Hero Kid Hotwires Radio To Save Dad

 

Yesterday, the Bonnie Rock youngster told The Sunday Times his fingers burned from sparks flying off the battery while he desperately called for help.”

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Creative Cheapo Halloween Costumes with a Sprinkle of Kiss or Alice Cooper!

Okay, you are going to have to come up with a funny, creative, yet stupid Halloween costume fast! And it has to be cheap too, because you are broke, maybe permanently, or at least until the economy recovers. But that may be several years away. When you hit the door of your local Samhaim party, & you get to some apple bobbing & merriment, you want to make a splash. Here`s five stupid, but original sets of threads you may care to sport to your local Apple Bobbing Festival.

5. TIME FLIES-Wear wings and tie a huge clock to your chest as a necklace. You might put around fifty cheap wristwatches on too. Yea, stupid!

4. GUM UNDER A SHOE-Tie a huge shoe on your head. Dress in pink (you are the gum, dummy!).

3.A SLEEPY HOUSEWIFE-Phyllis Diller did this in the `60s. Put your hair up in curlers, wear a bathrobe and yawn a lot. Wear fuzzy bunny slippers and do not put on any makeup.

2. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS-Attach cotton balls to a funny hat and wear fluffy, springy clothes as clouds. When people question you about your threads, say: “cloudy with a chance of showers,” then zap them with a squirt gun you have hidden under your clothing. Corny, but it`s a good gimmick!

1.PICNIC-Make a plaid picnic blanket into a poncho by cutting a hole in it to put your head through. Attach or glue paper plates, plastic knives and forks, & fake BBQ slabs of grub to your Clothy spread. Add fake ants to make it authentic. *(the Party Pig might have fake ants?)

For music use an MP3 player with a mini speaker under your clothes. All you need is lots of Kiss, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath naturally. As you bob for apples & do the wa-toosie with Susie Q, crank the obnoxious tunes up `til the cops are called! (kidding) Have a good one!

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“Paranormal Activity” Bone Chilling Scary and Most Profitable Movie of all Time

The low-budget chiller shows a phenomenal return on investment.

“Paranormal Activity” passes the film it’s most often compared to, “The Blair Witch Project,” as the most profitable movie of all time. [TheWrap]

The film stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat as an unmarried couple who use a video camera to capture evidence of strange goings-on in their new home. Turns out, the story is somewhat autobiographical.

“Paranormal Activity,” rated R, is a Paramount Pictures release directed by Oren Peli. Running time: 86 minutes 1 & 1/2 stars.

Have you seen it?

As an Afterthought the Brian Wilson/George Gershwin ‘Restoration Project’ is Brilliant!

On October 8th the Los Angeles Times published an article by Randy Lewis, Brian Wilson to finish some George Gershwin songs. I heard about it, but only read some shorter blurbs mentioning Wilson`s work in restoring some Gershwin song fragments. The more I thought about it, the more unusual, the more striking it became in my imagination, as I pictured Brian crafting these unfinished Gershwin fragments into complete songs. I read Randy Lewis` piece this morning, and I`m a believer now! “I can hear music, sweet sweet music.” Please read it, but noteworthy for me was Wilson`s comment that Rhapsody in Blue is his earliest musical memory. Brian may be well suited for the task at hand.

I pulled out my Beach Boys stuff this morning. I`m about ready to hit the beach surfin` right now! “Gershwin don`t surf.” I have Endless Summer, Smile and Pet Sounds. Givin` em a proper spin this rainy morn. Girl Crazy is my only Gershwin title. Go & figure. Todd Gershwin, George`s great nephew, believes in the project as does David Agnew, the label president at Walt Disney Records. I think this is a brilliant strategy. Otherwise, those Gershwin song fragments would lay dormant permanently, lost to time.

This sorta thing has been done before, but this sticks out like a sore thumb nonetheless! Cited in the LA Times article is the commission of writer Guy Gavriel Kay, by J.R.R. Tolkien`s son, to complete The Silmarillion, an unfinished Tolkien novel. I thought of Free as a Bird and Real Love, two Lennon fragments that were completed by the remaining Beatles. This was organic, though…? I anxiously await the release of this record, with tempered expectations. Wouldn`t it be nice to hear Rhapsody in Blue Good Vibrations? Huhh…HAPPY HALLOWEEN! That`s my buddy on the left, Ricky…

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‘Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History’ Opens Friday at the Brooklyn Museum!

Who Shot Rock & Roll, a photography exhibit that captures many of the images of Rock & Roll history, will open Friday at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition will have almost 200 images by more than 100 photographers. It is organized by Gail Buckland, a curator and historian of photography (NY Times-10/26/`09-Roberta Smith-my favorite art critic). Gail Buckland has a book that actually predates the exhibit (& inspired the exhibit to happen), which would make a very good Christmas present *(hint hint) for those of us who can`t get up to New York between Friday and January 31st.

Check out this interview with Roberta Bayley, whose work is featured in the exhibit and in Gail Buckland`s book also. Roberta Bayley worked at CBGBs during the Punk Era, and photographed many of artists, like The Ramones, Iggy Pop, Blondie, The Sex Pistols and Richard Hell. (Boy, I wish I could get up to Brooklyn!) Also, there are photos of Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop and contact sheets of Bob Gruen`s session with John Lennon in the sleeveless New York City T-shirt.

Photography has carefully chronicled the steps of Rock & Roll since the mid-fifties. All of us should make a collective B-line to Brooklyn to get an education from Gail Buckland! Let`s just follow the Yellow Brick Road! *(That`s the book on the right-that`s Tina Turner, stupid!)

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“I Put A Spell On You Because You`re Mine”-Number One for Halloween!

Sometimes you just have to make a call. Stand up for what you believe, and put your cards on the table. I Put A Spell On You  by Screamin` Jay Hawkins is the all-time most quinessential song ever recorded, by any artist, for the Halloween Season. The lyrics are the scariest, the music, in a minor key, will scare the be Jesus out of you, & the performance will bake your brains black to crispy critters. The item in the news where a cop pulled a real gun on a carnie performer at a haunted house does come in a close second, however!

It seems as if, way back in 1956, Screamin` Jay & the band got too drunk in the studio, and the I Put A Spell On You song just emerged spontaneously like gremlins out of a dusty, cobwebbed chimney. Disc Jockey legend, Alan Freed, offered Jay $300 to emerge out of a coffin onstage. Afterwards, Screamin` Jay embellished his act with “gold and leopard skin costumes and notable voodoo stage props, such as his smoking skull on a stick-named Henry-and rubber snakes.” (Wiki) I saw SJH do his thing in about 1986!

So make your call as far as the greatest Halloween song of all time, & feel free to disagree with me! Remember to have good reasons for your choice, or I might PUT A SPELL ON YOU!

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