Ann Powers: "Fascination, Friendship And Desire: Kathleen Hanna On The Reign Of 'Rebel Girl'" (NPR)
We had a thing in Bikini Kill where whoever looked best in an outfit got to keep it. The bad thing about that was, if my suitcase was open, I would come in and find Tobi and Kathi trying on all my clothes. And they looked better in a lot of my clothes than I did! Even if you'd just bought a dress, if someone else put it on and they looked just so great in it, you had to give it to them.
The last song that Warren Zevon ever performed in front of an audience, on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2003, is about a Norwegian mercenary who is betrayed, eventually gets his revenge, and then continues "wandering through the night". What is the title of this song?
One of my favorite films, and Robert Altman's personal favorite of the films he directed, it was also the first feature film to be shot inside the Astrodome. What is this title of this fairly obscure, but delightful, little gem?
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 American experimental comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It concerns a young recluse (Bud Cort, as the title character) who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his comely and enigmatic "fairy godmother", played by Sally Kellerman, as he becomes a suspect in a series of murders. The film was shot on location in Houston, Texas. During the opening credits, shots of the downtown Houston skyline (with One Shell Plaza under construction) zoom toward the Houston Astrodome and Astrohall, with the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background. It was the first film shot inside the Astrodome.
The film opens with the MGM logo, as usual, but with a voice-over saying, "I forgot the opening line" (the voice of James Stewart), replacing the lion roar, and proceeds with The Lecturer regaling his unseen students with a wealth of knowledge of the habits of birds. Owlish Brewster McCloud, living hidden and alone under the Houston Astrodome, dreams of creating wings that will help him fly like a bird. His only assistance comes from Louise, a beautiful woman who wants to help. Wearing only a trench coat, Louise has unexplained scars on her shoulder blades, suggestive of a fallen angel. She warns him against having sexual intercourse, as this could kill his instinct to fly.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Brewster McCloud.
Randall wrote:
Brewster McCloud
Mac Mac said:
Brewster McCloud, one of my favorites as well
Alan J answered:
Brewster McCloud.
Dave responded:
Brewster McCloud. Although it hit theaters the same year as Altman's debut film "M*A*S*H" (1970's 3rd highest US box office hit, and the most profitable), "Brewster McCloud" was largely overlooked in theaters. I haven't seen that film in so long I pretty much forgot about it.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
Brewster McCloud
zorch said:
Brewster McCloud was the first.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Another SWAG...Nashville?
Daniel in The City answered:
Brewster McCloud
David of Moon Valley replied:
Thank You for remindering me of this one!...Brewster McCloud....
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Brewster McCloud
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
Brewster McCloud??? Is a movie by Altman filmed in the Astrodome, but I do not know if it was his favorite or Marty's.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
North American bison
Cal in Vermont answered:
Brewster McCloud. I thought for a minute or two that it was Black Sunday where Bruce Dern tried to blow up SuperBowl X at the Orange Bowl.
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BANDCAMP MUSIC YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER HEAR ON THE RADIO
Song: "Middle Name"
Artist: Slush
Artist Location: Melbourne, Australia
Info: Melbourne trio making punky power-pop.
"This song is about wanting to get to know someone better, like what's that person's middle name and what's in that person's record collection." - Bruce
"Middle Name" is the debut single from Melbourne band, Slush.
Slush is the trio of Acacia Coates (she/her), Caitlyn Bardsley (she/her) and Scout Tester (they/them).
If you are OK with paying for it, you can use PAYPAL or CREDIT CARD
Genre: Pop Punk
Price: $1.50 (Australian Dollars), a little over $1 USA Dollar
• At the 2006 Mercury Music Prize (a British award) ceremony,Richard Hawley's 4th soloalbum, titled Coles Corner, was nominated but did not win. Instead, an album by a group called Arctic Monkeys - his friends - won. While accepting the award, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner said, "Call 999, Richard Hawley's been robbed." This remark was widely quoted, with the result that Mr. Hawley began to become famous. Mr. Hawley says, "It changed things for me. I started selling f**king records." In 2007, he recorded another album, Lady's Bridge, although his father died while he was recording it. Actually, his father gave him some advice that helped him finish recording the album. Mr. Hawley says, "One of the last things he said to me - apart from, 'Don't forget my f**king beer and fags [cigarettes] when you come tomorrow' - was, 'You'd better finish that bloody record. Don't get crippled by grief.'"
