Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Madrid, Spain; Bedford, New Hampshire; Jamaica, New York; Montreal, Quebec; Columbia Falls, Montana; Bloomington, Indiana; Spokane, Washington; Houston, Texas; Yokohama, Japan; Wetzlar, Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; Belmont, Wisconsin; Birmingham, Alabama; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Hermosillo, Mexico; Louth, Ireland; Charlotte, North Carolina; Aliso Viejo, California; New York, New York; Theodore, Alabama; City of London, England (Neighborhood next to the Bloody Tower); Seattle, Washington; Hayward, California; Tujunga, California (My theater company stayed there in the 70's); Tracy, California; Orland Park, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Alpena, Arkansas; Tolland, Connecticut and Calgary, Alberta.
Check out 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.
Many 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: Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.
In The Community: Current shows at the Hockaday Museum of Art include Rails, Trails, and A Road -- honoring the 75th Anniversary of Going To The Sun Road in Glacier National Park, plus Ace Powell -- Ace of Diamonds and Native American Interpretations from our permanent collection.
My road trip to Lewistown and Chester, Montana is set -- Nancy Cawdrey's American Silk Road tour will move along next Sunday.
Dr. Steve Running from the University of Montana spoke at my little community college to lead off our Green Committee's Climate Change series. Dr. Running shared a Nobel Prize with Al Gore -- along with 600 other writers and umpteen editors.
His graphs were scary -- things have been getting MUCH worse since the 80's on many "fronts." (gallows humor) He brought up ONE optimistic point -- even though hearing the scientific data often causes despair, people might do well to remember how science and technology revolutionized communications, and hopefully could do the same for energy.
The full-house audience asked some very thoughtful questions, but there were a couple of agenda-driven loudmouths on hand. Luckily the ol' professor knew how to handle willfully-ignorant hecklers, and the organizer disarmed them with niceness before they wasted any more time. There's another Climate Change lecture on Tuesday night, and at least four more after that.
Media Watch: What good are circuses without bread? This serious economic crisis brought out the worst in the crooks who made this mess. I hope last Friday's televised presidential debate motivated concerned voters to reject McShame and his miserable cronies -- who have nothing to offer except lies and more theivery. His tactics of interfering in recent crises without power, or even qualifications, has been counter-productive to say the least. Trying to weasel out of these public debates so he can interfere some more, although he's expressly unwelcome in the circles making decisions, is insulting in the extreme. One of McShame's major puppet-masters, or so-called advisors, is Phil Gramm -- who provoked the most severe meltdown since the Great Depression with his kleptomaniac legislation, and called his country "a nation of whiners" when things began to fall apart.
Now for something completely different -- Phillip Glass' opera Appomattox had some beautiful musical passages, but was more like a lecture than a work of art. I enjoyed hearing it on Montana Public Radio, but I was doing other things. The choral pieces caught my attention more than anything else. The somewhat-turgid Hayden and Handel operas from the 1700's have been beating contemporary works on the air this year. Les Miserables proved that modern music can create High Art, so today's composers are NOT inherently limited by the form. There's room at the top, boys and girls -- go for it!
Ch-ch-changes: Actor Paul Newman passed away from cancer at 83. He once said that he'd rather be remembered for his philanthropy than his movies, but he DID make a number of memorable films (and some dreadful dogs). He led a GOOD life -- RIP.
Songwriter/Producer Norman Whitfield died without reaching seventy (diabetes) -- his list of accomplishments is astounding --
* 1963: "Pride & Joy" - Marvin Gaye
* 1964: "Too Many Fish in the Sea" - The Marvelettes
* 1964: "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" - The Velvelettes
* 1966: "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" - Temptations
* 1966: "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" - Temptations
* 1966: "(I Know) I'm Losing You" - Temptations
* 1967: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
* 1967: "I Wish It Would Rain" - Temptations
* 1968: "Cloud Nine" - Temptations
* 1969: "Runaway Child, Running Wild" - Temptations
* 1969: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" - Marvin Gaye
* 1969: "I Can't Get Next to You" - Temptations
* 1969: "Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down" - Temptations
* 1970: "Psychedelic Shack" - Temptations
* 1970: "Ball of Confusion" - Temptations
* 1970: "War" - Edwin Starr
* 1971: "Smiling Faces Sometimes" - The Undisputed Truth
* 1971: "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" - Temptations
* 1972: "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" - Temptations
* 1976: "Car Wash" - Rose Royce
Whitfield also co-wrote with Barrett (Money) Strong, and supported the great Junior Walker in his later career.
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