Blog: SHEER GOLDEN HOOKS

Frank Zappa does a fairly straight reading of the Led Zeppelin "epic" Stairway To Heaven . Believe it or not.

I happened to catch Ebert & Roeper last night just in time to hear them review John Hillcoat's new film The Proposition written by Nick Cave . They mentioned that he wrote the screenplay and the wonderful atmospheric score while giving it two thumbs up. They also mentioned that it was a violent western with great acting and cast, with no real "good guys." I am looking forward to seeing it but it doesn't seem to be distributed very well as it isn't coming close to my area until May 26th. [...]

Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens was found dead on Saturday, May 6th, he apparently died in his sleep at the age of 48. Very sad news. Although I like the Go-Betweens I don't have any of their albums, but I do have Grant's solo record Watershed and the two albums he did with Steve Kilbey as Jack Frost which I like very, very much. Easy Come Easy Go from Watershed. Everything Takes Forever from the self titled first Jack Frost album. [...]

I am a big Doors fan so it was interesting to read that they are taking a page out of the Beatles playbook by releasing a book called The Doors by The Doors compiled with Ben Fong-Torres , a theatrical documentary produced by Dick Wolf of Law & Order fame and apparently this also: "In October, Rhino will release a new box set. The box will contain two-disc sets of every studio album--a CD with new stereo mixes by Botnick as well as freshly remastered classic mixes, and a DVD [...]