• Live recordings were difficult to do in the days when recordings were made on wax cylinders because the microphones often picked up sounds that should not have been picked up. One live recording of a Cesar Franck symphony was ruined when near the end of the symphony, the wax cylinder recorded a woman saying quite loudly and clearly to another woman, "Tell me, dear, where do you buy your stockings?"
• The music of a jukebox in a bar can get annoying after a while. That's why CBS in 1953 produced a record titled "Three Minutes of Silence," which gave exactly that when a customer selected it from the records in a jukebox.
Rehearsals
• Conductor Arturo Toscanini desired excellence from the singers and musicians he worked with, and sometimes he vented his displeasure during rehearsals. This occasionally had the unfortunate effect of making singers and musicians nervous, resulting in more mistakes. In Salzburg, Austria, Lotte Lehmann sang Eva in Die Meistersingerfor Maestro Toscanini, a conductor of genius. He was not satisfied during rehearsals, and at one rehearsal, Ms. Lehmann said that Maestro Toscanini "wrapped himself in an icy silence and just looked at us sadly and scornfully." Finally, Ms. Lehmann said to him, "Maestro, won't you please tell us what crime we have committed? We want to do everything you want, but won't you please tell us whatyou want?" Maestro Toscanini replied, "There is no fire!" Hearing that, Ms. Lehmann, the other singers, and the musicians decided to focus on the fire and not on avoiding mistakes. Ms. Lehmann thought to herself, and so apparently everyone else did, "Let us forget that it is the much-feared maestro before whom we are singing. Let us forget that we must be exact to the finest detail. Let us forget that any and every mistake is a deadly sin. Let us just be normal human beings, who are not without faults, like this genius - then the fire will blaze which had been dampened through our fear." The result was magical, and after the rehearsal, Ms. Lehmann went to Maestro Toscanini's dressing room. He was only scantily dressed, but she hugged him, said, "Thank you, Maestro," and left.
• Leonard Bernstein was rehearsing Falstaffwhen the trombone choir failed to hit a note in unison. This surprised Maestro Bernstein, as it wasn't a hard note to hit in unison. Caricaturist Sam Norkin was watching rehearsal, and from his seat, he could tell what the problem was. The music stands of the trombonists did not contain the music of Falstaff; instead, they held such reading matter as the Racing Form, the National Enquirer, Reader's Digest, and the sports page from the New York Daily News.
• Early in his career, Walter Midgley worked in a variety program. At the band rehearsal, he went to a lot of trouble to get some of the rough edges smoothed out among the musicians, but at the performance he noticed that the musicians seemed to have forgotten everything he had taught them earlier at the band rehearsal. Therefore, he spoke to the conductor, who told him, "Oh, that was a different band you were rehearsing with."
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Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Rami Malek and Jill Soloway.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Allison Janney, Jonathan Van Ness, and Tom Walker.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chicago Med', followed by a FRESH'Chicago Fire', then a FRESH'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Natalie Portman, Henry Winkler, and Robbie Robertson.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Nick Kroll, Zazie Beetz, Rep. Katie Porter, and Roy Mayorga.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Meghan Trainor.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'Schooled', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'Single Parents', then a FRESH'Stumptown'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Gwyneth Paltrow, Evan Funke, and Lunay.
