Saturday, October 5, 2013

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966) = a surely groovy movie for you to view in full here

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

(1966) - William Klein = a groovy movie for you to view in full here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34uDNzkYDk



Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (French: Qui ĂȘtes vous, Polly Maggoo?) is a 1966 French film directed by William Klein.
It is a satirical art house movie spoofing the fashion world and its excesses. It stars Dorothy McGowan as supermodel Polly Maggoo being followed by a French television crew. It also stars Grayson Hall as Miss Maxwell, a fashion magazine editor modeled after Diana Vreeland, and Philippe Noiret as the TV reporter and director. Also appearing in the film are Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey and Alice Sapritch.
McGowan, the Brooklyn-born star and one-time Vogue cover girl in 1962, was one of William Klein's favorite models. After the release of the film, which was McGowan's first and only film role, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein.


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Friday, October 4, 2013

She's Got a New Spell Pittsburgh PA Billy Bragg October 1, 2013

She's Got a New Spell Pittsburgh PA Billy Bragg October 1, 2013



watch here on youtube solo acoustic performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmTC4eyr2i0

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wow playing rendition of dead flowers by blew my mind
 
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already hot chills a few times during this show and not even half way through ...
 
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w/ right here across 40th street bridge Lawrenceville grand beginnings in Millvale now
 
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

"Cloak of Frogs"

Freakwater "Cloak of Frogs"

a live performance = watch here in youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O3tNWXQpY



Cloak of Frogs
I'm sitting at this table I painted a shiny red
With a bowl full of oranges, a candle and a half a cigarette
I turn on the radio watch the tubes begin to glow
And the light flickers with the voice of one who knows

Take me to the river
Wash me in the water
He sings to me, to the fallen (water)
And I hear him singing out
I'm nervous in my skin I feel it has been read (rent)
And the mess that's seeping out
Only the devil could have sent
Wash me in the water
Get rid of the evidence
She is standing on the bank
Prayin' for water to take my breath
Take me to the river
Wash me in the water
He sings to me, to the fallen
And I hear him singing out (say do it now)
My muscles have grown weary dragging this cloak of frogs
(Now mosses have grown where he dragged in his cloak of frogs)
And I cried when the deal was struck
Oh please no gun
For I am a murderer hidden in a gasoline shroud
You were my healer you were my match
I was gonna burn this damn thing down


by Freakwater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O3tNWXQpY

Freakwater opened for Wilco for a few shows.
 
Freakwater best exemplifies the representative traits of alt.country discussed here. Centered around the songwriting and vocal team of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin (with bassist David Gray), Freakwater play a brand of country music that has been virtually unheard since A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter parted ways over fifty years ago. The band officially came together in 1989, recording a pair of albums on a small independent label and then switched to a slightly more prominent indie label. Their sound hangs on Bean and Irwin's emotive harmonies, acoustic guitars, and other stringed "traditional" instruments, betraying almost none of the changes in country music in the last half decade. Even electric guitars and drums are almost nonexistent on their recordings. While the women of Freakwater are indebted to early country music, citing the Carter Family and the Louvin Brothers as influences, they are not strictly country purists in the Nashville sense of the term. Bean, with her husband, has spent much of the last decade writing and performing in Eleventh Dream Day, an indie rock band far different from Freakwater. Freakwater also recently rejected a Nashville-based major label deal in favor of remaining with the indie label Thrill Jockey (which is not known for its country roster) thus strengthening their anti-Nashville image. Remaining with that label virtually assures that Freakwater albums will not be available in major retail outlets and that they will not receive exposure in traditional media. In their marketing, they also refrain from the Nashville standard; their album covers, painted by Irwin, are expressionist pieces that convey the idea of cover art as "art," a convention of rock music which was extended in the indie world.

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Magic of Circle like Atoms Vs. Finite Concrete like Squares

"Thoughts in time and out of season the hitchhiker stood by the side of the road and leveled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason."

... Not sure if phrase "building blocks" of life actually gets people thinking too square and habit of always leaning on a sure thing = squares can be squared. Whereas atoms are more representative as the form of a circle = organic matter comes from the mysteries of life and death that we have not conquered and constantly remain afraid of (no one knows for certain) .... So those who must try and calm their fears need the in-organic finite confidence of childhood blocks they can stack ... Atoms fuse into each other and do all kinds of things that appear magical ... Like alchemy ...

