Ricky Gervais - Love 'im

MERMAIDS EXIST? I hope so (posted by Rob)

The Fuhrer's Fury over MJ...

BOY in GERMANY struck by METEORITE

A teenager was hit by a meteorite traveling at 30,000mph - and lived to tell the tale.

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Album of the year review! from France!

CONTEST

NETWORK - One of the best films ever made

I recently saw the film NETWORK again. It is phenomenal. As relevant as ever (maybe more with our current affairs). If you have never seen it, or haven't watched in a while, or just finished it I urge you to view this work of genius. Rob

Here are some memorable scenes. (don't watch if you want more of surprise)

Jacques Dutronc - brilliant!

Swine Flu - Alex Jones

ANOTHER EARTH?

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Britain's Got...

Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent
by dwarthy

OUR NEXT SHOW IS @
CLUB SPACELAND
1717 Silver Lake blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
we hope to see you there!

Here's a Recent Video of Lemon Sun @ the Roxy



The New Line-up of Lemon Sun is:
Rob - Lead Singer/Guitar
El Pipe - Drums/Vocals
Scott - Bass
Patrick - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Mark - Trumpet/Keys/Vocals

THE ZOMBIES

One of the greatest 60's bands, or for that matter, bands (period) of all time.

THE PARABOX - review & recommendation

(click photo for link to event and info.)

POSTFACT productions propell a new excitement into cutting-edge experimental theater in Los Angeles. Their latest play "The Parabox" is a must see for anyone in the area looking to be entertained visually and sonically. (Not to mention... have a laugh, experience well-construed social commentary, and enjoy a glass of free wine.)

There is a sense of well angled minimalism, ala Piet Mondrian, married to a Dr. Seuss-ian symbolic humour. Poetry meanders into dance routines. Slogans blare out of emotional reverie. All the while a classic sense of humour is infused with an allegorical tale.

Rachel Kolar uses a surrogate reality to cleverly express a story line reflecting the human propensity for obsession. Especially our desire to 'escape reality' through media and Television. Through masterful lighting and modest set design we observe a piece which plays like a 'children's book' conceived for adults. A salient theme concerned with human relationship and our addiction to circumvention.

The audience is not walloped by messages or sermons. Instead tickled with comedy and lured into an alternate reality of creative characters and eccentric interaction.

Both Lauren Brown and Rachel Kolar are talented actors & dancers who personify a yin-yang relationship in their work. Definitely keep your eye on this team and their evolving creations. I suggest seeing "The Parabox" for your self, I believe you will not be dissapointed. It plays for 2 more weeks at Son of Semele theater in Silverlake. www.myspace.com/postfactproductions

HOLE IN ONE - First swing ever!

YO yo YO

13 Year Old Boy - Dad at 13 (But he looks even younger)

Click on photo for full story. Bizarre. Sweet kid though. There is a video interview which is pretty amazing.

STEELERS WHEEL.... Doppelganger?

I was at a party last night and my friend Alia Penner told me to check out Steelers Wheel's video for "Stuck in the Middle With You". She said there was an uncanny resemblance to yours truly. I tend to scoff at these kinds of statements. =) But I have to say Alia has a pretty keen eye on this one. Joe Egan and I even have the same curly (on the verge of hasidic) sideburns. You decide. Either way... Great song... enjoy...

MITCH

LAST QUESTION

SNL - Michael Phelps & Weed

I thought this was amusing. And I pretty much agree. (Rob)

Saturday Night Live - Really?!?: Michael Phelps

CHRISTIAN BALE FREAK OUT & the remix

The Wrestler (post by Rob)

Mickey Rourke deserves the oscar. Albeit quite a tragic and disconsolate story, The Wrestler is an original and refreshing "true to life" tale. One of the best films I've seen this year. Great performances. Worth seeing. I'd write more but I think you should just see it (and maybe bring a hankerchief).

On a side note - I found the cinematography brilliantly inquisitive and stylistic without being too overt. Really propells the emotion and storyline in my opinion.

GREAT SONG! "Underwater Moonlight" - The Soft Boys

I wish I could find a more exciting video but the song speaks for itself...

Japanese Poo

AWESOME ARTICLE ABOUT DR. SEUSS (one awesome dude) posted by Rob

CLICK THE IMAGE for some excellent info. on Dr. Seuss aka Theodor Geisel...

Synecdoche New York - review - by Robert Kolar

Synecdoche New York is an ambitious piece lost within a swirl of great ideas that tend to go nowhere. Despite some great performances (namely Samantha Morton and Catherine Keener) there doesn't seem to be much of an arch to the whimsical tale. It seems Kauffman is indulged by his 'spaghetti bowl' of ideas and splashes them into an intricate collage of ambiguity. His imagery and dream-scape seem ungrounded, undeveloped and as a result feel unconsummated. It's as if Kauffman was trying to stuff every innovative, unexpected, or esoteric idea he hasn't (or... has) used into one film. With more focus and a developed arch for Seymour Hoffman's character this piece would have a lot more to offer. Sadly, Seymour Hoffman spends basically the whole movie in despair or tears. As always he gives a believable and realist performance but ends up being a bit monotone with the direction and writing. Visually, the film is triumphant. The photography and aesthetics are strong and engaging. For most of the film I felt engulfed by curiosity and playful optics. However, without the proper development and fluidity of storyline I was left deprived of anything substantial to take with me. Read into it all however you like but it for me it unraveled into an artsy hodge podge (and I usually love that sort of thing). Kauffman is endlessly talented but should possibly keep things slightly simpler and centered. Maybe using several strong mind bending ideas as opposed dozens that scatter like lost marbles.

