Saturday 29 December 2007
Suspiria 2008 = $ over art
Some fools have decided to remake Dario Argento's Suspiria, probably the most beautiful, illogical and brilliant horror film ever made.
I think anyone who truly respects cinema would pass on such a project. It's ridiculous.
I've known this project was around for a while and having a hard time getting into production because of the screenplay (duh) but why oh why would anyone do this? I guess David Gordon Greene needs some money or something. It's all too whack to dwell on. Flush your cred down the toilet and be done with it.
Friday 28 December 2007
Friday 14 December 2007
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Bjork's next job is Sesame Street I guess...
Bjork needs to take a chill pill. The last two albums haven't seen the light of day on my ipod. I just don't know what has happened to her. It's like that strange syndrome that effects pop stars that really take themselves too seriously- every song has to be some epic message anthem. And the messages are kinda, child-like- in a bad way... Oh well... there's always Homogenic...
Friday 7 December 2007
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Sunday 2 December 2007
Sunday 18 November 2007
Saturday 17 November 2007
And so I return
Back in Boston, shooting is wrapped. Amazingly we had perfect weather, perfect locations and everyone was on time. Todd's taking a little break but he'll begin logging the tapes soon. Exciting, non?
Tuesday 13 November 2007
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Update: What's cooler than what.. .
Since birth, the original members of Sugababes are cooler than:
- Dennis Cooper (Mutya would wipe the floor with him, kinda like a Frisk Swiffer)
- Free Ipod Nano ads on the internet (that damned voice- kill 'er!)
- forced viewing of film trailers on rental DVD's (demon-graphics in action)
- the Academy Awards (Hillary Swank is a two time winner- 'nuff said)
just wanted to share...
Wednesday 10 October 2007
Friday 5 October 2007
Friday 21 September 2007
Tuesday 18 September 2007
Bebel before the drunk girl got on stage
Some silly girl slid across the stage on a spilled drink and Bebel cut her encore short. Great concert though, especially Aganju and Simplesmente...
Wednesday 12 September 2007
Tuesday 4 September 2007
Wednesday 22 August 2007
Monday 20 August 2007
Thought for the week
"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. "
Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland
Monday 13 August 2007
He Keeps Me Alive
New Sally Shapiro song! Download the mp3 legally from StereoGum...
"He Keeps Me Alive"
I said "I wish you never knew, how I feel for you"
It's hard to be just friends now, after all.
I said I wanted more he said how can you be so sure
I'm not sure I'm faithful after all...
But I'm still happy when I get to hold his hand
he says I can hold it but remember- we're just friends
and I try and I try and I try to be satisfied
after all - he keeps me alive
I'm happy when he smiles, if only for a while
its hard to just ignore a face like that
I wish he was everywhere
I wish his hands where in my hair
I would have been less lonely for a while
But I'm still happy when I get to hold his hand
he says I can hold it but remember- we're just friends
and I try and I try and I try to be satisfied
after all - he keeps me alive
after all - he keeps me alive
But I'm still happy when I get to hold his hand
he says I can hold it but remember- we're just friends
Friday 3 August 2007
Tuesday 31 July 2007
Monday 30 July 2007
Thursday 26 July 2007
And now for something new and exciting...
I am going to blog the process of making the next film, THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES, which is based on my novel of the same name. I thought it would be fun to keep a record of all the insanity I am sure will ensue ;-)
http://theboywiththesuninhiseyes.com/
http://theboywiththesuninhiseyes.com/
Nexus replicants escape again on December 18th
Blade Runner: The Final Cut will debut theatrically in New York and L.A. on October 5 and on DVD from Warner Home Video December 18. The slow-burning classic will receive three separate DVD editions: a two-disk Special Edition, a four-disk Collector's Edition, and a five-disk Ultimate Collectors Edition. more info>>
Wednesday 25 July 2007
This is the news I have been waiting for!
Sally Shapiro has recently (summer 2007) recorded some new tracks which will of course be released - more info>>!
