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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 733 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Flaming Lips documentary Fearless Freaks is showing on the Artsworld channel on Sky tonight at 9pm. Includes the famous scene where Steven Drozd shoots up on camera. Nice family entertainment!! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 66 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of fearless freaks, I see the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead - but from a stingray, not a crocodile. Crickey! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 671 Registered: 05-2005 |
Poor bloke, he seemed like a good guy, very funny, quite insane, made our English equivalent Johnny Morris look like a stamp collector!!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 734 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also on Artsworld last night was a programme called Iconoclasts in which a famous(although I'd never heard of him!)restaurateur called Mario Batali talks of his friendship with Michael Stipe. Lots of footage of the two of them hanging out, cooking, going to a U2 gig. Stipe came across less up himself than I expected, worth a watch. Link to the programme below including date when it is broadcast again http://www.artsworld.com/genre/features.asp?ID=4151&genreID=7 Also on this channel is a Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert film. Link to screening times below http://www.artsworld.com/genre/features.asp?ID=4158&genreID=1 Here is the link for Fearless Freaks by the Flaming Lips http://www.artsworld.com/genre/features.asp?ID=4150&genreID=8 | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 668 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's a funny image, those two together...That guy, who goes by "Molto Mario", has a cooking show here on the food channel that was very big for a while and has a hugely successful restaurant in NY, called "Babbo"...He's quite larger than life - supposedly an average evening spent carousing with him would involve 10 or 12 bottles of wine and 50, or so, courses...I'm shocked, frankly, that Stipe has it in him to party that hard...but you know, it could only do him some good! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 735 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stipe was telling a story of how the first time he walked into this guys restaurant, it was a friday night, the place was mobbed and a pj harvey album was playing at deafening volume. later on in the film, stipe was in a record shop buying some CDs as a gift for Mario. Amongst other things were Entertianment by Gang of Four, Neutral Milk Hotel and a Dennis Bovell album after the record store guy told Stipe that Bovell had worked with The Slits. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 674 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stipe gets a raw deal!! He's nae that bad a fellow. OK he's huge, what can you say, but I have mates who are up their own arses more than Stipe. I know people whoi have known him for some time and people who have met him, Gerard from The Blue Aeroplanes who toured with REM and he hung around with him in the US said he was a great guy. I think, correct me if I am wrong, but Stipe et Buck et al have a great tasts in music, or they come from the right road, so I dunno whether we can knock Stipe too much. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 669 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spence, you're right. I bet he really is a great guy, and what's more, his politics are impeccable...particularly to a commie leftie like me...We shouldn't diss him (even if it's fun)...That said though, my little joke was more about his music. "Around the Sun" was such a pitiful effort - something, some life-force, some oomph, was definitely missing...I was half-seriously suggesting that maybe massive quantities of rich Italian food and red wine might give Mike a little get up and go, a little piss and vinegar - provide what's missing... I'm usually a defender of groups after others have thought they've lost their luster...I was with them up until "Up", which along with "Reveal" were okay but already showing signs of lameness...and then the abysmal "Around the Sun", which, to me, represents a stunning decline for such a major group... I've read many musician bios, and if there is a common denominator, it's that they're not very nice people...or, if they have decent qualities, they're often counterbalanced by awful traits, as with the case with Sinatra who, though he gave to a lot of charities, also smacked croupiers around...Stipey seems like a rarity. Kevin, I read a great book, called "Heat" by Bill Buford (whose other famous book, "Among the Thugs", I keep meaning to read. It's about time he spent with soccer hooligans, and is all about their world), that was largely about Mario. You have to read books like that to keep up out here - it's full of "foodies" here in Cali...Anyway, it mentions that Mario routinely blasts the living shit out of the snooty, rich patrons who've waited in line to get in with choice alternative faves such as you mention...you gotta love that. I'll have to see if they run that program here... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 677 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with you hardin, sorry ahem, lk! on the around the sun shite... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 529 Registered: 05-2005 |
When Around The Sun came out I texted my fellow R.E.M.-loving friends to say I could not believe how awful it was. I've not played it since those initial two or three listens. And the hyde of Stipe to say it was their best album yet! (I know he says that about every album though. It just hasn't been accurate in a very long time). Thanks for the Stones story Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 530 Registered: 05-2005 |
And of course that Stones story was on a different thread... |