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A Cold Wind Blows in Rancho Bernardo
This postcard was scary, interesting, and insightful -
— January 28, 2012 5:11 p.m.
Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Wow, we don't get many comments with an encyclopedia bibliography -- Miss Del Rey's album has apparently "leaked" and critical response so far seems (a bit surprisingly) positive - I guess some of us DO know our butts from a pothole...
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678050/lana-del…
— January 27, 2012 10:15 p.m.
Barnabas Collins Has Risen From the Grave (Again!) - the Return of Dark Shadows
Most people who care about such ephemera think the NBC Ben Cross/DS revival series would have continued to be a huge success had it not been for Gulf War coverage constantly pre-empting airdates. I obsessively SOUGHT each episode, but STILL missed a few that were pre-empted and then turned up on some unannounced alternate day. The actual rescheduled airdates almost never appeared in TV guide - the only way to catch every episode of NBC's Dark Shadows was to monitor NBC every night of the week, once an hour from 8 to 10 pm, to see if an episode would mysteriously appear - The fuggen thing was the Brigadoon of TV shows...... Ben Cross' Barnabas appeals to me, and I'm such a huge fan of Frid that this came as a surprise to me. He seemed barely in control of his evil rage and about to a boil over any minute, whereas Frid's vampiric side was reduced to a slow simmer after the first year -
— January 26, 2012 1:18 p.m.
Double Features From Hell:
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
and Louis Prima?!
Here's a double bill that's both bizarre and perfectly suited - Jerry Lewis' Which Way to the Front paired up with Patton! Oh, if only some aspiring YouTube filmmaker would edit a mashup of both flicks into one jaw-dropping, face-slapping movie --
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2911422221…
— January 25, 2012 4:17 p.m.
Hugo
Receives 11 Academy Award Nominations
The Hugo stack o' noms is no surprise, given how Hollywood loves to love itself, but you're right that it will probably be mostly backburned when it comes down to hooking up their Oscar brood. Since the only thing Hollywood loves more than loving itself is hating itself, here's hoping there's something on the 2012 slate akin to woefully under-seen "Day of the Locust," looking under the Tinseltown rock all the bugs and crud that make up its true surface -- I'm getting kinda tired of gilting the so-called golden age of cinema --
— January 24, 2012 9:32 a.m.
Double Features From Hell:
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
and Louis Prima?!
Wonderfully wacky double bill! I remember a local drive-in in 1982 that ran the Muppet Caper movie with Death Wish 2 as the opener and closer, sunset and finale. So anyone who brought kids for the Muppets was best to wait until after Bronson was done killing to let the kids out from under the blankets, but Then Came Bronson again... The BEST matched double bill I ever saw on marquee was at downtown's Aztec Theater in 1984 - Purple Rain with Blue Thunder. Here are two more local-centric WTFs - The Pusher ("A drug addict...he creates headlines of murder") with the Bowery Boys in Let's Go Navy:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2897610115…
And a nudie cutie at the Balboa, Eve and the Handyman, with a note at the bottom informing "Just added: Road Runner Cartoon" -- meep meep!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2897610396…
— January 23, 2012 5:14 p.m.
Chula Vista's Sumach Ecks went from beat producer and rapper and then left
What kind of yoga instructor speaks publicly with such foul expletive-laden language? And what kind of (former) local claims a desire to "bang the SD" by showing off Padres gear, shortly after telling an out-of-town newspaper "San Diego was a racist motherf#cker back then," going on to badmouth everything about growing up in Dago. And then the doofus cancels his big return to SD for a record release gig?! Right after the biggest paper in SD does a big cover feature on him, mentioning the gig? Methinks Mr. Gonjasufi probably realized how Chad Deal's article exposed his doofusness for the whole city to laugh at, and thus changed his mind about inflicting his "music" on us once again. I've not seen much online chatter about Chad's choice of colloquial spelling, but I HAVE seen much bitching about Gonjasufi badmouthing San Diego. And putting out crappy songs. There SO MUCH great hip-hop in and from San Diego! Vokab Kompany, Mass, Blame One, Clay Pigeons, Miki Vale, Black Mikey, Defamation League...and then there's THIS guy...
— January 22, 2012 1:58 p.m.
Enjoying the all ~ Poem
More please -
— January 21, 2012 3:56 p.m.
Candye Kane Battling Cancer Again
Kane is playing tonight at the Marble Room in San Diego at 9 pm and tomorrow night at Pappy n' Harriets in Pioneertown with Nena Anderson. "Music heals and playing music makes me feel normal and alive! I will not let cancer or any other obstacle get in the way of music! Come down and celebrate life with me!"
— January 20, 2012 6:12 p.m.
Local Singer Mark Huff PO'd Over Dismissal From Quiet Riot
"I think the trick is that the band has to be worthy of whomever they are imitating; otherwise, they just look as if they are trying to get by on someone else's fame." Perfectly put! When a local band like Rockola performs a complete Beatles album, the group's impressive musicianship elevates the show from tribute to celebration. On the flipside, the derivative "spectacle" of locals like, say, the Pink Floyd Experience, rarely seems to rise anywhere near the adventurous live shows staged by the real Floyds. Instead, such slavish recreations of long-overplayed studio albums remind all present that they're watching a wind-up eighth-size scale model more akin to the robot band at Chuck E. Cheese's than the prog rock pioneers they mimic.
— January 16, 2012 12:18 p.m.