The CW offers the FRESH'iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 1'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'Almost Family'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters: Most Haunted', then the FRESH'Ghost Hunters: Access Granted'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fugitive', followed by the movie 'US Marshals'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Encounter at Farpoint (Part 1)
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Encounter at Farpoint (Part 2)
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-The Naked Now
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Code of Honor
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Last Outpost
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Where No One Has Gone Before
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Lonely Among Us
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Justice
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 9-The Battle
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 10-Hide and Q
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 11-Haven
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-The Big Goodbye
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 13-Datalore
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 14-Faces
[8:00PM] STAND BY ME (1986)
[10:00PM] THE OUTSIDERS (1983)
[12:00AM] STAND BY ME (1986)
[2:00AM] THE OUTSIDERS (1983)
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 14-Faces
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 15-Jetrel (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Jacqueline Woodson.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Martin Short and Maya Rudolph.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by a FRESH'American Horror Story'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Alien Invasion Edition', then a FRESH'UFO Conspiracy: Hunt For The Truth: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
[8:00A] Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
[10:00A] Revenge of the Nerds
[12:00P] I Love You, Man
[2:30P] Hall Pass
[5:00P] Knocked Up
[8:00P] We're the Millers
[10:30P] We're the Millers
[1:00A] Drillbit Taylor
[3:30A] Galaxy Quest (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] Rudy
[10:30am] Sleepwalkers
[12:30pm] Sleepy Hollow
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] The Net
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Haunting In Connecticut', followed by the movie 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.
Universal Pictures has entered into a five-year exclusive production partnership with Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, who were behind the studio's combined half-billion-grossing successes Get Out and Us.
The commitment continues to speak to the studio's emphasis on a diverse film slate, not just branded IP like the Fast & Furious and Jurassic World franchises but also original, auteur-driven genre movies such as the titles for Peele has quickly established a track record. Under the new exclusive deal, Universal is developing Peele's next two films which he will direct, write and produce. Peele and Monkeypaw, headed by president Win Rosenfeld, will also produce original films under their banner, championing filmmakers with a focus on high-level content that transcends genre.
Monkeypaw produced Spike Lee's feature BlacKkKlansman last year which received six Oscar noms, with Lee winning his first-ever Oscar (for Adapted Screenplay) and earning Peele his fourth nomination in two years. Monkeypaw is currently in production on Candyman, written by Peele and Rosenfeld and directed by rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods). Universal is releasing Candyman globally, with the North American release date scheduled for June 12, 2020.
Peele's feature directorial debut Get Out was made for under $5 million and reaped more than $255M worldwide with an estimated profit after all ancillaries near $125M. The pic went on to receive four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Director, with Peele winning for his original screenplay.
Peele's sophomore film Us opened to $71.1M back in March, repping the highest-grossing opening ever for an original horror film and the highest-grossing opening for a live-action original since 2009's Avatar.
In another sign that California condors are making a comeback in the wild three decades after nearing the brink of extinction, a condor chick left its nest and made its first attempt at flight in Utah's Zion National Park.
Visitors last week saw the park's first successful hatchling stretch its wings and stumble out of its nesting cave on a sweeping red-rock cliff in a sighting that was confirmed later by park biologists.
Tim Hauck, who manages the condor reintroduction program for The Peregrine Fund group, described the 4½-month- condor's flight attempt as a "controlled fall."
"The chick soared downward from the nest and landed on a lower cliff ledge," Hauck said. "We expect it to stay there for a while with its parents."
The surviving California condor population now stands at more than 500, with more than half of the birds with wingspans of up to 10 feet (3 meters) living in the wild in an area including Arizona, California, Utah and northern Mexico. Other condors have been captured for breeding purposes or are held in zoos.
In a medieval Italian cemetery, archaeologists recently exhumed the skeletal remains of a victim of a medieval torture device known as the breaking wheel. University of Milan archaeologist Debora Mazzarelli and her colleagues found the young man (who was probably between 17 and 20 years old when he died) in a medieval cemetery beneath what is now S. Ambrogio Square in Milan. Radiocarbon dating of his bones suggests that he died sometime between 1290 and 1430. His skeleton bears evidence of brutal trauma inflicted around the time of his death, and it appears to match medieval descriptions of execution using the wheel.
