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I totally agree. There's something about the color saturation and richness you get with film that you don't see with digital. That was taken at sunrise on the Charles Bridge in Prague. Early morning is probably the best time to photograph there for the great light, as well as for the fact that there aren't the usual 1000 or so people milling about. * The windmill photo was taken near Cesis, in Latvia, and the other one was at Cesky Krumlov, in the Czech Republic (what a beautiful town!)

Agreed. Definitely one of the best documents about the Punk scene I've seen. Now if they'd only release this on DVD so I can get rid of my crappy looking transfer. Another music doc set in the L.A. music scene that is quite good is X: The Unheard Music.

Aw shucks, thanks! I have a whole bunch more that I still have to get into the digital realm. I mainly use my Canon 35mm SLR for photos, so I'm a bit old school by today's standards (Mind you, I do use a digital camera on occasion when I can't be bothered to bring out the behemoth.)

Regardless of Chuck's often cantankerous personality--we won't even get into his legal troubles--Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll is still worth checking out for anyone interested in the roots of Rock 'n' Roll. I highly recommend the 3-disc DVD which has some fantastic extras like extended interviews with Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Richards, Little Richard, and Bo Didley. There's lots of other good stuff on there too.

Some shots I took while on vacation a while back.

Me too. Talk about glaring omissions. They should be ashamed, especially when lesser films like "Hype!" are there instead. I probably would've put Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll and Cocksucker Blues--even if it is only available as a bootleg DVD--on that list too.

Bogart in what has to be one of his best parts. This movie has to have one of the saddest endings ever.

I hope the DVD is better than what I saw on Bravo a few months back. The show I saw was an 1-1.5 hours, but they didn't ever show them doing complete songs. It was more about interviews and reminiscing with the band, mixed in with rehearsals with Ryan, Natalie and Vic. It was okay, but it could have been so much more. p.s. I walked by the church they recorded that album in the other day for what it's worth.

Of course, some artists need to be reined in on occasion .

Of course back then bands were allowed to release 2 albums a year if they wanted to. Nowadays record companies try to rein in such output. Another major difference between then and now, is that bands like the Beatles had only 4 and 8-track studios to work with, making things much harder. There was none of this Pro-Tools cut, paste and sample over 96 tracks kind of stuff. They had to be creative with a smaller canvas and this meant they couldn't record twenty guitar solos and patch them together to make one. I think today's technology is great, but can also be a hindrance to an artists cr

I'll show my appreciation for this band in song: Feelies, nothing more than feelies... Feelies, wo-o-o feelies, woo-o-o, feelies again in my arms

A Fritz Lang film noir with Glenn Ford... you can't go wrong there.

A few weeks back I saw some Pontiac G6 ad that had some music that sounded familiar. I couldn't quite figure out who it was until I saw Peter, Bjorn & John perform "Objects of My Affection" on some talk show the other night. I've also recently seen some ad with Cat Power singing a Cat Stevens song, also an iPod ad that uses a Feist video (it seems to be on all the time and now I can't get that "1...2...3...4..." song out of my head.)

I just finished reading the book the other day, after having it sit on my bookshelf for many years (I think I bought it around the time I got "Into Thin Air.) I quite liked it, though I must admit a penchant for these kind of stories: there's something about adventure stories with fringe people that I can relate to I suppose. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing this one, glad to hear you liked it.

Last night it was: Probably my favorite Jarmusch film. Hopefully I'll get around to watching the 2nd disc sometime soon. Tonight it's: I'm a big Tom Courtenay fan so I'm looking forward to finally watching this.

The last Joni record I bought was Turbulent Indigo. Her voice was noticeably deeper and not as wide ranging on that one compared to earlier records, nevertheless it still sounded okay to me. I haven't heard anything recently though. Has her voice gone downhill so much since that record that she is now getting Dylan comparisons? (I actually like Dylan's voice. It was pretty rough going for a while around the MTV unplugged record, but it has sounded better on subsequent releases.)

I do love this collection, particularly disc 1.

Lester sure wrote some great reviews about Metal Machine Music... probably one of the few people that ever did .

I love that record. I think I'll have to play it next.

I don't know that one, but I keep seeing some Volvo ad that I believe has Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) doing "The Wheels on the Car." It seems like everyone's doing car ads these days.

I've seen Ron Sexsmith a few times. What a fantastic songwriter, he makes it seem so easy. I love Nick but haven't ever seen him live yet. Glad to hear he puts on a good show.

Hadn't seen this one in many years.