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Song of the Day #831
Song
of the Day: Get
Down, words and music by Todd
Terry, C. Gonzalez, C. Sosa, T.
McDonald, and C. Ryden, is a fierce house track of the Todd Terry All
Stars, featuring Kenny
Dope, DJ
Sneak, Terry
Hunter, and Tara
McDonald (who sings on the track). I first heard this club burner on Party
105.3, my favorite dance music station (broadcasting from Long
Island, New York). Listen to various remixes of this hot dance cut here, here, here,
and here.
And check out an excerpt of Tara
McDonald's performance on her MySpace page.
Song of the Day #830
Song
of the Day: Looking
for You features the words and music of Kirk
Franklin, with a classic sample taken from "Haven't
You Heard" (audio clip at that link), written by Patrice
Rushen, C. Mims, S. Brown, and F. Washington. This is one of those
rousing gospel-inflected songs of thanks. If you're not religious, it still
makes you want to go to church! Whether or not you're turned on by the lyrics,
the music is divine. Listen to an audio clip here.
And a Happy
Thanksgiving to all!
Good Luck, David Bianculli
David Bianculli, whose insightful columns for the New York Daily News I've
long read with interest and enjoyment, is moving on to cyberspace and National
Public Radio.
Take a look at his final column here.
Best of luck to you! Thanks for many years of "Extra" special reading!
Posted by chris at 07:55 AM | Permalink | Comments
(2) | Posted to Film
/ TV / Theater Review
I've always enjoyed David Bianculli's reviews on Fresh Air.
Posted by: Mick Russell | November
6, 2007 01:53 AM
Me too, Mick!
BTW, the DAILY NEWS still has some great reviewers and columnists, like David
Hinckley, Richard Huff, etc. I've been enjoying their recent reviews as well.
Posted by: Chris
Matthew Sciabarra | December
2, 2007 06:39 PM
Space Times Square
My friend and colleague, Barry
Vacker, has written and directed a new short film, Space
Times Square, which was shot entirely from the streets of Times
Square, New York. It's an entertaining and enjoyable odyssey with stunning
cinematography (for which Barry was also partially responsible) and electronic
music that will engage your senses, and thought-provoking philosophical touches
that will engage your mind. My hearty congratulations to my pal for a job well
done (and remember me when you get the Oscar nomination for "Best Documentary,
Short Subject"). Loved it!
The film is narrated by Jamie Lee, and is punctuated by various epigrams from
the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, Marshall McLuhan, Camille Paglia, William Gibson,
Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Jean Baudrillard, and Brian Greene. For those
familiar with Barry's use of epigrams in various essays, it'll make you feel as
if you're reading one of his articles, accompanied by striking visuals and an
ambient electronic score.
The sights and sounds of Times Square are featured in a 24-minute trip through
an "expanding material universe" and an "expanding media universe," an adventure
in "real space and cyber space." As the film synopsis puts it:
Filmed entirely from the streets of Times Square, Space Times Square is a
meditative journey through the mediated cosmos of Times Square. Drawing from
Jean-Paul Sartre and Marshall McLuhan, the film theorizes Times Square as a
microcosm of the electronic big bang -- an expanding media cosmos of voids and
nothingnesses, image and information, entertainment and inquisition, iPod people
and hive-minds, flash mobs and flat-screens, black holes and vanishing points.
Times Square is a galaxy in the global media cosmos, where the circuits of
cyberspace converge with the constellations of outer space. Written and directed
by Barry Vacker, the film is accompanied by poetic narration and an original
musical score by New York musician Brett
Sroka.
The film gets its first public screening this week in Philadelphia at the 2007
International Digital Media Arts Conference (iDMAa), which takes
place from November 7th through November 10th, 2007. During the four-day
conference, the documentary will be screened with several other films each hour
as part of an exhibition of digital artworks and films called "Beyond
Boundaries, iDEAS 07." It takes place at the Fuel
Collection art gallery at 249 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(215-592-8400), on Thursday and Friday, November 8-9, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm, and on
Friday, November 9, 7:30 am - 9:00 pm (for more on the schedule, see here).
You can take a look at the film's hi-resolution trailer at the website or
a low-resolution trailer on Youtube.
Enjoy!
Posted by chris at 07:40 AM | Permalink |
Posted to Film
/ TV / Theater Review
Homonograph Available Again!
By an arrangement with the publisher, my "homonograph," Ayn
Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation, is finally available
at Amazon.com at a price that is considerably lower than those $46.95 or $59.95
collectible copies being sold on that site by used booksellers.
For those who are interested in learning more about the homonograph, check out
the homo home page here,
along with a listing of its table
of contents and various reviews.
Point your browser to the book cover below and click yourself over to
Amazon.com:
Posted by chris at 06:25 PM | Permalink | Comments
(2) | Posted to Periodicals | Rand
Studies | Sexuality
I lost the copy you sent me ages ago. You'll have to sign another and send it my
way! I'll pay you, if you'd like.
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Posted by: Venus
Cassandra (Sweet Nick to Chris ( : ) | November
3, 2007 10:13 PM
Just let me know if you need a copy, Venus! We'll arrange it!
Posted by: Chris
Matthew Sciabarra | December
2, 2007 06:37 PM