October 31, 2008

HELLOWEEN: DR. STEIN: MRDJFONTANA: UNVEIL THIS + No Este Develar!: LEX10 & Papame, Papayou: BAIKINANGE

Helloween - Dr Stein

Unveil This: In honor of Hallowe'en -
Sleepy Vampire by the Supersuckers:

Toto Larriva y Salma Hayek en la clásica escena en
"De Anochecer Hasta El Amanecer"

Papame, Papayou

Dylan (laughing)..."on this earth and the world we can’t see"

In 1978, Dylan attended a home Bible study with girlfriend Mary Alice. She had recently “re-dedicated her life to Christ” and was concerned that she was living with an unsaved man who was not her husband.

Dylan
Animated by John Wilson, Fine Arts Films

She invited two assistant pastors from the Hollywood Vineyard Church (associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship) to visit Dylan’s home.

The Vineyard Fellowship, to which Dylan's girlfriend Mary Alice Artes introduced him in late 1978, was a small evangelical church that peddled a New Age, born-again version of Christianity. It had been found in Los Angeles in 1974 by Ken Gulliksen, who had previous been a singer on the Christian Music circuit. The church's style was informal. Gulliksen took services dressed in his shorts and counted a number of LA musicians among his congregation, including T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield, all of whom had played on Dylan's
Rolling Thunder Tour.

Bob and Mary Alice enrolled in the Vineyard Fellowship's School of Discipleship, attending Bible class most weekday mornings for more than three months at the beginning of 1979. At first Bob thought there was no way that he could devote so much time to the project; he felt he had to get back on the road. Soon, though, he found himself awake at 7 A.M., compelled to get up and drive to the real estate office in Reseda where Bible classes were held. "I couldn't believe I was there," he said.

Dylan
Gotta Serve Somebody movie

Dylan’s testimony was as follows:

“One thing led to another ... until I had this feeling, this vision and feeling. I truly had a born-again experience, if you want to call it that. It’s an over-used term, but it’s something that people can relate to”

It was during this late winter/spring period of 1979 that Mary Alice Ares was baptized in a swimming pool at Pastor Bill's house.
"This was total immersion. Because baptism is a symbol of burial, burying guilt, and then pulling the new man out of the water," says Pastor Kenn. Bob attended the baptism and, not long afterward, Bob was himself baptized, probably in the ocean, which was where the fellowship normally conducted baptisms. By being immersed in water, Bob became, in common parlance, a born-again Christian, though he would later shrink from the term, claiming he had never used it. Yet he was clearly quoted in a 1980 interview with trusted Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Hilburn saying: "I truly has a born-again experience, if you want to call it that. It's an overused term, but it's something that people can relate to."

Bob's conversion to Christianity also caused considerable upset to his own children, who had been raised in the Jewish faith. Suddenly, packs of journalists were following their father to the Vineyard Fellowship in the hope of getting pictures of him going to a Christian church, and then staking out his home. The children saw this commotion when they visited their father. It was embarrassing and one of the few times when his celebrity was a problem in their lives.

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Bob Dylan 1975-1981 Rolling Thunder & The Gospel Years Promomotional Trailer
In the fall of 1983, Bob's seventeen-year-old son Jesse had a belated bar mitzvah in Jerusalem- Jakob and Samuel had already been bar mitzvahed in California- and Bob was photographed wearing a yarmulke at the Wailing Wall, adding to speculation that he had returned to Judaism. "As far as we're concerned, he was a confused Jew," Rabbi Kasriel Kastel told Christianity Today. "We feel he's coming back." In fact, Jesse was on vacation in Israel with his grandmother, Beatty, when they discovered a bar mitzvah could be conducted quickly and easily at the Wailing Wall and Bob simply flew in to play his part. He still believed Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and kept a broadly Christian outlook, although he had not maintained regular contact with the Vineyard Fellowship since the early flush of his conversion.

DYLAN MADE A BARGAIN WITH THE DEVIL

In a rare interview with Ed Bradley, aired on the 60 Minutes program, June 26, 2005, the 63-year-old rock singer said that his early songs were “almost magically written … kind of a penetrating magic.”

He also said that he made a bargain with the devil.

Question: Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?

Dylan: It goes back to that destiny thing. I made a bargain with it a long time ago, and I’m holding up my end.

Q: What was your bargain?

Dylan: To get where I am now.

Q: Should I ask whom you made the bargain with?

Dylan: With the chief commander.

Q: On this earth?

Dylan: (laughing) On this earth and the world we can’t see.
It could be argued that Dylan was referring to a bargain he made with God, but that makes no sense. As Brian Snider wrote to me on this matter: “Who makes a bargain with God to be a rock star? Everyone knows you make that deal with the devil. Down at the crossroads.” This refers to the old Blues concept of selling one’s soul to the devil. Bluesman Robert Johnson and others have sung about it.

