There’s still no rhyme or reason on when Vox allows me to access my blog here. This morning, I got in a private post, but clicking ‘Create’ again, nothing happened for the next hour.
I wanted to share this opening title from Bullitt, after posting another one from Pablo Ferro on my Tumblr blog. This remains my favourite Ferro design. Though set in Chicago, only the skyline scene was shot there; the rest was in San Francisco.
I see ’68 as a positive year for a lot of design there, while ’69 began to look garish, particularly in fashion and hairstyles.
2:30 minutes of animated butterflies and dragonflies. Well worth your two minutes.
That’s a surprise. The compose window only took minutes to load, rather than days. Miracles never cease.
For your entertainment, two videos featuring a Q&A with Gene Hunt himself, Philip Glenister. The f words have been bleeped out, but they’re not words you’d expect the fictional DCI Hunt to use. And the real-life Philip Glenister doesn’t have very nice transport here. Where are the Cortina and Quattro?
This is hilarious.
Because the entire planet outside the US does not have a November Thanksgiving Day, a tiny number of Americans, including The Hollywood Reporter, got upset that the Aussies (and, for the record, the Brits) aired Flash Forward’s 10th episode before the US.
And, inevitably, it got on to the Torrents.
Now these folks are pointing the finger at Australians for doing something Americans do commonly and regularly.
‘How dare those pesky Australians do what we do!’ they say, with their fingers pointed toward the southwest. ‘Gosh, we hate how they speak English and drive SUVs and big cars! Who do they think they are?’
Not only is this massive and rather funny hypocrisy, The Hollywood Reporter’s “journo” says this: ‘For the record, Aussies do have a Thanksgiving holiday, but it's in May and they don't really do it right.’
Australians have a Thanksgiving Day?!
I have lived in the antipodes for three decades and this is the first I have heard of it. I also don’t remember any story about the first white settlers getting there and doing a big feed for themselves and the Aboriginals.
Hey, I’d love to hop over to Sydney to watch their next parade in May with giant inflatable Ned Kellys going over the Opera House and floats in the shape of the Holden 48-215.
Not sure how many hours the compose screen took today, but here it is.
Katie Taylor (the current Miss New Zealand) deleted the pics I took of her—sorry, lads.
Given what Patricia told me with her issues, I have no confidence the Vox boffins will ever fix their bug. She’s been at them since before September. While Daisy is a huge help and actually cares about Voxers, I wonder if anyone else at Six Apart gives a damn.
Wow, a day to load the compose window. Vox is really dying.
Folks, I am carrying on Voxing. I had a few days on Tumblr, but it doesn’t have room for comments, nor does it have the privacy settings I want. Other platforms are a bit lacking on that, too. Maybe my habits have adjusted to Vox over the last three years, and I still like it (when it works).
After discovering that setting up an alias meant that I could blog on demand again, I have set up a new account at lucire.vox.com.
I explain there that I don’t like setting up noms de plume, so I had to justify it to myself by using it for work (specifically Lucire). And it was better for me to get lucire.vox.com rather than some splogger pinching the name.
I have “neighboured” many of you (my apologies for any accidental omissions), and hope you can follow me there. I will eventually rejoin a lot of the groups as well.
I may put my private posts on there for friends and neighbours, which is the principal reason I like Vox.
I will still keep checking in here, not just because of the spammers who will undoubtedly leave comments, but I believe I can take a Pandora’s box approach to Vox’s failure. One day, this blog will come right. Mind you, Patricia gave up in September when she went through exactly the same scenario as me, and Ninja still has to use Internet Explorer just to use Vox, so maybe I should not hold my breath. Yesterday, Vox began blocking my access to the recent activity page, and I heard from Snowy that that has begun happening to him, too.
If only everyone was as caring at Vox as Daisy.
Also, I am back on reviewing music as I have stopped going out to see live bands. I am still not accepting new music as I still have to clear out what I've already been sent/requested. Apologies to any promises that I may have made.
sarahelizabethfoster.com ♥ myspace
Sarah Elizabeth Foster's EP, Gardening From the Ground Up Part 1 from Studio Sarah Records, is the first submission I've received for a 2010 release. Generally around this time, I get a ton of Christmas music offers (which, hey, I will be doing a roundup next week!).
Foster actually has a degree in music, singing French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and, of course English. While this EP is only in English, it does showcase her classically singing abilities. My favorite song is actually the title-track, "Gardening From the Ground Up". There's something about this love song, from rain drops to the up-beat jazzy tempo, that I really like. This is in contrast to the opening song, "Wake Up", for a song that's about waking up, it sounds like "take it easy" evening song.
