Rock ’till You Drop
RAGE are screening an awesome special tonight featuring a great selection of rock music over the past 30 years. You can check out the playlist right here. If Jack Black was to give the kids in School of Rock a quality rock history lesson, then he would have tuned them all into RAGE tonight. The Clash, AC/DC, The Ramones, The Who, The Stones, they’re all there. Plus RAGE never skimp on the 80’s cock-rock so you have Motley Crue, Poison and even Twisted Sister with ‘I Wanna Rock’. Man that’s classic. Any idea’s who the woman is in the picture above? Well it’s Joan Jett from the 1981 video clip Bad Reputation, a song that you might have heard recently-ish since it’s the theme song to the TV show Freaks And Geeks. As you would say D, “delicious!”.
The reason why I’m watching this RAGE special is three fold: (1) It’s essential rock viewing (2) It’s a rare Saturday night off that I’d otherwise be working the graveyard shift of monotonous physical labour and (2) I’ve just finished editing for the day on the nightshift documentary which started around 9am yesterday and finished at 12:45am this morning and I need a break. I’m not exactly sure how I’m supposed to maintain people’s interest for 25 MINUTES! (Believe me that is a LONG time in documentary terms) because so far I’m only half-way through and already struggling with footage. Had the project been 10 - 15 minutes, I could have produced a tight, focused, interesting doco. However you’d be surprised how challenges like this can force you to become creative with your editing. I have promised a couple of friends that I’d post a trailer of sorts on the site so expect one to surface in the next week or so.
Onto other news, I’m going to the Elliott Smith tribute night this Monday at the Corner Hotel. Paul Dempsey (from Something For Kate) will be performing along with Melbourne’s finest musicians. It should be a memorable event and not to be missed by Smith fans.
3 Responses to “Rock ’till You Drop”
Paul Dempsey is meant to do a mean solo gig. Is there no way you can cut back the length of the project to 10-15 minutes instead of 25? Because no amount of creative editing will make up for a lack of quality content Jimmy. Whatever, I’m too preoccupied with not doing anything at all at the moment, other than hate the thought of having to go to work in 50 minutes, that I hate my job, that my job sucks balls, that my boss’ boss sucks thick, long donkey cocks until she almost chokes for fun and that Sony and their NetMD software could quite possibly be the shittest thing I’ve ever known. In fact, you can mark me down as thinking that about Sony in general.
I’ve compromised dude and managed to get the doco clocking in at around 20 minutes without too much excess baggage. I think it ain’t as bad as I first thought either but I guess my teacher will be the judge there. Anyway, I’m totally over it now and have shit loads of other work to do. I envy your current “doing-absolute-sweet-fuck-all” status.
Sony will always be shite. Get an iPod already!
I bet you are, buddy…