versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
saw the streaming in France, unfortunately not Present in Birmingham live
This is the Ozzy family tree pic.
but my friend Teddy Tudose was there and this is what he wrote:
https://sunetelive.ro/recenzie-black-sabbath-back-to-the-beginning-ozzy/
https://x.com/BlackSabbath
🎸 Luke Winslow-King & T.R.E.S. LIVE @ Rockstadt
🗓 23 mai 2025, ora 19:30 !🎸
Bilete aici
sau https://rockstadt.ro/event/luke-winslow-king-t-r-e-s-live-at-rockstadt-23-mai-2025/
🎶 O seară specială marca Transilvania Blues Nights!
Pentru prima dată în România și în exclusivitate la Brașov, Luke Winslow-King urcă pe scenă alături de Roberto Luti și trupa T.R.E.S. (Tres Radio Express Service), într-o combinație de blues autentic american mixat cu energia de power-blues a uneia din cele mai speciale grupuri italiene.
🔵 Concertul va dura trei ore si va avea pauzå între recitalurile Luke Winslow-King, Roberto Luti și trupa T.R.E.S .
🔹 Luke Winslow-King (USA)
Originar din Cadillac, Michigan, chitarist, vocalist și compozitor de excepție, cu peste 15 ani petrecuți în New Orleans, muzica sa e o fuziune rafinată de Americana, delta blues, gospel și jazz.
În 2008, a fost numit de Gambit Magazine „Cel mai bun artist de blues”.
The Luke Winslow-King Band s-a format acum peste 15 ani și a avut concerte în toată lumea. Secundul lui Luke Winslow este Roberto Luti, chitarist și cantautor extraordinar originar din Toscana dar cu 10 ani petrecuți în New Orleans, cunoscut mai ales prin aparițiile sale din proiectul ”Playing for Change”.
🔵 Luke a fost prezent în premieră în România, la Brașov, la Rockstadt pe 26 aprilie 2024 în cadrul seriei de concerte marca Transilvania Blues Nights!
🔹 T.R.E.S. (Tres Radio Express Service) (IT)
Un trio italian cu o chimie scenică explozivă, format din frații în muzică Roberto Luti, Simone Luti și Rolando Cappanera. Povestea lor începe încă din adolescență, cu trupa First Experience, și continuă prin cariere individuale impresionante, colaborări internaționale și participări în proiecte de talie mondială, precum Playing for Change.
T.R.E.S. s-a înființat în 2010 într-un proiect muzical sincer și dinamic, unde blues-ul, funk-ul, rock-ul și psihedelia se unesc într-un sound vibrant. Pe scenă, T.R.E.S. (acronim de la Tres Radio Express Service) înseamnă intensitate și libertate artistică!
🎙 Eveniment prezentat de: Transilvania Blues Nights cu sprijinul Institutului Italian de Cultură București
✅ Recomandat de: Rock FM & Zile și Nopți
🤝 Sponsori: BCR, Butan Gaz, Dräxlmaier Group, Tehnic Mihor, BitDatamining
🛎 Partener de ospitalitate: Brașov Old Town Apartments
🍴 Parteneri culinari: A-Ha Bistro, Coliba Haiducilor
Let There B. Blues!
Announced now. From Claude Lelouch's legendary Un homme et une femme (1966).
Pas un, mais deux ;)
Un Homme. Une femme.
Finally ! On April 4, the most expected album (in any sense, and for me in special) by Mike Scott's The Waterboys is out. I announced here on Jan. 8 2025.
Vignetes about Golf (Hooper's latter passion), The Last Movie (his doomed film), Andy (Warhol), Michelle (Phillips), Frank Booth (from Blue Velvet), Terry Southern (who wrote Easy Rider), etc. Including a fake trailer for a biker movie, "Freaks on Wheels", a la Tarantino's latest films.