(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article)

Bob Moore, R. Stevie Moore, Llynda Moore + More

NASHVILLE trailer Robert Altman
Uploaded by NilbogLAND

Calamity Jane, Columbia Records, Nashville 1982
I've Just Seen A Face
produced by Billy Sherill

C A L A M I T Y J A N E
4-woman country pop vocal group:

Columbia FC37626 (1982)
Linda Moore, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose, Mary Fielder
produced by Billy Sherrill (

Linda Moore (blonde) is the sister of R. Stevie Moore. She is currently here: http://www.moregendel.com

and from this awesome monument to internet craunch:

Ambition, depth of character and ingenuity are the unique combination of trademarks that make up the soul of artist, LLYNDA MORE.
As a child, Llynda was exposed to some of the finest artists America has produced through her father, Bob Moore, who is one of the world’s leading and most recorded bass players. Growing up to the sounds and freshly made recordings of Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, among others, was as natural to Llynda as her proven leadership, competitive and performance skills as cheerleader captain and student body vice president throughout her school years.
These unique traits developed into her being chosen Miss Nashville, Miss Tennessee and eventually a Miss America finalist.

Llynda has gone on to refine her unique artistic talents and the results have been most noteworthy. As a recording artist and vocalist, Llynda has recorded for CBS/Sony Records, national commercials, film and television. As an exceptionally gifted songwriter, she has written for Warner Music under exclusive contract and recorded multi full-length albums in her studio where she actively arranges and produces her insightful and provocative original material. Llynda chose New York City’s most demanding venues as her training ground to be a live performer. Within weeks of her first performance, she became a regularly featured artist in music and trade publications receiving the highest accolades and critical acclaim from some of the world’s most demanding critics.

I wish to thank you for your brilliant performance on New Year’s Eve at Pierchic. All the guests I spoke to were delighted with the high quality music you performed on that night. Having worked for almost twenty years in hotels and most of the time in food and beverage, I can say confidently that your attitude has been exemplary, which is not always the case with artists! We hope to be able to work again in the future. I remain in the meantime,

With best personal regards
Christophe Schnyder, General Manager
Al Qasr & Dar Al Masyaf,
Madinat Jumeirah
The Arabian Resort Dubai
Dubai, UAE

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R. Stevie Moore - Garbage State

YouTube MeR.Stevie

Welcome to my tribute website of legendary Nashville bassist,
Bob Loyce Moore (who happens to be my father). Here you will find a large archive of musical information, rare photographs and memorabilia, and collected data relating to over 50 years of historic recordings and performances.

boogie woogie country man
bob moore's lap
The Killer on a memorable episode of "Nashville Now" in late 1985 doing "Boogie Woogie Country Man" with yellow glasses and gloves on. He also did "CC Rider" and "Why You Been Gone So Long".

If one copy of every record on which he performed were placed end to end, they would line both sidewalks of the one-mile stretch between Owen Bradley Park and Belmont College along 16th Avenue, Nashville's famed Music Row.

The musician holding this distinction is bass player extraordinaire Mr. Bob L. Moore, who, with over 17,000 recording sessions to his credit, may well have played on more recordings than any other musician in the world. Bob's talents are heard on literally hundreds of million selling records that feature some of the greatest legends in music history. Life Magazine (special edition September 1, 1994) named Bob Moore as the number one "Country Bassist" of all time but many recognize Bob Moore as the being the best "all around" Bassist of all time. His musical experiences are as diverse as having worked on a Big Band for twenty years, performing by invitation at the Newport Jazz Festival and recording with Arthur Feidler and The Boston Pops. Bobby Moore has performed as top studio instrumentalist for decades having worked with such legendary artists as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Wayne Newton, Sammi Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Andy Williams, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Halliday, Roy Orbison, Connie Frances, Burl Ives, Julie Andrews and Bob Dylan. His bold, distinctive, bass lines have graced many timeless recordings such as "Crazy" as performed by Patsy Cline, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones and "Rainy Night In Georgia," Brook Benton.

From: gbcan
"The Battle of New Orleans" is the name of a song written by Jimmie Driftwood. The song details the 1815 Battle of New Orleans from the perspective of an American fighting alongside Andrew Jackson against British forces, but the tone is lighthearted. It has been recorded by many artists, but the one most often associated with this song is Johnny Horton. His version, released as a single in 1959, topped the Billboard Hot 100.

tammy and loretty: your good girl's gonna go bad:

October 30, 2008

IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE DEAD BY NOW! (Manson Family First Murder Site: Tate/Polanski Residence)

The complete footage - which is somewhat lengthy and of far better quality than this brief clip - is soon to follow.

Hamming it up poolside at Sharon & Roman's place in 1994. Behind me are the windows and door of the master bedroom.

