Coosa Creek Times, 6-3-2008

Here’s a cool film from Jonathan Lapper over at Cinema Styles:

To see it in it’s natural habitat at Jonathan’s great site Cinema Styles, go here.

Also, go over to YouTube , Digg it and otherwise show it some love. Never mind if you don’t know what this new-fangled digging stuff is . . . go on, do it for the children.

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Bo Diddley is a gunslinger no more. The iconic rocker who helped invent Rock n’ Roll — as he was inventing himself — is dead at 79. Dave Hudson has some links over at GreenCine Daily, and the appreciations are continuing to come in. I think R.J. EsKow, at the Huffington Post, says it well:

He was a living gateway between times and places who brought African rhythms and African-American chants into the Top Forty. Together with Chuck Berry, he built rock and roll. He also built his own guitars, from spare parts (his first one was made from a cigar box.) Then he played them through overloaded amplifiers, transmitting ancient heartbeats on waves of tube-driven electricity.

Not bad for a country boy, as they used to say down South.

They still say that down here, by the way.

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Finally, there’s another installment of Peet Gelderblom’s fabulous web-comic Directorama over at The House Next Door. This week, a certain art-house icon, disfigured by a terribly ironic deus ex machina, finds out being a certain green, blockbuster machine has it’s advantages.