Tuesday 24 July 2007
Monday 23 July 2007
MANTARAY, or some such bollocks
Siouxsie's new album is to be called "Mantaray" and is released on September 10th 2007, it features the new single "Into A Swan" (which is released digitally on 13th August and on CD, 7" and other formats on August 27th). Other track titles include About To Happen, Here Comes That Day, and Drone Zone.
siouxsie's official site
Friday 20 July 2007
Thursday 19 July 2007
Divine
I'm beginning to think that Divine had more to do with John Waters' success than Waters himself. All this Hairspray redux is sad.
Sunday 15 July 2007
Thursday 12 July 2007
Is that what he does?
"The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America," he said. "After all, you just go to an emergency room." George W. Bush
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Thursday 5 July 2007
Tuesday 3 July 2007
Monday 2 July 2007
Saturday 30 June 2007
Wednesday 27 June 2007
With a name like Hatshepsut you better know how to party...
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as that of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharoah, Egyptian archaeologists said Wednesday.
Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt in the 15th century B.C., was known for dressing like a man and wearing a false beard. But when her rule ended, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.
Discovered in 1903 in the Valley of the Kings, the mummy was left on site until two months ago, when it was brought to the Cairo Museum for testing, Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said.
DNA bone samples taken from the mummy's pelvic bone and femur are being compared with the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut's grandmother, Amos Nefreteri, said molecular geneticist Yehia Zakaria Gad, who was part of Hawass' team.
The mummy identified as Hatshepsut shows an obese woman, who died in her 50s, probably had diabetes and is also believed to have had liver cancer, Hawass said. Her left hand is positioned against her chest, in a traditional sign of royalty in ancient Egypt. From CNN
Tuesday 26 June 2007
"Red Carpet Massacre"
The new Duran Duran album has a name! wooooo hooo... I think... I am still a bit worried about the whole Timbaland thing and Timberlake thing and how that could really be stinky with the Secret Oktober guys. I guess we shall see what we hear - but let's all hope that Andy Taylor was wrong again. Of course, if Gwyneth Paltrow models for the cover of the album in the actual Red Carpet Massacre, it could be 40 minutes of static and I would still download it. Just saying.
Thursday 21 June 2007
Friday 15 June 2007
From DailyKOS
PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.
The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.
But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates [...]
The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Monday 11 June 2007
The Boy with the Headshots in his Eyes
The headshots are pouring in from the casting calls for THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES. Auditions are going to be scheduled for next week. Todd'll tape them and send me the dvd's of the auditions and we'll go from there. It's really exciting, to say the least...
Monday 4 June 2007
Saturday 2 June 2007
My Life on the Kombai D-List
Last night I had a very long intricate dream about Kathy Griffin living amongst the Kombai tribe of Papua New Guinea. I definitely need to get out more.
Thursday 31 May 2007
Sambuca is the key...
Winehouse has a number of "old school" tattoos of naked women on her body. When asked about them, she was quoted as saying “I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though — not before a sambuca anyway.”
Sunday 27 May 2007
Friday 25 May 2007
Tuesday 22 May 2007
Saturday 19 May 2007
Friday 18 May 2007
Thursday 10 May 2007
Sunday 6 May 2007
Friday 4 May 2007
Prez with a Z not Pres with an S
Don't the newly released Reagan Diary excerpts sound like a poorly written hodgepodge from a simpleton? Reading that makes me think anyone in my own block could be president. Eek...
Monday 23 April 2007
Monday 16 April 2007
Friday 13 April 2007
Chicken S***
Researchers have decoded genetic material from a 68 million-year-old tyrannosaurus rex, and a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researcher has used the material to confirm the genetic link between the Terrible Lizard King and the noble if not particularly terrible chicken.
“The door just opens up to a whole avenue of research that involves anything extinct,” said Matthew T. Carrano of the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History.
While dinosaur bones have long been studied, “it’s always been assumed that preservation does not extend to the cellular or molecular level,” said Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.
A team led by John M. Asara of Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston analyzed T-rex proteins in collagen and found the closest match in creatures alive today was collagen from chicken bones. The findings are in today’s issue of the journal Science.