While people will automatically associate Foster to 60s girl singers, I think her vocal styles, would actually lends itself really well to modern indiepop music. I'm certainly interested in hearing what part two sounds like. If you live in New York, Foster will be playing tomorrow, December 4th at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.
FERAL CHILDREN
myspace.com/feralchildrenseattle
Feral Children is a "backwoods" band from Seattle, Washington. Their self-titled EP was a free released on Sarathan Records, while their forth-coming album, Brand New Blood, will be available digitally December 8th, while a physical release on January 19th, 2010.
As their name suggest, their music seems, I don't know, wild. Like "grizzly bear", "panda bear, "deerhunter" and "animal collective" wild, and this isn't surprising, considering Scott Colburn (Animal Collective's Feels producer) is their producer on the Feral Children album. Compared to previous bands I mentioned, Feral Children seems more melodic and less experimental. I'm not sure who produced their EP (I rarely get liner notes for digital submissions), but they certainly have that collective-like influence.
I did give the EP a few listens, and not entirely impressed with the singer (is it Bill Cole?). His vocals is very rough, voice cracking comes to mind on tracks like "Saint". While this may possibly be the greatest song done live, listening to it on headphones made me cringe.
Who knows, maybe their album will be much better than the self-titled EP. It is, after all, their first release, I'm sure they'll improve over time. Information on the free downloads, head over to Sarathan Records.
MOJORISING
mojorisingband.com ♥ myspace
I keep mis-reading this band as Major/ising, so I'm not sure if other people might have the same problem reading the name (it's OK people misread W♥M as "we love music" all the time...)
Mojorising recently moved from Los Angeles from Australia. So prices for their EP at $12 on the merch page might seem high, until you realize it's in AUS dollars.
My impression is that this duo makes some really funky music, but with classic rock attitudes (think Jamiroquai). The funk soul translate well on a few of their songs, "She Woke Up To Me" and "Sooth Me And Use Me". The later is very dancey, I suspect it will play well to a live audience. Incidentally if you are interested in hearing the first song, it's available as a free download.
The band is playing a few dates in California:
- Dec 20 2009 THE MINT Los Angeles
Jan 10 2010 EL CID Los Angeles
SEA OF BEES
seaofbees.com ♥ myspace
Lara dismissed Julie Baenziger, aka Sea of Bees, as being too "CocoRosie/Joanna Newsom", and really - what's wrong with that ? As expected, Baenziger's vocal style is that of a small cute child. And also cute is the title of the EP, called Bee Eee Pee. This is a collection of four songs and one intermission song.
All of the songs are pretty minimalistic, usually with just acoustic and Baenziger singing. The stand-out track for me is "Willis", because it does feature a melodic backing music (vs just acoustic alone). Also, the inclusion of the random intro is nice - it explained that this particular recording happens to be the third take.
Julie is doing some winter dates:
- Dec 4 2009 Fox & Goose Sacramento, California
Dec 15 2009 Sacramento, California
Jan 26 2010 Matadero Huesca, Huesca
Jan 30 2010 Tanned Tin Festival Castelo, Castellón
Feb 10 2010 TBA w/ Mountain Man, Chelsea Wolfe and Dead Western Sacramento, California
PS, That's all I can manage today. Check out Ryan as he's retweeting on twitter/weheartmusic. You can see some of the tweets on the right-side of this page. The account is kept active by live blogging by myself, Ceji, and Ryan. Not just a robot account!
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1. I tried to post a movie a long time ago, The Bat (epic fail).
2. I saw an advert for a book in the 100 years ago today New York Times called When A Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart.
3. I thought Hmm, that looks like interesting... I checked gutenberg.org, and there it was/is.
4. Also in her list of books was a title I recognized, The Bat.
5. I thought, could that be the same story-line of that movie, The Bat, I tried to post so long ago? It was! I had no idea The Bat was based on a book.
Aside: Agnes Moorehead is one of my favorite actresses and she's way under-appreciated. She was such a good actress I feel badly that she's only remembered for her campy role as Endora. She was in an episode of the Twilight Zone called THE INVADERS that CREEPED ME OUT when I was a kid. CREEPED ME OUT, but I remember even at such a young age thinking she's a marvelous actress to pull that role off.
Oh My. LIFT!? Just what is that supposed to mean, lift?
December 4, 1939 Life magazine ad.
