July 31st, 2007 05:23pm
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Sonoma Valley Film Festival director and debutante film producer
Brenda Lhormer isn’t sure if she’s in the “pinch-me-am-I-dreaming” phase or “be
careful what you wish for.”
Shooting is underway for “Bottle Shock” – the new film
about the 1976 blind tasting that put California wines on the
map, forever recast by foodies and cork dorks as The Judgement of Paris. It
stars Alan Rickman (see pic, what would Severus Snape drink?), Freddy Rodriguez (last seen …
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July 30th, 2007 02:46pm
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As a tribute to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who died today at the
age of 89, I’m trying to conjure in my mind the classic scene in “The Seventh Seal”
when Max von Sydow plays chess with Death.
It’s on a rocky beach. It’s shadowy black-and-white creepy. It’s a classic.
But what keeps coming up is Bill and Ted playing Twister
(and Battleship and Clue) with Death in “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.” (Ted: “Dude, …
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July 25th, 2007 03:45pm
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approximate listening time: 1:47
New music arrives every Tuesday. But days
and weeks fly by and you forget what just dropped, what sucked, what rawked,
what might be the soundtrack to your life.
Here’s a chance to dwell on a few tunes that came out this
week:(click blue to listen)
Sum 41 / “Underclass
Hero”If only we could declare pop-punk dead. But alas My
Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy keep notching installments on “Cribs.” So …
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July 24th, 2007 06:08pm
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There was a scene recently on “General Hospital” (if you’re a lifer and you’ve seen every episode since 1963, bear with me) where Dr. Noah Drake and his son Patrick argue over who is better suited to treat ailing ’80s rocker Eli Love (no relation to Courtney).
It’s enough to make you pine for a gurney.
But take a closer look at Love and you start to realize he is in fact …
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July 23rd, 2007 06:39pm
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estimated viewing/reading time: 7:28
1. While rotting away in an American prison, if you decided one day to recreate the video to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” during recess in the yard, you’d probably get shanked. Or start a riot.
But in the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines, highly choreographed dance routines are a way of life for all 1,500 inmates. Note the word “Rehabilitation” in the title. …
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July 20th, 2007 09:09pm
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While drinking a $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon at Nick’s Cove
yesterday, I tried to recreate, in my mind, the scene in the 2001 movie “Bandits” when Billy
Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis fight over Cate Blanchett and crash through the
giant plate-glass window overlooking Tomales Bay (at the old Nick’s Cove) and
land in a pile of fresh kelp.
It’s a little hard when you’re surrounded by enough animal
heads to rival Andresen’s. Everywhere you look …
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July 17th, 2007 06:50pm
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A few weeks ago, Rufus Wainwright, the warbling pop balladeer who gave us “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” took a shot at Her Beyonce,
telling Spin that “All of her songs are formulaic and produced in a way that’s
utterly mesmerizing in the basest way. There’s no enlightenment. Like most
mainstream pop these days, it’s more of a scientific experiment than an
artistic experience. But hey, it’s your life, you know?”
Every blogger and housewife picked …
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July 11th, 2007 07:17pm
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approximate listening time: 2:47
New music comes out every Tuesday. But days
and weeks fly by and you forget what just dropped, what sucked, what rawked,
what might be the soundtrack to your life.
Here’s a chance to dwell on a few tunes that came out this
week:(click blue to listen)
Gogol Bordello / Super Taranta!
The gypsy-punk posterboys (easily one of the best live bands
around today) stir the global pot again with Balkan folkie music …
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July 11th, 2007 02:59am
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Still marinating in reverb, Chris Isaak makes his Rodney Strong debut this weekend.
Rather than looking for your reflection in his mirror-ball suit, let’s just flash back to what is quite possibly the sexiest video ever on MTV:
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July 10th, 2007 03:48pm
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Bands move to music towns (insert: Nashville,
Seattle, L.A.)
and they either make it or cave in to a life of record-store clerkships and short-order
cookery.
For The Mother Truckers, Austin was that town.
Singer Teal Collins and guitarist Josh Zee met at a local
blues jam in San Rafael
in the late ’90s. Something clicked. She had a thing for the uke. He had a
thing for the road, touring Europe and Japan and doing the Vans …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
