Peace The Forks Out

to

Amy Jade

‘Foreclosed‘

Winehouse

1983 – 2011

our review of her 2007 Bowery Ballroom show

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Bond Girl #1!!!

not Sigmund

album cover father

alone homer

down under injun actor

he said EAT THIS to weed

U2
Ghettolands II
July 21st

Dude, it was like 1991/92 all over again (started off with 4 straight Achtung babies!! BUT NO ‘ZOO STATION’????), and then it wasn’t (How To Assemble A Great Concert With No Lines On The Horizon That Can’t Be Left Behind), and no one was bothered whatsoever, cause U2’s 21st century output is stadium rocking ready, and boy, did that stadium rock, and their performance was juss as on target and point and awsomes as it was when we first saw them on the Zoo TV tour at RFK stadium.  And even wethinks it was even better than the thing thang we saw at Ghettolands I 2 years ago.  These guys are good, perhaps maybe even TOOO good

Even Better Than The Real Thing / The Fly / Mysterious Ways / Until The End Of The World / I Will Follow / Get On Your Boots / Magnificent / I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / The Promised Land (snippet) / Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of  (snippet) / Stay (Faraway, So Close!) / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (snippet) / Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (snippet) / Elevation / Pride (In The Name Of Love) / Miss Sarajevo / Zooropa / City Of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Scarlet / Walk On

encores: One / Hallelujah (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / With Or Without You / Moment of Surrender / Out Of Control

ps – we never got around to using the Achtung Baby condoms we bought in ’92.  can anyone help us with this problem?

Peace The Forks Out

to

Sherwood Charles

‘No Man Is And Island‘

Schwartz

1916 – 2011

Robert Frank ‘Rob’

‘Fire Up The‘

Grill

1943 – 2011

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
The High End Theroy
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 95 min

Don’t know what it would be like to watch a documentary about A Tribe Called Quest if you weren’t a fan, but if yer reading this, you probably are, and probably grooved like mad to their slick rhymes and phat beats in the 90s, aka the last golden era of hip-hop. Where would our ears be without the combined talents of Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White (whoever he is :)?  If those four names mean anything to you, then you owe it to yourself to see Michael Rapaport‘s (yes, that Mike Rap) love poem to this seminal group of playful rappers.  You’ll hear the likes of The Beastie Boys, De La Soul, The Roots, Common, Pharrell Williams, et al, spill endless praise, and rightfully so.  While there may not be any giant insight into the crafting of the music (there is barely even a mention of their classic ‘Scenario’), you won’t mind too much as yer head bobs up and down and all around in this greatest hits affair.  The last last third focuses a little too much of Phife’s struggle with diabetes, and his on & off again beef with Tip, but by that point, you see them out on tour again, and the songs remain the same – AWESOME!

Special Thanks: to our neighbor Scott Cassel, who used to drive us to high school, and introduced us to Tribe on those short rides to Richard Montgomery High.  Rocket Pride, Rocket Power

Verdictgo: Jeepers Mos Def Worth A Peepers

BR&L: TToATCQ has lyrics to go in NY & LA today, and elsewhere elsehwhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana
Radio City Music Hall
offical site

No, this is not a show about Fareed Zakaria roaming around Texarkana in search of Zardoz, but to be perfectly honest, that makes about as much sense as whatever Zarkana was or is suppose to be

They say it’s about Zark, a magician who has lost his powers – and the love of his life – in an abandoned theatre populated by a motley collection of off-the-wall characters and incomparable acrobats. He runs into the Mutants, four sirens as sinister as they are fabulous, who are determined to divert him from his quest.

We say it’s some crummy musical, led by a guy who looks like a cross between Dave Navarro, Johnny Knoxville and David Johansen, with a story that’s barely a story, but is still totally fun cause it has like French circus clowns, acrobats, hot Asians, and some stuff that coulda been aired on That’s Incredible!.  That stuff was hactually purty darn yumcredible, but that singing stuff was like totally killing the vibe… and there’s also some strange talking larvae cartoon thing, which might hactuallly be worser than microwaved tunafish

This is the very first Cirque du Soleil Moon Frye thingamabob that we’ve ever seen, so we don’t know how on par it is with the usual French circus stufffff they does, but we’d be down to see more, if they promise to get rid of the singing or only use Beatles songs, or had like more French clown madness, which is purty stoopid, but STOOPID AWESOMES!!!!

The show also got us to thinking – what are modern day American circuses like?  Are they like this but like less French and with no dumb singings?  Maybe it’s time to give Ringling, Barnum and/or Bailey another shot.  Is Gunther Gebel still taming it?  Apparently not.  Can they raise him from the dead?