Bird migrations are coming through at a faster rate -- the damn Starlings are decimating our suet feeder, though, and the Pileated Woodpecker left in disgust yesterday. We are seeing and hearing Red Wing Blackbirds, Stellar's Jays, California Blue Jays, Canada Geese, Red Headed Ducks, and Goldeneye Ducks.

Some Funky pictures coming to: Theater X-Net

Featuring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution in March too! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Every Day Is Veteran's Day is now up in HuffPo's Contagious Festival. Click on Veteran's Day in the list, or try this link:
Front Line Poetry
(You need FLASH 8 to see the video.)

Media Watch: PURE GUILTY-PLEASURE TRASH -- Get Crazy (1983) from Alan Arkush, who made the excellent Rock N' Roll High School in 1979. (Arkush's The Temptations from 1998 isn't too bad, but not exactly factual either.) Ed Begley Jr, Fabian Forte, and Bobby Sherman are the villians in Get Crazy. Malcolm McDowell plays "Reggie Wanker," a jaded Rock Singer, Stacey Nelkin playe "Suzie," the little sister -- Lou Reed sings a song to her. There are so many cameos and bit players that it's easy to get lost. An actor named Bill Henderson plays a blues singer who tells God at his guitarist's funeral: If you don't make a place for him in Heaven, I'm gonna come up there and KICK YOUR ASS! The Turtles' great lead singer Howard Kaylan plays "Capt. Cloud," an acid guru, The Doors' John Densmore plays a drummer whose solo is so long that Reggie Wanker has time for an orgy in the dressing room. The artist Mary Woronov and her film-making partner Paul Bartel are all over the place too. There are more drug jokes than I could count, and some of them were even funny. There was a strange pimp-like character with glowing red dots instead of eyes showing under his broad-brimmed hat, distributing cocaine to the musicians, and spiking the water cooler with LSD. An obscure, sprawling L.A. group called Fear did a fast-punk version of Hoochie Coochie Man which was definitely OUT- THERE.
When Lou Reed is the most normal person in the movie, you've got a strange flick!


Joey Ramone (Jeff Hyman) stepped up and took over the wonderfully stupid and entertaining film on the left from actress P.J. Soles. (She actually handed it to him with glee.) The movie on the right is obviously a lot more vulgar, and it's stupidity often overpowers it's wit.