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Casting Woes

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I’ve had auditions for the past two nights for “Little Shop of Horrors,” the show that I will be helming for the next few months (slated to open October 7th). I had a good turn-out of folks … and that’s all well and good … but what has thrown a monkey wrench into the works has been the absence of the Music Director at the auditions.

See … his wife gave birth on Friday, but the baby had to be delivered via cesarean section. Needless to say, she is not feeling 100%. Baby is fine. Wife isn’t. I know it’s gonna sound very insensitive of me to bitch that he didn’t make it to the auditions because of all this … but the man is gonna get paid a decent amount of money for “music directing.” It’s thrown a whole kink into my planned schedule.

Kinda hard to cast a musical with no music director.

So …. what this means is that I now have to track him down, watch the “musical-portion-of-the-auditions” tape with him before any decisions can be made. This stresses me out ’cause it’s gonna be a few days before I know for sure who the cast is gonna be. I hate making the folks that auditioned wait to hear the news. I have been in that position and as the days drag by you just tear yourself up about “did I or didn’t I” make it into the show.

My left arm and chest are now all achey and I have a headache. I really shouldn’t be stressing out this much about this. The world ain’t gonna end … yet.~

Casting Woes

Remastered … Finally!

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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES RE-RELEASE ENTIRE CATALOGUE

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES’s entire album back catalogue has been digitally re-mastered and will be reissued over the next year.

The series will kick off with the re-release of debut ‘The Scream’ on October 3.

The album will also come backed with a second CD of period rarities.

Originally released in November 1978, ‘The Scream’ featured the tracks ‘Switch’, ‘Jigsaw Feeling’ and a cover of The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter.’

The second bonus CD will include the first ever release of the early Banshees live favourite ‘Make Up To Break Up’, the two 1978 John Peel sessions, the band’s first two single ‘Hong Kong Garden’ and ‘Staircase (Mystery)’ as well as five prototype tracks from ‘The Scream’, recorded at Pathway Studios.

The full tracklisting for the reissued ‘The Scream’ is:

Disc One
‘Pure’
‘Jigsaw Feeling’
‘Overground’
‘Carcass’
‘Helter Skelter’
‘Mirage’
‘Metal Postcard’
‘Nicotine Stain’
‘Suburban Relapse’
‘Switch’

Disc Two
‘Make Up To Break Up’ (Riverside Session)
‘Love In A Void’ (Peel Session)
‘Mirage’ (Peel Session)
‘Metal Postcard’ (Peel Session)
‘Suburban Relapse’ (Peel Session)
‘Hong Kong Garden’ (Peel Session)
‘Overground’ (Peel Session)
‘Carcass’ (Peel Session)
‘Helter Skelter’ (Peel Session)
‘Metal Postcard’ (Pathway Session)
‘Suburban Relapse’ (Pathway Session)
‘Staircase (Mystery)’ (Pathway Session)
‘Mirage’ (Pathway Session)
‘Nicotine Stain’ (Pathway Session)
‘Hong Kong Garden’ (7′ Single Version)
‘Staircase (Mystery)’ (7″ Single Version)
[via Silence Is A Rhythm Too]

Remastered … Finally!

Hier steht alles auf dem Kopf.

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Yeah. I have been quite the past few days. Been in a fuckeduppisedoffbadfunkbummedoutcastdowncrest-
fallencrummydejecteddespondentdestroyeddisconsolate-
downcastdownheartedfedupglumletdownlowspirited-
melancholymoodymorosesadtakendowntornupunhappy mood.

But, I still love disco music!
Cerrone – Love in C Minor [14.9 MB]
and
Cerrone – Supernature [5.68 MB]
(As could be heard here.)

Hier steht alles auf dem Kopf.

Ooops. I Just Wet Myself!

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Haute Tension
Lions Gate’s director of marketing Chela Johnson shared with Fango the details of the upcoming DVD release of Alexandre Aja’s HIGH TENSION, hitting shelves October 11 from the company’s Home Entertainment division. Johnson reveals that both R and unrated versions will be available (unrated artwork pictured), with both featuring options to screen the film in its U.S. theatrical audio version (with mixed use of languages), the original French version with English subtitles or with full English dubbing. Extras will include a director/writer commentary with Aja and co-scripter Grégory Levasseur, a director and lead actress select-scene commentary with Aja and star Cécile De France and Making Of, Make-Up FX and Building TENSION featurettes, as well as various trailers for the film. Retail price will be $27.98. — Sean Decker

Sweet news indeed … especially since I have been all “Lions Gate sucks!” for the past few months. I’ll still will probably hang onto my Korean 2 Disc Uncut Edition DVD as it has a spankingly awesome DTS soundtrack.

Ooops. I Just Wet Myself!

Weekend: Part III

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New 'n Hot!
New 'n Hot!
Yeah. It’s always fun when you come home late on a Saturday night to the water heater emitting a very loud hissing noise. After some checking, the rommie and I decided it was best to shut off the water to the house just to make sure there were no “surprises” late in the night. So, Sunday morning I was up bright and squirrely to go and purchase a new water heater. The rommie helped me get the old on drained and outside. And he helped me muscle the new one in and get it wired up. Then I got the fun of cutter and cementing new pipes into place. It was so much fun, lemme tellya. So, now I have a spankingly new water heater that I can proudly say I installed myself (for the most part) … and my house is all redneck now with the old water heater sitting out on the deck for all the neighbors to see. I guess you know what I will be doing the coming Saturday. Material Reclamation Center, here I come!

Weekend: Part III

Weekend: Part II (Rejected!)

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The highly anticipated (among horror fans, that is) follow up to Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses” is one of the biggest stinkers to be released upon us in a while. The film is one elongated, helluva mess with lots of violence, female nudity and gratuitous dialogue. Now, you gotta understand that “House” isn’t a great movie either, but it had this warped fun-house vibe to it that made the movie pretty enjoyable. “Rejects” just plods along with scenes that last too long, scenes that have no point (let’s buy chickens!) and violence that never creates any tension or thrills. Honestly, who wants to see Priscilla Barnes being torture while in her undies? I sure didn’t. A lot of reviews have been comparing “Rejects” to the likes of horror masterpieces “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Last House on the Left.” These are very flawed comparisons. None of the great 70’s films told the story with the killers as the sympathetic main characters. And, that is what Zombie wants. He wants us to feel sorry for the Firefly family. He even goes so far as to put some “warm and fuzzy” home movie footage near the end to try and make us go “awwwww, look they love each other so they don’t deserve to die.” Bah. It’s a bad mess of a movie that can be skipped. Rent “House of 1,000 Corpses” instead.~

Weekend: Part II (Rejected!)

The Joy of Gay Sex Macs

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Mac made Porno!
The Man last posted about receiving a copy of “The Joys of Gay Sex” wich features “page after page of illustrated huge, hard, throbbing dicks.” He’s even been kind enough to post a few scans. See, here is how my mind works. I didn’t pay attention to the the two hot fellas going at it in that one illustration. What I noticed first was the fact they are making their own home movie with a digital video camera … and an old school iMac! Can’t you just imagine it? After the hot, sweaty sex … the footage is imported into iMovie, edited, music is added. It’s then burnt to dvd for future viewing pleasure. Or, maybe they are streaming the video straight onto the web. And it is all being done on their trusty, dependable iMac. Mmmm. Tasty!

The Joy of Gay Sex Macs