin at Walt-mart. But I have actually found some good movies in that bin, so i can't fault if for this debacle. The second warning should have been that when the cashier rang up the DVD, it was actually $3.88. Again I have never been one to ignore the cheapness. Thighs definitely not for people looking for something good to watch, and it most certainly isn't for everyone that enjoys the occasional bad movie. If you need background noise while you are doing something like playing cards with some friends, then get this but if you are looking for something to actually watch don't even bother. It was really disappointing because there were a lot of good actors. I felt like i was watching a chocolate version of Thingamabob commensurate to?
Isaiah Washington ... Max
Ice-T ... Grady
A.J. Johnson ... Nina
Jevon Sims
Tonea Stewart ... Vetta Taylor
Steve Warren ... Public Defender
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Victoria Dillard
Jaqueline Fleming ... Crack Addict
Stacii Jae Johnson ... Candice
Lawrence LeJohn ... Detective
Irvetta McMurtry ... News Reporter
Thomas Merdis ... Levi
Cedric Pendleton ... Nature
Doug Peterson ... Coroner
Kenya-Aleigh Rivers ... Courtroom Clerk
Tami Roman ... Judge Bankhead (as Tami Anderson)
Nickie Thomas ... Courtroom Member
Guy Torry ... Courtney
Tara Tovarek ... Ellen
George Howard Adams ... Resident (slaps boy with hat and says 'shut up') (uncredited)
Miguel A. Núñez Jr. ... J.D Mogo (rat-catcher) (uncredited)
Xavier Rivers ... Policeman (uncredited)
Joe Walsh ... Detective (uncredited)
Laurie Garner... Secretary (production)
Doo-Nanny 2009
Snippets from the Doo-Nanny, the world's premiere lo-fi festival in Seale, Alabama. A gathering of fantastic folk artists and musicians, including the retro rock duo Mad Tea Party. http://www.ukulelerockstar.com, http://www.museumofwonder.com, http://www.themadteaparty.com
'Make It Stop! The Most of Ross Johnson' (Goner Records 2009 CD) ['Baron of Love' from Alex Chilton's 'Like Flies on Sherbert' (Jim Dickinson: 1979)]
THAT'S THE DIRECTOR'S UP THERE
HERE'S MINE
[IT'S SHORTER: I CAN'T WATCH LONG ONES (I LIKE THAT MEMPHIS SIGN LADY THOUGH...I HOPE THAT'S NOT THE DIRECTOR'S WIFE!)]
From
Bob Mehr
Make It Stop!produced by
The Most of Ross Johnson
Bob Mehr
[originally produced by Jim Dickinson for 'Like Flies on Sherbert' 1979]
SPECIAL JAPANESE INTRODUCTION QUOTE!
"
Maybe some of the strange times, but he, in a sloppy manner, in which it is his feeling, was that, like him, it's pure rock!"-- JAPANESE FAN ON 'BARON Of LOVE'
Like the kin of Jerry Clower, Jerry Lewis, and Jerry Lee Lewis passing a coffin on Percodan, Ross Johnson's "BARON OF LOVE (PT. 2), the video [special abbreviated version] from Alex Chilton's LP, "LIKE FLIES ON SHERBERT" is his Ross Johnsonest release yet!
This PANTHER BURNS' cluster-fuck alumni helped foment Memphis's 1970s 'cult of no personality' scene, which brought together a horde of shut-ins, and provided 'art damage' therapy, propagated by Tav Falco and his Unapproachable's.
Tav used a tool borrowed from the infamous cult leader chest: quasi babble-speak on top of dissonant musical accompaniment.
The cult called 'PANTHER BURNS,' named after an apocryphal [also cultic ] legend--unverified and orally passed from Plantation to cotton field--where 'you know who' thought they saw 'you know what' ON FIRE [!], smack dab in Mississippi's Delta.
This cult consisted of Alex Chilton [guitar], Tav (Gustavo)Falco [vocals, Silvertone guitar], Jim Dickinson [guitar *not sic], Eric Hill [synthesizer], and our man of the hour--the reason we're here! The greatest one-handed, beer-gulping timekeeper since the man from Munchen held a metronome and a Weierstrass while simultaneously yodeling--Ross Johnson [stand-up drums]!
LIKE FLIES ON SHERBERT ['LFOS'], recorded at Sam Phillips Studios, 1979; mixed the following year; released as a pipe-dream on Sid Selvidge's Peabody label; one year later on Aura; and finally by Patrick Mathe's French, New Rose, wherein it has grown into the greatest cult record of 'em all--in my opinion.
The album is divided among Chilton originals and Nashville Bar Band covers [think of a Lower Broad band-rider which includes Dexamyl and a keg of Schnaaps].
