Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Lubbock, Texas; Athens, Greece; Singapore, Singapore; Munich, Germany; Buffalo, New York; Morristown, New Jersey; Alexandria, Virginia; Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; New Orleans, Louisiana; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jamaica, New York; Quaregnon, Belgium; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Merseburg, Germany; Brisbane, Australia; Dorgaand Verkeer, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; Rne, Sweden; Wilmington, North Carolin; Los Angeles, California; Mobile, Alabama; Longwood, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; Saint Helens, UK; Guadalajara, Mexico; NYC, New York, and Fort Worth, Texas. Hundreds have visited over the week -- THANKS!
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 including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!
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: The Hockaday Museum of Art's Autumn Salon, with 116 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds gracing our walls. The Rape of Europa movie will be rescheduled -- what I saw of it was very compelling!
There are only 100 U.S. Senators out of a population that exceeds 300,000,000 -- I shook hands with both of mine last Saturday, and not for the first time. I imagine that there are people in large-population states who never actually see their elected officials, much less become acquainted with them by repeated meetings. Small can be beautiful!
Media Watch: I've never cared a lot for Mozart's Abduction from the Sergalio, so I didn't give it much attention on Montana Public Radio Saturday afternoon. Sunday morning was entirely different with extended performances by Moira Smiley and VOCO -- a first-rate vocal group who accompanied themselves with minimal instrumentation or sang acapella at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana. The sound engineering did not separate those beautiful voices from the distant-sounding ambience, although their instruments sounded close and clear. The power of their singing came across anyway, so I'm glad it was broadcast with all its live imperfections. The following show featured Guitar Royalty -- Spanish musicians Celin Romero and Pepe Romero for an hour.
Bollywood Movies: Bunty Aur Babli starring Abhishek Bachchan, his father Amitabh Bachchan, and the beautiful Rani Mukerji. New Bachchan family member Aishwarya Rai appeared as a cabaret dancer in a drunken hallucination scene featuring Daddy as a hard-drinking cop, with Sonny trying to keep up with him. The basic theme was modelled on Bonnie and Clyde, but it was much sillier, and very light in tone. The acting was generally very good -- how these actors manage to express their craft while telling such ridiculous stories astounds me. Rani Mukerji portrayed a very young woman with the right amount of apparent shallowness and increasing depth. Like many other Bollywood movie stars, she is gorgeous in the extreme, but she knows how to convince an audience that she is the person she is playing. Abhisheck was appropriately exuberant and energetic, plus his crafty old man brought out a human dimension in a rather two-dimensional role.
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