https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/30/carles-puigdemont-loses-appeal-against-loss-of-mep-immunity

RIP Higuchi - what an amazing drummer you were.

 

 

Rare Pre-Production photos!

Rare photos from the pre-production for the film, 'THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN'

                 * Special thanks to The Chris Boyce family.

R.I.P. DUSTY HILL

 

https://filmfreeway.com/

 

I’m a vaccinated anaesthetist and this is how I shop for my family. pic.twitter.com/IZ63SVQcWx

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) July 27, 2021

 

  Proper journalism should lead the line of skepticism.

Less is more.

So I took a walk around Alphabet City this afternoon and observed a young film crew all gung ho with a few RED cameras (RED Cameras cost around $80,000 each) and a ridiculous amount of hi-tech technology and its just all so fuc*in' dumb and unnecessary. I was immediately reminded of why and how Nirvana and Kurt Cobain got so huge, so fast. Less was More, and Kurt Cobain understood that. Cobain disregarded all the expensive high end guitar modules and keyboards so many bands were using and stripped his music down to just a simple raw guitar, tube amp and two other simple musicians - making sure it was the SONG that mattered and NOT all the expensive crap all the metal and rock bands were using at that time, Nirvana killed the music scene when NEVERMIND was released because people wanted something REAL, UNVARNISHED, PURE, and FREE. Anyways, I personally sold my fancy 4k camera a few years ago because I HATED how perfect everything looked, and how there was no room for error or mistakes. I now stick with a very small camera that gets me beautiful shots with a simple battery that dies on me every 10 minutes. And, I would not change one thing about it. Gosh, even war photojournalists keep things simple and sweet, and focus on getting a great shot, and not carrying around almost $100,000 cameras. Makes me kinda sick. And what makes matters even more sickening, is that I bet you they will use some fake-ass software to degrade the image during editing and try to mimic what a cheaper camera would have provided.  Lord Have Mercy on them.  bye.

 

Sardinia is burning :(

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-07-25/fires-ravage-italian-island-of-sardinia-forcing-evacuations

                                                  

                     arsonists are responsible -

https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/fires-continue-sardinia-arsonists-suspected

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you !

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020158692/australia-covid-lockdown-protests-sydney-arrests-coronavirus

Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story

I really enjoyed the new documentary about the life and aquatic career of Valerie Taylor. Valerie's passion and dedication reminded me of Jane Goodall and especially Leni Reifenstahl (infamous Third Reich female film artist who spent her last years of life blacklisted and filming underwater). It's so interesting that Valerie managed to go from animal hunter to animal savior and subsequently petitioned the government to have a portion of the sea protected as a national park (The Neptune Islands Group Marine Park on South Australia's West Coast). 

https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/marineparks/home/media/articles/121129-val-taylor

If you like underwater photography, shark docs or just a great life story, this documentary is great and can be seen on Disney Plus. I also learned about another documentary film Valerie appeared in in the early 70's titled 'BLUE WATER, WHITE DEATH' that was the inspiration for Peter Benchley's Best Selling novel, 'JAWS.' It's a hard film to find, but thatz(sic) why God has given to us EBAY.COM (meaning I already placed my DVD order). Shark cage diving is on my bucket list and I shall plan my trip to visit the west coast of Australia, Neptune Islands very soon. I can shark cage dive and visit Heath Ledger's memorial place located in Perth all in one shot. Can't wait to take a bite outta that coming trip. bye.

Heath Ledger's Memorial by the sea.

https://www.rodneyfox.com.au/

 

https://www.rogerebert.com/

2021 CANNES - JURY PRESS CONFERENCE

 

Cannes 2021 Spoiler Alert ...Titane

 Full list of winners below:

Palme d’Or: Titane

Grand Prix: (tie) A Hero and Compartment No 6

Jury Prize: (tie): Ahed’s Knee and Memoria

Best Actress: Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

Best Actor: Caleb Landry Jones, Nitram

Best Director: Leos Carax, Annette

Best Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car

Camera d’Or: Murina by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Short Film Palme d’Or:Tian Xia Wu Ya by Tang Yi

Special Jury Mention for Short Film: Ceu de Agosto by Jasmin Tenucci

And his apology...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/spike-lee-cannes-film-festival-winners-b1886066.html

                    A Critic's Review of the winning film Titane: https://collider.com/titane-review/ 

Thank God It's Friday...

and my Murse (aka man's purse) iz Da BomB ...