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A Cold Wind Blows in Rancho Bernardo
This postcard was scary, interesting, and insightful -— January 28, 2012 5:11 p.m.
Lana Del Rey on SNL: Coup or Crap? Local Reaction
Wow, we don't get many comments with an encyclopedia bibliography -- Miss Del Rey's album has apparently "leaked" and critical response so far seems (a bit surprisingly) positive - I guess some of us DO know our butts from a pothole... http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678050/lana-del…— January 27, 2012 10:15 p.m.
Barnabas Collins Has Risen From the Grave (Again!) - the Return of Dark Shadows
Most people who care about such ephemera think the NBC Ben Cross/DS revival series would have continued to be a huge success had it not been for Gulf War coverage constantly pre-empting airdates. I obsessively SOUGHT each episode, but STILL missed a few that were pre-empted and then turned up on some unannounced alternate day. The actual rescheduled airdates almost never appeared in TV guide - the only way to catch every episode of NBC's Dark Shadows was to monitor NBC every night of the week, once an hour from 8 to 10 pm, to see if an episode would mysteriously appear - The fuggen thing was the Brigadoon of TV shows...... Ben Cross' Barnabas appeals to me, and I'm such a huge fan of Frid that this came as a surprise to me. He seemed barely in control of his evil rage and about to a boil over any minute, whereas Frid's vampiric side was reduced to a slow simmer after the first year -— January 26, 2012 1:18 p.m.
Double Features From Hell: The Warrior and the Slave Girl and Louis Prima?!
Here's a double bill that's both bizarre and perfectly suited - Jerry Lewis' Which Way to the Front paired up with Patton! Oh, if only some aspiring YouTube filmmaker would edit a mashup of both flicks into one jaw-dropping, face-slapping movie -- http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2911422221…— January 25, 2012 4:17 p.m.
Hugo Receives 11 Academy Award Nominations
The Hugo stack o' noms is no surprise, given how Hollywood loves to love itself, but you're right that it will probably be mostly backburned when it comes down to hooking up their Oscar brood. Since the only thing Hollywood loves more than loving itself is hating itself, here's hoping there's something on the 2012 slate akin to woefully under-seen "Day of the Locust," looking under the Tinseltown rock all the bugs and crud that make up its true surface -- I'm getting kinda tired of gilting the so-called golden age of cinema --— January 24, 2012 9:32 a.m.
Double Features From Hell: The Warrior and the Slave Girl and Louis Prima?!
Wonderfully wacky double bill! I remember a local drive-in in 1982 that ran the Muppet Caper movie with Death Wish 2 as the opener and closer, sunset and finale. So anyone who brought kids for the Muppets was best to wait until after Bronson was done killing to let the kids out from under the blankets, but Then Came Bronson again... The BEST matched double bill I ever saw on marquee was at downtown's Aztec Theater in 1984 - Purple Rain with Blue Thunder. Here are two more local-centric WTFs - The Pusher ("A drug addict...he creates headlines of murder") with the Bowery Boys in Let's Go Navy: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2897610115… And a nudie cutie at the Balboa, Eve and the Handyman, with a note at the bottom informing "Just added: Road Runner Cartoon" -- meep meep! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2897610396…— January 23, 2012 5:14 p.m.
Chula Vista's Sumach Ecks went from beat producer and rapper and then left
What kind of yoga instructor speaks publicly with such foul expletive-laden language? And what kind of (former) local claims a desire to "bang the SD" by showing off Padres gear, shortly after telling an out-of-town newspaper "San Diego was a racist motherf#cker back then," going on to badmouth everything about growing up in Dago. And then the doofus cancels his big return to SD for a record release gig?! Right after the biggest paper in SD does a big cover feature on him, mentioning the gig? Methinks Mr. Gonjasufi probably realized how Chad Deal's article exposed his doofusness for the whole city to laugh at, and thus changed his mind about inflicting his "music" on us once again. I've not seen much online chatter about Chad's choice of colloquial spelling, but I HAVE seen much bitching about Gonjasufi badmouthing San Diego. And putting out crappy songs. There SO MUCH great hip-hop in and from San Diego! Vokab Kompany, Mass, Blame One, Clay Pigeons, Miki Vale, Black Mikey, Defamation League...and then there's THIS guy...— January 22, 2012 1:58 p.m.
Enjoying the all ~ Poem
More please -— January 21, 2012 3:56 p.m.
Candye Kane Battling Cancer Again
Kane is playing tonight at the Marble Room in San Diego at 9 pm and tomorrow night at Pappy n' Harriets in Pioneertown with Nena Anderson. "Music heals and playing music makes me feel normal and alive! I will not let cancer or any other obstacle get in the way of music! Come down and celebrate life with me!"— January 20, 2012 6:12 p.m.
Local Singer Mark Huff PO'd Over Dismissal From Quiet Riot
"I think the trick is that the band has to be worthy of whomever they are imitating; otherwise, they just look as if they are trying to get by on someone else's fame." Perfectly put! When a local band like Rockola performs a complete Beatles album, the group's impressive musicianship elevates the show from tribute to celebration. On the flipside, the derivative "spectacle" of locals like, say, the Pink Floyd Experience, rarely seems to rise anywhere near the adventurous live shows staged by the real Floyds. Instead, such slavish recreations of long-overplayed studio albums remind all present that they're watching a wind-up eighth-size scale model more akin to the robot band at Chuck E. Cheese's than the prog rock pioneers they mimic.— January 16, 2012 12:18 p.m.