retro-the-best....: May 16, 2011

Monday, May 16, 2011

Retro: Kimmer

MORE FUN RETRO ROCK STUFF FROM MY FRIENDS
STOOGES GIG PHOTO GIFTS FROM HEATHER HARRIS
THE AMAZING BRANDO!!!
THE RUINERS AT PJ'S LAGER HOUSE SATURDAY!!
GUEST POST FROM ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER HEATHER HARRIS

MORE FUN RETRO ROCK STUFF FROM MY FRIENDS

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Loved watching Mugsy!

My dear friend Stanley T. Madhatter buttons and photos from the Second Chance/Nectarine Ballroom Facebook Page thanks Cathy!

Scott Dailey sent these in and are these ever cool.... Thanks Scott!

STOOGES GIG PHOTO GIFTS FROM HEATHER HARRIS

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:46 PM PDT

THANKS HEATHER XXOOK

THE AMAZING BRANDO!!!

Posted: 16 May 2011 01:23 PM PDT

BrandO

Had a fun phone call today with the VERY Amazing BrandO... My daughter is a huge fan and I am too. We met BrandO in Lansing awhile back at one of his gigs. BrandO is a cool singer/guitar player who write the lyrics and plays guitar featuring Nintendo video game music.

Back before I bought my first computer I was a video gamer. So BrandO and I have a lot to talk about! We went over all my old favorites like Super Metroid, Final Fantasy, Mario RPG and more. BrandO sent in my videos and new tour info for him. He said he may be in Detroit soon..
He is such a talented guy..

BrandO has a very hot website that my daughter Lesley contributes art for check it out!

Hated killing this monster the most!!

From BrandO:

Hey Kim!
Here are the links to the videos:

Zelda 3 Episode 2:

Song of Storms (Ocarina of Time):

Enjoy Your Stay (Hotel Theme from Earthbound):

Zelda 3 is being done in the style of a Rock Opera walkthrough.
Song of Storms was also recorded in Spanish

Enjoy Your Stay is my most recent, and Zelda 3 Episode 3 should be posted within a week or so.

I am also in the process of recording a whole album dedicated to Super Metroid:

I'll be performing at Nerdapalooza in Orlando, FL on July 16th, and at NerdPow October 28th in Columbus, OH.

Hope this helps! Attached are some newer pictures for ya. Feel free to use some from the Facebook as well. :)
Talk to you soon!
BrandO

THE RUINERS AT PJ'S LAGER HOUSE SATURDAY!!

Posted: 16 May 2011 09:38 AM PDT

Rick Ruiner and Nina Friday

PJ's Website/Calender

My darlings the Ruiners are playing Detroit Saturday night and we will be there hook or by crook to catch the action. I love them and their music too..

This is part of Kevin Pachla's Motor City Special Recording Series. Stanley T. Madhatter and I went to their first one at Orchestra Hall. We all had a blast with Madhatter onstage that night. Madhatter became their regular emcee..

THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE GET A FREE COPY OF MOTORCITY SPECIAL IV (DETROIT LADIES LIVE) PRESSED ON RED VINYL! DOORS AT 7:00. Performing Live: Chapstik, The Ruiners, Bars of Gold, and Dutch Pink. Our MC for this special event is former host of The Steve Barman Show, Steve Barman! Spinning sweet, sweet vinyl between sets will be Detroit's grooviest DJ, Richie Wohlfheil!

This will be the last show in this live recording series. Selections from this performance will be released on limited edition purple vinyl records. Join us for a special night with some of Detroit's finest entertainers. *LIMITED RELEASE* MOTORCITY SPECIAL LIVE VOLUME IV (Detroit Ladies Live). Recorded live at Small's on February 12th, 2011, this sassy red vinyl record (plus show poster) will be available free for the first 100 people through the door on 5/21/11.

