DM's celebrity circle

[Drunk Monk]

Ya know, I've been circling that celebrity circle for years now.  

I worked for the Dead and have been to Mickey Hart's home and pooped in his personal toilet.  I went to China with RZA, had private lunch with him, been backstage on his invite.  I've had private Dim Sum with Lou Reed, also been backstage on his invite and was treated to a box by him at the Mountain Winery.  My castmates are Danny Trejo and Marko Zaror.  I've had a private lunch with Daniel Wu, had dinner with Emily Beecham, Ally Ioaniddes, Aramis Knight, Babou Ceesay, Sherman Augustus, Louis Tan, Ella-Rae Smith and some others from the Badlands S3 cast.  I interviewed Laurie Anderson and then she interviewed me.  There's probably more but I can't think of it right now.

Now my latest BFF - Bo Svenson.  That's right, the original Buford Pusser.  He's been hitting me up, trying to get me to help him cast some movie project he's producing.  Where's my sarcasm emoji for this?  Oh this will do -    

As soon as I fully penetrate that celebrity circle and become one of the glitterati, I'm going to forget all about you little people.

[Greg]

We know where you live. We have pictures.

Actually, your forgetfulness might work in my favor.. Keep doing what you're doing.

[cranefly]

DM, I'm surprised you haven't forgotten us all long before now.

Just to help out with the casting for Bo Svenson's vehicle:

Bo Svenson (Yes, he deserves to be in his own pic)
Steven Seagal
Gerard Depardieu

I'd make more suggestions, but not sure there would be room on screen.

Oh, let me suggest a working title: Welcome to My Fist

[Drunk Monk]

It's been weird actually.  Bo emailed me several times.  I thought it was a lark.  I didn't fully engage and was actually quite curt (I deal with a lot of bots and I've found it's no use being courteous because bots don't care).  But eventually he sent me some powerpoint presentation about this movie project.   Then he put one of his lackeys on me, some mainland Chinese dude.  I told them to just post it on the forum (KFM not here.  This is our little secret).  

I was approached to interview him a long time ago, but that was when the luster of interviewing B-movie stars had already faded.  I eventually turned it over to a junior Kung Fu sis, who did the piece.  It was for his role in Inglorious Bastards.  Remember how good he was in that?  Remember?  Yeah, me neither.  He was in there though, so sayeth IMDB.  

I turned down Seagal.  But I told y'all about that.  http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...hp?tid=389  Seagal is not in my celebrity circle.  Nope.

I got nothing on Gerard.

[cranefly]

A bit of free association on my part. Your coolness to Bo reminded me of your reaction to Seagal, whose bulk brought to mind Girard -- for no good reason.

A better final reference would have been Brando, who you made me interview in one of my dreams. Unfortunately, for that honor I had to sign a nondisclosure. So I can't really say anything about Brando's corpulence.

Anyway, I think it's time for DM to get an agent and hit the talk show circuit. I'm certain Colbert can squeeze you in among the cavalcade of porn stars servicing our Horror Clown.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

“Welcome to My Fist”, or “WTMF”, will forever be my generic “B-“ martial arts movie reference. The “See You Next Wednesday” of MA films. Already coming up with taglines:

“Don’t talk to the hand — Welcome the Fist!”

“You ain’t welcome here, Stranger!” “My fist says otherwise”.

“Where ther’s a will, there’s a fist.”

[Drunk Monk]

See?  I knew this would be fun.

[cranefly]

Knock knock.

Who's there?

My fist.

My fist who?

My fist in ya mouth.

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

catching up on my work email because even tho i lugged my chromebook to europe, there was some configuration issues with google's remote interface (and i didn't bother to check it that much because it was vacation after all).  but what do i find?  an email from laurie.  laurie anderson.  she wants to know if i'm free memorial day weekend when she's in town for a zorn commemorative show at the chapel.  as a matter of fact, i am free.

[Drunk Monk]

Laurie said she'll hook me up with a ticket and wants to know if I'm available for breakfast that morning.  Oh hell yes.  