Post-modern, cool, eclectic, funky, groovy, mad -as Sir Dennis was ;) A wonderful heartfelt tribute, about the times and of Wild Pop Americana and one of True Legends of the Movieland (und more).
Reviews here:
Uncut -4 stars
**** 1/2 out of FIVE.
Life, Death and Dennis Hopper Track List
(where there are links you find the videos).
Hollywood’55
Live In The Moment, Baby
Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights
The Tourist (featuring Barny Fletcher)
Freaks On Wheels
Blues For Terry Southern
Memories Of Monterey
Riding Down To Mardi Gras
Transcendental Peruvian Blues
Michelle (Always Stay)
Freakout At The Mud Palace
Daria
Ten Years Gone (featuring Bruce Springsteen)
Rock Bottom
Frank (Let’s Fu*k)
Katherine (featuring Anana Kaye)
Everybody Loves Dennis Hopper
Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing Of Hopper
Aftermath
Jose Ramirez - 28 martie 2025, Rockstadt, Brasov, ora 20.00
Pentru prima oară în România și la Brașov, ”Bad Hombre”, Jose Ramirez vine la clubul Rockstadt din Brașov pentru un concert unic, vineri 28 martie 2025, la ora 20.00!
https://www.facebook.com/events/492695487183106/
the Show -my notes:
23 awards to go til 6.10 am ;)
It starts with Somewhere over the Rainbow, it goes into the Wicked songs with the freakish Cynthia and Grande.
Conan O'Brian (hosting for the 1st time), is actually very good, natural with a good sense of pacing. With a little help of Adam Sandler and John Lithgow. Then surprise, he sings s a song, “I won't waste time”, featuring dancers, the sandworm from "Dune" on piano doing “chopsticks” and Deadpool.
Robert Downey jr. presents supporting actor and the least deserving guy gets it, Kieran, who is the same in life as in A Real Pain, as in Succession, kinda same part. Nice speech tho, talking to his wife.
He also looks like a young Kirk Douglas. Glowing eyes.
(commercial break #1)
The short animated category I didn't follow. “In the Shadow of the Cypress” won. The two Iranian directors are great ! They just landed in L.A. Three hours ago, they said.
(commercial break #2)
Costume design, no surprises there, Wicked, the first black person to win for costume design.
Another commercial break, # 3
Original script. Sean Baker wins his 1st Oscar for writing Anora. Adapted, Conclave. No surprises here.
Surely The Brutalist and The Substance and September 5 were better choices but I'm happy for Baker.
Commercial break, # 4, man, there's more breaks than show...
June Squibb and Scarlett Johansson present the makeup and hairstyling award to The obvious The Substance.
Then we get Halle Berry to let us know the Governer Ball's Awards (November 2024), from Quincy Jones (posthumous) to the Bond producers of EON, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (who gave a way bond to the sharks from Amazon :() -Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
and then we get a 007 tribute clip followed by a dance extravaganza with a superb Margaret Qualley (as I said before, on her way in becoming a A-lister, after OUATiH, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, The Substance, Drive-Away Dolls), in a red dress, then we get renditions of Live and Let Die with Lisa , Diamonds are Forever with Doja Cat, Skyfall with Raye, all in good taste, channeling the originals.
Commercial break, # 5
Nice joke of Cinemastreams, Conan featuring Marty Scorsese.
And a anniversary of Kill Bill puts Daryl Hannah on stage. She looks great, presents the award for best Editing. Again, Sean Baker rocks (2nd award !), Anora for editing ! Deservingly.
Divine takes the stage for the supporting actress award presentation. Zoe Saldana wins. Emilia Perez was here, will she win for International film too ?
Commercial break, # 6
Ben Stiller on stage with a joke stolen from SNL Vincent Price skit (& Peter Sellers & more), present the Production Design Award. Wicked". May the Biggest budget film win. And a film about architecture, nem...
Then on the sound of Sympathy for the...who ?, Sir Mick Jagger shows up. Best Song award. Making Bob jokes. El Mal from Emilia Perez win. Sorry, I couldn't care less. The nominations this year for song were awful.
