March « 2009 « Chicky Chow Now

Archive for March, 2009

Mar 30

Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing.

These were great, especially this one:

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread.

I’m going to try this next full moon.

0
comments

Posted in random, Universal music

Mar 20

Ann, George from All My Sons

Ann, George, originally uploaded by mainstreetstage.

I like this pic from a recent rehearsal of All My Sons by Arthur Miller at Main Street Stage, previewing next Thursday evening at 8 and opening the following evening. Hope to see you there.

0
comments

Posted in flickr, Local, theater

Mar 20

Shakespeare Roundup

Within the course of one week there have been two interesting press bits about the bard:

An academic claims he has identified the first known (and so far, the only known) portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. It’s much different than the woodcut portrait found on the first folio of his Collected Works. Original link here and a droll piece on Elizabethan “image-making” by Charles McGrath in the nytimes (with a better photo of the painting) here.
A new book claims Shakespeare wrote 6 other plays not previously attributed to him, and that an early pen name may have been “Phaeton”.

Looks like I need to add a Shakespeare category.

via longtime fav kottke.org

0
comments

Posted in Shakespeare, theater, Universal

Mar 19

This comic strip (DeFlocked) is finishing up a week-long test run in the Berkshire Eagle (my local paper). It’s better than 100% of the other strips on there now. Definitely worth a look – if you happen to like it send an email to readers@berkshireeagle.com and tell them to keep it!

0
comments

Posted in random, Universal

Mar 13

Whoa

This is such a fantastic visualization of the incredble scale of celestial objects. An animated gif – it takes a minute to load, but it’s worth it.

0
comments

Posted in space, Universal

Mar 13

Outtake from Ricky Gervais Guesting On Sesame Street

Hilarity ensued.

0
comments

Posted in movies, PBS, TV, Universal

Mar 06

The Limits of Control

Check out the latest from Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Night On Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers). Yup – Bill Murray is in there.

Here’s a favorite scene from Coffee and Cigarettes – with Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright:

0
comments

Posted in health, movies, TV, Universal

Mar 05

romeo&juliet, 1.1

romeo&juliet, 1.1, originally uploaded by 802.11.

Here’s a cool visualization of the character interactions in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1.

I wonder what this guy would think of it? “Not annotated enough” maybe. I get the x-axis (left to right) is the duration of the scene. The y-axis: character’s engagement in the scene? Physical proximity? I’m not clear on this. But it is pretty.

Via my new fascination (via kottke): Lone Gunman

0
comments

Posted in flickr, Shakespeare, theater, Universal

Mar 04