Archive for October, 2009
« Previous EntriesJazz Master Dave Brubeck Capping Time Out’s 50th Anniversary Year
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Jazz Master Dave Brubeck Capping Time Out’s 50th Anniversary Year With Three-Night November Run at New York’s Blue Note & 2009 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington in December
Critically-Acclaimed 50th Anniversary 3-Disc (2CDs + 1DVD) Legacy Edition of Landmark Jazz Album Available Everywhere Now
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Declared a [...]
This Date In Music History-October 29
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Birthdays:Denny Laine - Moody Blues (1944)
Vocalist Melba Moore (1945)
Peter Green - Fleetwood Mac (1946)
Ricky Reynolds - Black Oak Arkansas (1948)
David Paton - Pilot (1951)
Roger O’Donnell - Cure (1955)
Randy Jackson - Jackson Five (1961)
Einar Orn - Sugarcubes (1962)
Peter Timmins - Cowboy Junkies (1965)
Toby Smith - Jamiroquai (1970)
SA - 311 (1970)
They Are [...]
Music News & Notes
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Constantines expand 10 year anniversary celebration
The Constantines have expanded their 10 year anniversary plans from two December gigs to a week of shows across Ontario. A few of the special guests for these shows have been confirmed so far, with Attack In Black joining the group on the 11th in [...]
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Movie Clip – Save Her
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We found some great movie clips for the upcoming Twilight Saga: New Moon movie. These will really get your heart pumping. Check them out.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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This Is It Movie Clip – Why Why
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Check out these awesome clips from Michael Jackson ’s This Is It. The clip includes excerpts from the “Why Why” rehearsal and the Drill for “Bad” and a wicked promo featurette. So, unbelievably sad that he is gone.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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ONE-OF-A-KIND BEATLES LPS DISCOVERED
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ONE-OF-A-KIND BEATLES LPS DISCOVERED
What’s inside that storage carton in the back corner of your crawl space? Imagine if it was a one-of-a-kind original pressing of a Beatles record. NOW imagine if there were four of them. You don’t have to be a music expert to know that this is a [...]
Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne
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Let’s continue our feature: Ask “Mr. Music.” Now in its 23rd year of syndication (1986-2008), Jerry Osborne’s weekly Q&A feature will be a regular post every Wednesday from now on. Be sure to stop by Jerry’s site (www.jerryosborne.com) for more Mr. Music archives, record price guides, anything Elvis, buy & [...]
Music News & Notes
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Person L Announce Dates and Preorders
(PR) Pre-order has begun for Person L’s upcoming record, The Positives. The record is set for release on November 17th [CD/digital] and Person L preorder December 7th [2x10" LP] via Academy Fight Song and Human Interest Records. The CD packaging includes a full color digipak [...]
Movie Review: Astro Boy
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Astro Boy is proof that Pixar has virtually ruined CG animated filmmaking for its competition. In the midst of sophisticated, multi-layered releases such as Up or WALL.E, Ratatouille, it’s easy to look at a basic, well-executed, family-friendly adventure and somehow think less of it. Astro Boy, for example, is not [...]
Laughing Torso / A Bohemian Word Cloud
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I was going to do something on Nina Hamnett’s ‘Laughing Torso’ which has a splendid cover which cannot be found on the web and I left my copy at home. Will scan in on return. Nina Hamnett (1890 – 1956) was a Welsh artist, writer and artist’s model (that’s her by Modigliani.) [...]
The Blind Side
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Release date: Friday November 20, 2009
Genre: Drama
Director: John Lee Hancock
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures/20th Century Fox
Screenplay: John Lee Hancock
Producer(s): Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Gil Netter
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron
Official Site: theblindsidemovie.com
Rating: PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references
Available film art: The Blind [...]
Collecting John Piper
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Frances Spalding’s long awaited twin biography of John and Myfanwy Piper is being reprinted less than a month after its appearance. This is something almost unheard of in the small world of art history books. So either there is currently a Piper resurgence, or the OUP has badly underestimated the demand, or [...]
Box Sets From A Very Special Christmas, Buddy Holly, Hendrix, Motown, Rolling Stones, U2, and Klaus Voormann Plus a Rarity From Nirvana Arrive for the
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Box Sets From A Very Special Christmas, Buddy Holly, Hendrix, Motown, Rolling Stones, U2, and Klaus Voormann Plus a Rarity From Nirvana Arrive for the Holidays
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Historic Jimi Hendrix concerts… a legendary performance from Nirvana… U2’s remastered The Unforgettable Fire… every recording by Buddy Holly… [...]
Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne
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I am continuing our new feature: Ask “Mr. Music.” Now in its 23rd year of syndication (1986-2008), Jerry Osborne’s weekly Q&A feature will be a regular post every Wednesday from now on. Be sure to stop by Jerry’s site (www.jerryosborne.com) for more Mr. Music archives, record price guides, anything Elvis, [...]
From Dublin to DC: Furnace MFG Completes Pressing of R.E.M.’s “Live at the Olympia” Vinyl Record Box Set
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“Live at the Olympia” features 39 songs R.E.M recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. In addition to the four LPs pressed by Furnace MFG, this limited-edition box set also includes two CDs and an hour-long DVD performance documentary of five nights of live rehearsals titled “This Is Not [...]
Music News & Notes
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Cover art for new Dark Funeral album revealed
Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL have unveiled the artwork for their new album, Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus.
The album will be released on November 18th via Regain Records.
According to a band update: “The album will be released in a couple of different formats. One [...]
This Date In Music History-October 21
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Birthdays:Norman Wright - Dell-Vikings (”Come Go With Me”) (1937)
Jimmy Beaumont - Skyliners (1940)
Manfred Mann (1941)
Steve Cropper - Booker T and the MG’s (1941)
Elvin Bishop (1942)
Ron Elliott - Beau Brummels (1943)
Kathy Young (”A Thousand Stars”) (1945)
Lee Loughnane - Chicago (1946)
Tetsu Yamauchi - Faces (1947)
John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick - Free (1948)
Charlotte Caffey - [...]
Diary of a Nobody (1892)
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George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith. THE DIARY OF A NOBODY. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Limited, London. 1892.
Current Selling Prices
$300-$600 /£200-£400
COMIC NOVEL
An English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, it first appeared in the magazine Punch in [...]
Google Books -’A Library to Last Forever’
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin was an ‘op-ed’ contributor to the New York Times last week. An interesting article -part puff and part manifesto. It was called ‘A Library to Last Forever’ -the view from Mountain View as it were. He has so far got the text of 10 million books up on [...]
New Movie Releases: October 16, 2009
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These are the movies being released this Friday: Where the Wild Things Are, The Stepfather, and Law Abiding Citizens.
Where the Wild Things Are
Synopsis: Misunderstood at home and at school, mischievous Max (Max Records) escapes to a land populated by majestic, and sometimes fierce, creatures known as the Wild Things. The [...]
Up in the Air
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Release date: Friday December 4, 2009
Genre: Drama
Director: Jason Reitman
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Screenplay: Jason Reitman
Producer(s): Jeff Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki, Jason Reitman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman, Tamala Jones, Anna Kendrick
Official Site: theupintheairmovie.com
Rating: R for language and some sexual content
Available film art: Up In the Air movie posters
Synopsis
Juno’s Jason Reitman [...]
Gentlemen Broncos
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Release date: October 30th, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jared Hess
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Screenplay: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
Producer(s): Sean Furst, Chris Brown, Bryan Furst
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Isabel Lucas, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila
Official Site: foxsearchlight.com/gentlemenbroncos
Rating: PG-13 for some crude humor
Available film art: Gentlemen Broncos movie posters
Synopsis
Benjamin [...]
Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
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In so many ways, Max is a modern child. His father is gone. His older sister has outgrown him. His mother, who works late to support the household, is dating a stranger. His teachers are slowly introducing him to the realities of an adult life, offering lessons on tsunamis and [...]
See A Film On Us
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AFI FEST 2009 is making an unprecedented gift to moviegoers: FREE tickets to all festival movies, including red carpet galas. Get your tickets starting October 16 at AFI.com or 866-AFI-FEST. You can also obtain tickets by going to the Festival Box Office/Will Call desk located at the Mann Chinese 6 [...]
Jane Austen. Emma (1816)
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[ Jane Austen.] EMMA. A novel. In Three Volumes. By the author of “Pride and Prejudice” &c. &c. John Murray, London 1816.
Current Selling Prices
$8000-$30000 /£5000-£20000
CLASSIC LITERATURE
I am briefly revisiting’ Emma’ as there is a new BBC series with the handsome actor Romola Garai. Also a mediocre copy made $8,400 in [...]