The only non-LX vocal track on 'LFOS' (although LX makes known the spirit of the recently departed Baron, Elvis in this tallboy-fueled, extempore-eulo-billy, seance/monologue, through his use of ribbons of a/b guitar feedback), this 'Flies,' was remastered by Dickinson, who says it's as good as it's going to get--which in Memphis means "ROSS JOHNSON will forever be remembered for "Baron Of Love (Pt. 2)"! *Orig track from Alex Chilton's 'Like Flies on Sherbert' produced by Jim Dickinson From Ross Johnson's Goner Records' self defecating 25-year retrospective autobiographically titled 'Make It Stop!The Most of Ross Johnson'.
[some of the content of this review may have been taken directly from other sources, where it may have been mechanically manipulated into its current state by the author. The author is not responsible for any over-three word strands which may still may remain in tact--thank you.]
i think this is by Andria Lisle, but i'm not sure: WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK IS BETTER? SHE STARTS HERS OUT WITH A QUESTION, WHICH IS VERY SHARP AND TRICKY--HARD TO BEAT--I DIDN'T GO TO JOURNALISM SCHOOL. MINE HAS MORE BRACKETS AND COLA, THOUGH. LOOK UP! THERE'S ANOTHER ONE--THE NAME OF MY BLOG--HOW YOU SAY IT:
bRACKET cOLA
What do Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Tav Falco, Peter Buck, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans and Jon Spencer have in common?They’ve all lent their talents to the skewed genius that is Memphis drummer/ranter/raconteur extraordinaire Ross Johnson.
Johnson’s name may only be familiar to a cult of faithful followers, but he’s one of the true heroes of the Southern alt and punk rock underground. From his days riding shotgun with Chilton, to his efforts helping found the Panther Burns to his work with outfits like the Gibson Bros. and ’68 Comeback, Ross has been a dedicated soldier in the trash rock trenches for four decades – while creating a catalog of truly brilliant and bizarre solo recordings on the side.
This January, Goner Records, will release Make It Stop!: The Most of Ross Johnson. This career-spanning collection includes 20-plus tracks, covering Ross’s solo sides and numerous all-star collaborations from 1979 to 2006. It’s a wild, wooly, sonic and lyrical journey that’s sure to take its place among the more outré anthologies in your CD collection.
Ross' mostly spontaneously composed songs – which concern his fraught relations with women, booze, and the very nature of being a Southerner -- are part deconstructionist roots music, part absurdist comedy. Imagine a cross between Hasil Adkins and Sam Kinison, or Charlie Feathers and Albert Brooks, or Kim Fowley and Jerry Clower, and you’ll get the picture (please forgive the groping hybrid comparisons, but as you’ll find out, Ross is rather hard to define). Call it southern fried outsider art or rockabilly psychosis, but once you get a glimpse of Ross’ twisted vision, you’ll never look at the world the same way again.
But Johnson’s story is more than that of just an unhinged rock and roll hellion. An Arkansas native and son of a respected newspaper editor, he moved to Memphis as a teen, just in time for the city’s mid-60s garage band boom. He got his foot in the music scene as a one of the few original and enthusiastic fans of hometown pop group Big Star. Johnson then went on to write for the legendary Lester Bangs at Creem, under the memorable alias of Chester the Conger Eel. He soon befriended Alex Chilton, helped introduce punk rock to Memphis, and later became a notorious imbiber/MC/ringleader as a founding member of Tav Falco’s Panther Burns. Since then he’s spent time thumping the tubs for a variety of wild outfits from the Gibson Bros. to the Ron Franklin Entertainers --- all the while maintaining his alter-ego as a mild mannered librarian at the University of Memphis.
Make It Stop! is a treasure trove of material that collects a variety of out-of-print, hard-to-find, and previously unreleased selections from Ross’ colorful career, including singles, album and comp appearances for labels like Peabody, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Sugar Ditch, and Loverly.
There is of course his legendary vocal debut, “Baron of Love Pt. II,” one of the highlights of Alex Chilton’s famed Like Flies on Sherbert album.
Also, included are solo tracks ranging from 1982’s infamous “Wet Bar” – which was featured on the companion CD to Robert Gordon’s book It Came from Memphis – to early-‘90s cult classics like “It Never Happened” and “Nudist Camp,” down to the recent acoustic nugget, “Signify,” a ridiculously raw self-confessional that will have you laughing and crying simultaneously.
The disc also unearths some never-before-heard (and suitably insane) tracks Ross recorded with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck amid a drunken haze sometime in early 1983.Credited to(Amazingly, when the tapes were discovered in late 2007, Buck had total recall of the sessions and the songs; Ross has no recollection of recordings whatsoever).Our Favorite Bandsongs like “Rockabilly Monkey-Faced Girl” and “My Slobbering Decline” represent some of Buck's first work outside of R.E.M.
[HEY, THAT'S ME],
Also included is Ross’ work with a couple mid-‘90s groups he fronted like Adolescent Music Fantasy – dig the band’s twisted take on “Theme From ‘A Summer Place’”. Ross and multi-instrumentalist Tim Farr stir things up as The Young Seniors – check their brilliant cover of Bobby Lee Trammell’s “If You Ever Get It Once” and a revamp of The Gentrys’ hit “Keep on Dancing,” which Ross mutates into a meditation on the embarrassing nature of “ass whoopings.”
