Coosa Creek Times, 6-3-2008
Jun 3rd, 2008 | By Rick | Category: News & CommentHere’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.
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Rick, thanks for remembering it’s all about the children. And also, if anyone watching “Frames of Reference” cares to give me a ten million dollar grant to work full time on movie production please do. You know, for the children. Oh yeah, and a huge bar/lounge expense account… uh … um… yeah … for the children.