HELLO Dublin! (I had an email from there this morning.) The rapidly-waxing moon brought out a whole lot of furry creatures last night -- it seemed my cats said MAOWWW! to every one of them. Gawddam range and forest fires are getting worse, and so is the air.

NEW LAYOUT! Footbarn 35 at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Look for the NEW main-page link to Footsbarn Theatre

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Autumn chases toward us! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: It's the first day of classes at Flathead Valley Community College. All slackers report for duty! Uhh -- sometime, whatever... (Note: staff and faculty may be included in this classification.)

Media Watch: I'm reading The Story of English, with Robert McNeil as co-author/editor. They say many nice things about the contributions of Irish speakers and writers to the language. The chapter on Black English may be a generation old, but the big cities continue to exert major influences on speech -- I notice now that Spanish linguistics show up in modern Hip Hop.
Speaking of amazing Black American wordsmiths -- I got a message from one of the field's master practitioners -- Ronald (Stozo Da' Klown) Edwards, of P-Funk fame, sent a reply to an old post of mine. His news is new, though, and those links work:
Uncle Hyphy said...
Thanks Mike E!
Yo Pal The Infamous Stozo The Clown
keep up wit da klown!
"The Musical Adventure Of Stozo The Clown and a New DigiDonz are
comming to town ...one day soon
so...stay toon!
www.myspace.com/stozo
www.myspace.com/thedigidonz
The past post quoted a review of his very fine Digi Donz CD:
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!
Stozo is also a REAL clown -- in fact he's the real deal all around, which brings us to his soulmates across the Atlantic...

Your Footsbarn Picture For Today!


Mareike Schmiller and Pierre Byland are anything but neutral in "Masque Neutrale" during Confusion, a homage to the late theatrical master Jacques Lecoq, founder of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where the core of Footsbarn was trained.