“Most people believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but that’s all based on the architecture of the bones,” said Asara. “This allows you to get the chance to say, ’Wait, they really are related because their sequences are related.’ We didn’t get enough sequences to definitively say that, but what sequences we got support that idea.”
The team identified seven different dinosaur proteins and compared them with proteins from living species. Three matched chickens, two matched several species including chickens, one matched a protein from a newt and the other from a frog. BOSTON HERALD
Thursday 12 April 2007
Monday 9 April 2007
Thursday 5 April 2007
Monday 2 April 2007
Gospel according to Benji
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -Benjamin Franklin
Thursday 29 March 2007
TWOP
Man, I hope Television Without Pity (which has just been acquired by BRAVO) realizes it isn't their staff that makes that site. It's definitely the people (that should be paying attention to their 9 to 5's) posting in the forums that make it a "must visit." Cuz the staff, not so much. Actually, downright obnoxious.
Power
Most of the time when the word “freedom” is used by a politician, it is substituting for the word “power”.
Wednesday 28 March 2007
Monday 19 March 2007
Sunday 18 March 2007
Saturday 17 March 2007
Monday 12 March 2007
Wednesday 7 March 2007
Sabian Symbol of the Week : Spooky Gemini 14
GEMINI 14
TWO PEOPLE, AT WIDELY DIFFERENT POINTS, ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH EACH OTHER BY MEANS OF TELEPATHY
It is not always necessary to be physically face-to-face. You can have bonds with another (and perhaps many people) that are unaffected by distance or the frequency of visits. Let your heart tell you that you are always in their company and there is no need to feel alone. Keeping others in your mind and heart will communicate something to them, and probably they back to you.
Conquering space and time limitations. Psychic and mental communication. Sharing the same ideas. The `other person' knowing what is felt or thought. Being on the same frequency.
TWO PEOPLE, AT WIDELY DIFFERENT POINTS, ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH EACH OTHER BY MEANS OF TELEPATHY
It is not always necessary to be physically face-to-face. You can have bonds with another (and perhaps many people) that are unaffected by distance or the frequency of visits. Let your heart tell you that you are always in their company and there is no need to feel alone. Keeping others in your mind and heart will communicate something to them, and probably they back to you.
Conquering space and time limitations. Psychic and mental communication. Sharing the same ideas. The `other person' knowing what is felt or thought. Being on the same frequency.
Tuesday 6 March 2007
Monday 5 March 2007
Remind Me (Royksopp)
And everywhere I go,
There's always something to remind me
Of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me.
We stayed outside til two,
Waiting for the light to come back,
we didn't talk I knew,
Until you asked what I was thinking.
Brave men tell the truth,
A wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles,
A woman holds her tongue,
Knowing silence will speak for her.
So now I'll never know,
As you will only sleep beside me,
And everywhere I go...
Will remind, will remind, will remind me...
There's always something to remind me
Of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me.
We stayed outside til two,
Waiting for the light to come back,
we didn't talk I knew,
Until you asked what I was thinking.
Brave men tell the truth,
A wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles,
A woman holds her tongue,
Knowing silence will speak for her.
So now I'll never know,
As you will only sleep beside me,
And everywhere I go...
Will remind, will remind, will remind me...
Sunday 4 March 2007
Blue Six "Aquarian Angel"
Itunes has the new Blue Six album for download now, it's street date is March 13th. Awesome bday present for me. Beautiful, soulful deep house with Jay Denes, Aya and Lisa Shaw...
Friday 2 March 2007
Appearing nightly at Snake Mountain!
Just imagine what her karma looks like!
More info on the greatest threat to present day Eternia here...
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Monday 26 February 2007
Thought for the day...
"Trust those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
-André Gide
-André Gide
Tuesday 20 February 2007
Slowly but surely
I am starting to readjust to this life in Boston. It's still cold but I don't feel it much. My tan is fading but I am still thin :-) Oh well... and I made a dental appointment and I have to get new glasses (I lost my prescription sunglasses rock-climbing in Buzios... ha ha...)Anyway- I am a Bostonian, there is no escaping that at this time.
