Original Punk Rock from the Psychedelic Sixties!
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1 comment June 30th, 2009
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Petula Knows Where She’s Going!
Petula Clark is going to Canada in September. She’s going to talk about the film “I Know Where I’m Going!” in which she appeared as a girl of twelve, as seen in this video clip that I first featured over two years ago.
In case the article at the link above loads too slowly, or if it disappears, you’ll find the text below. The website for the event is at this link. What fun!
Here’s something else that’s fun. Petula singing “Downtown” in German. I admit to having swiped this from the Keep the Coffee Coming blog.
Petula Clark to take part in film screening
Posted By BILL HENRY, SUN TIMES STAFFPetula Clark is coming to Wiarton in September.
The legendary British pop songstress won’t be singing. Instead, she’ll help screen and talk about her role at age 13 in the 1946 romance “I Know Where I’m Going.”
The movie, which is set in Tobermory, Scotland, was launched in North America April 29, 1946 at Bruce Peninsula’s Tobermory.
Wiarton resident Paul Kastner was 19 then and was among the 900 people who doubled the tiny fishing village’s population for the unusual media event.
Tobermory was an isolated fishing village then, still without electricity, and served by bumpy washboard gravel roads, Kastner said yesterday.
Many of the fewer than 500 people who lived there were just back from the Second World War.
When a Toronto publicist pitched the plan to premier the new film at the tip of the Bruce, the Bruce Peninsula Tourist Association got behind it.
Residents spruced up their boats. Toronto politicians, photographers and film camera operators, newspaper and radio reporters, film industry people, provincial tourism officials all piled on a bus to Tobermory. There was even a plan to rename Doctor Island near Tobermory to Kiloran Island to match the Scottish Island in the film.
Kastner had forgotten about the premier until a year or so ago when he read that “I Know Where I’m Going” was revived and released on DVD.
Recalling all the pomp of six decades ago, Kastner thought of reviving the film in Tobermory or Wiarton as a fund raising event.
“I had in mind originally to replicate all of it,” he said.
It was an “historic moment in Canadian entertainment history” that should not be forgotten, Kastner said.
He thought at first about a revival in Tobermory, where the movie was screened recently by a local group. But his plans to include Clark and make it a major event were more appropriate for the larger Wiarton community, Kastner said.
Clark lives now in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a British child film and stage star by age 11, and “I Know Where I’m Going” was her fourth film. The singer later came to international prominence in the 1960s with such pop hits as “Downtown” and “Don’t Sleep in The Subway”.
Clark is to appear at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the 400-seat Peninsula Shores Performing Arts Centre. She will talk about making the movie, its late stars, her wartime role as a child entertainer performing to 200 Allied Forces camps in Britain, her 40 some movies, and subsequent singing career with more than 60 million records sold worldwide. In January, she released a new DVD of love songs.
I Know Where I’m Going starred Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey. Film critic Barry Norman has listed it among the all time top 100 movies.
Novelist Raymond Chandler said “I’ve never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialized as a show place.”
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese once said he had “reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, until I sawI Know Where I’m Going.”
The movie will be shown at 8:30 p. m. after Clark speaks.
Kastner said she waived her fee and money raised will go to Miracle Place — Wiarton, the Bruce Peninsula’s first affordable rental apartment housing. Construction on that project is expected to begin next fall, and details of the campaign to raise $380,000 are to be announced soon.
Tickets to see Clark and “I Know Where I’m Going” are to go on sale next week at $20, Kastner said, once the website www.petulaclarkinwiarton.com goes online.
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K3 Kaput
And so it’s farewell. Sunday in Rotterdam, Holland, Kathleen Aerts appeared with Karen Damen and Kristel Verbeke for the last time. K3 — in my opinion one of the very best Pop music girl groups ever assembled — is no more. I’m using these candid photos in the video preview frame so you can see how hard these ladies have worked for the past ten years.
Watching the video, to me it appears the farewell performance had little energy and excitement. A replacement for Kathleen will soon be selected, but K3 won’t be the same. I had the same feeling when David Duchovney left “The X-Files.”
(The link to this video on YouTube is at this link. As you can see, the shape is wrong, so I downloaded it and have set the correct dimensions.)
More videos from last weekend’s Summer Festival have appeared. I’ve collected most of them into a customized YouTube player.
Some photos from the show are on Flickr, and in a few of them you can see how upset the ladies really were:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/levindenboer/sets/72157620761295929/with/3684670662/
2 comments June 29th, 2009
Pets in Petaluma
In 1968, Snoopy attempted to enter the World Wrist Wrestling Championship in Petaluma, CA, only to be disqualified for not having a thumb. This week in Petaluma, Jon Provost of “Timmy and Lassie” voted on the world’s ugliest dog, with a boxer named Pabst being awarded the distinction.
Jon’s super-duper tell-all autobiography, written with his wife Laurie Jacobson, Timmy’s In the Well is a great read, with many Hollywood stories, concentrating on the staid Fifties into the Swinging Sixties. Timmy never did fall in a well on the TV show, but as I pointed out a couple of years ago, a cartoon version of Timmy did fall in a well, in a Kenner Give-a-Show slide, and today that slide was given the Give-A-Show Projector Blog treatment.
7 comments June 27th, 2009
Xbox Live, eX-Box Dead
School vacation has just begun and my son Eric’s Xbox 360 has the dreaded RROD — Red Ring of Death. (To be precise, it’s the three flashing red lights problem.) Needless to say, Eric and I are not pleased, especially after the expense and effort to upgrade the hard drive to 120 GB a few months ago.
To add further to our aggravation, because it’s Saturday afternoon we can’t ship it for repair until Monday. Going through the process of arranging the return wasn’t fun, between Internet Explorer 8 blowing up a couple of times on Microsoft’s own site, and Microsoft’s maddening voice-guided phone support. Bismo sent in his Xbox 360 twice for repair, and the second time, rather than repairing it again, a replacement unit was sent.
None of Eric’s Nintendo consoles has ever had a hardware failure. The Wii glitched a couple of times, but after using the lens cleaning kit we could see an obvious particle, and it’s been fine since then.
As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft is a software company pretending to be a hardware company. What really galls me is that the extent of the RROD problem was a known issue long before August 29, 2007, when Eric’s unit was manufactured. Have they figured it out once and for all, even now?
Speaking of video games, I’ll follow up a bit on the Tokyo Game Action auction that was held back on June 6. I was going to write something more in-depth about the death of arcades, because Good Time Emporium in Somerville, MA is also gone, but I’m afraid I lost my momentum.
This video shows the property, assessed by the town of Winchendon at about $400,000, being auctioned off for $115,000. Eric and I had a chance to thank Andy McGuire and to wish him well. Andy said he and his wife would be going to Japan as soon as possible after the auction.
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Search and you will find…
If you search on Google for “Prudence Bury” you’ll find my entries for her, of course, but you will also see this…
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RatDog is the site of Bob Weir and his post-Grateful Dead band.
6 comments June 26th, 2009