This video chronicles my summer vacation, walk-through tour (incomplete footage) of the Sharon Tate-Roman Polanski "murder bungalow" filmed in 1994, prior to its demolition.

This footage was shot by my dear friend (and crime enthusiast/"murderabilia collector extraordinaire"), Nick Bougas, during our visit to 10050 Cielo Drive, in Los Angeles, mid-1994.

If you lived here, you'd be dead now!

The front lawn, where the remains of Abigail Folger and
Voytek Frykowski came to rest after the brutal murders on the evening of August 8, 1969.

At the time, the home was occupied by Trent (Nine Inch Nails) Reznor who (it is rumored) was unaware of the residence's dark past! (Much to the chagrin of Sharon Tate's sister, he ultimately removed the front door and kept it as a crime-collectible souvenir - which was actually our idea!)

All of you Nine Inch Nails fans will surely recognize this familiar bit of video-prop memorabilia, as seen in the front room in '94.

Andy (Underground Scream Prints) Gore, the third member of our touring trio, had befriended Reznor prior to our visit. Our shared enthusiasm was truly electrifying. It was a high that cannot be explained in words.

Another cheesy tourist shot (note subtle Hawaiian shirt) at the front door, where "PIG" was scrawled by "Tex" Watson in Sharon Tate's blood. Andy Gore expertly recaptured that grisly visage here on one of the t-shirts from his Manson Fashions Fall Line-up. (This is what they're wearing in Paris this year.)

"Later, on fleeing the premises, one of the killers left a bloody fingerprint on the gate-control mechanism. Still later, an LAPD officer pushed the button, creating a superimposure which eradicated the print." -- Helter Skelter by Vincent Buglosi [NOTE: I did not eradicate any important evidence]

Looking for Cormac: CORMAC McCARTHY

Looking for Cormac is a 33 1/3 minute, documentary that follows three filmmakers as they travel across the South West in search of the well known, solitaire author Cormac McCarthy, author of All the Pretty Horses and the very well known No country for Old Men, due to the success of the Coen’s Brother’s adaptation. So, I have found myself looking for Cormac as well and interviewed Eric Davies, one of the filmmakers of Looking for Cormac.

"We never thought we would find him"

Art Nouveau Magazine: You three were involved in the making of Looking for Cormac; how did that happen; and when?
Eric Davies: We made the film twelve years ago, in 1995. This was when Cormac was still slightly unknown. His books had been reprinted by Vintage, and the three of us, we were friends, I knew John from Japan and Jim from New York. We were all trying to write - we had a writing group that met infrequently and always dissolved into more of a drinking group. So, we got to talking – just like it says in the film…

ANM: Which books of his made you decide to do your documentary, or had the biggest influence on you at the time, if there is one?
ER: I think Blood Meridian was our favorite book it was so big and so bleak and violent. Outer Dark and Suttree to a lesser degree. I think it is important to say that we all felt like we had ‘discovered’ this guy, the next Faulkner or whatever they were calling him back then.

ANM: Had you been to Texas before shooting your documentary?
ER: Yeah, I think I had been there, for work, doing some film research on the Kennedy Assassination. I am not sure about the other guys. Jim has since won some awards down in Texas for his paintings, coincidentally.

ANM: What was your motivation(s)? Knowing the man as very reclusive,
didn’t you think it was going to go to a dead end, a little risky, or simply provocative?
ER: That was part of the draw – the reclusive thing. I mean, truthfully, and without robbing the film of any real motivation, we never thought we would find him. But, when you look around at other great writers/recluses – Salinger, Pynchon – isn’t that part of the attraction? They seem almost mythic, these writers who are hiding out, ignoring the world. Could be we were pathetic fans, I don’t know, but I do know that if we had found him, we did not have any idea what we were going to say.

ANM: Where you aware of the ignorance of the people you have met through your travel?
I mean they didn’t have a clue, who Cormac McCarthy was.
ER: Well, it felt like Cormac McCarthy was pretty unknown at this point. Much to his chagrin, I am sure. English Majors knew who he was, but the average guy on the street had never heard of him. So finding anyone, I mean anyone outside that community of writers and readers, who knew anything about Cormac McCarthy was a real challenge. We even interviewed some other authors – they did not make the final cut – and they were also somewhat in the dark when it came to Mr. McCarthy. What was really shocking, and was really the downfall of the project was how, in 1995, few people in the FILM world knew about McCarthy or cared about him. Since the film is actually one big homage to this man’s writing, it would have helped if everyone we showed it to had known who the f#@k he was. I suppose if we had made it NOW, things would be different.