Oh and in a month's time this blog will be 2 years old! and I will be 37... sigh...
Saturday 17 February 2007
Thursday 15 February 2007
Sapos
'Amphibian Ark' planned to save frogs
By Dorie Turner, Associated Press Writer | February 15, 2007
ATLANTA --Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
Scientists from around the world are meeting Thursday and Friday in Atlanta to organize a worldwide effort to stem the deaths by asking zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens to take in threatened frogs until the fungus can be stopped.
The aim of the group called Amphibian Ark is to prevent the world's more than 6,000 species of frogs, salamanders and wormlike sicilians from disappearing. Scientists estimate up to 170 species of frogs have become extinct in the past decade from the fungus and other causes, and an additional 1,900 species are threatened.
"This is the precedent of a disease working its way across an entire species on the scale of all mammals, all birds or all fish," said Joseph Mendelson, curator of herpetology at Zoo Atlanta and an organizer of Amphibian Ark. "Humans would be absolutely stupid if they didn't pay attention to that."
Amphibians -- of which frogs make up the majority -- are a vital part of the food chain, eating insects that other animals don't touch and connecting the world of aquatic animals to land dwellers. Without amphibians, the insects that would go unchecked would threaten public health and food supplies.
Amphibians also serve important biomedical purposes. Some species produce a chemical used as a pain reliever for humans; one species is linked to a chemical that disables the virus that causes AIDS.
Amphibian Ark wants zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums in each country to take in at least 500 frogs from a threatened species to protect them from the killer fungus, which is called chytrid fungus. Each frog would get cleaned to make sure it doesn't introduce the scourge into the protected area.
The group estimates it will cost between $400 million and $500 million to complete the project. It is launching a fundraising campaign next year to create an endowment.
The scientists say the amphibian collection is simply a stopgap. It buys time and prevents more species from going extinct while researchers figure out how to keep amphibians from dying off in the wild.
The fungus isn't the only thing that's deadly to amphibians -- it's just killing them faster than development, pollution and global warming, said George Rabb, the retired head of the Chicago's Brookfield Zoo and a leader in Amphibian Ark. Scientists will have to closely monitor frog populations rereleased into the wild once the fungus is eliminated, he said.
"Right now with global warming and the garbage heap we put in the atmosphere, there are going to be risks," said Rabb, one of the country's leading conservation scientists. "That's why we'll need people from other professional fields -- epidemiology, climate change."
Scientists aren't quite sure of the fungus's origin, but they suspect it might be Africa. The African clawed frog, which carries the fungus on its skin and is immune to its deadly effects, has been shipped all over the world for research.
The clawed frog was also used in hospitals in the 1940s as a way to detect pregnancy in women. It produces eggs when injected with the urine of a pregnant woman.
The fungus works like a parasite that makes it difficult for the frogs to use their pores, quickly causing them to die of dehydration. It has been linked to the extinction of amphibians from Australia to Costa Rica.
Last month, Japan reported its first cases of frog deaths from the fungus, prompting research groups to declare an emergency in the country. On the Caribbean island of Dominica, the fungus has almost wiped out the mountain chicken, a frog species considered an island delicacy.
At Yosemite National Park in California, the mountain yellow-legged frog is close to extinction. The park has only 650 frog populations left, but 85 percent are infected with the fungus and the growing quiet along the park's lakes is evident as many of the frogs are dying off.
HomeTime
Listening to this a lot lately, produced by the Insects. Say It and Should I Feel It's Over are total Moyet Drama - love it.
Wednesday 14 February 2007
Tuesday 13 February 2007
"Purple" by Skin
Purple washes over me
Seeping through my open seams
I'm stained all over
You pretend we've started again
Waiting for me to say when
But I say purple
She won't go
Where I
I would go for you
I'd curse my heart
For you
Silence makes a girl talk fast
Speeding but I'm gonna crash
And burn for love's sake
Duty keeps a lover loyal
(But) is it really worth the spoils
When I dream purple
Maenads
Info I am looking into for an old script idea...