Rockin out today to my cool Ruiners CD... See you kids soon! XXOOK

GUEST POST FROM ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER HEATHER HARRIS

Posted: 16 May 2011 08:52 AM PDT

Loved seeing my gift hanging on HH's wall! Thought I would share this piece today XXOOK

The most eclectic and/or rare art resides in my photo studio bathroom. The studio originally was the barn of our 1912 farmhouse, and the back wall of same had been painted with a mural of The Promised Land (some of it seen at left in the photo above) in place of an altar when it was converted to a church for revival meetings. The Ann Arbor Rock and Roll Revival show poster above the utility sink (dating to when I used this space as a darkroom) is a brand new acquisition, a gift from Retrokimmer three weeks ago when I visited there and photographed the Tribute to Ron Asheton/Iggy and The Stooges gig. Atop the wood shelf is an old art school oil painting I did, with a 1978 theatre flyer below. It's by Edward Gorey of the London production of "Dracula" starring Terence Stamp, which Mr. Twister and I saw there. Below a signature work of Niagara's (Dark Carnival and Destroy All Monsters chanteuse) "This Band Sucks" giclee is an impossibly rare poster of English Boy Ltd., the vintage mid-1960s modeling agency made up of the coolest who's who of Mod/Psychedelic London's fashion, music and art scenes, illustrated with dozens of said scenesters from Brian Jones, James Fox, Suki Potier, Chrissie Shrimpton and Marijke Koger to various Ormsby-Gores and Raineys. And how did Mr. Twister procure this originally? He was one of their models during his sojourn with the cast of Mick Jagger's best film "Performance."

In our upstairs water closet are rock and roll magazines, rock and roll books (plus a Zelda Fitzgerald biography or three,) a large giclee print by Niagara (the Marlene Dietrich at left) and Marijke Koger-Dunham's (besides being featured at English Boy Ltd, the pyschedelic stylist to the Beatles, fine artist and member of The Fool) two fantasy prints. Yes, I have a retro paisley bathroom. Two of these books have appearances by yours truly. Rebel Music by Harvey Kubernik has my shot on the cover, and We Got the Neutron Bomb (History of L.A.Punk) actually quotes me. I had to answer someone's comment of "If I had this bathroom I'd rarely leave it" with my own confession, "I don't do those sorts of things any more."

What's in the downstairs' bathroom? Below, another Niagara giclee ("One of us is loaded,") one of Twister's 60s interior design posters, and an actual original 1973 David Lance Goines print of "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel." I guess we like Marlene Dietrich icons in our bathrooms.) Mary Kay, bassist of legendary The Dogs and I both constructed as well as designed this loo, replete with our knocking out part of the wall and tiling over it, building a graceful plaster curve to the tub and, to play up the 1912 aspect, wall-papering all 4 walls and the ceiling (of the latter quoth Mary, "Never again!") During said construction, a faux supervisory Twister would stroll by and ask how Lucy and Ethel were doing!

The more observant will note the barbed wire embedded in the toilet seat, bottom photograph, pun intended.

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[New post] DC's The Flash gets top tier treatment in Flashpoint

DC's The Flash gets top tier treatment in Flashpoint

dailypop | May 16, 2011 at 2:27 pm | Tags: dc comics the flash geoff johns flashpoint | Categories: The Flash | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-2BX

The sultan of speed, the human whirlwind called the Flash is highly regarded as the viceroy of the Silver Age of comics that gave us the Fantastic Four, Green Lantern and more. Police scientist Barry Allen was unexpectedly doused in a random selection of chemicals when a bolt of lightning struck his laboratory. Taking up the mantle of his favorite boyhood comic book superhero, he donned a red costume that retracted into a ring on his finger and called himself the Flash.

The early days of the Flash read like a how-to guide for Silver Age comics. Each issue stands on its own and utilizes bizarre concepts and colorful super villains against our hero who must not only defeat his foe but also arrive on time for his date with the hen-pecking but lovely Iris. The Flash's rogue's gallery runs the gamut of psychically-imbued gorillas, wizards from the future and madman that hide inside mirrors. While the character lost his appeal in the late 1970's, he was given a new lease on life by dying saving all of reality from the Anti-Monitor in the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths. His protege Wally West took up the legacy of the Flash for many years, before Barry Allen made a triumphant return in another Crisis.

Green Lantern, another of Johns' favorite characters, was the focus of t Blackest Night crossover that firmly embedded the ring-slinger in the DC Universe. The new event (far bigger in scope that Blackest Night) centers on the Flash. It has been met with generally positive responses as it sheds a new (if grim) light on an alternate future of the DCU.
Via UGO.com:

Superstar Geoff Johns (responsible for one of the finest Flash runs this century) is assuming writing duties on the mega summer event's five issue main series, which will be bolstered by four one-shots and SIXTEEN mini-series (Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance, Flashpoint: Project Superman, Flashpoint: Hal Jordan, etc.). You'd better have your checklist handy for this one, folks.

