Gone So Long (remix)

Suite for Mingus I

Art Tatum - The Art Of Jazz Piano

Baby Steps

dustandgrooves

dustandgrooves

The Drugging of our Children

In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians, leaving little room for other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence, diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven.

Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first without making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate.

The Fifth and Sixth Dimensions Are Time-Like - Mathematician Suggests

Just as I always suspected...

Link

Tribute to Survivors of the Killing Fields

Very appropriate for John Lennon's birthday, as well as recent political and economic developments...

The Killing Fields

Max

I made some music inspired by 'Rushmore,' one of my favorites films.

Special thanks to Woob (Paul Frankland) for Odonna.

Sudden-death Academic Probation

The Machine is Us/ing Us

The Pre-Socratic Caveman

Distance

You can't make a movie with a cell phone...

Originally posted on my 'Postvisual Meditations' blog, I thought it might be a nice way to get things rolling in the new year...

Turn Away (1993)

Here's a live version of a song from the Longtime album entitled, 'Turn Away.' The song was written on guitar, but this is a rare performance by TMac on keyboard for 'Impressions," a local cable access show in 1993. And yes, that is a Rhodes - suitcase, even!


(Click on image to begin)

Archives

I've been recommending this resource to students and colleagues for about a year now, and was wondering why it wasn't more widely acknowledged.

The website features two of my favorite films:

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Horror Hotel

pas de deux

This movie was not made with a cell phone...

An[other] new art form?

Last week,
while working on my laptop,
I peripherally watched/listened...
to Napoleon Dynamite.

Although the film did not have...
my full attention,
I did notice a short piece of obscure dialogue...
that lingered in my mind.

Later,
I did a search on YouTube...
to see if anyone had posted the scene.
I couldn't find it.

But I did find this...

Repost: Works that exist only within the narratives of other works...

Over time, I've come to notice that I really enjoy works that only exist within the narrative of other works. Perhaps it has something to do with the potentiality implicit in art that is incomplete. The listener/viewer thus becomes a more active player in the creative process, and must imagine an entire work based on a series of tantalizing fragments.

Anyway, here is a list that is, appropriately enough, "in progress."
Feel free to post any others that come to my mind...

1. Springtime For Hitler (B'way Musical) (The Producers)

The famous (infamous) musical written for the stage by Franz Liebkind, and produced by Max Bialystock & Leo Bloom - as depicted in the film, "The Producers" (1968).

1a. Prisoners of Love (Musical) (The Producers)

After being convicted for overselling Springtime for Hitler to their investors, Bialystock, Bloom, & Liebkind are sent to prison where they stage a musical entitled, Prisoners of Love.

Max: We open in Leavenworth on Saturday night!

2. Kiss My Face (B'way Musical) (The Odd Couple)

In an episode from the TV series, "The Odd Couple" entitled, My Strife in Court (Episode # 66; Season #3; 1st aired: Friday 2/16/73), Kiss My Face is the "hottest show on Broadway" that everyone has been dying to see.

During the course of the episode, Felix's girlfreind Miriam (Elinor Donohue) attempts to convey her enthusiasm for the show by singing the title number. However, her excitement prevents her from finishing the chorus:

MIRIAM: And at the end, the entire cast came out and sang, "Kiss my nose, kiss my toes, kiss my..." - It was wonderful!

3. Bathtub (Off-off B'way play) (The Odd Couple)

In another episode from the TV series, "The Odd Couple" entitled, What Does a Naked Lady Say to You? (Episode #23, Season #1 1st aired: Friday 3/19/71), Felix's new girlfriend Madeleine tells him that she is a librarian. In reality, she is actually an actress in a nude off-off-Broadway play entitled, "Bathtub."


4. Season In Hell (LP) (Eddie & the Cruisers)

5. Hellebore (book of poems by Samson Shillitoe) (A Fine Madness)

6. Jerry (pilot for sitcom) (Seinfeld)

JERRY: You want to go with me to NBC?
GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.
JERRY: What do we got?
GEORGE: An idea.
JERRY: What idea?
GEORGE: An idea for the show.
JERRY: I still don't know what the idea is.
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: Right.
GEORGE: Everybody's doing something, we'll do nothing.
JERRY: So, we go into NBC, we tell them we've got an idea for a show about nothing.
GEORGE: Exactly.
JERRY: They say, "What's your show about?" I say, "Nothing."
GEORGE: There you go.
(A moment passes)
JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.

7. Rochelle, Rochelle (A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk) (Seinfeld)

Susan: So, what have you got there?
George: Oh, I, uh--
Susan: Oh, ``Rochelle, Rochelle''
George: It's a foreign movie... a *film*, is what it is, actually.
Susan: Yeah... A lot of nudity in that, huh?
George: No, no, no... Just a *tiny* bit... It's not even *frontal* nudity.
It's... *sidal* nudity...


8. Rochelle, Rochelle (Broadway musical) (Seinfeld)

[Bette's hospital room - Kramer enters]

Kramer: Hi, here. I made this for you. [gives her a pasta statue]
Bette: … What is it?
Kramer: It's macaroni Midler.
Bette: Macaroni Midler?
Kramer: Yeah, see how you're singing?
Bette: … yeah …ha ha. Well you made a long journey from Milan to Minsk.
Kramer: oh, what's that from?
Bette: Oh, that's one of the songs from my show. Bette sings:

"You made a long journey from Milan to Minsk, Rochelle Rochelle.
You never stopped hoping. now you're in the pinsk, Rochelle Rochelle
When the nay sayers nay you pick up your pace, you say -
"Nothing's going to stop me so get out of my face.
I'm having adventures all over the place, Rochelle ROCHELLE!""

