I remember reading somewhere recently that a proper bloggers should never use a title for a post which has nothing to do with the content of the post itself. Don't get me wrong, blogger etiquette is one area where I hope to grow and thrive one day. However, I'll leave it to the home viewers to decide for themselves how the words of this post's title fit in with the content of this piece of blogosphere...
Get the kids outta bed and grab some nickels! We're havin' a FOLKSPLOSION!
SHIRTLESS BIDDLES. FLYING J & THE PILOTS. SCOTT HENSLEY. Three acts. One night. Zero calories.
FOLKSPLOSION SPECIAL: Bring your own screen-printable t-shirt for your own one-of-a-kind Folksplosion! Logo T-Shirt
It's all happing at THE STRANGE BREW COFFEE HOUSE this FRIDAY! Friday, August 17th, 2007 | 7pm to 9pm The Strange Brew Coffee House 4800 W. Smith Valley Road Greenwood, Indiana
After a brief hiatus, your host Joel returns to intrude on your daily grind with a few morsels of audible goodness. This month, he has invited his very good friends, The Brothers Kyburz, to play some of their favorite musical selections. You'll surely dance, cry and giggle like an eleven year old as they reminisce of days of yore.
1. Oliver Onions “Zorro is Back” 2. Rocky Votolato “White Daisies Passing” 3. The Polyphonic Spree “Section 20 (Light to Follow)” 4. 16 Horsepower “Black Soul Choir” 5. Bonefish Sam & His Power Orchestra “Mr. T Adventure Story” 6. Violent Femmes “Old Mother Reagan” 7. Andrew Bird “Fake Palindromes” 8. Regina Spektor “Dusseldorf” 9. Acoustic Nausea “Rex” 10. The Little Ones “Lovers Who Uncover” 11. Derek Webb “I Wanna Marry You All Over Again” 12. Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye” 13. Joel Rockey “Fool's Honey (Live)" 14. The Decemberists “Sons & Daughters"
Last week, Miranda and I took an excursion from all of that which has distracted us in recent weeks and drove up and along the shores of the mighty Lake Michigan. We spent a couple nights camping and fighting off mosquitoes when we weren't bumming around on the beach. We also spent a day in Chicago and stayed a while in a hotel room watching way too much cable television before investing hours of our lives into discovering a magical land of stylish decor and big savings known simply as IKEA. During those lost of hours of learning what not to wear and flying with the conchords, we were subjected to a creepy new add for M&M's candy which encourages lonely viewers at home to become an M&M. I'm uncertain as to what in particular caused my wife to be so unsettled by this ad. Whether it be The The's song "This Is The Day" or the very thought of surrendering to the idea of discovering her inner M&M, I don't know. All I know is that somewhere in the formula, these ad wizards managed to forge a key to derailing my wife's emotional stability. I had to find a worthy ally to meet this adversary head on. In no time, the mighty alliance of Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert brought the inner M&M's and their campaign for the worldwide domination of souls to their milk chocolatey knees with joyous absurdity! Hoorah! Hoorah!
For better or for worse, many precious hours of this unseasonably mild Summer have been spent by Miranda and myself examining frames and frames of celluloid. We've taken in some surprisingly fun Summer fare at the theater including Transformers, The Simpsons Movie. We've also enjoyed a few second run showings at ye ole dollar theatre such as Disturbia (a modern day knock-off of Hitchcock's Rear Window which still manages to be rather watchable due to the performance of a charming young lad known as Shia), Meet the Robinsons and Spiderman 3 (round two for me... that makes about two too many). We've also embarked upon the rather ambitious quest of checking off the entire AFI 100 films of the past 100 years from our "To See" list... yeah, we've still got some work to do on that one. So far we've managed to squeeze in The Last Picture Showand Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, two classics which surprisingly neither of us had ever seen. I have only this to say: Cloris Leachman was mesmerizing; I can't believe TLPS made the list by the skin of its teeth at #95; The music of Burt Bacharach + Western Shoot-em-up starring Newman and Redford = Movie Gold! Which leads me to the next item of attention.
In recent years, my favorite films have included all of those imagined by Mr. Wes Anderson. His attention to detail among the dysfunctional and the quirky characters realized by his rotating ensemble win me over every time. Needless to say, I was quite excited when the trailer for his most recent film starring Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and "Flowin' Like" Owen Wilson, The Darjeeling Limited, was released online. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've watched the trailer at least fifteen times. The trailer is carried along gloriously by the song "This Time Tomorrow" by The Kinks. This is another reminder of what I love so much about Anderson's films... the music. Some of the most memorable music-in-film moments have come from his perfect juxtapositions of scene and song whether it be 1960's Brit-rock, Icelandic post-rock or the score written by Mark Motherbaugh. I'll be in the seats for The Darjeeling Limited when it opens in September and I'll probably eventually own the DVD and never tire of watching the dysfunctional family shenanigans just as I have with Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaumsand The Life Aquatic. However, after three films featuring the brilliant Bill Murray, I don't know how I'll react to his absence from this one. Let's just hope Darjeeling helps us forget all of those unfortunate Owen Wilson roles from recent films so we can remember why we all fell in love with Dignan.
After a brief hiatus, your aural supplement returns with special guest Senor Hector Laveta sitting in the driver's seat. This abbreviated episode will surely leave you salivating at the mouth for next month's weird ass sequel featuring a bizarre marriage between Nancy Reagan and the incomparable Mr. T. Be there!
1. The White Stripes “Rag and Bone” 2. The Greenhornes “Shelter of Your Arms” 3. Mitch Hedberg “Koalas (Edit)” 4. The Zombies “Summertime” 5. The Kinks “20th Century Man” 6. The Guess Who “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” 7. Flight of the Conchords “The Hiphopopotamus Vs. The Rhymenoceros” 8. Mudkids “Ecclesiastes 3:1-8” 9. Johnny Cash “Oney” 10. Minutemen “Untitled Song for Latin America” 11. Tom Waits “16 Shells from a Thirty Ought Six” 12. Joel Rockey “Psalm 63” 13. Bob Dylan “Nobody 'Cept You” 14. Ladysmith Black Mambazo w/ Paul Simon “Amazing Grace"
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