Further highlights include a handful of team-ups between Ross and fellow garage cult icon, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans (Gibson Bros., ’68 Comeback). The duo essays everything from the freaky holiday anthem “Mr. Blue (Cut Your Head on X-Mas)” to a souped-up take on “Farmer John,” with equal parts guitar distortion and manic glee.
Make It Stop! comes packaged with a handsome 16-page color booklet, featuring Ross' own hilarious biographical essay, as well as tributes from acclaimed author Robert Gordon ("It Came From Memphis," the Muddy Waters bio "Can’t Be Satisfied"), MOJO writer Andria Lisle, and pop culture critic John Floyd.
Once the proverbial needle drops on this collection you’ll be – as Gordon notes in his liners – “seduced then debauched” by Ross’s “rivulets of rage, humor, and words words words.”
Don’t say we didn’t warn ya’.
Live From Memphis: Music Video Showcase [livefrommemphis YouTube Channel Playlist (46 videos)]
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To listen to 100s of mp3s and live shows, and to watch over 100 videos visit www.LiveFromMemphis.comLive From Memphis, a grassroots organization representing Memphis music, film and the arts. We support and promote local musicians, filmmakers, artists, and industry professionals who are the lifeblood of the Memphis creative scene. It is our goal to connect creatives, grow opportunity and gain exposure for our creative culture.
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We'd like to meet Memphis artists, sculptors, musicians, bands, rappers, vocalists, photographers, filmmakers, painters, actors, actresses, models, graphic designers, film production crew, music production crew, writers, poets, and anyone interested or involved in the Memphis music, film, and arts' community within a 100 mile radius of Memphis, Tennessee!
Music Video Showcase
The Music
Al Kapone
directed by Unbreakable Product
Wasted Rain
Dani McCulloch
directed by John Paul
The Runner
Organ Thief
directed by Christopher Rey
Good Things Are Real
Valencia Robinson
Texting You
Choir Boi
directed by Catina Johnson
Terminal Boredom
The Cute Lepers
Pointless Drinking
Amy LaVere
Walk Away
Clanky ' Nub
directed by GB Shannon
I Liked Your Rough Draft Better
Pezz
directed by Hotty Toddy Dirt Brothers
Baron of Love (Pt. 2)
Ross Johnson
directed by Jon Sparks
First launched in 2005, the goal of LFM's Music Video Showcase is to give both local filmmakers and musicians a chance to "rock the big screen!"
The event now occurs annually and attracts a diverse audience and always fills the theatre to capacity.
Cash awards for both "Best Music Video" and "Audience Choice"!
The purpose of this event is to connect musicians and filmmakers, to encourage collaborations and to inspire creativity.
Connect.
Collaborate.
Create.
The event now occurs annually and attracts a diverse audience and always fills the theatre to capacity.
Cash awards for both "Best Music Video" and "Audience Choice"!
The purpose of this event is to connect musicians and filmmakers, to encourage collaborations and to inspire creativity.
Connect.
Collaborate.
Create.
Live From Memphis
Music Video Showcase
includes these and more
The Music
Al Kapone
directed by Unbreakable Product
Wasted Rain
Dani McCulloch
directed by John Paul
The Runner
Organ Thief
directed by Christopher Rey
Good Things Are Real
Valencia Robinson
Texting You
Choir Boi
directed by Catina Johnson
Terminal Boredom
The Cute Lepers
Pointless Drinking
Amy LaVere
Walk Away
Clanky ' Nub
directed by GB Shannon
I Liked Your Rough Draft Better
Pezz
directed by Hotty Toddy Dirt Brothers
Baron of Love (Pt. 2)
Ross Johnson
directed by Jon Sparks
*Maria Alba y Ramon de los Reyes [*M A: Castanets: 'Hernando's Hideaway'] for: Bacon and Eggs
Maria Alba: RAMON DE LOS REYES [ALBA/REYES SPANISH DANCE CO.] Flamenco [Castanet Player on 'Hernando's Hideaway']
People Magazine: BROOKE SHIELDS - PRETTY BABY + JAMES COBURN [People This Week Commercial: May 29, 1978]
a commercial for the May 29, 1978 issue of "People" magazine, spotlighting stories on Brooke Shields, David Brenner, William Colby and James Coburn
Robert Blake: Talks About Crazy [Tom Snyder Tommorow: Shows Clip]
Don't know why his last appearance hasn't been posted anywhere or shown on the news since he talked in length about his love for Bonnie Lee Bakley and he pleaded for her to come back to her and he forgave her for all the things she's done in the past. He didn't mention her by name but described her accurately and it was at the time they were together. Does anyone know if that was shown in trial? This is nothing in comparison to that night. Snyder was really afraid Blake had completely lost it.
Brief introduction of Wasp Creations Corsetry
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