Kramer: Oh You are so freaking talented.

9. Smell The Glove (LP - original cover art) (This Is Spinal Tap)

Southern rock promoter: I heard you boys got an album coming out.
David: Yeah, it should be out now, it's called Smell the Glove...yeah...yeah, yeah....
Extra: Smell the Glove? It's a provocative title.
David: Wait till you see the cover, wait till you see the cover, very provcative indeed.

9a. Smell The Glove (LP - revised cover art) (This Is Spinal Tap)

After learning that Polymer Records has vetoed the original artwork for "Smell The Glove," the band members dejectedly comment on the revision:

Ian: What do you think?
Derek: Is this the test pressing?
Ian: No, this is it, yes, that's right...
David: This is "Smell The Glove" by Spinal Tap....
Ian: That's "Smell The Glove" that's, that's the jacket cover, it's going out across the country in every store.
David: This is the compromise we made...this is the compromise you made?
Ian: Yes.
Derek: Is it going to say anything here, or here along the spine?
David: It's not going to say anything?
Ian: No, it's not going to say anything.
Nigel: It's going to be like this, all black...
Ian: No, it's going to be that simple, beautiful, classic! Does look a little bit like, you know, black leather...
Derek: You can see yourself in... both sides.
David: I feel so bad, I feel so bad about this...
Nigel: It's like a black mirror.
David: Well, I think it looks like death...it looks like mourning. I mean it looks...
Ian: David, David, every, every movie, in every cinema is about death; death sells!
Nigel: I think he's right, there is something about this, that's that's so black, it's like; "How much more black could this be?" and the answer is: "None, none... more black."

10. Meet Mitch & Mickey (LP) (A Mighty Wind)

Oh, when the veil of dreams has lifted
And the fairy tales have all been told
There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow
More precious than a pot of gold

11. Chunnel (film) (Seinfeld)

KRAMER: Chunnel's on HBO tonight. Why don't you stop by?

12. Death Blow (film) (Seinfeld)

Kramer: Death Blow - When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are, but for different reasons altogether.

13. Sack Lunch (film starring Dabney Coleman) (Seinfeld)

ELAINE: Oh, c'mon Blaine. I mean, look at the poster for Sack Lunch.
BLAINE: It's a family in a brown paper bag.
ELAINE: (laughing) Don't you wanna know how they got in there?
BLAINE: No.


14. The Galloping Ghost of Mystery Gulch (film) (The Honeymooners)

15. Salambo (opera) (Citizen Kane)

16. Rimsky (epic novel by Russian author, Yuri Testikov) (Seinfeld)

JERRY: Oh! Rimsky -- great great book if I may say so sir. I almost read the whole thing.


17. Saucy Jack (Rock Opera) (This Is Spinal Tap)

David: Do you remember what we were...do you remember the time?
Derek: At the Luton...at the Luton Palace...
David: Yes.
Derek: We were talking about a rock musical based on the life of Jack the Ripper...
David: Yeah,'Saucy Jack.'
Derek: Right.'Saucy Jack.' Now's the time to do that.
David: "Saucy Jack, you're a naughty one, Saucy Jack, you're a haughty one, Saucy Jack."


18. Red, White, & Blaine (Musical Play) (Waiting For Guffman)

19. Westechester Furioso (Broadway Musical) (Bob & Ray)

20. Ponce de Leon (film) Seinfeld

21. Films mentioned in Get Shorty (1995):

- The Cyclone (starring Martin Weir)
- Bonaparte (starring Martin Weir)
- Ride The Clouds (starring Martin Weir)
- Mr. Lovejoy (unproduced)
- Grotesque
- Grotesque II (starring Karen Flores)
- Slime Creature I, II, & III (starring Karen Flores)
- Freaks (unproduced)
- Bride of the Mutant (starring Karen Flores)

22. Mountain High (Action Adventure Film) (Seinfeld)

KRAMER: Hewwo and welcome to Movie phone. Brought to you by the New York Times and Hot 97. Coming to theaters this Friday ... Kevin Bacon, Susan Sarandon -- “You've got to get me over that mountain!” “Now” [bang, bang] “AHHHHHHHHHH” There is no place higher than ... Mountain High. Rated R. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press 1.

23. The Amazing Mrs. Bainbridge

A film seen by one of the characters (E.G. Marshall) in "12 Angry Men" (1957). "The Amazing Mrs. Bainbridge" starred Barbara Long, an attractive brunette.

Merry Christmas

Another teaser of sorts for an upcoming post...

This version of the popular holiday hymn was recorded at home on a Yamaha 4-track cassette deck.

Best wishes for a very happy time at Christmas, and a good, fortunate, lucky New Year...and a good time to be had by all.

TMac

Go Tell It On The Mountain

Fun with 4 tracks...

A teaser for an upcoming post: track 2
from the Longtime CD. It's amazing what
you can do with a 4-track.

All instruments and vocals by TMac.

Enjoy...

Fascist Fingers