Coffee Thoughts
 
                                 me in Barbados as a kid = contemplating life & death & its circle
 
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Friday, September 27, 2013

“If Pittsburgh were transformed into a super hero comic book short film script for tonight. .. it might go like this.” Starring Wiz Khalifa, Billy Gardell, Yo-Yo Ma and a 40 foot yellow rubber duck


If Pittsburgh were transformed into a super hero comic book short film script for tonight. .. it might go like this.” Starring Wiz Khalifa, Billy Gardell, Yo-Yo Ma and a 40 foot yellow rubber duck ...
 
Unedited Draft 1: 


If Pittsburgh were transformed into a super hero comic book short film script for tonight. .. it might go like this.

 

 

My wife and I are walking from our home in Sewickley into a Yellow Cab dressed in black tie gala attire. Filler footage of the Sewickley Village scene as our cab drives through and we chat showing her beautiful blue gown and the luxurious fabric of my tuxedo pants – the whizzing along side the Ohio River & Rt. 65.
The cab goes by Heinz Field and makes it way further past Point State Park and its forever fountain toward PNC Park via the Ft. Duquense Bridge – and, there’s that money shot of one of this weekend’s jewels in the crown. .. the buzz for the weekend is Pirates are finally in the playoffs again since early 1990’s, the Cultural District Art Gallery & CafĂ© Crawl, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Gala and season kick-off (“some enchanted evening” theme) featuring a world class performance by no other than Yo-Yo Ma, and the giant 40 foot tall yellow rubber duck on loan from Japan sitting in one of Pittsburgh’s three rivers by the Roberto Clemente Bridge.

 
It’s apparent under the sky blue sky of Pittsburgh as the sun is setting why Pittsburgh has been called The Golden Triangle for centuries now. The city has never looked better and its people after years of corruption, pollution and economic depression (as well as a non value of life moral decline) have never felt such civic pride and in a position to really chant, “Cleveland Sucks!”
We glide through the city streets to the opulent Heniz Hall. “Architecture is like frozen music” I whisper to my wife as we mingle our way through cocktails & hors d’Ɠuvre pre-performance. Women and men alike dressed like proud peacocks strutting along while sipping fancy drinks & with white napkins. It’s a star studded affair for the PSO and a “who’s who” of the city = “some enchanted evening” indeed my wife says back to me. “I feel like we’re in a fairy tale.”
We our seated. The lights are turned down low.
Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal - exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination – And he was delivering the #goodstuff tonight for all of us.
Just then men in black & yellow gang colors storm the police at the doors of Heniz Hall and over power the 90 year old ushers and are all around with Bushmaster AR-15 ‘s.
Trouble. Real trouble. This isn’t the kind of guys caught in “the targets” of some desperate divorcee & bored housewife diabolical gossip this is the kind of “real trouble successful celebrated detectives hate to target & label as “suspect” (when there are plenty of non violent low level #potheads to bust & jail as trophies) and politicians hate to admit exists.  There was no suspicion left for me. I knew in front of us and all round was real trouble.
Suddenly the main chandelier starts to shake, rattle and roll and as the lights blackout and then turn back on in full blaze = Wiz Khalifa in full blaze appears on stage with Yo-Yo Ma.
“Peduto!” Wiz Khalifa screams into the mic. “All these people are gonna get smoked unless I get that statue of me at the Pittsburgh Intl. Airport! I want your signature in blood now!”
Peduto, one of the examples of the new Pittsburgh uncorrectable politician (who doesn’t go to the extreme of  having a private police squad to carry through with his dark agenda of putting bounties on his enemies to be sold off to prison pimps) gives a sincere plea to Wiz Khalifia reminding him that even when every teacher & adult had turned on him and said he would be nothing more than scum – he believed that he would one day represent Pittsburgh as one of its biggest pop stars in the world of rap music. Which Wiz accomplished.
Tensions were releasing and things looked better.
But then Wiz’s iPhone’s alarm that he got a tweet or a mention in a tweet alerted him.
Sally Wiggin of WTAE Channel 4 was in the PSO’s theme of “some enchanted evening” and was dressed like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan. Sitting next to her was king of new media WDVE’s Pittsburgh’s “DVE Randy.” Despite the age gap and the fact Sally Wiggin was dressed like Tinker Bell – DVE Randy looked just like Robert Downey Jr. in his Sherlock Holmes character and so they did not appear odd looking together at all.
“Just in,” Wiz announced while glancing at his phone with a menacing grin, “Wiz is just super super high = he’ll forget what he’s doing in about 4.3 seconds. Haha! @DVERandy."
“That’s it!” Wiz brought down the chandelier smashing to the ground and exposing a gaping wound of the ceiling of Heniz Hall displaying a blanket of stars.
“You all are sitting ducks!” Wiz laughed.
Yo-Yo Ma and Wiz darted back stage – Wiz dragging Yo-Yo Ma by the arm.
Yo-Yo Ma then stands alone on stage with the mic.
“We’re all doomed,” Yo-Yo Ma explained.  Wiz is going to have the 40 foot yellow rubber duck sitting in the river by the Roberto Clemente Bridge dropped on the ceiling of Heinz Hall to crush us all to our death. There’s nothing we can do.”
DVERandy knows we need a hero and uses twitter and his private tweets for good.
Out in L.A. Pittsburgh’s Billy Gardell was hired by nonetheless of Les Moonves himself after Billy saved a loose bird in the parking lot studio from flying into Julie Chen’s hair as she was stepping onto the set of Big Brother. Billy happened to be walking by to audition for Mike & Molly and had his lucky “Terrible Towel” with him that he was using to wipe the sweat from his forhead and behind his neck in that humid urban jungle L.A. heat and waved that Terrible Towel with such force at that bird flying right for Julie Chen’s hairdo that the bird and tragedy was averted.
“You know what?!” Billy Gardell said to Les Moonves. “That was too funny!”
“Yes.”  Les Moonves replied. “What are you here for, Mike & Molly auditions? You’re hired!”
DVERandy knew the only thing to blow away that 40 foot yellow rubber duck sitting in the river by the Roberto Clemente Bridge from being dropped through the ceiling of Heinz Hall crushing everybody to their deaths was the sheer might and force of Billy Gardell waving the “Terrible Towel” …
Meanwhile, Wiz is gathered with gang leaders from all the major Pittsburgh hot spots … Homewood, Homestead, McKeesport, North Side, Hill District, Duquense. … and Wiz is delivering s speech to unite and fight as one like the speech Cyrus from the blockbuster 70’s film “the Warriors” gave to NYC gang leaders to unite and fight as one. ..
 