The wheel wasn't a cutting-edge means of torture and execution, even in the Middle Ages. Greek playwright Aristophanes and later Roman Imperial writers describe torture on the wheel as a way of wringing a confession from a suspect. By the medieval period, the wheel most often turns up in accounts of the lives-and often very graphic deaths-of the Christian saints; the device even became the symbol of one, St. Catherine of Alexandria. But court records also describe its use to punish crimes like murder, rape, and highway robbery.
Although a few accounts of the saints describe them being tied to a large wheel and rolled off a cliff, more historically reliable sources tend to describe convicts being tied, with their arms and legs spread, to the spokes of a wagon wheel while the executioner shattered their limb bones with a heavy maul.
When archaeologists exhumed the young man in Milan, they saw that the bones of his forearms and lower legs on both sides had been broken by heavy blows around the time of his death, leaving sharp edges the same color as the outer surface of the bone. A blow from some blunt object had also broken several of the bones of his face. But none of those things would have been immediately fatal, and that was the point.
Stacey Dash's finances are making headlines amid her legal woes. According to documents obtained by Yahoo Entertainment, the actress claimed on Monday that she's indigent and cannot afford private counsel.
On Sunday, Dash was arrested following a domestic dispute with her husband and stepchildren. Documents show that she is asking to be represented by a public defender and the court has temporarily agreed - but financial documentation is required before the request can be permanently granted. Applicants applying for indigent status in Florida are either approved or denied based on poverty guidelines set by the state. An applicant must include all income, assets, liabilities and debts. As for whether Dash is "broke," a source close to the Clueless star is unaware of "her financial situation."
When Dash was taken into custody, Pasco County Sheriff's Office body cam video showed Dash telling the arresting officer that she was "taking a break" from acting. "I did politics for a while," the 52-year-old said. "I was a Fox News contributor."
"We were all arguing, I asked his daughter to get out of my face because she was in my face, I pushed her back, he put me into a chokehold," she told a 911 operator. On the call, Dash claimed that Marty and his three "awful children" - ages 15, 14 and 10 - were conspiring to be "witnesses" against her. "He's taking pictures of scratches on his arm that I did not put there," she is heard saying on a call.
At one point, Dash can be heard yelling, "Why don't you guys shut up, you don't know what my job is... you're children." She told the operator the kids call her a "b*tch."
Dozens of cadets and youngsters from Russia's Youth Army have been getting up close and personal with perhaps the world's most iconic firearm as their country prepares to mark the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, maker of the legendary rifle.
At Victory Museum in western Moscow, visitors including the young cadets are invited to assemble Kalashnikovs and pose for selfies at the exhibition dedicated to the famous automatic weapon.
Russia will next month celebrate the life of Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, with a number of events, including the museum display and a biopic.
Kalashnikov, who died in 2013 at the age of 94, is seen in Russia as a national hero and symbol of the country's proud military past.
AK-47's name stands for "Kalashnikov's Automatic" and the year its final version was designed, 1947.
Scientists have bioengineered bacteria to pump out psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient that puts the "magic" into magic mushrooms, in surprisingly abundant quantities.
Researchers from Miami University managed to transfer the DNA sequences responsible for psilocybin production from a mushroom into a microbe host, a strain of E. coli, the common bacterium most often associated with food poisoning.
Reported in the journal Metabolic Engineering, the bacteria are coaxed into producing psilocybin through a practice known as metabolic engineering that uses optimizing genetic and regulatory processes within cells to increase the production of a certain substance. Remarkably, the E. coli bacteria started to pump out quantities of the psychedelic substance into a petri dish. With further tweaking, they eventually yielded psilocybin at a concentration of 1.16 grams per liter.
While the dream of easily produced psilocybin will no doubt make many psychonauts very happy, the synthesis of this substance is also of huge interest to scientists. Psilocybin is currently being used in clinical trials as a potential avenue for treating depression, addictions, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Off the back of this feat, the researchers argue they have made "a significant step" towards the industrial production of biologically derived psilocybin. Next up, the team hopes to study ways to make the E. coli bacterium an even better host and looks forward to seeing if it's possible to produce psilocybin to the levels required for the pharmaceutical industry. This has the potential to make research into the therapeutic effects of psilocybin both easier and cheaper to carry out.
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