Post by petrolino on Oct 16, 2020 23:10:57 GMT
Steve Buscemi : More Tales From The City
Tickets Available : 04/21/09 @ 8:00pm
Readings of the work of William S. Burroughs, Marquis DeSade & Edgar Allan Poe
Performances by Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Chloe Webb, Tom Davis & Special Guests ...
Music by Trevor Dunn, Yuka Honda, Sean Lennon, Doug Weiselman & Hal Willner
Curated by Hal Willner
Music by Trevor Dunn, Yuka Honda, Sean Lennon, Doug Weiselman & Hal Willner
Curated by Hal Willner
Steve Buscemi & Debbie Harry
Hal Willner & Lou Reed
Steve Buscemi & Richard Hell in 'No Picnic' (1986)
'Now can we get the f*cking season 3 DVD out on the shelves, please?
Reigniting the dim fire amongst fanboys of a very specific age (read: mine) for the short-lived Nickelodeon show "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" to get the proper respect it deserves demands, the blog "Gaytriarchy" slapped together a bunch of 120 Minutes-influenced cameos that were featured on the show in its too-short existence.
Which I'm mad grateful for, but I have to object to the exclusion of LL Cool J as Little Pete's teacher. Dude was straight academic with it.
Anyway, here's a reference list of the cameos in the order they appear. Stay tuned for Iggy Pop as Nona's dad. (Nona, played by Michelle Trachtenberg, is the only one of the cast's kids that's doing anything noteworthy these days, and honestly, I'm cool with that. The Pete boys just didn't have much to offer beyond this).
Patty Hearst, David Johansen (New York Dolls), Ann Magnuson, Martin Donovan, Suzzy Roche (The Roches), Sarah Shannon (Velocity Girl), Chris Elliott, Bebe Neuwirth, Syd Straw, Steve Buscemi, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes), Janeane Garofalo, Debbie Harry, Heather Matarazzo, Kate Pierson (the B52s), Marshall Crenshaw, Juliana Hatfield, Luscious Jackson, Iggy Pop, Hunter Thompson ...
Reigniting the dim fire amongst fanboys of a very specific age (read: mine) for the short-lived Nickelodeon show "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" to get the proper respect it deserves demands, the blog "Gaytriarchy" slapped together a bunch of 120 Minutes-influenced cameos that were featured on the show in its too-short existence.
Which I'm mad grateful for, but I have to object to the exclusion of LL Cool J as Little Pete's teacher. Dude was straight academic with it.
Anyway, here's a reference list of the cameos in the order they appear. Stay tuned for Iggy Pop as Nona's dad. (Nona, played by Michelle Trachtenberg, is the only one of the cast's kids that's doing anything noteworthy these days, and honestly, I'm cool with that. The Pete boys just didn't have much to offer beyond this).
Patty Hearst, David Johansen (New York Dolls), Ann Magnuson, Martin Donovan, Suzzy Roche (The Roches), Sarah Shannon (Velocity Girl), Chris Elliott, Bebe Neuwirth, Syd Straw, Steve Buscemi, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes), Janeane Garofalo, Debbie Harry, Heather Matarazzo, Kate Pierson (the B52s), Marshall Crenshaw, Juliana Hatfield, Luscious Jackson, Iggy Pop, Hunter Thompson ...
- Anonymous, Orlando Weekly
Chrissie Hynde, Steve Buscemi & Jo Andres
Steve Buscemi, Tom Murrin & Richard Lloyd
Steve Buscemi, Moby & Lou Reed
Jennifer Charles & Steve Buscemi
"Penned by Rich Wilkes and directed by Michael Lehmann of Heathers fame, Airheads tells the madcap story of three heavy metal washouts — Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler — who are so desperate to make it with their band, the Lone Rangers, that they take over a radio station with water pistols to force their demo recording onto the airwaves. Things quickly go awry when the station’s equipment shreds the tape. The song on that demo that listeners hear being eaten in real time? Reagan Youth’s “Degenerated.” Specifically, a re-recording of “Degenerated” sung by Fraser with instrumental backing from Phil Buerstatte, J. Yuenger, and Sean Yseult of White Zombie.
