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2005-03-01
ok. up pretty early tues morning
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burkeizoid beat me though.
not sure what crazy ass time he was up.
tonite fancy sushi i think.
not $1000 for two people fancy likeumetaro though.
i bought another pair of shoes yesterday.
tho they're a bit large, they were only 20$
the size says 6 but they feel like 7s.
i shouldnt have gotten them dammit.
now i have 2 pairs of pink shoes that are a touch too large.
shit. maybe I will just drag them with me to europe anyways.
...find a home for them on someone else's feet.
anna_phobia ? what size you wear?
grrr
burkeizoid says he's not feeling the science museum today.
that means no part 2 of the von hagens show.
this is my only day off for the rest of the trip except for sat
(weekend & museum = caca)
today his bday so i guess i'll see what he wants to do.
was asked to perform at the FetishEvolution in Essen.
wondering about pay though.
another shoot locked in.
no more shooting dates for Essen
another shoot locked in for London.
running outta days there.
dates with gaetan caputo in belgium locked in!
and a visit to secret mag...
burkeizoid beat me though.not sure what crazy ass time he was up.
tonite fancy sushi i think.
not $1000 for two people fancy like
umetaro though.i bought another pair of shoes yesterday.
tho they're a bit large, they were only 20$
the size says 6 but they feel like 7s.
i shouldnt have gotten them dammit.
now i have 2 pairs of pink shoes that are a touch too large.
shit. maybe I will just drag them with me to europe anyways.
...find a home for them on someone else's feet.
anna_phobia ? what size you wear?grrr
burkeizoid says he's not feeling the science museum today.that means no part 2 of the von hagens show.
this is my only day off for the rest of the trip except for sat
(weekend & museum = caca)
today his bday so i guess i'll see what he wants to do.
was asked to perform at the FetishEvolution in Essen.
wondering about pay though.
another shoot locked in.
no more shooting dates for Essen
another shoot locked in for London.
running outta days there.
dates with gaetan caputo in belgium locked in!
and a visit to secret mag...
stuff for me to watch.
shit. need to find time.
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FRONTLINE #2309 THE SOLDIER'S HEART
3/01 10pm (56:46*) (CC)
As the War in Iraq continues, the first measures of its psychological toll
are coming in. A medical study estimates that more than 1 in 7 returning
veterans are expected to suffer from major depression, anxiety, or Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder. For those who have survived the fighting, the
battle is not over. For some, the return home can be as painful as war
itself. Frontline tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted
by their experiences and asks whether the government is doing enough to help.
SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII #104 CATHERINE HOWARD AND CATHERINE PARR
3/02 3am (50:15) (CC)
A stunning beauty who exuded unbridled sexuality, Catherine Howard was just
a teenager when Henry became besotted with her. The two were wed, and
Catherine's feisty personality rejuvenated the aging king for a time, but
her promiscuous habits left him with only one option - to cut off her head.
Catherine Parr was in love with the diplomat Thomas Seymour - who happened
to be the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour - when the king became
smitten with her. To get rid of his competition, Henry had Seymour assigned
to a post in Belgium and moved in on Seymour's territory. Catherine, a
zealous Protestant, accepted Henry's proposal because, she claimed, God had
instructed her to do so. After Henry died in 1547, Catherine was finally
able to marry Thomas Seymour. When she died not long after, she was buried
as Henry's widow, marking the country's first Protestant funeral.
WORDS, WEAVINGS AND SONGS
3/11 11:30pm (28:42)
Presents the lives of three remarkable Japanese American women who were
incarcerated in American concentration camps during their formative teenage
years, yet who overcame the hardships and deprivation through their
resourcefulness, tenacity and persistence in creative fields. By John Esaki.
Wakako Yamauchi's family farmed the Imperial Valley in the Southern
agricultural region of California. She was sent to a camp in the desert
heat of Poston, Arizona. Wakako was later compelled to write about her
experiences in short stories and plays that captured the spirit of a people
whose lives and hardships represent an integral part of the social and
cultural texture of America.
Momo Nagano grew up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood of South Central Los
Angeles during the 1930 that was defined by racist laws that dictated where
Asians could live. Sent with her family to live in Manzanar, a camp in the
desolate Eastern Sierra Mountains of California, she was assigned a job
making camouflage netting for the American war effort. This inspired her
interest in weaving, and she was to emerge from the camp three years later
to pursue a career as an artist.
Mary Nomura attended Venice High School in West Los Angeles before also
being sent to Manzanar. At an early age, she demonstrated a talent for
singing, and performed at community gatherings in the Little Tokyo District
of Los Angeles. In camp, the on e activity that helped her cope with the
disruption of a normal teenager's life was her music. With the help of the
camp music teacher, she developed her voice and lifted the spirits of other
incarcerated Japanese Americans through her distinctive renditions of
popular, 1940s swing tunes - earning her the nickname, "Songbird of Manzanar."
