Thursday, January 26, 2006
January 27th 2006 Random Reviews I've Found...
J Geils on Iceberg Radio
http://www.icebergradio.com/performer/79409/biography/j-geils
J. Geils
by Joe Viglione
J. Geils was born John Geils Jr. in New York City, NY, the guitarist's nickname becoming the handle for one of the most legendary musical groups in the history of Boston rock & roll, The J. Geils Band. During live performances, singer Peter Wolf would say, "Play it Jerome" to his lead guitarist when Geils took a solo. "Occasionally it was Tyrone [that Wolf called him on-stage]," the musician told the All Media Guide.
MATRIX REVIEWS
how the heck does IMDB find 'em???
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/newsgroupreviews
http://www.imdb.com/Reviews/176/17640
Matrix, The (1999)
reviewed by
Joe Viglione
Written & Directed by Larry & Andy Wachowski
The cinematography is stunning! At the beginning of the film at the discotech, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are face to face...the camera closes in on Keanu with a blue light throbbing in the background...that sets the tone for the rest of the film. For two and a half hours we get breathtaking shots and bleak gloom and doom, it is quite a contrast.
A friend noted how there was much dialogue and less action for the first portion of the film (Kevin Maynard's review on Mr. Showbiz pointed out Keanu has limited dialogue...interesting... hey, how many words did Arnold Terminator speak in the first movie? 64???)...
Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus is quite good. At first he seems evil - would you trust him? Then he becomes the teacher - "morphing" Keanu's character to this next level of development.
Hermetic Philosophy, Star Wars, Bruce Lee, ahh...but the real twist is how this film is in reality a combination of Total Recall and Terminator 1 and 2. That is the key which makes this work on many levels.
Where so much science fiction is derivative in a bad way, watering down what came before (how many bad Star Wars clones will emerge in July and August after Chapter 1 gets unleashed?) ..The Matrix is a clever script, solid acting (Joe Pantoliano's best role...you won't recognize him for awhile)...this movie gets you thinking.
The Oracle is the other side of Yoda. Her "students" are thought provokers, and through it all, one wonders if The Matrix isn't really Morpheus (a combination of Morphing and Orpheus), and The Oracle playing mind games to help an individual get to their next level of existence.
In other words, Keanu Reeves isn't only "The One", anyone walking the path is a candidate. Anyone.
c1999 Visual Radio Reviews
joe viglione
producer/host
VISUAL RADIO
http://pages.prodigy.net/millermedia/pubmac/
Visual Radio Productions
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
BUZZCOCKS
http://www.music.com/release/lest_we_forget/1/
est We Forget [+] by Buzzcocks [+]
While the Buzzcocks were on tour in 1979 and 1980, Joan McNulty, the publisher of their official fan magazine Harmony in My Head (and then-girlfriend of singer Pete Shelley), taped all their shows on cassette the way Judy Garland's husband Mickey recorded her final shows. Decades after these recordings were made, their value is obvious. After lengthy legal haggling between 1982 and the date of release, 1988, Neil Cooper of Reach Out International records was able to issue this very worthwhile series of 19 songs culled from various live performances on the tour. Who better to compile the music than the woman who gave attention to the group before anyone else in the U.S.A.? The cassette tapes were brought up to Blue Jay Studios in Carlisle, MA, the place where the Joe Perry Project, Aimee Mann, Phil Collins, and others worked, and the material was transferred from the master cassettes into organized form. There are tons of Buzzcocks favorites here, energetic versions of "What Do I Get," "Fast Cars," "Airwaves Dream," "Fiction Romance," "Something's Gone Wrong Again," all preserved for the ages, presented with love and care by someone who knew their music as well as the band itself. Boston; Chicago; Minnesota;, New Jersey; Providence, RI; New York; and Birmingham, U.K. are all represented with songs from their respective concerts. As the Doors release all the live tapes from their archives, and artists from Frank Zappa to the Velvet Underground and Jimi Hendrix have their concert tapes being issued to acclaim and sales, Joan McNulty's efforts can be viewed as pioneering. Decades after it was conceived and released, Lest We Forget is as pure a document as you'll find on the tour of a vital power pop band. The recording quality is not state of the art, but that adds to the charm.
