Archive for March, 2006
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Ok. More YouTube. This is HoiTahPoiSha doing Hooked on A Feeling with her little sister. And what else can I say but I love it. I like HoiTahPoiSha’s face, it’s fun and expressive. She also does a good Belle from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”. Very nice through the first two thirds.
Hey, she makes me laugh. And the supporting cast of friends and family are good too.
I just noticed that my FlickR images are no longer showing up in posts from last week. That’s irritating. Knew there was a reason I was hosting my images.
Take Sudafed and go paint some more.
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And no I'm not getting much writing done either
March 31st, 2006 |Posted In: General, You Tube (other people)
Only checking in to post this link to ArtieTSMTW at YouTube doing a re-enactment from “The Shining”. When I was watching the below David Hasselhof video this was one of the random videos that came up to the side and I consider myself randomly lucky.
Phoenix, Arizona
Digital painting based on photo
abt 20 by 15 inches
2006
J Kearns
Did this one earlier in the week. Love the exterior simplicity that masses large planes of color together. And the cacti. The palms.
This better be recorded.
What: The Carllile Family
When: Sunday, April 30th, 6 pm Doors
Where: 800 East Studios (800 East Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
off North Highland Avenue, between Freedom Parkway and Randolph
(www.800east.com)Cost: $25 for seated, $18 for standing. All ages welcome. Tickets available at www.ticketalternative.com.
Carpooling is encouraged.Light food and beverages will be available for cash.
PRESS RELEASE:
“Four Lady Thumbs: A Musical Evening with Three Generations of Carllile Women: Virginia, Kathy, Tammy and Calli”
When Virginia, Tammy, Kathy and Calli take the stage at 800 East Studios it will be a the first time that the late Thumbs Carllile’s wife, daughters, and granddaughter have shared the spotlight. Thumbs was a legendary guitar player known for his unique style. His legacy, however, will not overshadow the talent of these women.
Virginia, 74, was already a successful vocalist when she met Thumbs in Germany in 1955. Coming from a strong blues and old country background, she is best known for her single Indian Boy/Indian Girl This event will be her first stage appearance since 1987.
Virginia¹s daughters, Tammy and Kathy, remember a childhood filled with music. Both followed their parents’ lead and chose careers in music. Tammy sang in the Cowboy Boogie Band in Las Vegas, and won Nashville’s Hall of Fame singing competition. She sang vocal tracks on albums with her dad and sang a duet with Michael Parks.
Kathy a devotee of Muscle Shoals blues was once winner of The Gong Show. She performed on the blues portion of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and had a hit song in the 1980s called Stay Until the Rain Stops. Atlantans will remember her as the lead vocalist for her band, Kathy Carllile & Tabasco.
“My father was always in the house playing,” Tammy remembers. “We didn’t realize we were being influenced, but we adapted quite a musical ear early on. Mom and Dad had us listening to everything from Sarah Vaughn and Dinah Washington to old country. Dad always said to learn every style there is, because you never know what style will be making money.”
Calli, 28, is establishing her reputation as one of Atlanta¹s finest contemporary jazz/blues vocalists. She is frequent backing vocalist for respected Atlanta songstress and Rock Star:INXS finalist, Heather Luttrell.
On April 30, the four women will sing a variety of favorites some accompanying the other with harmonies. Look for songs as diverse as ZZ Top’s I Need You Tonight, Randy Newman’s Guilty, and Aretha Franklin’s Skylark. Thanks to studio wizardry, Virginia will also sing with Thumbs backing her on guitar..
“When my father performed at the Freight Room, everybody said it was like being in his living room,” Tammy explained. “That¹s the feeling we want to create. We want a very relaxed night, as if you had just dropped in for a visit.”
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Thumbs Carllile was an innovative guitar player and songwriter. As a child, his thumbs were too short and fat to make it around the neck of a guitar, so he began playing it on his lap like a dobro, a style that eventually earned him the nickname Thumbs. He was discovered by Little Jimmy Dickens in the 40s, and went on to play with Dickens’ band, Bill Wimberley’s Rhythm Boys, Les Paul, Red Foley’s Troupe and the Wade Ray Five. A stint with Roger Miller in 1964 led to a signing with Smash Records (and eventually Capitol), where he released two albums with popular songs such as Let It Be Me, Blue Skies and High Noon. In the 1980s, he began playing on Sagebrush Boogie in Atlanta. He moved to the city officially in 1986, where he was a regular at venues such as the Freight Room in Decatur and The Point until his death the following year.
