45 years ago today, BBC viewers first saw Monty Python’s series of Spanish Inquisition sketches, in the second season of “Flying Circus.” Featuring Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam as three incompetent and unintimidating Inquisitor cardinals, the 1970 sketch remained one of the comedy troupe’s most iconic and most quotable (“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” “The comfy chair?!”). Other notable happenings in pop culture history from Sept. 22 (which turns out to be a big day in TV history): • 1958: Elvis Presley, a private in the U.S. Army, departed for an 18-moth tour of duty in Germany. • 1964: “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” premiered on NBC. • 1964: The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. In 1972, it became Broadway’s longest-running musical, before it was overpassed by other shows in the coming decades. • 1972: American audiences got their first glimpse of Ziggy Stardust,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Millree Hughes, born in North Wales in 1960, has been making art on the computer since 1998. In the 2000s, he showed with Michael Steinberg Fine Arts. Hughes is currently working with Museum Editions (www.museum-editions.com) in New York City and Polyglot Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
- 9/12/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Grand Theft Auto V digital Playstation 3 pre-orders were made available for pre-load overnight throughout the UK. This has led fans to uncover mysterious info through searching of the game’s files. The most significant pieces of info to come out of this leak was the finding of information of a number of music stations and songs. The list below shows the traditional mix of Hip Hop, Rock and Country while including artists such as Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears and Muse.
Please take this information with a pinch of salt as the legitimacy of this information has yet to be clarified by Rockstar. Hopefully within the next few days more will be revealed. If true, what do you make of the soundtrack and which artists were you hoping would make an appearance?
The source of this leak came from GTAForums
An updated list can be viewed at on Reddit
West Coast...
Please take this information with a pinch of salt as the legitimacy of this information has yet to be clarified by Rockstar. Hopefully within the next few days more will be revealed. If true, what do you make of the soundtrack and which artists were you hoping would make an appearance?
The source of this leak came from GTAForums
An updated list can be viewed at on Reddit
West Coast...
- 8/24/2013
- by Niall McLoughlin
- Obsessed with Film
As my friend Pam Grossman put it, "Yes, universe, I know. I know too well that time passes and we are all going to die, sooner or hopefully later. I also know that cancer sucks. You do not need to drive these points home by killing off musicians I love every other day." This was prompted by the passing of Robin Gibb just after we lost Donna Summer and several other greats. Meanwhile, my friend Davie Kaufman, the biggest Flying Burrito Brothers fan I know, was disappointed that I hadn't yet marked the passing of Chris Ethridge, an original member of the Burritos, also taken from us by cancer.
Chris Ethridge was born in Mississippi in 1947 and moved to California when he was 17. In 1967 he joined Gram Parsons in the International Submarine Band in time to play bass on the group's only LP, Safe at Home. Though its release was delayed,...
Chris Ethridge was born in Mississippi in 1947 and moved to California when he was 17. In 1967 he joined Gram Parsons in the International Submarine Band in time to play bass on the group's only LP, Safe at Home. Though its release was delayed,...
- 5/21/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Willie Nelson can seldom do wrong in our book. Today, he released his cover of Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe,” which is featured on his May 15 album, “Heroes” (listen here, via Rolling Stone). We already heard his interpretation of Coldplay’s “The Scientist” on a Chipotle commercial during the Super Bowl. At 78, Nelson seems to be entering into a new stage of his career where there’s another layer of reinvention going on. Although an absolutely wonderful songwriter (he did write “Crazy,” afterall), he’s also always been a strong interpreter of material, including, of course, his legendary standards album, “Stardust.” On “Heroes,”...
- 4/6/2012
- Hitfix
A towering icon with nothing left to prove, Willie Nelson spends much of his time these days revisiting his back pages, reworking beloved old songs in new idioms and collaborating with whoever the hell he feels like, whether it’s Wynton Marsalis or Asleep At The Wheel. Now Nelson has hooked up with legendary jazz label Blue Note for the appealingly understated American Classic, another Stardust-like ramble through the American songbook. As his voice devolves evermore into a raspy croak, Nelson has learned to work with and around his limitations: His inimitable croon is as comforting and familiar as ...
- 9/8/2009
- avclub.com
Willie Nelson is one of those rare American icons that you're just not allowed to dislike. He doesn't have to be your favorite artist. You don't even need to be able to name any of his songs—he's got well over 2,000 of them, and off the top of my head I can only recall "On the Road Again". But saying you don't care for Willie Nelson is like saying that Elvis Presley was overrated, or that Abraham Lincoln gets too much press, or shrugging off the Bill of Rights as overrated claptrap. No, sorry, that's just not okay. Loving Willie Nelson, like paying taxes and pretending to have an opinion about politics, is just part of being a citizen of the United States. Nobody's asking you to memorize the lyrics to "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" or "Good Hearted Woman", but if you happen to hear one of those...
- 8/21/2009
- Vanity Fair
Willie Nelson records so frequently (2008 releases included Two Men With The Blues, the solo Moment Of Forever, and the career-spanning box One Hell Of A Ride) that it takes some stamina to keep up. Not bad for a guy who recently turned 75. Two Men With The Blues is Willie at his most limber—and the surprise is that his co-star, the oft-formal Wynton Marsalis, sounds just as loose. Recorded at New York's Allen Room in January 2007, with Nelson and longtime harmonica player Mickey Raphael joining Marsalis and his backing quartet, the selection is an appealing mix of blues, pop, and R&B standards. Sometimes it's a bit stiff, as with "Georgia On My Mind" (surprisingly so—Willie aced it on his classic Stardust), but most of the time the players are plainly having a grand old time with this stuff, whether it's Nelson elasticizing the melody of Louis...
- 1/6/2009
- by Michaelangelo Matos
- avclub.com
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