Sunday, February 03, 2008

A little snow overnight. More Raccoons at Dry Bridge Slough.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Jamaica, New York and Hamburg, Germany.

ROCK against Reaganomics at: Theater X-Net




Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
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!
NEW --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics!





Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art is involved with the upcoming Artist to Artist Brown Bag Lunch at Flathead Valley Community College's new Arts & Technology Building, Room 144 on February 13, March 12, and April 9 Noon to 1:30 PM.
Check out Fall for Glacier -- a fundraiser for several programs that make Glacier National Park even better.

Media Watch: Super Bowl XLII (42) was a real competitive slugfest! The New York Giants were a few steps faster and a touch more lucky than the New England Patriots, winning by three points. The prolific, but somewhat derivative Tom Petty $ The Heartbreakers performed at halftime.

(Cross-posted from the P-Funk Boardroom)
I happened to stumble on one of these competition shows that saturate the media nowadays. This one exploited the grassroots "dance crew" movement that still plows on -- long after it came to light in the 70's as 'break dancing.'
The show itself wasn't too bad -- it was mostly young people doing their routines, but one act stood out for me on a whole other level than dancing:
A San Diego group called "Jabberwocky" consisted of six guys who all wore white masks, and featured isolation moves. In other words, I saw a half dozen Bucketheads, without KFC hats.
Their act was pretty damn good too -- they had their reasons for the masks, and were nearly Cirque de Soliel in quality. I hope that our mystery West Coast funky firehose guitarist is pleased by them.
If you want to see them for yourselves, take a look at MTV and search for the names Mario Lopez and Randy Jackson. I'm not exactly recommending a show that I can't remember the name of, but there's some funky culture there that someone else may find interesting.


William (Bootsy) Collins and Brian (Buckethead) Carroll
(Click to see a slightly larger image.)
There is also an unidentified event hostess, and my friend Bernie Worrell (inset), who often plays with Bootsy and Buckethead in the group Praxis.

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