Absolutely fantastic video. Obviously scripted pixels into die, but great nonetheless. The kids are complaining they ripped off Gondry's White Stripes vid, but they just don't know...there is nothing NEW in the world. ENJOY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk
Mark your calendars now for this one! Sure to be an hilarious evening!
"On Thursday June 28th, Artdish will be celebrating the long-awaited CD release of Igor Keller's oratorio Mackris v. O'Reilly in the Grotto Room of the Rendezvous (2322 2nd Avenue) in Belltown. The party will begin at 6:00 and should go on until midnight. Come meet Igor along with your other favorite Artdish personalities and get a copy of the CD, the cool poster, and each of the hilarious T-shirts.
from the website:
Mackris v. O’Reilly The Oratorio
Mackris v. O’Reilly is an oratorio for 28-piece chamber orchestra, 26-voice chorus and three soloists (soprano, tenor and baritone) set to the original court complaint filed against pundit, Bill O’Reilly, on October 13, 2004 and O’Reilly’s on-air settlement announcement given on October 29, 2004. The style of the piece is a traditional neo-baroque that makes the most of the oratorio format. Its 31 parts include seven chorales, two madrigals, three choruses (parts of the chorus matched up with components from the orchestra), four stand-alone recitatives, two instrumental entrances and numerous arias. All of these parts add up to a two-hour running time.
Heading to Glastonbury this year? Finally? Well as long as you're paying through the nose for those tickets, why not pull out all the stops? Hey, The Who might even be there:
"Generating buzz among Glastonbury attendees since it was featured at the 2005 festival, Camp Kerala’s spacious, mirror-embroidered tents are modeled after the traditional Indian Shikar. Accommodations include imported Italian mattresses, Hungarian down duvets, Greek sheepskin rugs, adjoining bathrooms, and outdoor deck chairs for the veranda. Gourmet breakfast and access to the private 18 hour bar and chill out area (with views of the stages) make the festival experience unusually luxurious. If you’re not attending this year’s Glastonbury, you can still experience the luxury of Camp Kerala: interested parties can rent out the tents, or even the entire village, for various events (birthday bash anyone??)." -- Trendcentral
Camp Kerala
ph: 01749 86 00 77
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"The booze and the pills stirred the hell within him and made him to utter hideous peals. At times he withdrew into his own shadow, brooding upon all manner of things -- abominable, unutterable, and worse. At times he stalked and ranted in foul omnipotence, commanding those about him as Belial his minions. He was the Killer and he was immortal -- damned to be, for as long as there were good and evil to be torn between in agony. He would sit backstage in a thousand dank nightclubs, and he would know this, and he would swallow more pills and wash them down with more whiskey, and he would know it even more. He would walk like a man to the stage, with his Churchill in one hand and his water glass of whiskey in the other, and he would pound the piano and sing his sinful songs, and he would beckon those before him, mortals, made not as he to destruction from the womb; he would beckon them to come, to stand with him awhile at the brink of hell. Then he would be gone into the ancient night, to more pills and more whiskey, to where the black dogs never ceased barking and dawn never broke; he would go there."
-- Nick Tosches
(NOTE: there is a great discussion going on about Tosches "biblical" prose over at Charlie Parker after the jump...)
Not to miss...
"Obtuse lyrics and swamy backwoods roots folk-pop"
CALIFONE EJ of The Fruit Bats
WHITING TENNIS
9pm ~ $12
www.pastrysharp.com
fruitbatsmusic.com
www.tarnishedrecords.com/artists/whiting.jsp
Tickets also available at Sonic Boom!*
- a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966. Participants were 10 New York artists:
Robert Rauschenberg
John Cage
David Tudor
Yvonne Rainer
Robert Whitman
Steve Paxton
Alex Hay
Deborah Hay
Lucinda Childs
Öyvind Fahlström
The artists worked with 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to create performances that incorporated new technology.
The DVDs – one on each artist’s performance - will be released sequentially over the next two years with the initial publication of the series: Open Score , available now, followed by the second in the series: John Cage - Variations VII, available later this year.
9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is recognized as a major artistic event of the 1960s. The performances represented the culmination of a period of extraordinary creative energy in art, dance and music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they also pointed to the future, as artists began to use new technology in their work. 9 Evenings was organized by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City from October 13-23, 1966. Using archival film footage and original sound recordings, the 9 Evenings films reconstruct each artist's performance as fully as possible; they also contain new interviews with artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the works."by Robert Rauschenberg "OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg is the first in series of 10 DVDs memorializing 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
'Control' is picked for festival's Directors' Fortnight
26.Apr.07 12:32pm
"The forthcoming Joy Division movie based on the life of late frontman Ian Curtis is to feature at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The biopic, directed by Anton Corbijn, has been chosen to open the Directors' Fortnight section of the prestigious event next month.
Based on the book 'A Touching Distance', by Curtis' widow, 'Control' trails the final years of the Joy Division singer, who committed suicide in 1980.
Corbijn's film debut feature focuses on the singer's rise to fame, as well as his relationships and his struggle with epilepsy.
Leeds newcomer Sam Riley and German actress Alexandra Maria Lara will play the part of his lover Annik Honore. Curtis' widow is played by Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton."
Link: Joy Division film to be screened at Cannes | News | NME.COM.
via WIT
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China 1945-46, 1950-53
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-61
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Lebanon 1983-84
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Bosnia 1985
Sudan 1998
Former Yugoslavia 1999
Iraq 1991-20??
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-02
Since the second world war, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT has bombed 21 countries...
hear a sample here: http://calabashmusic.com/world/publisher/flashPlayer/action/view?playerAction=loadSample&sampleID=74390
or listen for it here, I play this track often:
If you're in NYC this week, be sure to check out the BENT Festival and all the crazy, circuit bending fun:
Eyebeam is pleased to present a three-day extravaganza of workshops, concerts and art installations as part of Bent 2007: The Fourth Annual Circuit Bending Festival, April 26-28.
The last leg of the festival, which will have traveled to Los Angeles and Minneapolis before closing at Eyebeam will feature performers, educators and visual artists - including several past and current Eyebeam artist residents and fellows - leading circuit-bending workshops for all ages and skill levels. For a complete schedule of events, or to buy tickets for concerts and select workshops, please visit: http://bentfestival.org
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