Commercial break, # 7
Conan does the second Dune Sandworm joke, playing harp ! Sam Jackson (L.) and Selena Gomez (M.) present short documentary film. The Only Girl in the Orchestra wins. Feature: No Other Land. Political moment speech.
Commercial break, # 8
Conan & the L.A. Firemen Dpt. Firemen jokes.
Miles Teller & Miley Cyrus (in Europe Kilometer & Kilometry). Sound. Dune 2.
Gal Gadot, herself a special FX, in a red dress present the Visual Effects Award. Dune part 2 it is.
VO/announcer (in my heydays it was Peter Coyote ;) -Nick Offerman, who's voice is kinda off (booze?).
Commercial break, # 9
Ana de Armas and Sterling K. Brown present the last short award.
Morgan Freeman presents an homage to Gene Hackman. He played together in Unforgiven and Under Suspicion. That introduces the In Memoriam montage I had no clue Fred Roos and Adam Somner. died ..).
Commercial break, # 10
An actor presenter from each film nominated for Cinematography: Joe Alwyn for the Brutalist. Alba Rohrwacher salutes a Ed Lachman in a wheelchair for Maria. Willem Dafoe for Nosferatu, Zoe Saldana for Emilia Perez, Dave Bautista for Dune part 2. Lol Crawley wins for The Brutalist. Fair enuff.
Penelope Cruz presents for Best International Film. I'm Still Here/ Ainda Estou Aqui wins (Walter Salles, Brazil). Another big loss for EP, due to bad PR mostly.
Commercial break, # 10
Conan makes another Russian Joke via Anora. Mark Hamill (!!!) presents the award for best Original SCORE. Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist. Well deserved for a Grand, epic score !
Whoopy and Oprah introduce a Quincy Jones musical tribute. Queen Latifah sings a song from The Wiz.
Commercial break, # 11
Conan: "If you still enjoying this show you have what it's called Stockholm Syndrome".
Cillian Murphy takes the stage for best actor award. He won last year for Oppenheimer. And...Adrian Brody wins his 2nd Oscar (22 years after 2003's The Pianist) for the part of architect László Tóth in The Brutalist !!! The most touching moment of the evening. Brody is entering a cool restricted club. Egészségedre !
Enter QT, Quentin iz in ze house ! Best director -ta-dam, Sean Baker for Anora ! His 3d Oscar, suddenly a small struggling indie director becomes a Monster Superstar in the biz. Phones will be ringing, snakes will be crawling, emails will be flowing, agents will be waltzing around & mirages will be presented to him but I have the feeling he won't sell out. Kudos !
Commercial break, # 12
Emma Stone (who won last year for Poor Things) presents Best Actress award. Aaaand surprise, Mikey Madison (Sadie in OUaTiH) wins !!! Anora's fourth Oscar ! Mikey is 25 !
Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal present Best Film. And Anora wins !!! Five Oscars out of Six ! Sean Baker is also co-producer so he gets his fifth award. Bravo !
And they even finished earlier this year ! Sorry for Demi, that was this edition surprise for me. 62 vs. 25. Baby Jane or All About Eve ? Again the SAG proof that no one guesses is perfect. The acting awards were again different from those of the guild. All in all it was a calm and cool edition with the most indie films in an Oscar race, two foreign directors, and wins for Anora 5, Brutalist 3.
That's it, folks !
All nominations here, my notes on the show here:
My predictions: guessed all except Demi and not I'm still here (which I noted tho as a possibility).
that does not mean I want all these films to win !!!
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance” WRONG, Mikey Madison wins for Anora !!!
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
“Conclave”
“Flow” (even if Wild Robot is considered faved, Flow is a much better film)
“Emilia Perez” (France) , could be overpassed by "I'm Still Here" ! Und it was !!!!