Melodic and anthemic and boasting a few semi-satirical guitar solos, the original “Degenerated” steps slightly out of hardcore bounds to suggest exactly what happened here — reinterpretation by a more mainstream act. Little else about Reagan Youth lends itself to a mid-’90s Hollywood comedy. The band’s 1984 debut Youth Anthems For The New Order baits potential listeners in both title and imagery; the cover shows a Klansman patting an adoring toddler on the head. Anyone who bought the LP quickly learned that Reagan Youth were violently opposed to toxic hate groups. “Death to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan!” Rubenstein screams on “New Aryans.” If you miss that, there’s the entirety of “I Hate Hate” (“Why waste the life you live? Live’s to love, I’m positive!”). Acolytes of their namesake are dismissed as “godforsaken” and “brainwashed.”
Melodic and anthemic and boasting a few semi-satirical guitar solos, the original “Degenerated” steps slightly out of hardcore bounds to suggest exactly what happened here — reinterpretation by a more mainstream act. Little else about Reagan Youth lends itself to a mid-’90s Hollywood comedy. The band’s 1984 debut Youth Anthems For The New Order baits potential listeners in both title and imagery; the cover shows a Klansman patting an adoring toddler on the head. Anyone who bought the LP quickly learned that Reagan Youth were violently opposed to toxic hate groups. “Death to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan!” Rubenstein screams on “New Aryans.” If you miss that, there’s the entirety of “I Hate Hate” (“Why waste the life you live? Live’s to love, I’m positive!”). Acolytes of their namesake are dismissed as “godforsaken” and “brainwashed.”
Reagan Youth’s initial burst of hardcore energy lasted until 1990 (versions of the band have since played reunion shows). After that, Paul Bakija and Dave "Insurgent" Rubenstein tried to get other projects off the ground before the latter’s fatal overdose in 1993 (a heartbreaking coda following the death of Rubenstein’s mother in a car accident and the murder of his girlfriend Tiffany Bresciani by serial killer Joel Rifkin)."
- James Greene Jr., Hard Noise
Steve Buscemi & Bruce Loose
"Is it significant that Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) were born just one year apart? Maybe. Sinatra began as a teen idol, before developing into American's bon vivant and arbiter of cool, and finally a cranky old man. On the other hand, the writer Burroughs was born a cranky old man, and perpetuated that image throughout his life. We loved him for his irascibility. It tempered his truths, by giving a reader a passage into his junky life, his homosexuality, and his explorations of death.
To mark the centennial of his birth, actor/director Steve Buscemi and musician Elliott Sharp performed selected writings from the Burroughs oeuvre. There have been excellent tributes to WSB before, including Hal Wilner's Dead City Radio (Island, 1990) and Spare Ass Annie (Island, 1993). More recently, Let me Hang You (Khannibalism, 2016) and William S. Burroughs In Dub (Echo Beach, 2014). Buscemi and Sharp's sample the written and not the voice, but I cannot think of a better emulator of Burroughs' crusty voice than Buscemi. He delivers the texts with just enough of the classic Burroughs croak. Sharp's accompaniment is minimal, pulsing strummed electric guitar and electronics into your veins.
Fans of Burroughs will recognize Dr. Benway's condescending elitism, his concepts of control, viruses, the theory of cut-up, Spare Ass Annie, and the man who taught his asshole to talk. Burroughs' words today are as significant as they were in the 1950s and 60s. His individualism, maybe more paranoid than rugged, is conveyed brilliantly by Buscemi and Sharp's Kafkaesque accompaniment which completes the picture."
To mark the centennial of his birth, actor/director Steve Buscemi and musician Elliott Sharp performed selected writings from the Burroughs oeuvre. There have been excellent tributes to WSB before, including Hal Wilner's Dead City Radio (Island, 1990) and Spare Ass Annie (Island, 1993). More recently, Let me Hang You (Khannibalism, 2016) and William S. Burroughs In Dub (Echo Beach, 2014). Buscemi and Sharp's sample the written and not the voice, but I cannot think of a better emulator of Burroughs' crusty voice than Buscemi. He delivers the texts with just enough of the classic Burroughs croak. Sharp's accompaniment is minimal, pulsing strummed electric guitar and electronics into your veins.
Fans of Burroughs will recognize Dr. Benway's condescending elitism, his concepts of control, viruses, the theory of cut-up, Spare Ass Annie, and the man who taught his asshole to talk. Burroughs' words today are as significant as they were in the 1950s and 60s. His individualism, maybe more paranoid than rugged, is conveyed brilliantly by Buscemi and Sharp's Kafkaesque accompaniment which completes the picture."
- Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
Elliott Sharp & Steve Buscemi
'The Human Virus' - Steve Buscemi & Elliott Sharp perform the work of William Burroughs