:: Friday, July 29, 2005 ::

"Walk The Line" trailer is now available - Joaquin lacks Johnny's wideness of face but some of the voice is quite good. Reese actually looks great as June. High hopes, I hope.

:: from Bullette at 6:37 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBARA!!

:: from Bullette at 9:36 AM

I've seen Alex Chilton perform twice - in Philly I saw him rockstar-ishly leave with the girl a 1/3 his age who had flung herself at him all night. That said - BIG STAR is coming out with a new album in the fall - first studio album since 1978.

:: from Bullette at 6:17 AM

No one took my offer to shovel their driveways for airplay - I guess 'cause it's still summer....Payola alive and well.....

:: from Bullette at 6:57 AM

Adults Only Please: Might I recommend a film I saw over the weekend? Keeping up the front by being filed in the documentary section, "Video X" is the "lost" videotape of Dwayne and Darla Jean as they crime spree their way to Little River.

:: from Bullette at 6:14 AM

I don't own an iPod or portable MP3 player and supposedly "Eighty-seven percent are unfamiliar with podcasting, which lets everyday users distribute audio files over the Internet for playback any time on computers or digital music players." -- BUT FYI -- "Your Eyes Have It" was featured in Podsafeaudio.com's Till Death Do Us Pod yesterday.

:: from Bullette at 6:55 AM

Like a few people I know, I got sucked into the "Crash the Trailer" viral ad for Wedding Crashers movie - for extra fun you should add and subtract to the number on the URL and see other folk's attempts: http://www.weddingcrashersmovie.com/crashthistrailer/index.htm?id=72942

:: from Bullette at 5:43 PM

Brother Danielson - Woven Hand - July 15, 2005
Philadelphia Ethical Society, Philadelphia, PA

New Photos - This was a great show - BD hawked items like blinders so you wouldn't stray and check out unwanted purchases and directed sing alongs, clap alongs, and snap alongs. DEE of Woven Hand raised the hairs on many a neck with dirges and verses and a vengeful faith.

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"I Can't Tell You Why I'm Smiling" has been downloaded 4,881 times from my site!

:: from Bullette at 6:39 AM

Won't some Prefix staff member save BULLETTE's cd from the pile of 1,738 CDs available for review at the publisher's apartment? Original artwork put together with my own two hands! Maybe even a few fingerprints or stray strands of hair trapped between the layers.

:: from Bullette at 9:41 AM

Delusions of Adequacy doesn't seem to think I'm lazy...

"...it's clear that Monika Bullette is an inspired purveyor of psychedelic pop, despite the odd fact that her lengthy list of influences is decidedly light on the psych side. No matter, her seemingly voracious appetite for music and art (not to mention her decade-long persistence in the Delaware scene) makes one feel guilty for all that time spent just sitting around the house. And whatever artists she draws from come out sounding like the work of an individual.

But it's still the unpredictable psychedelia of guys like Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean from 60s heroes Love that Secrets initially recalls, albeit a slightly more whimsical variety. Monika and cohort Hangnail Phillips (who helped pen the excellent “Don't Start Believin'”) aren't afraid to kick up some noise either, lacing many of these tracks with scabrous guitars, screeching violins, and a variety of odd sounds. Deeper into Secrets strange lullabies like “Uneasy” and the dreamlike “We Are Not From Sugar” tap different veins of expression. No, not every track here is a winner - could do without the P.J. Harvey sludge of “Lemonade” - but they are all driven foremost by a sense of exploration and experimentation." - full review - Thanks Chuck!

:: from Bullette at 6:01 AM

Horripilation - New Hair Removal Innovation from Marilyn Manson! Watching MM's new films "will horrify the hair off of your legs."

:: from Bullette at 9:08 AM

I'm lazy! - no post yet today but thankfully Mystical Beast and Largehearted Boy are spreading rumors of my disinclinations.

:: from Bullette at 6:17 AM

Live on Scott Birney's 91.3 WVUD with Hangnail Phillips - Cole Porter/Marlene Dietrich song from the Hitchcock film "Stage Fright" - featured in today's Coverville

:: from Bullette at 6:50 AM

In Art news - one of my favorite artists has his own museum now - Paul Klee in Bern - a beautiful undulating building I will someday visit.

:: from Bullette at 6:23 AM

Who gets the muhhhney?? "Such Great Heights" commercial use dissected.