 

https://www.adn.com/sports/national-sports/2021/07/19/this-deaf-blind-paralympian-was-told-to-navigate-tokyo-alone-so-she-quit-team-usa/

 

This is what a snapped drum pedal tension spring looks like. There's a first time for everything, and I had no idea this could even happen. Wow. Thank Heaven for Amazon Prime overnight deliveries. bye.

                        

                          

 

 Not cutting the mane no matter how bad this apocalyptic heat wave continues. Bring It.

  bye.

a·poc·a·lyp·tic

/əˌpäkəˈliptik/

Learn to pronounce

adjective

1. describing or prophesying the complete heat wave destruction of the world.

   "the apocalyptic visions of ecologists"

   • resembling the end of Jane's  world; momentous or catastrophic.

     "the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions"

     Similar:

     catastrophic

     momentous

     ominous

     portentous

     life-and-death

     serious

     grave

     epic

     huge

     earth-shattering

     world-shattering

     earth-shaking

     world-shaking
   • of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse.

     "apocalyptic imagery"

Happy Birthday Stewart Copeland !

 

ch ch ch, ah ah ah and morning coffee thoughts.

Sometimes simpler is better. The iconic 'Jaws' film theme song used just two notes to set an ominous tone, and the equally iconic sound effects in the 'Friday the 13th' films used two syllables to make the killer’s presence known. The spelling of those two syllables has become a hotly contested issue among diehard films of the franchise. Most people have been repeating it as ch ch ch, ah ah ah for years, and it’s hard to hear it any other way. However, the film’s composer, Harry Manfredini, has set the record straight in many  interviews. In 2015, he stated that the sounds are actually ki and ma. Inspired by the consonant-heavy Polish scores he was studying at the time, Manfredini decided to reduce the words kill and mommy down to two syllables. These words were taken directly from a scene in the original 1980 film in which Pamela Voorhees, played by Betsy Palmer, says “Kill her, mommy!” in Jason’s voice. Manfredini said the scene stuck out as a “creepy shot” and also conveyed the important idea that she was hearing voices at all times. To create the sound effect, Manfredini whispered the two syllables into a microphone and then fed them through an Echoplex Machine (see below), “which was really cool back then,” he said. The reverb distorted the sounds, which is perhaps why people hear the syllables a little differently.                                                                         bye. 

  

Blue Computer Glasses. #protectURretinas

                                                            

                                          

#MyRedEaredSlider

i-clamp music porta jukebox.

            

Hooked up my iPhone to my splash cymbal stand for easier song access during play.

Bless all of this new gadget clamp technology...

 

I was born with these other appendages.

Happy Birthday USA ! - No More Facemasks 2021!

FIREWORK (lyrics)

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind
Wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving Jane in?

Do you ever feel already buried deep?
Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in Jane

Jane just gotta ignite the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause, Janey, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky

Janey, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe

You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only…

        bye.

TONIGHT AT 12 MIDNIGHT !!!

 FREE Livestream link:   

https://mailchi.mp/0267c0c820b2/open-submission-millennium-film-workshop-open-online-screenings-4751654?e=5a0869500a

   p.s.  Tonight's 24-hour live online screening show is dedicated to the memory visual artist and Hijacker!- Kelley Brannon. Kelley went MISSING in July 2020 and was a regular screener at Hijack! shows. 

Her memory lives on !  

                                                                                                            

Bracing for the Friday 4th of July Holiday weekend traffic, ya'll. 

#ch-ch-ch-cherrybomb

Can't stay at home, can't stay at school

Old folks say, "You poor little fool"

Down the streets I'm the Jane next door

I'm the fox you've been waiting for

Hello, daddy, hello, mom

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hello world I'm your wild girl

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Stone age love and strange sounds too

Come on, baby, let me get to you

Bad nights causing teenage blues

Get down Janey's, you've got nothin' to lose

Hello, Janey, hello, mom

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hello world I'm your wild Jane

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hello, daddy, hello, mom

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hello world I'm your wild Janey

I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb

Hey, street boy, what some…

Mask-less! 4th of July outdoor 3-day live music festival !

My buddy, drummer Steve Riley

Dorable celebratory dancing Covid is over crowd video moments...

bye and Happy Birthday USA!

Jane Trivia News Brief: I love going to live shows as a way of studying various drummers set-ups, using military binoculars. In this show alone, I noted a new cymbal stand clamp i-Phone holder that is being used by some drummer's in order to have quick and easy access to one's smartphone. This is the perfect solution for when I practice at home to songs being played from my iTunes music library iPhone playlist.