Watch the trailer… check out photos… and watch the two preview clips. (The Stolen Minks and The Holy Shroud!) And hopefully get excited to see the film!
The Stolen Minks! Die Brücke! The Holy Shroud! The Medium Mood! The Got To Get Got! The Memories Attack! Dog Day! A History Of! Play Guitar! The Hold! Prisoners! North Of America! Ov Gramme! The Just Barelys! The Maynards! Tomcat Combat! The Superfantastics! Windom Earle! Take On Me! VKNGS! All under one roof!
The film was selected to be part of the Atlantic Film Festival and you can catch it Tues. Sept. 15th at Park Lane.
Pretty awesome aside
One of the film’s producers - Paul Hammond - is also part of local design duo YoRodeo! [http://www.yorodeo.com/]. Check out this story he shared online this week:
Uh…. so, if nobody minds, I’d really like to just kind of… brag/gush for one second..
I bought it a year and a half ago… and it’s really awesome… lots of great stuff. Well… apparently i didn’t read it thoroughly enough… because…. YORODEO IS MENTIONED. Not just mentioned, but namedropped. Not even namedropped by the author… but namedropped by THE HEADS OF STATE!!!!! http://www.theheadsofstate.com (they just happen to be one of my absolute favourite poster art teams!)
“Kernevich and Summers note, “This poster plays off of the Magnetic Fields library of love songs, maybe their darker side. We had been looking at a lot of wood cuts, block printing, but we also drew inspiration from the work of Seripop and Yo Rodeo and their use of twisting and interlocking bizarre forms.”
Not only that…. but it’s this poster:
I HAVE THAT POSTER!!!!
guys. my mind is actually fucking BLOWN! i’m like, seriously losing it.
I have been working on making some solid goals for myself in work and life. The best means of doing so I have come across thus far is to plan waaaaaaaay out, and work your way backwards. Set some goals or decide where you want to go, look at where you are now and then develop a plan to connect those dots.
One common suggestion on goal planning and living a good life is to go right to the end and imagine what your funeral would be like. Who do you want there? What do people say about you when you are gone? How will you be remembered [or I guess for planning purposes, how do you want people to remember you]?
So I haven’t done any of that. Because when I started thinking about my funeral and though of all the other funerals I have been to I realized funerals suck. But I quite enjoy life. Beats the alternative I feel. So as far as I got on the whole what will my funeral be like is that it will be a party, a celebration of life, and there will be music. And it should be preferably played loud.
This is some of the music.
Nina Simone - Ain`t Got No, I Got Life (Groovefinder Remix) - MP3 Save Me - was a contender as well from Ms. Simone but it will not upload for some reason, but you should find it and play it when I die anyways.
Nina Simone makes me happy.
The Pink Mountaintops - Single Life - MP3
I love the music of Stephen McBean. This will also cover the bases for all the fuzzed out rock I love. (Maybe some of my CanCon quota too).
The title is also very apt. I was looking for New Drug Queens for the fuzzed out bliss of that song when I found this first. I know for sure we have THIS life to do something with. Maybe we have another or a second chance elsewhere. But if we do not… this song is a driving rocker to power you through whatever you know you SHOULD be doing.
The Pagans - No Way, Not Now - MP3
Denial song number 1: The inclusion of this song should be obvious for two reasons: whether you know it or not, it is great, an unknown classic. But more importantly to the theme, I hope the title is one of the last thoughts running through my scattered little brain.
Minor Threat - I Don’t Wanna Hear It - MP3
Plain and simple, more denial. You will probably have to deal with it too as I find ways to work my soul into your heart. Play these 4 (Single Life to I Got a Right) songs particularly loud.
Iggy & the Stooges - I Got a Right - MP3
To live fuckers! I think I will exercise that presently all the same.
Iggy also gets honorable mention for his solo Lust for Life album. The title track, Passenger (MP3) and Some Weird Sin all deserve being part of my going away party.
Supergrass - Moving - MP3
By this point we will assume I have accepted that I am moving on. Supergrass is a band I discovered late in their career via their best of release celebrating ten years of making music. But if you discover something good does it matter when you find it?