[img=576x0]https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/03/00/71/75-og.jpg?w=650&h=498[/img]John Zorn's 65th Birthday Celebration w/ Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley
MON · SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Doors: 5:00 pm / Show: 6:00 pm
$50.00
SOLD OUT
This event is all ages
Live Trio Performance w/ John Zorn (saxophone), Laurie Anderson (vocals, violin), Terry Riley (piano)
This is the first time these three legendary musicians have played together as a trio!
All tickets are GA Standing Room Only with limited seating in the balcony on a first come, first served basis

John Zorn

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Born and raised in New York City, composer/performer John Zorn has been a central figure in the New York Downtown Scene since 1975, incorporating a wide variety of creative musicians into various compositional formats. His work is remarkably diverse and draws inspiration from Art, Literature, Film, Theatre, Philosophy, Alchemy and Mysticism as well as Music. He founded the Tzadik label in 1995, runs the performance space The Stone and has edited and published eight volumes of musician’s writings under the title ARCANA.
Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most reknowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.

O Superman launched Anderson’s recording career in 1980, rising to number two on the British pop charts and subsequently appearing on Big Science, the first of her seven albums on the Warner Brothers label. Other record releases include Mister Heartbreak, United States Live, Strange Angels, Bright Red, and the soundtrack to her feature film Home of the Brave. A deluxe box set of her Warner Brothers output, Talk Normal, was released in the fall of 2000 on Rhino/Warner Archives. In 2001, Anderson released her first record for Nonesuch Records, entitled Life on a String, which was followed by Live in New York, recorded at Town Hall in New York City in September 2001, and released in May 2002.

Anderson has toured the United States and internationally numerous times with shows ranging from simple spoken word performances to elaborate multimedia events. Major works include United States I-V (1983), Empty Places (1990), The Nerve Bible (1995), and Songs and Stories for Moby Dick, a multimedia stage performance based on the novel by Herman Melville. Songs and Stories for Moby Dick toured internationally throughout 1999 and 2000. In the fall of 2001, Anderson toured the United States and Europe with a band, performing music from Life on a String. She has also presented many solo works, including Happiness, which premiered in 2001 and toured internationally through Spring 2003.

Anderson has published six books. Text from Anderson’s solo performances appears in the book Extreme Exposure, edited by Jo Bonney. Anderson has also written the entry for New York for the Encyclopedia Brittanica and in 2006, Edition 7L published Anderson’s book of dream drawings entitled “Night Life”.

Laurie Anderson’s visual work has been presented in major museums throughout the United States and Europe. In 2003, The Musée Art Contemporain of Lyon in France produced a touring retrospective of her work, entitled The Record of the Time: Sound in the Work of Laurie Anderson. This retrospective included installation, audio, instruments, video and art objects and spans Anderson’s career from the 1970’s to her most current works. It continued to tour internationally from 2003 to 2005. As a visual artist, Anderson is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York where her exhibition, The Waters Reglitterized, opened in September 2005. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art acquired her “Self-Playing Violin” which was featured in the “Making Music” exhibition in Fall 2008.

As a composer, Anderson has contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme; dance pieces by Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Molissa Fenley, and a score for Robert LePage’s theater production, Far Side of the Moon. She has created pieces for National Public Radio, The BBC, and Expo ‘92 in Seville. In 1997 she curated the two-week Meltdown Festival at Royal Festival Hall in London. Her most recent orchestra work Songs for Amelia Earhart. premiered at Carnegie Hall in February 2000 performed by the American Composers Orchestra and later toured Europe with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The piece was performed as part of the Groningen Festival honoring Laurie Anderson in Fall 2008 with the Noord Nederlands Orkest.

Recognized worldwide as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts, Anderson collaborated with Interval Research Corporation, a research and development laboratory founded by Paul Allen and David Liddle, in the exploration of new creative tools, including the Talking Stick. She created the introduction sequence for the first segment of the PBS special Art 21, a series about Art in the 21st century. Her awards include the 2001 Tenco Prize for Songwriting in San Remo, Italy and the 2001 Deutsche Schallplatten prize for Life On A String as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She recently collaborated with Bran Ferren of Applied Minds, Inc to create an artwork that was displayed in “The Third Mind” exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in Winter 2009.

In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her 2004 touring solo performance “The End of the Moon”. Recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high definition film, “Hidden Inside Mountains”, created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour of her performance piece, “Homeland”, which was released as an album on Nonesuch Records in June, 2010. Anderson’s solo performance “Delusion” debuted at the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad in February, 2010 and toured internationally throughout 2011. In 2010 a retrospective of her visual and installation work opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil and later traveled to Rio de Janeiro.

