Month: September 2018

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Dreaming The Beatles: The Love Story Of One Band And The Whole World

Thanks to Fat Elvis for bringing this to my attention. So far, so good.

NPR Best Book of 2017

Winner of the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism

“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.

Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up?

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The Shining Set To Music

Who is Pogo, you may ask?

Pogo (Nick Bertke) is a music producer and remix artist based in Perth, Western Australia. His music has garnered over 110 million plays on YouTube and integration with many major studios and agencies around the world. Pogo also takes his work on the road having performed at the Guggenheim Museum, The Highline Ballroom and in most major cities across North America.

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The Public Image Is Rotten

Thanks to Renfield for the heads-up on this documentary. I would love to see it in the theater but it’s not looking likely.

After the breakup of the Sex Pistols, John Lydon / Johnny Rotten, formed Public Image Ltd (PiL)– his groundbreaking band which has lived on nearly 15 times as long as his first one. He kept the band alive ever since, through personnel and stylistic changes, fighting to constantly reinvent new ways of approaching music, while adhering to radical ideals of artistic integrity. John Lydon has not only redefined music, but also the true meaning of originality.

Former and current bandmates, as well as fellow icons like Flea, Ad-Rock and Thurston Moore, add testimony to electrifying archival footage (including stills and audio from the infamous Ritz Show). With his trademark acerbic wit and unpredictable candor, Lydon offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of music’s most influential and controversial careers.

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More Nerd Shit

Check this out, an even bigger nerd than I is painting an entire series of Moebius Models based on characters from the Batman TV show. He’s done Catwoman, Penguin, The Riddler, and this one. When he’s finished the complete set, all the bases will fit together to form Batman’s symbol. Nerdgasm!

As always, enjoy or don’t.

YouTube shortcut keys are as follows: J rewinds 10 seconds, K pauses, and L fast-forwards 10 seconds. This guy’s a talker, so you’ll use that last one a lot.

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The Predator

I’m fired up to see this big, dumb, loud B-movie this weekend.

Who’s in?

From the outer reaches of space to the backwoods of southern Georgia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before. And only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biology professor can prevent the end of the human race.