:: from Bullette at 6:47 PM

Bullette is featured in Philly Feed #10 - The Philadelphia Daily News' podcast - nice intro and a showing of I Can't Tell You Why I'm Smiling. Right after the Comics and the Sports.

"This week, the DN pod people talk with comic book expert and DN freelancer Jerome Maida about why it seems more and more comics are showing up as movies. On the Sports Spotlight, Josh Barnett sorts out the Phillies prospects for the rest of the season, and we also feature new music from local musician Monika Bullette." Thanks Frank!

:: from Bullette at 6:24 AM

My hopes and thoughts go out to London.

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I have written about Wayne White before but here are some more of his paintings.

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"literary brilliance and musical atrociousness"
And if there isn't anything more affirming than a good review it is a spectacular "bad" review! ---

[Self] - from pied-a-terre:


We know what love can do without
It grows upon a glance alone
A tired wink, a lean into
An ancient tale that's ever new

The second time is sweeter still
We know what's there and it can tear
As easily as once before
Dead hopes renewed to mock us more

Bullette - From What Love Can Do Without

What beautiful lyrics, duncha think? You can actually download the entire album FOR FREE over here. They are the latest 'it' band in the MP3 Blogosphere, with a whole myriad of them falling over themselves singing the band's praises.

As for me, I actually hated the album, panning it for an upcoming Think review. So, the lyrics may be poetic and great, but the music is jarringly bad, borderline atonal even. The Secrets seems to be an album filled with spoken word performances that juxtapose and combines literary brilliance and musical atrociousness to send some kind of maddening pretentious bi-polar statement that I can't quite discern.

Please download it and be the judge then.

:: from Bullette at 11:48 AM

the key of Grrrrr - - -
The voice is suspiciously like Garrison Keillor's and check out the deer's antlers....

:: from Bullette at 6:28 PM

Is nothing sacred? (Pt. 2) - Brad's brush with painter

BRAD Pitt is being lined up to star in a new movie about the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, according to The New York Post. The film would be a remake of the 1956 film Lust For Life. The original earned Kirk Douglas an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the painter.

The new film will be directed by Ron Howard, the man behind movies including A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and Parenthood. According to the New York Post, Ron feels putting Brad in the lead role will give his version "a new angle." (via The Sun UK)

ugh - and I'm a fan of "Lust for Life" and "Vincent and Theo" and haystacks in general... this is almost as bad as Jude Law playing Ian Curtis... (or is he?)

I'm interested in art restoration/conservation - you might be too after reading this article - Museums Use New Tools to Fix Old Works.

:: from Bullette at 6:49 AM

On May 5th 2005 Bullette's "The Secrets" was released FOR FREE on the Internets. 2 months later and the full album zip has almost 2,000 downloads!

Thanks for your continued support - A new song from the WVUD radio performance will be available very soon.

:: from Bullette at 6:17 AM

SB says "Watch Your Fingers!".

:: from Bullette at 6:06 AM

"He was convinced that if you would just encounter his paintings, that emotion would be communicated to you with absolute clarity. So to achieve this he painted very large. Because in a small painting – big you, little painting – you can control it. But with a large painting, it controls you. You’re taken into it. Unless of course you look at it from a distance, that killing, assessing look. So to combat that, he insisted that always the light be very dim, so you couldn’t actually see the thing until you were right up against it. And then something does begin to happen. He painted with very thin mists of paint, feathering it on, breathing it on. And you are taken up, out of yourself, into something greater, something transcendent and majestic. If you can think of a religious painting without religion, this is what you experience here. It’s so timeless, that when I’ve had this encounter, I feel to return to the world of time, I have to shake my head and bring myself down to earth again." - Sister Wendy on Rothko

This is a very thoughtful askimefi post on Rothko and his painting. I was bowled over by the Rothko room in the Tate Modern. Simply lovely and overwhelming. Yesterday at the library I picked up a exhibition book on Calder/Miro - another winner.

:: from Bullette at 6:48 AM

NOoooooo! - Sandra Day O'Connor leaving Supreme Court

:: from Bullette at 10:54 AM

"Show Me" and "Your Eyes Have It" were played on WEVL "Music Lovers" show - Memphis, TN on June 23rd and June 9th respectively. Thanks Hayden!

Did I mention that Hangnail Phillips' album is now available for free download?

:: from Bullette at 6:27 AM