 
To Be Continued. …
 (check back tomorrow to see what happens and for added pictures)
Written by mystrawhat.com & the new everydaymedia 9/27/13  Draft 1 “If Pittsburgh were transformed into a super hero comic book short film script for tonight. .. it might go like this.” Starring Wiz Khalifa, Billy Gardell, Yo-Yo Ma and a 40 foot yellow rubber duck

 
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Monday, September 23, 2013

"Voices of Vinyl" _ a new poem for you


Voices of Vinyl

Before they could speak

Drums played an enchanted dance

Feet and hands slapping that basic instinct programmed in the

Warm cavern of a modern-day skull; vibrations of stars. Rotation of

Earth and its gravitational field, forces of light and momentum

The patterns make their way into the darkened night and we hear

Sad and lonely voices of cotton fields in a beautiful bayou morning after an

intense crimson dusk ... Hey thanks for being an inspiration

How's things where you are? Here’s what’s going on here? You hear?

Listeners learn to react with empathy as the velvet satin sounds of singing

Moan on A.M.

Hooked like a sea perch and eaten in the same delicate fashion not in vain

Timelessness knows it can rest its weary head in the bosom of progress

 
me 1984 @ 14yrs


Pittsburgh – Morning – 9/23/13

John Alan Conte Jr.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

pick up the change

If it's just your heart talking, I don't mind
If you wanna call me darling, that's just fine, that's just fine
But if it's your mind that's wandering, it'll fall in line
When I kiss your cheek dear, every time, every time

We used to have a lot of things in common
But you know now we're just the same
You always had more than I really wanted
Aw honey, help me
Aw honey, help me pick up the change

If it's just your heart talking, I'll listen every time
Dear, you can talk my ear off, anytime, anytime
But if my mind starts wandering, it won't be gone long
Whenever I hear your heart talking, it's a song, it's a song

We used to have a lot of things in common
But you know now we're just the same
You always had more than I really wanted
Aw honey, help me
Come on honey, help me pick up
Aw honey, help me pick up the change

Aw honey, help me
Come on honey, help me pick up
Aw honey, help me pick up the change


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcQFkD9Ei8

found on: A.M.

words: Jeff Tweedy

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performance history

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

10th Annual Pittsburgh Fashion Story” @DuquesneUniversity’s PowerCenter Ballroom: “a jazz-inspired fashion & cocktail party”


Friday, September 13, 2013 exclusive looks at fall fashion from local boutiques: e.b.Pepper, Eons Fashion Antique, Glitter & Grit, Kristi Boutique, Charles Spiegel for Men, Threadz Boutique, and Roberta Weissburg Leathers. Izzazu Salon, Spa & Serata

 
Can I take you back home to Squirrel Hill?
 