In Greek mythology, Maenads were female worshippers of Dionysus, the Greek god of mystery, wine and intoxication, and the Roman god Bacchus. The word literally translates as "raving ones". They were known as wild, insane women who could not be reasoned with. The mysteries of Dionysus inspired the women to ecstatic frenzy; they indulged in copious amounts of violence, bloodletting, sexual activity, self-intoxication, and mutilation. They were usually pictured as crowned with vine leaves, clothed in fawnskins and carrying the thyrsus, and dancing with wild abandon.
They also were characterised as entranced women, wandering through the forests and hills.¹ Also, they are described as mad women and nurses of Dionysus, wandering through the mountains. They went into the mountains at night and practised strange rites.² Compare also the description in Homer's Illiad, Book VI, beginning at line 130.
" ... he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands ..."
The Maenads were also known as Bassarids (or Bacchae or Bacchantes) in Roman mythology, after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a fox-skin, a bassaris.
The behavior of Maenads in stories is intended to explain and display the intoxicating effects of alcohol. In some cases, the alcohol causes bizarre behavior in people and cannot be justified or explained by any other reason except that of the intoxication.
In Euripides' play, "The Bacchae", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Dionysus. Dionysus, Pentheus' cousin, himself lured Pentheus to the woods, where the Maenads tore him apart. His corpse was mutilated by his own mother, Agave, who tore off his head, believing it to be that of a lion.
A group of Maenads also killed Orpheus.
A Maenad appears in the second stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ode to the West Wind (1819):
...
Angels of rain and lightning; there are spread
On the blue surface of their airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
Of some fierce Maenad, ev'n from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height—
...
The Bassarids, to a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is the most famous opera composed by Hans Werner Henze.
The maenads correspond to the Shikome in the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi (which has a correspondence with the Orpheus myth).
In Greek Art the frolicking of Maenads and Dionysus is often a theme depicted on Greek kraters, that are used to mix water and wine. These scenes show the Maenads in their frenzy running in the forests often killing any animal they happen to come across.
See also Icarius, Butes, Dryas, and Minyades for other examples of Dionysus inflicting insanity upon women as a curse.
wikipedia be praised
Monday 12 February 2007
Shabd
Shabd or Shabda literally means “sound” or “word” in Sanskrit. [1] Esoterically, Shabd is the “Sound Current vibrating in all creation. It can be heard by the inner ears.” [2] Variously referred to as the Audible Life Stream, Inner Sound, Sound Current or Word in English, the Shabd is the esoteric essence of God which is available to all human beings, according to the Shabd path teachings of Eckankar, the Quan Yin Method, Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga.
Adherents believe that a Satguru, or Eck Master, who is a human being, has merged with the Shabd in such a manner that he or she is a living manifestation of it at its highest level (the “Word made flesh”). However, not only can the Satguru can attain this, but all human beings are inherently privileged in this way. Indeed, in Sant Mat the raison d’être for the human form is to meditate on the Sound Current, and in so doing merge with it until one’s own divinity is ultimately realized.
from Wikipedia
Billions of years ago, an explosive flash of light marked the creation of the universe. The residual energy of this event permeates the universe even today- and it tells us that the young universe was filled with sound.
"Although the flash was brilliant light, that light has traveled to us across the universe, which is expanding. Those waves have been stretched by a large amount, by a factor of 1,000. So the light waves have been stretched, and they become microwaves."
Mark Whittle is a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. He tells us that since this pervasive microwave radiation was first detected 40 years ago, scientists have been able to observe it in great detail.
"And what was seen were patches, very slight patches, slightly brighter, slightly dimmer. What that is, it transpires, it's like looking down on the ocean's surface. You're actually seeing the peaks and troughs of waves. And so, the microwave background is showing us an image of sound waves, peaks and troughs."
from Pulse of the Planet
Sunday 11 February 2007
Home
Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and...
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness...
Like a heartbeat... drives you mad...
In the stillness of remembering what you had...
And what you lost...
And what you had...
And what you lost
Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say... they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean... you'll know
you will know...
Stevie Nicks by way of Carlo Dall'anese's 2007 Sirena Summer Brazilian Mix
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