Update from beyond the grave circumstances of being busy

Hullo everyone, Recca Phoenix here again.  Gee, this year has been busy.  I’ve had almost no time [or interesting things with which] to update this blog, and Latin Baby is suffering even more.  But I have some exciting news.

1. I finished another film.  A real one.  An experimental film.

2. Said film is to be shown at a prestigious film archive as part of a student film show.  I won something and I feel like a legitimate artist now.  I cried when I heard the news, I was so happy.  Said film may or may not be posted online somewhere for your viewing pleasure in the future.

3. I have a twitter account now.  Allow me to provide the appropriate classic rock quote: “and I’m waiting for you to follow me” (-The Who, “I’m Free”, Tommy)

4. My main store should receive an update sooner or later.  The other stores are also overdue for updates….

Guns n’ Roses Songs: A Chart

Inspired by Dan Meth’s Early Beach Boys Song Topics Chart (from his series of geeky pop culture charts, which are totally awesome), I created this chart of Guns n’ Roses song topics.

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I know it’s not exhaustive; despite being a huge Gn’R fan in the past, I never accumulated their entire discography.  So I’m working with what I know.  It’s not perfect, but I find it amusing just how many songs of theirs fall into the “sex and women” category.  I could have simplified this in the interest of a funnier chart but I wanted to get everything in there somehow.  I hope you enjoy it.

And Happy Holidays.

Amazing Pete Townshend quotation

“I wasn’t tough enough to be a member of a gang, not good-lookin’ enough to be in with the birds, not clever enough to make it at school, not good enough with the feet to be a good football player. I was a loser.
*cheer from the crowd*
And, uh, I think everybody feels that way at some point. And somehow, bein’ a mod, even though I was too old to be a mod, really, kinda got me right there.  And I wrote this song with that in mind.  Jimmy, the uh, hero of the story, is kinda thinkin’ he hasn’t got much goin’ for himself, but at least he’s, uh, ‘one.’”
- Pete Townshend of The Who introducing the song “I’m One” in Largo, Maryland in 1973 (Quadrophenia Tour).

This little gem came off a Who live bootleg, Taking the Capitol, recorded at the Capitol Centre in Largo, Maryland back in ‘73.  It’s not the best recording or the best performance, but it does have a very prominent bass and some wonderful snippets of Townshend explaining Quadrophenia.

I can really relate to that quote, though.  Quadrophenia changed my life.  I finally had something to relate to for my various identity crises and struggle to be a mod.  And mod has been the only subculture I’ve been involved in that I really clicked with and didn’t make me feel like a poser trying to assert myself.

What can I say, they’re my favourite band.  And they always will be.

An issue with the images….

Hey, everyone…

You may have noticed that some images haven’t been loading recently, instead just displaying a villagephotos “image not found” thingie.  This is because of a bandwidth issue that I will definitely resolve once my usage resets next month by uploading everything to a different website for hosting.

The changes will be taking place ASAP.

-Recca