Posted by Joe Viglione [+] | Jun 18, 2004
http://www.icebergradio.com/performer/79409/biography/j-geils
J. Geils
by Joe Viglione
J. Geils was born John Geils Jr. in New York City, NY, the guitarist's nickname becoming the handle for one of the most legendary musical groups in the history of Boston rock & roll, The J. Geils Band. During live performances, singer Peter Wolf would say, "Play it Jerome" to his lead guitarist when Geils took a solo. "Occasionally it was Tyrone [that Wolf called him on-stage]," the musician told the All Media Guide.
MATRIX REVIEWS
how the heck does IMDB find 'em???
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/newsgroupreviews
http://www.imdb.com/Reviews/176/17640
Matrix, The (1999)
reviewed by
Joe Viglione
Written & Directed by Larry & Andy Wachowski
The cinematography is stunning! At the beginning of the film at the discotech, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are face to face...the camera closes in on Keanu with a blue light throbbing in the background...that sets the tone for the rest of the film. For two and a half hours we get breathtaking shots and bleak gloom and doom, it is quite a contrast.
A friend noted how there was much dialogue and less action for the first portion of the film (Kevin Maynard's review on Mr. Showbiz pointed out Keanu has limited dialogue...interesting... hey, how many words did Arnold Terminator speak in the first movie? 64???)...
Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus is quite good. At first he seems evil - would you trust him? Then he becomes the teacher - "morphing" Keanu's character to this next level of development.
Hermetic Philosophy, Star Wars, Bruce Lee, ahh...but the real twist is how this film is in reality a combination of Total Recall and Terminator 1 and 2. That is the key which makes this work on many levels.
Where so much science fiction is derivative in a bad way, watering down what came before (how many bad Star Wars clones will emerge in July and August after Chapter 1 gets unleashed?) ..The Matrix is a clever script, solid acting (Joe Pantoliano's best role...you won't recognize him for awhile)...this movie gets you thinking.
The Oracle is the other side of Yoda. Her "students" are thought provokers, and through it all, one wonders if The Matrix isn't really Morpheus (a combination of Morphing and Orpheus), and The Oracle playing mind games to help an individual get to their next level of existence.
In other words, Keanu Reeves isn't only "The One", anyone walking the path is a candidate. Anyone.
c1999 Visual Radio Reviews
joe viglione
producer/host
VISUAL RADIO
http://pages.prodigy.net/millermedia/pubmac/
Visual Radio Productions
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
BUZZCOCKS
http://www.music.com/release/lest_we_forget/1/
est We Forget [+] by Buzzcocks [+]
While the Buzzcocks were on tour in 1979 and 1980, Joan McNulty, the publisher of their official fan magazine Harmony in My Head (and then-girlfriend of singer Pete Shelley), taped all their shows on cassette the way Judy Garland's husband Mickey recorded her final shows. Decades after these recordings were made, their value is obvious. After lengthy legal haggling between 1982 and the date of release, 1988, Neil Cooper of Reach Out International records was able to issue this very worthwhile series of 19 songs culled from various live performances on the tour. Who better to compile the music than the woman who gave attention to the group before anyone else in the U.S.A.? The cassette tapes were brought up to Blue Jay Studios in Carlisle, MA, the place where the Joe Perry Project, Aimee Mann, Phil Collins, and others worked, and the material was transferred from the master cassettes into organized form. There are tons of Buzzcocks favorites here, energetic versions of "What Do I Get," "Fast Cars," "Airwaves Dream," "Fiction Romance," "Something's Gone Wrong Again," all preserved for the ages, presented with love and care by someone who knew their music as well as the band itself. Boston; Chicago; Minnesota;, New Jersey; Providence, RI; New York; and Birmingham, U.K. are all represented with songs from their respective concerts. As the Doors release all the live tapes from their archives, and artists from Frank Zappa to the Velvet Underground and Jimi Hendrix have their concert tapes being issued to acclaim and sales, Joan McNulty's efforts can be viewed as pioneering. Decades after it was conceived and released, Lest We Forget is as pure a document as you'll find on the tour of a vital power pop band. The recording quality is not state of the art, but that adds to the charm.
Posted by Joe Viglione [+] | Jun 18, 2004