Honestly I dont give a F*** but
“El Mal”from “Emilia Pérez”
Film Editing
"Wicked"
"Wicked"
Alex Van Halen wrote about a book about him and Eddie VH, entitled BROTHERS.
The Audio book includes the final song of Eddie and him, Unfinished. It's a nice elegy to the genius to Edward Van Halen.
the song is available for download from van-halen.com.
The first gig of his new Tour, "Trouble is Good" !!! the band, same as in the video below. 
B. There & Let There B. Blues !!!
Tickets/Bilete pe Rockstadt.ro
"You can't kill Rock'n Roll. "
Just as Paul Di'Anno died at 66
Ozzy Osbourne was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame y-day in Cleveland, for the 2nd time, 1st as a member of Black Sabbath in 2016. Jack Black said his introduction, naming Ozzy "the jack Nicholson of rockn'roll". Various musicians played afterwards three songs (Crazy Train, No More Tears), featuring Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo, Zack Wylde, Billy Idol, Wolfgang Van Halen. Ozzy mentioned in his speech Randy Rhoads and his wife, Sharon.
Ozzy is 75 and retired, his last album to-date was the 2022, Patient no. 9.
#furiosa
"Do you Think you have it in you to make it EPIC?"
Yes, they do. Und they did;) And what an Epic. Oh, what a lovely day continues...
Here are my previous two posts on FURIOSA, 1st one when the trailer came out on Dec. 1st last year, then when on 21st March 2024 was announced to be in Cannes (as I surely expected). Six to seven minutes of standing ovation, depending on who you read ;)
Now, I just saw it and not only IT ROCKS, it also ROLLS. As a in a Rolls Royce of a film. Well, more like a Harley ;)
Film of the year and one of the best of this decade, scout's honor (film scout that is ;)
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Furiosa Is ‘David Lean, But With Motorbikes Instead Of Camels’
Says New Immortan Joe, Lachy Hulme who took over from Hugh Keays-Byne (d. 2020-Vale)
-The best prequel ever (Godfather 2 included !), no s*it...
As Mad Max: Fury Road (whose prequel to the key this is), is one of the best films ever made-and surely I have seen in this century and millennium !
Emi Pârvu și echipa filmului său Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii, urcă acum în Palais Lumiere !
Proiecția oficială a singurului film românesc din Competitia Oficială a Festivalului de la Cannes de anul acesta !
Merde !!!
World Event du jour (16 mai 2024) -the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS (over 40 years in the making, and finally produced on his own dime-and 120 million $ of it !!!, sold half of his vineyards they say), at the 77th Festival de Cannes. Coppola is 85 now and won double time -deux fois la Palme d'Or, for The Conversation in 1974 and for Apocalypse Now in 1979 (ex aqueo with Schlondorff's Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum). Now he's nominated for a Third Palme (third time's a charm syndrome, well, Merde! :)
Great teaser for the film (or First Look clip) shattered the internet views 12 days ago, and then the trailer is on now, 2 days before the Cannes screening. French distributor is Le Pacte and I know for fact il will be distributed in Thaeters in Romania. Interesting enough, no US distributor yet, but surely this will be of passé composé demain ;) Update-yes, sold to Lionsgate immediately !
Cannes TV du 1er rang just showed the end of the screening, the applause and the ending photo call of Coppola and his family & Team. Adam Driver, the lead of the film, Talia Shire (Francis' sister), Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight (85 as well !!!) and a bearded almost unrecognizable Shia LaBeuf in Palais Lumiere and on the Red Carpet (here's the Red Carpet before the seance).
Here are the whole 22 mins of this Historical Event (yep, wish i was there...)
c'est Cannes, c'est beau...c'est vieux ;)
Update> 8 Nov. 2024, I saw the film today...my thoughts here
https://aldmovieland.blogspot.com/2024/11/megalopolis-2024.html
:( not Megalopolis at all, so flawed, proof of good intentions don't make great films ..;(
Cannes 77 completions/Les Complements
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