FOR GOLD AND GLORY
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/05 4pm (56:45) (CC)
This documentary retraces a little-known chapter in American sports
history: the heritage of the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, an auto racing
circuit for African-American drivers and mechanics, set against a backdrop
of racial unrest in America during the 1920s and ' 30s. The program not
only tells of the racial barriers these intrepid sportsmen had to overcome,
but also examines the efforts of many whites and blacks to come together,
despite the social pressures of the day, to create the largest single
sporting event ever held for African Americans. By Todd Gould.
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/11 9am, 3/11 noon, 3/12 5pm, 3/13 3pm
(52:32)
Josef Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death" in the Auschwitz
Concentration Camp. With a doctorate, medical degree and a keen interest in
"genetic manipulation," the heart of Nazi ideology, he decided an
individual's fate at Auschwitz. This program is a dramatic, suspenseful and
intriguing biographical journey that offers unprecedented insights into
Mengele's mind and character. Based on an extensively researched book by
Gerald Posner and John Ware, the program details his escape from Europe and
life on the run in various South American countries.
TELEVISION IN AMERICA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY #112 ALBERT MAYSLES
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/14 9am, 3/14 noon, 3/19 6am, 3/20 noon
(56:33*) (CC)
Albert Maysles is widely recognized as a pioneer of the direct cinema style
of documentary. With his late brother David, he earned critical, peer and
audience acclaim as among the first filmmakers to make nonfiction features
- films in which life's dramas unfold without traditional devices like
scripts, sets or narration. Maysles films are imbued with integrity, great
storytelling and superb artistic rendering. This episode features excerpts
from Salesman, Grey Gardens and his work with Bob Drew on Primary (the
story of JFK and Hubert Humphrey's 1960 campaign trip through Wisconsin).
Of possible interest on KQED Public Radio
88.5FM San Francisco and 89.3FM Sacramento
JOURNALISTS AND WAR
KQED FM: Thursday, March 3, 8pm & Saturday, March 5, 1pm
This special broadcast, from the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at
Harvard University, is hosted by Mark Kramer, the executive director of the
Neiman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard. Every year the program
hosts one of the largest annual meetings of the journalist community. This
year, war was the primary topic: The situation in Iraq is deteriorating,
and for American journalists this means get embedded or get frozen out. Is
this a healthy situation for an American public in need of unbiased
information? How critical can one be without having one's patriotism justly
called into question? And if a journalist chooses to leave out the darker
realities of war, is he or she then a propagandist? What are the stories
war journalists should be telling? The special includes excerpts from talks
given by Seymour Hersh, Molly Bingham and David Finkel at the 2004 conference.
shit. need to find time.
---- ---- ---- ---- ----
FRONTLINE #2309 THE SOLDIER'S HEART
3/01 10pm (56:46*) (CC)
As the War in Iraq continues, the first measures of its psychological toll
are coming in. A medical study estimates that more than 1 in 7 returning
veterans are expected to suffer from major depression, anxiety, or Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder. For those who have survived the fighting, the
battle is not over. For some, the return home can be as painful as war
itself. Frontline tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted
by their experiences and asks whether the government is doing enough to help.
SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII #104 CATHERINE HOWARD AND CATHERINE PARR
3/02 3am (50:15) (CC)
A stunning beauty who exuded unbridled sexuality, Catherine Howard was just
a teenager when Henry became besotted with her. The two were wed, and
Catherine's feisty personality rejuvenated the aging king for a time, but
her promiscuous habits left him with only one option - to cut off her head.
Catherine Parr was in love with the diplomat Thomas Seymour - who happened
to be the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour - when the king became
smitten with her. To get rid of his competition, Henry had Seymour assigned
to a post in Belgium and moved in on Seymour's territory. Catherine, a
zealous Protestant, accepted Henry's proposal because, she claimed, God had
instructed her to do so. After Henry died in 1547, Catherine was finally
able to marry Thomas Seymour. When she died not long after, she was buried
as Henry's widow, marking the country's first Protestant funeral.
WORDS, WEAVINGS AND SONGS
3/11 11:30pm (28:42)
Presents the lives of three remarkable Japanese American women who were
incarcerated in American concentration camps during their formative teenage
years, yet who overcame the hardships and deprivation through their
resourcefulness, tenacity and persistence in creative fields. By John Esaki.
Wakako Yamauchi's family farmed the Imperial Valley in the Southern
agricultural region of California. She was sent to a camp in the desert
heat of Poston, Arizona. Wakako was later compelled to write about her
experiences in short stories and plays that captured the spirit of a people
whose lives and hardships represent an integral part of the social and
cultural texture of America.
