From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #241 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, September 4 2004 Volume 04 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] the very best thing about the new Criterion Edition of VIDEODROME... [Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] the very best thing about the new Criterion Edition of VIDEODROME... ...is how one spine of the box replicates the "Videodrome" videocassette from the film, complete with authentic Betamax L-750 label. Too bad the total package had to be VHS-sized; it's the only thing that breaks the illusion, at least for those of us who remember (and in my case, liked) Beta. I'm looking forward to hearing the commentaries, and am especially keen to see if Cronenberg or Woods ponder the question "what if someone tried to insert a VHS tape into Max Renn's stomach?" I mean, his gut might have been Beta-only. Coincidentally, we were watching some of the later COWBOY BEBOP episodes the same day I bought the new VIDEODROME edition, and one featured an extensive VHS vs. Beta discussion, while a second had the ditch-your-coporeal-body guru who loosed an exclamation that was *this* close to being "Long live the New Flesh!" So it seems like a very propitious time for VIDEODROME viewing, indeed. later, Miles, who is also very happy to finally own a DVD of UNDER THE CHERRY MOON, a film that's been quite unjustly reviled lo these many years ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:53:25 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] for the Wire fans among us In case you haven't heard yet: http://www.posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=7967 It says "4 October" for the release date, but Posteverything is shipping the DVD/CD set direct to customers now. That entire 1979 Rockpalast performance was played as part of the evening with Wire at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2000, and I can say that the performance we saw via a grainy VHS projection that evening was just stunning, so I'm really looking forward to getting a spruced-up DVD. That evening at the Royal Festival Hall, the two previous iterations of Wire essentially opened for themselves (the '70s version via the Rockpalast footage; the '80s version via a performance on a Suzanne Somers-hosted talk show, including Somers' hopelessly inane attempt to interview the band between songs), which was very cool. (Newman/Spiegel project Immersion, Lewis project He Said, and a DJ set of Wire sounds from Mute's co-owners rounded out the evening.) And the actual Wire Mk. III set that evening is stil the best live show I've ever seen. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:54:42 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] for the Wire fans among us In a message dated 9/3/04 7:27:21 PM, outdoorminer@mindspring.com writes: > including Somers' hopelessly inane attempt to interview the band between > songs), which was very cool. > That would be from the Fox Network's post-Joan Rivers, pre-Arsenio Hall version of "The Late Show," with frequent hostess Suzane Somers introducing the reunited Wire as something like "one of the hottest young bands from England." Two years after 1985, as I recall. The CD/DVD set is certainly worth owning for any "154" fan, with many songs in impressive early versions. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #241 *******************************