ANM: It really became fascinating to watch your documentary as we really have the feeling we are stepping in one of Cormac McCarthy’s novels, with the number of characters running into your quest, referring to the sequence with the conversation or I’d rather say the monologue of the homeless man, who imagines where Cormac could be living, there’s a lot of irony in it. How did you handle that?
ER: Well, we intentionally followed Cormac’s own course through America – and we visited places that he had written about – like Knoxville – but we were overwhelmed by the random characters we met. Really shocked. And, we did not set out to instigate all of those interactions. That homeless man, he appeared out of nowhere, and I cannot really say we understood it or understood the irony of the situation. Nor can I remember when we felt it – that amazing feeling like we were inside a McCarthy novel – but by the time we reached the border of Texas, things had started to get really weird. You know if you have read his books, esp. his latest book, being inside the world he writes about is not necessarily the safest place to be. But we just kept shooting, letting the camera roll.

ANM: What was the general feeling during and specifically after 2 weeks of shooting for the 3 of you?
ER: We were lost in America. It is a big place, and there are so many sad and beautiful stories. We took to drinking a lot of whiskey at the end of the day.

ANM: Why choose that format for the filming, a question of budget, or simply an exercise of style?
ER: Budget. I owned the camera – a consumer-quality Hi-8 camera. Radio Shack mics. We took the color out mostly because it looked better, once we hit the post process. I am an editor now, and most of the time I know how to make something look better than it is.

ANM: Adding more reality?
ER: It is all reality – although people on YouTube have accused us of faking our run in with the law, when the police descended on us in El Paso. If only we had the wherewithal or the resources to think up something like that.

ANM: Combining the influence of Easy Rider and On the Road, it’s clearly a road-movie, but there’s also another dimension to it. In French (I’m French, by the way), we say "cinema-photographie", when we have lot’s of landscapes, the film gives us time to absorb the surroundings, like Jim Jarmusch movies, ( Dead man, Down by Law), right?
ER: I hope so, that sounds maybe a little better and a little more deliberate than the film actually is. The music had a lot to do with it, the pace I mean. Most of what you hear was the banjo, played by John McKay. He had never played the banjo before, but he knows a guitar backwards and forwards. Once we got back, and heard the banjo music that John had improvised, we knew we had the soundtrack. The music really lends itself to the images of the passing landscape. And we had hours of landscapes to choose from.

ANM: After the huge success of No Country for Old Men, at the cinema, did you or do you have many people coming to you?
ER: We have been interviewed by a Spanish journalist, (based in Madrid) and we have had sporadic inquiries through YouTube (most of that unwanted interest), but aside from that – not much. One PBS producer considered incorporating the film in a series on American Authors. A professor in Ohio has used the film to teach McCarthy to his students. I guess the film has the same steady stream of interest it has always had (You used to be able to rent it from some of the eclectic video stores in New York City), and that is because people love Cormac McCarthy. They love his writing. I suppose if we were more adept at self-promotion we would have made a bigger deal of the film, riding on Cormac’s own success… like re-releasing the film on DVD, with liner notes, and a bonus track, and stuff like that. Getting a foreign distributor, that’s what we’ll do.

*(I think I mentioned, a producer and friend of mine met Mr. McCarthy and gave him a copy of the film, back in 2002. He had no comment.)

ANM: With an honorable success awarded at a video festival in the United States (before the movie No Country For Old Men came out), did it change things career wise? For the 3 of you.
ER: Well, it did change things, but we did not become big stars. For me, as an editor of films and documentaries, I have to say Looking for Cormac has gotten me more work than anything else I have ever done. Lots of starving filmmakers find it inspirational, and they ask me to help them with their films. Of course, they have no money, so that kind of success is tempered by reality. Jim became an editor as well, after being an Art Director for years – I think the film helped him along to that career choice, but he insists he had no idea what we were up to in Texas (I should mention, Jim Collier has also had one of his screenplays optioned, so I think he knew exactly what we were up to, and just used the experience to become a better writer). John McKay has an album planned, as well as another film – based on the long-lost music of Jack Foy, a sort of Dylanesque musician, and another mythic figure – but John was already a success in the music business, and we had nothing to do with that.

So, going backwards, back in the late 90’s, we all tried to move past the ‘fame’, and the awards (film festivals are a sham actually) and we attempted to make a follow-up picture on the writer Madison Smart Bell, and bars in America. That film hit a bit of a snag when we drank the budget. We then worked apart on various films, and real life projects – like relationships and careers and families – but we hope to get back on the road someday. ‘Make another picture’ as John says.

Just so you know the version of Looking for Cormac up on YouTube is the enigmatic re-cut, done by Jim Collier. Like a re-mix. Someday soon, we hope to put the original version up. Hopefully before The Road comes out as a movie and the world rediscovers Cormac McCarthy all over again.

ANM: I would like to say I really enjoyed your film, I find it exquisite! Well done!
ER: THANKS. Cheers.

To find more information about Looking For Cormac please click here.