Momo Nagano grew up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood of South Central Los
Angeles during the 1930 that was defined by racist laws that dictated where
Asians could live. Sent with her family to live in Manzanar, a camp in the
desolate Eastern Sierra Mountains of California, she was assigned a job
making camouflage netting for the American war effort. This inspired her
interest in weaving, and she was to emerge from the camp three years later
to pursue a career as an artist.
Mary Nomura attended Venice High School in West Los Angeles before also
being sent to Manzanar. At an early age, she demonstrated a talent for
singing, and performed at community gatherings in the Little Tokyo District
of Los Angeles. In camp, the on e activity that helped her cope with the
disruption of a normal teenager's life was her music. With the help of the
camp music teacher, she developed her voice and lifted the spirits of other
incarcerated Japanese Americans through her distinctive renditions of
popular, 1940s swing tunes - earning her the nickname, "Songbird of Manzanar."
FOR GOLD AND GLORY
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/05 4pm (56:45) (CC)
This documentary retraces a little-known chapter in American sports
history: the heritage of the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, an auto racing
circuit for African-American drivers and mechanics, set against a backdrop
of racial unrest in America during the 1920s and ' 30s. The program not
only tells of the racial barriers these intrepid sportsmen had to overcome,
but also examines the efforts of many whites and blacks to come together,
despite the social pressures of the day, to create the largest single
sporting event ever held for African Americans. By Todd Gould.
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/11 9am, 3/11 noon, 3/12 5pm, 3/13 3pm
(52:32)
Josef Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death" in the Auschwitz
Concentration Camp. With a doctorate, medical degree and a keen interest in
"genetic manipulation," the heart of Nazi ideology, he decided an
individual's fate at Auschwitz. This program is a dramatic, suspenseful and
intriguing biographical journey that offers unprecedented insights into
Mengele's mind and character. Based on an extensively researched book by
Gerald Posner and John Ware, the program details his escape from Europe and
life on the run in various South American countries.
TELEVISION IN AMERICA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY #112 ALBERT MAYSLES
KQED World (DT9.3 / Comcast 190): 3/14 9am, 3/14 noon, 3/19 6am, 3/20 noon
(56:33*) (CC)
Albert Maysles is widely recognized as a pioneer of the direct cinema style
of documentary. With his late brother David, he earned critical, peer and
audience acclaim as among the first filmmakers to make nonfiction features
- films in which life's dramas unfold without traditional devices like
scripts, sets or narration. Maysles films are imbued with integrity, great
storytelling and superb artistic rendering. This episode features excerpts
from Salesman, Grey Gardens and his work with Bob Drew on Primary (the
story of JFK and Hubert Humphrey's 1960 campaign trip through Wisconsin).
Of possible interest on KQED Public Radio
88.5FM San Francisco and 89.3FM Sacramento
JOURNALISTS AND WAR
KQED FM: Thursday, March 3, 8pm & Saturday, March 5, 1pm
This special broadcast, from the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at
Harvard University, is hosted by Mark Kramer, the executive director of the
Neiman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard. Every year the program
hosts one of the largest annual meetings of the journalist community. This
year, war was the primary topic: The situation in Iraq is deteriorating,
and for American journalists this means get embedded or get frozen out. Is
this a healthy situation for an American public in need of unbiased
information? How critical can one be without having one's patriotism justly
called into question? And if a journalist chooses to leave out the darker
realities of war, is he or she then a propagandist? What are the stories
war journalists should be telling? The special includes excerpts from talks
given by Seymour Hersh, Molly Bingham and David Finkel at the 2004 conference.
Lorelei, The Witch of the Pacific Ocean...
Site HERE
In Japan sfx fans are eagerly awaiting the release of the live action WWII submarine movie Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean. The story takes place in the summer of 1945, right after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In an effort to stop further atomic bombing, the Japanese Imperial Navy requisitions a special submarine, provided by Germany under utmost secrecy. The U-boat is equipped with a special weapons package called the Lorelei System. Extensive use of CGI gives emphasis to the awesome battle scenes in the movie, which is a gripping tale of comradery and betrayal. This is what earned Lorelei such high regard as a novel. Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino makes his acting debut in this film. Running time is 128 minutes. (animenewsservice.com)
Site HERE
In Japan sfx fans are eagerly awaiting the release of the live action WWII submarine movie Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean. The story takes place in the summer of 1945, right after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In an effort to stop further atomic bombing, the Japanese Imperial Navy requisitions a special submarine, provided by Germany under utmost secrecy. The U-boat is equipped with a special weapons package called the Lorelei System. Extensive use of CGI gives emphasis to the awesome battle scenes in the movie, which is a gripping tale of comradery and betrayal. This is what earned Lorelei such high regard as a novel. Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino makes his acting debut in this film. Running time is 128 minutes. (animenewsservice.com)
Story: A group of (literally) underground researchers use human guinea pigs, and subject them to extreme noise, pain and lack od oxygen in order to awaken their primal energies - to make them psychic, or some such. When their funding is in danger, they become desperate and start doing even crazier things than before in order to produce results – which only creates more mayhem.