In 2011 her exhibition of all new work titled “Forty-Nine Days In the Bardo” opened at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. That same year she was awarded with the Pratt Institute’s Honorary Legends Award. In January of 2012 Anderson was the artist-in-residence at the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta where she developed her latest solo performance titled “Dirtday!” Her exhibition “Boat” curated by Vito Schnabel opened in May of 2012. She has recently finished residencies at both CAP in UCLA in Los Angeles and EMPAC in Troy New York. Her film Heart of a Dog was chosen as an official selection of the 2015 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. In the same year, her exhibition Habeas Corpus opened at the Park Avenue Armory to wide critical acclaim and in 2016 she was the recipient of Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts for that project. Anderson lives in New York City.
Terry Riley

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California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work Provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. It's impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and it's influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams and in the music of Rock Groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air and many others. Terry's hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated eastern flavored improvisations and compositions set the stage for the prevailing interest in a new tonality.

While working on a masters degree at UC Berkeley in 1960, he met La Monte Young, whose radical approach to time made a big impact and the two made a life long association.

During this time Riley and Young worked out many of their seminal ideas while working with influential dancer Anna Halprin.

During a sojourn to Europe 1962-64 he collaborated with members of the Fluxus group, playwright Ken Dewey and trumpeter Chet Baker and was involved in street theater and happenings.

In 1965 he move to New York and joined La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music.

1967 was the year of his first all night concert at the Philadelphia College of Art and he began a collaboration with visual artist Robert Benson resulting in more all night concerts.

Recordings of In C, A Rainbow in Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band and the Church of Anthrax were all issued by CBS Masterworks in 1968-69.

In 1970, Terry became a disciple of the revered North Indian Raga Vocalist, Pandit Pran Nath and made the first of his numerous trips to India to study with the Master. He appeared frequently in concert with the legendary singer as tampura, tabla and vocal accompanist over the next 26 years until Pran Naths passing in 1996. He has co-directed along with Sufi Murshid, Shabda Kahn of the Chisti Sabri India music study tours 1993-2000.

Terry regularly appears in concerts of Indian Classical Music and conducts raga singing seminars.

While teaching at Mills College in Oakland in the 1970's he met David Harrington, founder and leader of the Kronos Quartet and began the long association that has so far produced 13 string quartets, a quintet, Crows Rosary and a concerto for string quartet, The Sands (1990), which was the Salzburg Festival's first new music commission and SUN RINGS (2003), the 2 hour multi media piece for choir, visuals and Space sounds, commissioned by NASA.

The Cusp of Magic (2004) another quintet for Kronos features Wu Man, pipa, and was released on Nonesuch records in 2007.

Cadenza on the Night Plain was selected by both Time and Newsweek as one of the 10 best Classical albums of the year.

The epic 5 quartet cycle, Salome Dances for Peace was selected as the #1 Classical album album of the year by USA Today and was nominated for a Grammy.

The orchestral piece Jade Palace was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the Centennial celebration 1990/91. It was premiered there by Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony.

June Buddha's, for Chorus and Orchestra, based on Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues was commissioned by the Koussevitsky foundation in 1991.
Venue Information:
The Chapel
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA, 94110
http://www.thechapelsf.com

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Laurie signed her email 'xox'

 


 

 

i kid you not.

[Greg]

Please livestream it to Scapino.

[Drunk Monk]

Please livestream it to Scapino.

right?

eh, who cares about him?  he don't come 'round here no more.  besides, he's still blackballed until he starts posting here.  BLACKBALLED.  you can tell him i said that.  

and about me and laurie.

[Greg]

If he's blackballed, how can he post to relieve the blackball?

[Drunk Monk]

If he's blackballed, how can he post to relieve the blackball?

Through the tesseract, silly.  How else?

Ok, I've been swapping emails with Laurie all day.  We have a breakfast date.  She keeps signing her emails 'xox' and it's freaking me out a bit.  srsly.  Of course, given that I've had maybe 40 hours of sleep over the last 40 hours, everything is getting a little weird, a little tesseractyl, ya know?