:: Thursday, May 08, 2008 ::

Can't believe it has been 3 years!!

:: from Bullette at 3:39 PM

I've had trouble getting into my blog...
The Sky Drops have a new video for "Hang On" and we'll be on tour most of November.
Check it out here: theskydrops.com

:: from Bullette at 8:11 PM

Been around the world and i, i, i, i ---- okay, only around the Midwest. It was hectic and fun and The Sky Drops were happy to learn that there are all sorts of nice people still around!

The Sky Drops are playing more East Coast shows until July 5-7 where we will be exploring the Southern California terrain again - most notably the CLEAN AIR, CLEAR STARS festival! We're working on some awesome new songs, a new t-shirt design, booking some more shows, a video, and recording the album!

Here's some more proof that David Bowie is still pretty darn cool -

"The Webbys held their 11th Annual award presentation ceremony, for which winners were limited to five-word acceptance speeches. Bowie, accepting his award, said: "I only get five words?", then continued: "S***, that was five. Four more there. That's three," before finishing up with: "Two," and then exiting."

:: from Bullette at 10:34 AM

The Sky Drops have finalized their So-Cal tour - 2 shows in LA, 1 in San Diego, and 1 in Las Vegas!!
Check it out.

:: from Bullette at 2:13 PM

I've been posting on my myspace lately - check it out.

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J'adore Dior - beautiful beautiful beautiful!!! more here

:: from Bullette at 10:38 PM

I like this man's work:
Gregory Blackstock

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Last minute ideas for Monika presents:
On Off Switch
Mega Sticky Paper
Malfi
TAK
Girard Clown Doll
Scissors

:: from Bullette at 3:00 PM

Read Week Forty Nine - myspace.com/bullette - Fun Homes

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Tom Waits on the Daily Show

:: from Bullette at 12:20 PM

Nice idea for tax deductible charity - DonorsChoose -
Program allowing teachers to propose any project that would delight and benefit students. Viewers can read proposals and decide if they want to fund a project.

:: from Bullette at 8:35 PM

Read Week Forty Eight - myspace.com/bullette - Expressions

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Read Week Forty Seven - myspace.com/bullette - She's a Woman, You Know What I Mean

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Guardian Unlimited's "The works of art that matter most" - accepting entries...

:: from Bullette at 6:14 AM

Nicely put Zadie!

Zadie Smith on the practice of reading from an interview on KCRW's Bookworm program:

But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, "I should sit here and I should be entertained." And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.

Link

:: from Bullette at 5:47 PM

Read Week Forty Six - myspace.com/bullette - The Queens

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Nice Cave's New Band - Grinderman

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Read Week Forty Five - myspace.com/bullette - Blk Angls

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What I want for Christmas - Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus

• ALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938), Sergei Eisenstein • ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), Andrzej Wajda • L'AVVENTURA (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni • BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (1959), Grigori Chukhrai • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946), Jean Cocteau • BLACK ORPHEUS (1959), Marcel Camus • BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), David Lean • THE FALLEN IDOL (1948), Carol Reed • FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959), Kon Ichikawa • FISTS IN THE POCKET (1965), Marco Bellocchio • FLOATING WEEDS (1959), Yasujiro Ozu • FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952), René Clement • THE 400 BLOWS (1959), François Truffaut • GRAND ILLUSION (1937), Jean Renoir • HÄXAN (1922), Benjamin Christensen • IKIRU (1952), Akira Kurosawa • THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952), Anthony Asquith • IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II (1958), Sergei Eisenstein • LE JOUR SE LÈVE (1939), Marcel Carné • JULES AND JIM (1962), François Truffaut • KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949), Robert Hamer • KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962), Roman Polanski • THE LADY VANISHES (1938), Alfred Hitchcock • THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • LOVES OF A BLONDE (1965), Milos Forman • M (1931), Fritz Lang • M. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953), Jacques Tati • MISS JULIE (1951), Alf Sjöberg • PANDORA'S BOX (1929), G.W. Pabst • PÉPÉ LE MOKO (1937), Jean Duvivier • IL POSTO (1961), Ermanno Olmi • PYGMALION (1938), Anthony Asquith • RASHOMON (1950), Akira Kurosawa • RICHARD III (1955), Laurence Olivier • THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939), Jean Renoir • SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), Akira Kurosawa • THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957), Ingmar Bergman • THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973), Víctor Erice • LA STRADA (1954), Federico Fellini • SUMMERTIME (1955), David Lean • THE THIRD MAN (1949), Carol Reed • THE 39 STEPS (1935), Alfred Hitchcock • UGETSU (1953), Kenji Mizoguchi • UMBERTO D. (1952), Vittorio De Sica • THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960), Ingmar Bergman • VIRIDIANA (1961), Luis Buñuel • THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953), Henri-Georges Clouzot • THE WHITE SHEIK (1952), Federico Fellini • WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957), Ingmar Bergman • THREE DOCUMENTARIES: THE GREAT CHASE (1962), THE LOVE GODDESSES (1965), and PAUL ROBESON: TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST (1979), Saul J. Turell

:: from Bullette at 5:22 AM

Other Holiday Gift Ideas for Monika:

Any McQueen moto from this auction

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Read Week Forty Four - myspace.com/bullette - Seltzer

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Happy Halloween!

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Read Week Forty Three - myspace.com/bullette - Russel with one L

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Read Week Forty Two - myspace.com/bullette - Emer'gen-C

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