Review: Key phrases: cyberpunk; mad scientists; clandestine operations; secret powers of human body and mind; drugs; nudity; rape; gore; evisceration; mutation; lots of screaming… How could you possibly go wrong with these? This is what the Japanese do best, and Shozin Fukui has already proved himself in the similar vein with his previous PINNOCHIO 964 (also available from Unearthed).
RUBBER’S LOVER could be mistaken for an earlier work, since it’s in black and white, and is more extreme and experimental than its predecessor, but that’s Fukui for you: while other similar directors, like Shinya TETSUO Tsukamoto, moved from grundgy underground towards mainstream, Fukui’s second effort is even weirder than PINOCCHIO. While PINOCCHIO had a reasonable semblance of a more or less linear plot and a sympathetic protagonist to guide you through it, RUBBER’S LOVER is lacking in that regard. Whether you take it for a more ‘avant-garde’, praiseworthy approach, or a fault which makes viewing experience more difficult, depends on your ability to enjoy a non-linear structure in which motivations and reactions of characters are not really explained, and a plot in which a lot of the stuff comes out of the left field. Personally, I like to be surprised, but surprise is based on expectations; RUBBER’S LOVER, however, at the very beginning sets its main strategy as ‘Expect the unexpected’. For some viewers, this would translate as ‘Anything goes’ kind of plot.
Still, the things that go on in this film are mostly intriguing and weird enough to captivate an open-minded viewer and challenge the most jaded sensibilities, which is always a good thing. The crisp black and white photography provides a lot of eye candy to equal the best parts of TETSUO: the cyber-gear and techno-paraphernalia intermingle with the screaming human flesh which sizzles and smokes in pain (and pleasure as well) and are treated as equally fetishistic as the more conventional sights of torn clothes and writhing naked bodies. More erotic and more perverse than PINOCCHIO 964, RUBBER’S LOVER still lacks the emotional punch that goes with such a stock device as ‘a sympathetic protagonist’, and the ending is even more frustratingly cryptic and hermetic than in Fukui’s first film. Also, the sound design is pretty rudimentary and the sparsely used music score leaves a lot to be desired; it is passable, but with a subject matter like this, and the director’s background in the musical underground, one would hope for at least the melodic stuff of Chu Ichikawa if not the downright sonic assault of a group like THE DISSECTING TABLE.
At least as a director Fukui hasn’t lost his punk sensibilities in his second feature, and he’s back with lots of quick cuts, weird angles and extreme close-ups as well as his trade-mark: a hysteria of almost incessant screaming of all grimacing characters. One would expect at least the scientists to be more restrained and reasonable, but the ones you find in this film are the closest cinema progeny of Dr Benway, the amoral doctor from the novels of William Burroughs. And, while we’re at Burroughs, one should also mention welcome outbursts of dead-pan humor, in lines such as ‘Rectal injection for immediate effect!’ or ‘Torture sways records – Stay to low-tech stuff!’ There are many visual jokes as well, the best of them being a cyclopean syringe which would scare off an elephant, used to inject ether into (mostly) unwilling subjects.
RUBBER’S LOVER is a thoroughly satisfying example of Japanese underground cinema and provides an inevitable dose of their idiosyncratic weirdness for all those already addicted to such material. If you’re new to this kind of filmmaking, maybe you should start with slightly more accessible stuff like the already mentioned TETSUO, or Fukui’s own PINOCCHIO 964, and see if you can take it. Then come for more.
HKflix.com carries it...
so Bondage-a-go-go.... my birthday party
it's going to happen the week of the SF FetishBall.
wednesday March 9
(the following wednesday i will already be in London)
i will have the monster VIP room too.
and guestlist for club & room
but i will post about it later to see how many exactly and how 'open' (to LJer's for example) it can be...
it's going to happen the week of the SF FetishBall.
wednesday March 9
(the following wednesday i will already be in London)
i will have the monster VIP room too.
and guestlist for club & room
but i will post about it later to see how many exactly and how 'open' (to LJer's for example) it can be...
i'm the update over at stevedietgoedde's site
new never seen before images n stuff too
STEVEDIETGOEDDE.COM
AND
don't fergit
if you be in da Los Angeles
Friday nite at the Derby is the DVD release party!
LivingThrough.COM
stevedietgoedde's sitenew never seen before images n stuff too
STEVEDIETGOEDDE.COM
AND
don't fergit
if you be in da Los Angeles
Friday nite at the Derby is the DVD release party!
LivingThrough.COM