This is a fantastic film, one of my faves, an adaptation of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, the Peter Weiss play that provided Arthur Lee of Love for some of the lyrics for “The Red Telephone,” as you [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Marat/Sade
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Love, Movies, Musicals, Personal Shit, Politics on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
600 detained in Mississippi plant raid – suspected of being illegal immigrants
Posted in Other Stuff, Politics on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This actually makes me really mad.
I’m not totally mad that there was an illegal immigration crackdown, per se. I’m very liberal, and having a lot of opinions about unions (good!) and internationalism in the form of bogus agreements like NAFTA (bad!), I do regard the influx of illegal immigrants as being potentially harmful to legal residents who [...]
Ted Kennedy at the DNC
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Politics, Television on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Man, I loved the speech. And I loved Ken Burns’ tribute movie! I was genuinely touched. I’m so impressed that Kennedy, who’s been such a positive force for the advancement of liberal ideals (well, except for that one thing), was able to get out of his sick bed and come down for what may likely be his last public appearance ever.
Goddam [...]
…and Elvis covered the Bee Gees!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Movies, Performers on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The King never ceases to amaze me. Not only did he cover the Beatles, but he even covered the Bee Gees! Here he is, doing “Words.” And a damn fine job he does of it, too.
Elvis covered the Beatles!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Movies, Performers, The Beatles on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe all y’all Beatles/Elvis fans knew about this, but I think it’s pretty damned amazing that Elvis Presley covered the Beatles’ “Get Back” in 1970.
Maybe this was Elvis’s spoils of war moment–he’d finally outlived the Beatles as a force of rock, even if he was far less relevant than they were [...]
Dianne Feinstein turns her back on her promise to protect voting rights.
Posted in Politics on August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First Dianne Feinstein violated her oath to preserve the Constitution by voting for the FISA Amendment Act. And now this shit happens.
She’s the Chairman of the Rules and Administration Committee, and came roaring into that position as an advocate of election reform. And you can understand why–with the sneaky power plays in Florida in 2000 [...]
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree thingie
Posted in Art, Celebrities, Los Angeles, Other Stuff, Performers, Politics, The Beatles on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was eating lunch with coworkers at Il Fornaio in Pasadena, when I realized that Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree exhibit thingie was right there outside the windows in the Old Town courtyard in front of Gordon Biersch.
Apparently once all the wishes from this site and various sites around the world are collected, they’ll be put [...]
Gary Glitter will be released from prison tomorrow
Posted in Celebrities, David Bowie, Gary Glitter, Glam Rock, Performers on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gary Glitter’s finally getting out of jail for molesting an 11 and 12 year old girl.
The disgraced 1970s pop star, 64, is due to be released from a prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, and is expected to be deported to Britain.
I wish I could feel that Glitter had learned his lesson, but all signs point to [...]
Queen – “The Wedding March”
Posted in Bands, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Other Stuff, Personal Shit on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My brother just got married to a wonderful woman, and I was able to see him off into the next phase of his life in style by helping out the DJ’s with a little music during the wedding reception. Here was my grandest contribution: Queen’s “The Wedding March” from the Flash Gordon soundtrack:
This [...]
World’s Tallest Woman, Sandy Allen, R.I.P.
Posted in Celebrities, Movies, Obituaries, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Television on August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sandra Elaine Allen, the World’s Tallest Woman, died today. She was only fifty three. While I never knew Ms. Sandy Allen, I’ve known about her work for some time, which IMDB only scratches the surface of. I’ve seen her playing herself in various documentaries about “freaks” and their experiences in life, and she’s always carried [...]