There are worse things than a Eureka Altima. The name of one is Bissel. This is a vacuum to hate. I know. Because I now one one and I hate the thing. It’s a vacuum that wants nothing to do with vacuuming. All it wants is to sit in its box. But its box was promptly made into a spaceship. I told the Bissel to deal with this fact of life then put it in the front room where it is happy to sit and soak up the sun and hope I never touch it. “Use your Dust Buster,” it told me the last time I looked at it. And I did.
I’m writing and painting so won’t be dropping by much I don’t think.
Ok, so the David Hasselhoff Hooked on a feeling video has been around a while.
But this. I just saw this today. Why are there no comments? Why has no one rated this? I so get this. The Hasselhoff “Hooked on a Feeling” video suddenly makes perfect sense. And not just perfect sense but perfectly beautiful (if there is ghastly beautiful) sense.
Or am I one of the few people who’s been there? And without the aid of anything other than me wrestling with the zeitgeist.
Maybe it’s the kind of thing people are ashamed to admit. “Yeah, I’ve been there…”
And often, too.
Which is why I’m watching this techno dub for the fourth time.
It’s brilliant.
Somebody for x’s sake go watch and tell me I’m not the only one who’s been pedaling the second wheel of this Daisy-headed bicycle built for two trying to negotiate this Daily Tribune to the ground, at least in my own head.
If you don’t know what I mean then go back to whatever you were doing and sorry for the intrusion.
Update: I’m on my 8th time watching. Serious. This is absolute genius. A shame the person felt they had to explain the pixelated effect. Why, may I ask, would they need to explain this impeccable ordering of blocks…yes, and Hasselhoff with the fish in his mouth…the twin angels of the salmon skies overseeing (as I’m on my ninth time watching now).
Remarkable.
Most of the animations at the Super Shorts Festival are for adults but there are a few appropriate for children, such as The Stalking, directed by Andrew Johnson, which H.o.p. is crazy about because it is reminiscent of Wallace and Grommit. I tell him that it is a take-off on Alfred Hitchcock’s horror films. He has never seen a Hitchcock film and I tell him he won’t be able to see one for a while yet, but we discuss Hitchcock and he’s asking me about, “Does he use shadows like this?” and acting out the shadows and asking about camera angles and telling me how he thinks Alfred Hithcock would shoot something and asking me if that is how he would do it. Has made for an interesting conversation.
I’m putting this link to the animation on my blog so H.o.p. will have easy access, because he wants to watch it over and over. So forget your edification. This is just for H.o.p.
Was looking through some animations at the 2005 Super Shorts Film Festival website and this is one that H.o.p. particularly enjoyed and asked me to put it in the blog.
Sally Pearce’s “Being a Horse.” Out of Wales.
Beware. The website states the “film contains strong language.”
Antigen working with FDA to fast-track flu vaccine
WORCESTER — Antigen Express Inc. hopes to begin early-stage clinical trials as early as this fall on a synthetic peptide vaccine that could be made simply, quickly and in large quantities to help prepare for a possible avian flu pandemic.
The Worcester firm met last month with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and said the federal agency gave it clear instructions for moving ahead in the approval process for its vaccine — a road map that could have Antigen Express filing an Investigational New Drug application with the FDA within a matter of weeks.
“The FDA was uncharacteristically outgoing,” said Eric von Hofe, president of the eight-person firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto-based Generex Biotechnology Corp. (Nasdaq: GNBT). “They made it clear what they wanted to see from us.”
The United States has seen flu vaccine shortages in recent years, and there is widespread concern that should an avian flu pandemic hit it could take years to produce enough vaccine through traditional means, which involve growing the drugs in eggs or cell cultures.
“We could produce it on a 100-kilogram scale at any one of a number of contract manufacturers we work with. It’s conceivable we could produce enough to vaccinate the majority of the U.S. population,” said von Hofe.
1/2 million is a lot of response
March 26th, 2006 |Posted In: General, Social Studies (the big grab bag)
Demonstrators march in Los Angeles, California, to protest of proposed illegal immigration legislation. Half a million protesters paralyzed downtown Los Angeles, demanding amnesty for undocumented immigrants and rejection of a proposed law that would drastically tighten US immigration rules.(AFP/Getty Images/J. Emilio Flores)
That’s a lot of people.
Police said there were no arrests or injuries except for a few cases of exhaustion.
500,000 people and no arrests? Sounds llike LA didn’t want there to be any arrests or trouble.