This is a complete gut feeling, but it bodes well for the in-development Flash movie that DC is giving the Scarlet Speedster so much attention. 2009's Blackest Night was a Green Lantern event, and look: we got a movie this summer. With the Flash movie rumored for 2013, that just makes tons of timeline sense. Hopefully this means DC is going all-cylinders on this one.

Geoff Johns has worked some magic with what are regarded as 'second tier' characters such as Green Lantern and Hawkman, but his work on the Flash is legendary. He is also the current Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment, a title that demanded his heavy involvement in the upcoming Green Lantern movie. As Johns' latest event series brings the Flash to the fore, one wonders if a feature film is not waiting in the wings for the scarlet speedster...

Here's an excerpt from an interview with Flashpoint architect Geoff Johns via i09:

[i09] In Flashpoint, you're not just creating a story, you're building another reality and (re)inventing a ton of characters. How did you coordinate this world-building effort?

[Geoff Johns] Really it was working with editors Eddie Berganza and Rex Ogle. I fleshed out the world, the characters, and the concepts with the rest of the series writers — for example, James Robinson is writing a miniseries about [the 1960s Batman villain] The Outsider, and the two of us discussed that character. It was a team effort with DC editorial.

Two-part question: what made you choose the Flash and the particular trope of alternate realities for Flashpoint?

One of the staple stories of Flash is parallel Earths and timelines. I really wanted to do a story that would have the DC Universe as the entire scope but have the Flash at the center of it. It just made sense — for me, this is the ultimate Flash story. The timeline has been altered so that the hows and whys are the story. Flashpoint is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how we've done with Green Lantern. It's important that the Flash can hold his own.

Is there one particular moment that changed reality or did several things go askew?

I would say that's a mystery you'll see unfold!

More info at DC's Source.

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[New post] Superman Beyond, man of the future today!

Superman Beyond, man of the future today!

dailypop | May 16, 2011 at 2:06 pm | Tags: batman beyond animated, Bruce Timm, justice league, ron frenz defalco thor, superman dc comics | Categories: Superman | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-2BT

Based on the popular Batman Beyond animated series from 1999, an ongoing series has been quite a hit with readers. Building on this success, a Superman Beyond one-shot is on its way from the popular Thor team of Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz. In the Batman Beyond series, we got to meet the aged Man of Steel in a two-part adventure entitled 'The Call' which featured a futuristic version of the Justice League. The future Superman recruited the new Batman into the team in order to sniff out a traitor in the Justice League's midst. Even amongst the series' amazing run of spine-tingling adventures, this story stood out if only as the first time an animated version of the JLA appeared on screen under Bruce Timm's leadership.

The two-parter also insinuated that Batman had not exactly left the superhero community on good terms...

watch?v=2MbRyRlMGdQ

The one-shot will likely get some coverage at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con in July and if sales are solid, perhaps an ongoing monthly title will follow.

Via UGO.com:

[Batman] Beyond fans have a new reason to be excited: the announcement of Superman Beyond, a one-shot from writer Tom DeFalco and illustrators Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema. The Daily Blam reports that Superman Beyond #0 is set in the world of Batman Beyond and will tell the story of an older Kal-El who is called back to his heroic duties to battle off a new villain.

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DeFalco, Frenz and Buscema has had a lengthy career working with Marvel Comics, DeFalco being the Editor-in-Chief of the comic giant for 1987 - 1994 and all three working together recently on Spider-Girl. The teaser image from the book is reminiscent of some of Frenz's work on Superman back in the nineties, when the the Big Blue Boyscout was literally Blue. Everywhere. Those were the days.

Superman Beyond #0 is slated for an August release, making Comic-Con the perfect platform for DC to announce details on the project and a possible expansion of the brand beyond the one-shot. As lauded as Batman Beyond is, it's a truly under utilized resource and expanding the universe through a spin-off series starring another famed superhero might be just what the property needs.

The world needs a Superman Beyond series!

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