Interview w/ Aaron Russo about Nick Rockefeller & NWO

PERFECT AS CATS : a tribute to The Cure

Manimal Vinyl records has put together a double album of Cure covers. Artists such as The Dandy Warhols, The Muslims, Lemon Sun, Kaki King, Blackblack, Gangi, Hecuba, Bat for Lashes, and many more.

click on picture for link to I-tunes

Also check out... http://www.myspace.com/perfectascats

"NEW" is back (posted by Rob)

A fabulously modern and adventurous experience is happening at the SOSE theater in Silverlake very soon. The acclaimed play, "NEW" will be up Monday-Thursday night performances beginning October 27th through November 13th.

OCTOBER -      27th, 28th, 29th, 30th (mon- thurs.)
NOVEMBER -    3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th (mon thurs.)
                                10th, 11th, 12th, 13th (mon-thurs.)

@ THE SON OF SEMELE THEATER - 3301 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles (near Echo Park/Silverlake) 90038

In this 'new' series of performances, Rachel Kolar & Lauren Brown have added a second and revelatory ACT which takes the two main characters further into a world surrealism and exploration.

I urge you to see this play as it is bizarre, fun, graphic, unique and relevant to the world we live in today.  It features the music of Hecuba, Rainbow Arabia, and Black Hole Oscillators...  a few of the great emerging avant garde electronic, experimental musical outings in Los Angeles at the moment.   

A summary of ACT 1-
In a post-apocalyptic setting, two young and flamboyant socialites, Rachel Kolar & Lauren Brown, are depressed by the bleak state of the aftermath of war. No longer is there room for extravagance, no longer are there parties and delusions of grandeur. In attempts to glorify the need for excessive materialism they devise a movement of neon colors, empty consumerism, absurd rules of engagement and foppish costumes. When their movement takes a turn too dark for the pretty pair of dipsomaniacal flamingos, chaos ensues. What is left for our sad debutantes? The only thing left after destruction, to build a bomb to blow up the world!


For more information and to get tickets you can visit www.myspace.com/postfactproductions.

tHE wAVE - Colorado (Posted by Rob)

This is a fabulous photo I found on the Coast to Coast am website.  It is of a rock formation created millions of years ago in Colorado.  

COAST TO COAST (posted by Rob)

Recently I have been listening to one of the most eye and mind opening programs I have ever listened to. George Noory and other hosts interview intelligent, articulate and forward thinking individuals in subjects of spirituality, government, ET's, healing, psychology, astronomy, alternative history, news, and much more. If you can please listen. It will absolutely change your life and open your perception. Rob Kolar

CLICK PICTURE FOR LINK TO ONLINE RADIO/SITE

MONEY SYSTEM posted by Rob

This video helped me understand, better, the way our banking system operates. You can use this video to link you to the other parts (5 in all).

Holiday with John McCain (posted by Rob)

Below is an e-mail that has been circulating. It is a personal account of experienes wih John McCain on holiday. Whether you put a lot of weight in this or not, it is quite an interesting and potentially revealing memoir.


This shocking account was written by Ana Dubey. Ana has a PhD in psychology and has a private practice in San Francisco. Ana's husband is currently a Managing Director of a private equity firm in the Bay Area.
Ana and her husband are not political activists and don't have any personal ax to grind. In fact, in writing this account of her experience with John McCain, Ana is acting outside of her own economic self-interest as she and her husband are among the top 3-5% of our population who would benefit from the McCain tax/economic policies.

MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN
It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child).

It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week, sinceTurtle Island has a small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.

He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a pile of William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out of them. As an English Literature major myself, my first thought was "if he likes this so much, why hasn't he memorized any of this yet?"

I soon realized that McCain actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience for his "readings" which then became a regular part of each meal. Out of politeness, none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into their blissful holiday, but people's buttons definitely got pushed as the readings continued day after day.

Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chinese women had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn't meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight.

McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other side of the table from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.

Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego and his rude behavior towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have some redeeming qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh. I asked him about this one day, and his response was shocking: "Oh, that was Cindy's idea - I didn't have anything to do with it. She just went and adopted this thing without even asking me. You can't imagine how people stare when I wheel this ugly, black thing around in a shopping cart in Arizona. No, it wasn't my idea at all."

I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he engaged me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of the active US bombing of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he said, "If I was in charge, I would nuke Iraq to teach them a lesson."

Given McCain's personal experience with the horrors of war, I had expected a more balanced point of view. I commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear attacks on Japan during WWII -- but no, he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that if it was up to him he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on Japan. I rapidly extricated myself from this conversation as I could tell that his experience being tortured as a POW didn't seem to have mellowed out his perspective, but rather had made him more aggressive and vengeful towards the world.

My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was leaving Turtle Island. Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when McCain arrived and told Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she needed to lose weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I felt fiercely protective of Amy and immediately turned to
McCain and told him to leave her alone. He became very angry and abusive towards me, and said, "Don't you know who I am." I looked him in the face and sa id, "Yes, you are the biggest asshole I have ever met" and headed back to my cabin. I am happy to say that later that day when I arrived at lunch I was given a standing ovation by all the guests for having stood up to McCain's bullying.

Although I have sha red my McCain story informally with friends, this is the first time I am making this public. I almost did so in 2000, when McCain first announced his bid for the Republican nomination, but it soon became apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I did not act then. However, now that there is a very real possibility that McCain could be elected as our next president, I feel it is my duty as an American citizen to share this story. I can't imagine a more scary outcome for America than that this abusive, aggressive man should lead our nation. I have observed him in intimate surroundings as he really is, not how the media portrays him to be. If his attitudes toward women and his treatment of his own family are even a small indicator of his real personality, then I shudder to think what will happen to America were he to be elected as our President.