I know, I know, the Beatles were better at the music, the Beach Boys were better at major sevenths, Chuck Berry was better at the lyrics, and Little Richard was better at falsetto. Carl Perkins was better at being down-home, Billy Lee Riley was better at crazed-cat rockabilly, Buddy Holly was better at bringing pop into [...]
Archive for the ‘Musicals’ Category
Elvis is still the King!
Posted in Celebrities, Elvis, Movies, Musicals, Performers, Religion, Satan's Favorite Bands, Soul Music, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tycho Brahe is not a train set!
Posted in Celebrities, Musicals, Politics, Religion on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
my brotha, the Brahe!
Today’s re-discovery of the space-light phantasma-echo of Tycho Brahe’s supernova (originally discovered in 1572) has sent me into a whirlwind of post-mortem mania over Tycho’s total awesomeness! This is the Renaissance man for me!
Not only did he use meticulous observation (without a telescope) to determine that the stars were not fixed to [...]
Marat/Sade
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Love, Movies, Musicals, Personal Shit, Politics on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort – The Young Girls of Rochefort
Posted in Celebrities, Movies, Musicals on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the many, many, many films I saw while sick for a week was Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, AKA The Young Girls of Rochefort, a highly colorful French musical choreographed by Gene Kelly and starring Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac, who play fraternal twins trying to find love and a ride to Paris [...]
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Posted in Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Musicals, Performers, Politics, Songwriters, The Velvet Underground on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cabaret is one of the best musicals ever made–and that’s saying a lot, even coming from me. The Seventies were notoriously tough on old Hollywood methods of movie-making (as Paint Your Wagon can attest), and unsentimental realism became the hallmark of the day. So, how to make realism out of a genre that specifically calls for [...]
Julee Cruise
Posted in Musicals, Other Stuff, Performers, Television on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We got cable at the ol’ homestead a couple months back, and despite my best intentions, I’m watching a shitload of it. But it’s hard to resist when my DirecTV records stuff for me like Twin Peaks reruns.
Last time I saw most of these episodes, I was in college and hosting a Twin Peaks party, [...]
Xanadu
Posted in Movies, Musicals, Performers on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m kind of obsessed with Gene Kelly right now. I revisited Singin’ in the Rain a few months ago, then I saw him in What a Way to Go, and now I can’t get enough of him. He makes singing and dancing seem so easy, so joyful, like anyone could do it, despite the fact [...]
