Links, Flowers
October 3rd, 2007
To break up the monotony of cross-posted festival reviews, here are some flowers from the garden of Max Liebermann’s villa on the Wannsee, along with a few more linkworthy items:
- Jennifer Merin, fellow critic and film journalist extraordinaire, is our new colleague and About.com Guide for Documentaries.
- Look, one of my photos made it into Schmap!
- Mundane Science-Fiction is a promising new subgenre, complete with manifestos and detractors.
- German filmmaker Florian Thalhofer, whom we met at a Goethe-Institute bash last week, is video blogging his motorcycle trip across America at 1000 Stories.com.
- Finally, a little music. First, a promo clip for one of my favorite albums of the summer, Marco Benevento’s Live at Tonic, followed by a video for “Off the Grid” from the new all-instrumental Beastie Boys album, The Mix-Up. It’s groovy.
Phish Covers
May 11th, 2007
Too many lousy movies, not enough rock’n roll: what this blog needs is more Freebird, more Bohemian Rhapsody, more Big Pimpin’ — as played by the popular rock band Phish.
Bohemian Rhapsody (with the Boston Community Choir)
Freebird (with Wynonna Judd)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
99 Problems and Big Pimpin’ (with Jay-Z)
Some of Phish’s most ubiquitous covers are curiously absent from the ‘tube, but here’s the best of the rest: Mean Mr. Mustard - Wipeout - The Might Quinn - The Star-Spangled Banner - Also Sprach Zarathustra - Frankenstein - Sexual Healing - Born Under Punches - Champagne Supernova - Theme from the Peanuts - After Midnight - Peaches en Regalia - Good Times Bad Times - Auld Lang Syne - Jungle Boogie - Sabotage
Find any others? Add them in the comments!
