November 18, 2006 by PT Rothschild.

SHOOTING MOVIE LEADS TO VIDEO (Updated)

Ivan Promotions has been asked to shoot their first video. The punk legends TOTAL CHAOS were touring on the same bill with Ryan Mudd & The Stuff. When Ivan Productions went up to the Galaxy Theatre to film Ryan, TC requested IP  film their latest video. the start date hasn’t been set yet so look for more news as this story develops. Word is the crew at IP will work from ideas and concepts provided by the band. Meanwhile IP continues to record the ‘last days of Pompeii’ tour now rolling through Java Jo’z. Be at the ‘scene’ and get your face immortalized as part of the history of Java Jo’z. 

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November 18, 2006 by PT Rothschild.

SCENE NEWS – THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (It’s Offically Unofficial)
Murrieta, CA – as foretold in previous columns, especially in ‘Locals Nightmare Before Christmas’, the ‘scene’ around T-town and Murr-ville (Temecula and Murrieta) is in a downward spiral. It’s almost magical to see if you can visualize it as a soap bubble with cracks blowing apart in slo-mo. Yet perhaps because of it, the last few shows have had a poignant spin to them, starting with F**K THE BAND, who drove all the way down from San Jose (up by San Fran for you out-of-towners) just to play a Java Jo’z show, party their asses off, then hit the road back, cause they know the way. This trend continued in the late, great acoustic set done by READY FOR VEGAS, RYAN MUD w/o THE STUFF, and INVERSE. Friday night’s FVE show of THE TRADE (“breakout performance”), JUPITER, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE, and headliners MIDNIGHT DANCECRAZE sustained the ‘party like it’s 1999’ energy. Behind the scenes drama has put the handwriting on the wall for regulars mentioned in my columns like Capt. Tuesday, Valerie (already gone a week), Ashley, and Wes (tonight is his last night before he moves down to S.D. It is also Jack’s (late of CHAPTER 14 and regular of open mike night) last night. Even staffers of Full Value Entertainment have experienced ‘blow back’ for being themselves. Almost a year to date of when the scene at JJ’z exploded onto the valley new music arena, the town’s hottest, hippest, happening heads for its last hurrah, think CBGB. Matt (’No Burner Left Behind’) and I, as the young and old bookends of esoteric knowledge around the scene, correctly predicted the end of Krypton. Hopefully many of these ‘magic’ moments in local music will return in the big screen flick Ivan Promotions has been shooting. Footage from last night’s THE TRADE and MDC sets looked great. Watch for trailers here and relive some past Java Jo’z jammy.
Tonight is set to be a party night. Follow all the up-to-date as-it-happens details on the crucifixion and resurrection of this So Cali new music scene with the folks who first told you about it, the Full Value Review, because ‘someone has to report the good news’.

PS: THIS JUST IN!!!!!! There will be news cameras/media at the Java Jo’z show tonight. WOW!

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November 18, 2006 by PT Rothschild.

BOND IS BACK …
And better than ever. Although these words have been written about almost every James Bond release since ‘Thunderball’, word on the street is, this time it’s true. I first met 007 when I was a freshman in college. The movie ‘Dr. No’ was a weekend campus offering in the auditorium. I was blown back by this hero who took no shit, blasted the bad guys, and not in the shoulder, and laid the kind of women that made men of all colors drool like Homer Simpson. Here was a ‘Hugh Hefner’ with a piece, and not a codpiece either. The very next morning I was in the local bookstore to purchase an Ian Fleming novel. The seller told me about the original novel, Casino Royale. I had the book read in two days and used it for an English assignment.
The ‘origin story’ told how James Bond came to be 007. But more than that, the story style, the flow of words, the descriptions, and the story itself, completely mesmerized me. I was hooked and from there on out, I told myself that if I could write ‘like’ someone, it would be Ian Fleming. I also started to develop a writer’s relationship with the author, from a fan’s standpoint. I read everything I could about the author and bought each new Bond novel that came out, reading them according to copyright date since they were not numbered in sequence, and there was a loose history thread that ran through the stories.
I was delighted with Sean Connery as Bond but the literary purists argued that Connery didn’t ‘look’ like Bond in the books. Although a couple of Sean’ features fit Ian’s Bond, the purists said Connery was a bit too handsome. When Roger Moore took over the role, the stories had already delved away from the books’ stories, except for character names, and Moore was obliviously way too ‘smooth’ in the handsome department for the more rugged appearance of Bond. Fleming rarely described James’ face the way most authors do, so changing his appearance wasn’t too difficult, artistically speaking.
Now it seems, at least on visual inspection, that Hollywood has finally found the ‘real’ James Bond as he is described in the books by Fleming, except for the blond hair. Daniel Craig has a face that is ruggedly handsome and probably his eyes are the best part. it was the same with Bond, if I remember correctly. It has been a while. But that I can live with if all the hype about the direction of the storyline is true. Casino Royale wasn’t just the first Bond novel; it was the novel the rest were held up to, in literary circles. The story was well written and character development of Bond took you from mild dislike for his character to really caring about him by the end of the book. You are actually glad to see him in the second novel, Live And Let Die. If this movie captures the seriousness and tense action of the book, then you will have a movie bigger than ‘Batman Returns’, itself an excellent piece.
I have movie passes, James Bond is in town, and today is Saturday. Stay tuned for my review, ‘Lord willing and the creek don’t rise’. Late.
 

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