Patti Smith - Who Do You Love (Live on Letterman) - MP3
Right now, Joi G. Hopefully when this playlist is needed it shall be the same. (I will not regret, ever, proclaiming my love for this person even should she leave me tomorrow. She has helped me more than she will ever know and will hopefully always be a close friend). Mind you I would prefer to maintain the current additional benefits.
The Clash - Janie Jones - MP3
I love the Clash. But even more I love this 2 minute song. If I had heard it while in high school I may have said the hell with university. Can not listen to this song and not think of Joi either.
Any Jimi Hendrix Album would do…
So I definitely needed to add a Hendrix track. My guitar god.
Angel would be appropriate but that song is mine and Joi’s - and too mellow - so maybe I will add a mellow play list as well for the day after my funeral when yer still sad but hung over that I am dead.
Bold as Love is beautiful. But again a lil chill. Little Miss Lover maybe. Fire would be a definite contender outside Fire may send the wrong message with my death. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Baby New Rising Sun (MP3) gets it. Just because.
Otis Shuggie - Strawberry Letter 23 - MP3
I just love the sound of this song - the swirling guitars by the end seem like they just may take you away to…where ever.
Walking on the Sunshine x2!
I don’t know what happens after I die for certain - pretty sure nobody does - but maybe this is something I can do in the afterlife!! The original or Me First and the Gimme Gimme’s (still one of my fav band names for no reason in particular) cover will do. Listener’s choice. My demand is that it simply be loud (surprised?).
Original: Katrina & the Waves - Walking on the Sunshine - MP3
Cover (definitely more upbeat): Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - Walking on the Sunshine MP3
There is soooooo much music missing form this shortlist I think it will need to be at least a 3 or 4 part series at least. So many genres not accounted for. So to briefly address that I am going to fire in one last track as a tip of the hat to hip hop. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You - MP3 While I still listen to that album and this track in particular all these years later, TROY sent me on a decade long search for that opening riff…which thanks to the internet I was eventually able to download and hear. And love.
The Beginning of the End - When She made me Promise
Future Funeral music playlists should probably address some mellow times, a dance party and at least one more mixed bag of tunes (no Led Zep, opps).
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams When my end comes I hope I can handle it as well as Randy Pausch is able to address his pending death in this talk. And for any guys reading this that may not watch the video, there is one of the best pieces of advice on dating you will ever hear and I have been thinking about it alot and my studies since have shown it is a 100% true: If you want to impress a girl, or keep your current girlfriend or wife happy - do something. Anything. Buy her something, take out the trash, visit her family with her, make the bed, pick up after yourself. ACTIONS. VERBS. Those things work. Talk not so much (I do suggest talking to your significant other though). And in turn it is not bad advice for any other relationship either. Or anything else for that matter. Talk of ideas is one thing, execution (action) is another.
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
Short Read: From The 4-Hour Work Week - The 4-Hour Workweek If you read this and do not get it I do not know what to say….life is shorter than we think and it expires with no warning, we have no say over it and there is nothing we can do about it. Ask yourself “Why?” more often and make sure you are doing things for the right reasons.
An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked out to the pier to clear his head. A small boat with just one fisherman had docked, and inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish.
“How long did it take you to catch them?” the American asked.
“Only a little while,” the Mexican replied in surprisingly good English.
“Why don’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?” the American then asked.
“I have enough to support my family and give a few to friends,” the Mexican said as he unloaded them into a basket.
“But… What do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican looked up and smiled. “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Julia, and stroll into the village each evening, where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, senor.”
The American consultant scoffed, “I am business consultant and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and, with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution.
“You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But senor, how long will this all take?”
To which the American consultant replied, “15-20 years.”
“But what then, senor?” asked the fisherman.
The consultant laughed, and said, “That’s the best part! When the time is right, you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public. You’ll become very rich, you would make millions!”
“Millions, senor?” replied the Mexican. “Then what?”
The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
