Dog wrasstlin'

Happy Birthday Sarah

I need money for my vaccine

My Uncle's Barn

sti cazzi

There ain't nobody that can sing like me

During the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora contacted English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg about writing music for a selection of completed Guthrie lyrics. Her father had left behind over a thousand sets of complete lyrics written between 1939 and 1967; none of these lyrics had any music other than a vague stylistic notation.



According to Bob Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, Woody Guthrie offered his unpublished songs to Dylan, but the young singer was unable to get them from Guthrie's family (he tells a story about a reluctant babysitter).

Nora Guthrie's liner notes in Mermaid Avenue indicate that it was her intention that the songs be given to a new generation of musicians who would be able to make the songs relevant to a younger generation. Nora Guthrie contacted Bragg, who in turn approached Wilco and asked them to participate in the project as well.

Wilco agreed, and in addition to recording with Bragg in Ireland, they were given their own share of songs to finish.

Go on with your bad self

This is Ran by Akira Kurosawa, made in 1985. I don't know anything about it. Only that I watched Stray Dog by Akira and then went looking for more by the same director and that I was sick of watching black and white movies and that the font used in the title looked raw.

The actors were brutally good and each frame could be a beautiful painting. And in sequence for 2 hours it felt more like reading a comic book. Even the colours in the movie were perfect.

EDIT: As it turns out this is Akira's vision of King Lear set in Japan during the times of the civil wars, the 16th century I think.

It was his 27th movie (out of 30) and he was 75 at time of completion.

It cost 260 million yen and was 10 years in the making. When it appeared as though the film would not receive funding he began drawing illustrations of each character and costume and mapping out their psychology.

Watch also "it's wonderful to create Ran". A series of documentaries on Directors and the movies they've made.

Great stuff on lighting, camera angles, set designs, makeup (be bold with the makeup!), costume...

His 1980 film, Kagemusha, was said to be a practice run for Ran (for essential elements such as horse training and castle set building)

Tupac commission, 1st session

still style

For example, amog traditional performing arts, lets take Japanese dance. In Japanese dance, rather than rhythym of movement, it’s coming to a standstill after movement. And the beauty of the form in that static state that’s important. You see many such scenes in Mizoguchi’s films, the actors who’ve been acting out their conflicts and struggles come to a halt in a beautiful pose at a certain point, we call this Kimaru in Japanese. His films have many such moments, which are conveyed through the composition of the image.
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In Sansho the Bailiff, it’s not a scene of turmoil, but a very simple scene, it’s the scene where Anju goes into the lake. That scene is suggestive of Japanese theatre arts such as Kabuki and Noh, which use a passageway called hashigakari, which leads through the theatre to the stage, all an actor does on it is simply walk, but it’s a very important element in Japan’s traditional theatre arts. To walk powerfully or very sadly or with a springy step; there are lots of ways and they’re all stylized. The simple act of walking makes it beautiful.

Here I come

fixtures

Name the darling

My kitten is 7 weeks old, she was born in East Harlem.

What's her name?

A while ago in Manhattan

I'f you're not seen green, you'd better be wearing jeans

You're a lion, you're the bravest

Bromley's hobbies

A weekend working at my teacher's house

amish party video

Davis continued

Stage 2 or 4

I just wanna text message you

this is miles davis and THIS IS The Animals



punk rock blues.

dirty diana

old paintings, refined technique.

my unforgettable remembrances

The time I cleaned the outdoors

I spent the weekend cleaning my teacher's barn, old shop, and garden shed.
We worked hard in the sun and earned our keep. And a few dollars for the road. But I would have dont it for the meals and the company.

Class of '09

Last day of class today. My good company breaks.

you've been a brave man for many years

Film about the Hudson Bay Company, from the National Film Board of Canada.

Jesus bit his finger

Dead Heat Under The Shrubs: An Iranian movie.

About a murderess chasing a boy in the desert. The chase is wily, and it's comical, even if it's a death chase. And sometimes the music is big classic Hollywood, which is also comical. It's important to have a sense of humour when you're running for your life.

It's not funny. It's serious. Run little boy.

tune-off, midnight, get me impact hammers and tequila

Hey these are my friends from the convention. This is what a convention looks like at dinner. There's Andy, the regular cool guy. There's Matt Quinlan RPT absolutely. There's Beth in the empty chair, her boyfriend is into lutherie (making guitars and violins or something. There's Alexander Abel, who'se dad owns Abel hammers in Germany, the slickest sweetest hammers you can get (that means he's piano royalty, a prince). There's oh the fellas from U dub O. We're missing Esteban, the sickest shit, the straight shit from east LA.

In the gospel tradition

Take that, time.

see you tomorrow

He's evil and my friend