This is a wonderful film about Global Warming from Al Gore's bestselling book, presently undergoing a limited showing in select theaters. The premise is pretty simple - Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. "
The annual Corndogorama Music Festival sponsored by The Earl was this weekend. If has hadn't been so hot and I actually had some energy, perhaps I would have made it. Live music seems too few and far between in my life lately.
EvilSponge had a great intro and review of the whole thing - "Corndogorama is a big to-do in Atlanta. It's a music festival started in 1994 by Dave Railey, whom alert EvilSponge readers will know as the vocalist in local act American Dream. This annual event first came to EvilSponge's attention when it relocated from Lenny's (the doublewide with a view) to The EARL in the heart of East Atlanta. We look forward to this festival for the chance to, well, basically stand around all weekend drinking beer, eating corndogs, and listening to tons of local music. The 2005 festival was great fun, and The Minions as a whole enjoyed it, although it did leave them somewhat exhausted on Monday morning. " You can also see a full artist lineup here.
Well, this is the latest by Frederic Fonteyne that won rave reviews at the past Toronto Internation Film Festival. I saw it yesterday at the High Museum's Rich theater and enjoyed it very much. Without getting too much into it, I'll say that the direction and cinematography was amazing but this is not the film to watch if you're into dialog (there's less than eleven minutes in the two hour spread) or looking for a hard and fast resolution. See it just for the imagery if nothing else.
"Set in the 1930’s, Gilles’ Wife is a haunting tale of love and betrayal in a small mining town on the outskirts of France. A startling new film from director Frederic Fonteyne (Une Liaison Pornographique), and featuring an extraordinary performance from Emmanuelle Devos (Kings and Queen), it tells the story of Elisa, a devoted wife who begins to suspect her husband Gilles is having an affair with her younger sister. Determined to save her marriage, Elisa undertakes a strange and disquieting battle to recover what she has lost, and to become once again, Gilles’ wife."
"Gille's Wife" is released by Cinema Guild and is making limited appearances in select cities.
Alright! The new season starts on the SCI FI channel tonight with a two hour special. The New York Times had a great article on what to expect:
"Tonight's first episode involves something called the Nestene Consciousness, a giant vat of melted plastic that, having somehow exhausted its native food supply, has arrived on Earth to feed on our oil and hydrocarbons, and is causing department store mannequins to jerk into life. There is also a rubber trash bin that flypapers one of the characters, swallows him and turns him into a very unconvincing dummy of himself. (These transformations are all rendered in such an old-fashioned, uncomputerized way that one hopes the unconvincingness is deliberate; the effects get better in the second episode, set five billion years in the future, when, curiously, civilization seems to have forgotten about air-conditioning.)
The familiar blue police box doesn't seem much revamped, either; it appears to run on pneumatic tubes, and there is no sign of a computer on board. The Doctor, on the other hand, almost quivers with energy. In previous regenerations, depending on the actor playing him, this character has variously been crotchety, spacey, avuncular and even a little glamorous. Christopher Eccleston brings a kind of manic blokishness to the part, giving the Doctor a sardonic grin and a working-class Manchester accent. (When another character says, "If you're an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?" he replies, "Lots of planets have a North.")"
That's right - your Atlanta favorte for Asian Underground is at it again. Sadly, I can't make it to this but hopefully YOU can. The last time I saw Sharrab - well, let's just say it was exceptional at it's worst! Seriously - and this is meant at no one particular - if you WANT good sound in this city then you have to SUPPORT the people that are actually trying to make it happen. So show up.
Sharrab's flyers are always artwork in themselves and this one is no different!
The new Stereolab is back and we're all wondering how they'll sound or to put it more bluntly - can they or have they recovered from the loss of Mary. After all, all my memories of this group (and there are many involving BBQ and high speed chases) have her as a central figure. Check out some cool reviews of Fab Four here.
March 2006 1 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar 2, 4 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 5 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom 6 - Seattle, WA - Showbox 7 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom 9 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre 11 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre 14 - Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre 15 - Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe 16 - Northampton, New Brunswick - Pearl Street 20 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts 21 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 22 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 24 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa 28 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre 29 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
I was vey privileged to see MC Guru with opening act Black Pegasus at the Apache Cafe tonight. The venue was standing room only and the music high energy. You didn't have to be into "rap" to enjoy this show.
"Rapper/composer Guru first rose to prominence as the "lyrical half" of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, one of the first outfits that attempted to fuse jazz with rap. After three albums by Gang Starr hit record store shelves (1989's No More Mr. Nice Guy, 1991's Step in the Arena, and 1992's Daily Operation), Guru launched his own solo career, issuing Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 in 1993. The album featured guest appearances by the likes of Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, and N'Dea Davenport of the Brand New Heavies, and was followed up two years later by a sophomore solo outing, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality, which again featured a variety of special guests (including Ramsey Lewis, Branford Marsalis, and members of Jamiroquai). Despite his solo career, Guru has remained true to Gang Starr all along, continuing to contribute to such further albums as 1994's Hard to Earn and 1998's Moment of Truth. Five years after his second solo outing appeared, Streetsoul was issued in 2000, which again featured a stellar cast of supporting characters: Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, the Roots, Erykah Badu, and Macy Gray. Wasting little time, Guru returned directly back to the recording studio, issuing a follow-up one year later, Baldhead Slick da Click. In addition to the aforementioned artists, Guru has collaborated with some of rap music's best-known producers, including fellow Gang Starr member DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Alchemist, Ayatollah, and DJ Spinna, as well as Ice-T, Naughty by Nature's Treach, Killah Priest, and Ed O.G. "
Guru is a master, lyrics and playing the crowd something he picked up when most of the people reading this were still calling their parents to pick them up from the mall. Pegasus was also good - I enjoyed the stagecraft and coordination between the members in the group. A good addition to the Colarado music scene.
When Liz e-mailed me about checking out this place I was so excited. Who wouldn't want to hear all the classic dance music from the mid ninetees in a place which has been a fixture in the local scene for over a decade. Club Jungle is in the old Chamber spot so.... we get there and the place is empty. It starts filling up closer to midnight after we have practically gone over every square inch and discussed the differences between what was and how it is today.
Unfortunately, present was some of the worst music I've ever heard! My official review of the night officially states:
where the second equality is from integration by parts and the inequality again follows
from first order stochastic dominance. After separately integrating the downloading and
non-downloading populations, the change in purchases equation is,
(A9) Purchases(A) – Purchases(B) | Downloads have feedback
= ∫V>p(G(γV,αqA)-G(γV,αqB))(f(V,φ(αV))-f(V,αV))dV
In the absence of feedback effects, φ(αV)=αV, purchases are identical for the two albums
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe film, based on the first book of CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series is schededuled to open this coming Friday December 9th. The Guardian in England had this great article called "know your Narnia" by Stephanie Merritt - An A - Z guide to the books their characters and more.
A is for Aslan
Aslan the Lion of the title, King, Creator and ultimately Saviour of the land of Narnia. In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, his return is long-prophesied, he is put to death in a traitor's place (see Edmund), and comes back to life to lead his followers in defeating the forces of evil. Hmm, it does all sound oddly familiar ... A is also for Allegory, see Christian.
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