Monster House's original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time for $30 via Waxwork Records. The score is composed by Douglas Pipes (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus).
The 2xLP album is pressed on "Dynamite Demolition" (orange & yellow swirl with splatter) colored vinyl. It's housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring artwork by Rich Kelly and a 12x12 art print.
48 notes
·
View notes
Joe Goddard — Harmonics (Domino)
Photo by Louise Mason
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard enlarges a euphoric, body-moving electronic aesthetic on this third solo album by inviting in collaborators, and though results vary, the best of these partnerships are extraordinary.
Some of these meetups are not surprising, as when Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle turn up for “Mountains.” Here a plurality of Hot Chip join in a blippy, boppy, spirit quest that asks existential questions amid rave-y bursts of synth and drum machine. Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe, too, seems like a natural choice in “Summons,” executing wild operatic arcs of melody atop grumbling synth bass and pounding keyboards. But a couple of tracks featuring Goddard discovery Findia fall flat; they’re not terrible but feel a bit like by-the-numbers dance pop.
In fact, the further Goddard gets away from what you might expect, the better these cuts work. It’s the oddball entries that catch your ear. Tom McFarland, of the UK dance-pop ensemble Jungle, flutters soulfully over eerie, trebly keyboard auras in “Ghosts,” stretching words into fluid glissandos. McFarland, perhaps reflecting the title, is a spare, spectral presence, but the chorus kicks in with a gospel weight and certainty, a triumph over frailty and doubt. The jazz saxophone player and pop collage-ist Alexander DePlume is another unexpected choice, blowing in over the glitchy flicker of “Revery” with slow, vibrato-laced tones, a florid, faintly old fashioned sound in an electronic forest. But the best of all is “Miles Away,” an unearthly mesh of the Guinean singer Falle Nioke’s resonating tones and the chiming of mbira. If there were a whole album of just this, I’d be all in, 100%.
Goddard sometimes tinged his old band’s tunes with melancholy taking the vocals, for instance, on the moody, soulful “Hungry Children,” but Harmonics reaches for positive affirmation. “Progress,” aided by Ibibio Sound System’s Eno Williams, percolates with good feelings. Its heavily effected vocals soaring over pulsing, tonally intricate Konono 1-style percussion and swinging brass. It lifts off effortlessly and takes you with it.
In the end, it feels wrong to call this album a solo record, since it is defined and elevated by the people Goddard works with. He’s been adventurous in seeking out partners, choosing some familiar ones and some that no one would have predicted, and the risks, especially, have paid off.
Jennifer Kelly
3 notes
·
View notes
Just for fun, I’ve been messing around with Chat-GPT to come up with whacky story ideas. Out of context, one story the AI came up with is that Beth Harmon from “The Queen’s Gambit” has to work together with Charlie Kelly from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” to escape Jigsaw from “Saw”. But then it’s revealed that the whole movie was a delusional creation of Charlie’s mind and that Beth is actually a manifestation of his subconscious, there to help Charlie confront his fears and insecurities.
3 notes
·
View notes
also more odds & ends orville info & more not Not orville/phil info as well:
"In Steinkellner’s version of Summer Stock, Jane Falbury (Danielle Wade) and “Pop,” her father (Stephen Lee Anderson), are struggling to hang on to the family farm. Their farm is one of the few in the Connecticut River Valley that hasn’t been absorbed by the Wingates, whose holdings completely surround theirs.
The widow Margaret Wingate (Veanne Cox), whom son Orville (Will Roland) aptly describes as having eyes “as cold as death itself,” plans to absorb the Falbury farm by the simple expedient of having Orville marry Jane. After all the two kids had decided they were engaged in first grade!
Enter the prodigal younger sister Gloria (Arianna Rosario) who has been seduced by the lure of the Great White Way. She returns to the farm bringing along Joe Ross (Corbin Bleu in the Gene Kelly role), the director of the show that will make her a star, its composer Phil Filmore (Gilbert L. Bailey II), and the entire company. She has generously offered the company, which can’t afford rehearsal space in New York, the use of the family farm’s barn. Sister Jane reluctantly agrees to the intrusion with the proviso that the thespians will double as farm hands.
As rehearsals progress, Phil discovers that Orville, a bit of a doormat who has been raised with the understanding that he will never have to work, is a musical wunderkind. He is enlisted to work his magic on the show’s score and begins to blossom.
Widow Wingate takes umbrage with all this and vows to shut the enterprise down. Fortunately, the cold embers in her soul are stirred to renewed life by her encounter with Montgomery Leach (J. Anthony Crane), the has-been ham enlisted to give Ross’s show some cachet, so all might not be lost.
[...]
They make this Summer Stock a veritable feast of nostalgia. I was especially taken by the amusing way Steinkellner used Jackie Gleason’s theme song “Always” to further widow Wingate’s plot to get Jane and Orville hitched.
[...]
Orville, who has found personal liberation in show biz, is accorded a moment that reminded me of a similar scene in the musical version of The Producers. In a triumphant declaration of his emergence from under his mother’s thumb he exults, “I’m in the theatre! And I love it!” The audience loved it, too.
[...]
As director, Feore has elicited some wonderful performances, especially from subsidiary characters. Veanne Cox is splendid as Margaret Wingate as is J. Anthony Crane as Montgomery Leach, the faded matinee idol. Will Roland (Orville) and Gilbert L. Bailey II (Phil) both have wonderful moments and their intense professional friendship is one of the show’s highlights."
INTENSE PROFESSIONAL FRIENDSHIP you say....and also ofc everything about orville and wanting to be a musician and being in the theatre and he loves it sounds so good. i love it
2 notes
·
View notes
US Vogue November 1971 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Elizabeth Arden Lips & Cheeks.
Models/Modèles: Pam Suthern, Maud Adams, Kelly Harmon, Linda Tonge
Photo Unknown/Inconnu
vogue archive
2 notes
·
View notes
Design by Kelly Harmon (Pinterest)
Featured on taradillard.blogspot.com
0 notes
2023 Kia Telluride SX-Prestige X-Pro AWD
Family hauler supreme and stylish luxury SUV, that's Kia's Telluride. It just keeps getting better!
Kia just keeps improving its luxurious, stylish SUV …
Even perfection can be improved upon, but often it’ll cost you.
In Covid-crushing 2020 I selected Kia’s magnificent new mid-size SUV, the Telluride, as my Zoomie Vehicle of the Year. The tested top-level SX AWD version hit roughly $44,000 at the time and was as near perfect as I could imagine.
Telluride was, and is, luxurious, comfortable,…
View On WordPress
1 note
·
View note
kellyclarksonshow: Today we're hanging out with NCIS legend Mark Harmon and Kel Mitchell, PLUS we celebrate #GivingTuesday with TikTok sensation MDMotivator!
3 notes
·
View notes
Kelly Clarkson Show 11-28-23: Mark Harmon Thinks 'Freaky Friday' Sequel Will Happen
1 note
·
View note