 
Partners For Quality Foundation's “10th Annual Pittsburgh Fashion Story” at Duquesne University’s Power Center Ballroom
 

 
Partners For Quality is a nonprofit organization that supports adults and children with intellectual, developmental, and mental health challenges
 
 
Was glad to be on the hosting committee
 

                                                (my iPhone photography from our seats)


 
Thanks to Chuck Snyder & Carol Shriber who graciously chaired the event for the 2nd year



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Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Great College Experience: Top Memories @ Uni to Last Forever (That 1st Time Blown Away)

"I'll be loving you everynight & everyday, baby, everyday, everyday, #everyday" ... Tonya & Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band
 


 In the fall of 1992 I transferred into Penn State Uni #HappyValley State College, PA from Marquette Uni in Milwaukee, WI where... I used to comb the city in search of live blues & jazz (occasionally finding a band bold enough to let me sing roadhouse blues impromptu "out-of-blue" w/ them) but, yeah, the first fall I heard Queen Bee & The Blue Hornet Band @PSU I was blown away & felt it.

Hanging out with Tonya on the orange couch (the Bermuda Triangle) at our 712 C West Beaver townhome when she'd come visit was definitely in the top memories of the great college experience ("a feast of friends"). ..




 Queen Bee & The Blue Hornet Band - 2 of 3 - First Annual Billtown

listen up right here right now @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfFAINh7Y1w


#Peace & #Love = Best Always
 
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Why Are Parents Outraged by Having to Take New Realistic Methods for Parenting?! ...

We Need To Parent Our Sons AND Our Daughters?!
www.huffingtonpost.com
 
 
Regarding "time to start #parenting our sons & daughters" in light of new state laws on #weed (Colorado & Washington even legalizing recreational use of small amounts) + new stance America's top cop Eric Holder has set for federal government on #marijuana that they will no longer #target non violent, low level #potheads (that that's not a good way to spend law enforcement re$ources)
 
 
 
 
and, furthermore, Dr. Sanjay Gupta stating DEA has not been honest with us on marihuana = will be interesting to see how parents will have to start having a more realistic & honest conversation on #weed with sons & daughters instead of relying on the police 
 
Aug 19, 2013 - Seattle police handed out bags of Doritos to Hempfest attendees to educate them about new "saner" marijuana laws.
 

 e.g. "Mommy & Daddy as adults can have marihuana but no you cannot = you are too young & the new laws state you cannot legally have small amounts of #pot like mommy & daddy until you're 21!"
 
 
SORRY   ;)


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@ShawnUpchurch: "All governments have a social contract with individuals. It is called liberty. Some realize it sooner than others." ~@ShawnUpchurch

 
 
 
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

What's JayZ think re #Syria?

What's JayZ think re ? Thrust himself into issues on verdict What's rap's sage say now?



Uncle Tupelo - Train Lyrics A quarter after two
Sittin' in my car, watching
Waiting on a train
Ninety-seven flatcars
Loaded down with troop trucks and tanks
Rolling by

I'm twenty-one, and I'm scared as hell
I quit school, I'm healthy as a horse
Because of all that I'll be the first one to die in a war

The whole damn town was sleeping
Dreaming the same dream
The radio was playing
Roger McWilliams singing
"To each and every thing there's a time and a season

I'm twenty-one, and I'm scared as hell
I quit school, I'm healthy as a horse
Because of all that I'll be the first one to die in a war

Yes, I have the right to say
We all die anyway
But I'd just like to know
Where does my time go

A quarter after two
Sittin' in my car, watching
Waiting on a train
Ninety-seven flatcars
Loaded down with troop trucks and tanks
Rolling by

I'm twenty-one, and I'm scared as hell
I quit school, I'm healthy as a horse
Because of all that I'll be the first one to die in a war





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