Unseasonably cold weather ripped through Austin, Texas during the third day of this year’s SXSW fest. It was the first I’d ever planned on attending in 13 years. Last time I was there in 1997, hawking my own music project and spacing out to the sounds of Wayne Coyne and Friends’ insane Parking Garage Experiment….
SXSW Bound
I’m heading down to Austin this weekend to check out the last couple of days of SXSW. I haven’t been to the fest in years. Heard it’s a madhouse from the locals, but I need to get out of Dallas for a day or so. I’ll bring my camera and get some snaps in and…
RIP Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton, the Memphis-born singer-songwriter and voice of The Box Tops and Big Star, passed away yesterday at the age of 59 (reportedly while mowing his lawn). He was scheduled to play a reunion show with Big Star at SXSW in Austin this Saturday. Chilton reportedly died from a heart attack in his adopted hometown…
New Look…Same Crappy Website
Decided to give the ol’ site a little facelift since moving to Google’s dedicated servers. I must admit I was a little afraid of change but what the hey, sometimes it’s nice to move things around. As you might notice there are some new features onboard, including some streaming news feeds and expanded archive functions….
Website Migration Issues
Since Blogger is forcing their “heritage users” to migrate to their blogspot site, I’m a migrating my web page…but unfortunately I’ve run into a few issues that will take some ironing out. All of the links have been broken and I’m working on a solution. Stay tuned.
Sergio Corbucci’s THE MERCENARY (1968) on DVD!
German DVD company Koch Media — famous for their reverent collection of Spaghetti Westerns — have issued one of the greatest SWs on DVD for the first time. Yes, I’m talking about Sergio Corbucci‘s excellent 1968 effort THE MERCENARY starring Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Palance. I ordered this PAL disc from Amazon.de about…
Film Images 2.17.10
Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) — 16mm