Do a search for “Sparks” on YouTube and you’ll find a plethora of links to Jordin Sparks, the winner of American Idol‘s sixth season.
But if you click on a few of the other videos, you’ll be in for a wonderful surprise.
Continue reading ‘The Visual Splendor of Sparks’
Interviewed by Hanna
For Hanna’s review of The Reinactors, click here.
Cult filmmaker Dave Markey’s new movie The Reinactors premiered at the 37th Rotterdam International Film Festival in January. Detailing the complicated lives of the character impersonators that work on Hollywood Boulevard as tourist attractions, it was one of the greatest successes of the festival, with all showings sold out. It was also one of the highest rated movies in the audience polls.
Continue reading ‘Just Getting It Out There: An Interview with Filmmaker David Markey’
Interviewed by Less Lee Moore
I first became aware of Vicki Berndt via her Margaret Keane-inspired art for the Redd Kross Third Eye album. Then I started noticing that she was credited on photos for almost every other band I loved in the 90s.
Redd Kross, Third Eye © Vicki Berndt
She’s a devoted fan of music and pop culture, not to mention an innovative visual artist, so I was thrilled when she agreed to be interviewed for this issue of Popshifter. Her DIY attitude towards art and music is inspirational.
Continue reading ‘Do What You Love: An Interview with Artist Vicki Berndt’
Interviewed by Less Lee Moore
Paul Feig is one of my heroes. In this age of cynicism, that probably sounds corny, but it’s the truth. Paul Feig has been a stand-up comedian and an actor and is currently a writer, director, producer, and author.
Continue reading ‘Why Uncool Is Cool: An Interview with Paul Feig’
By Less Lee Moore
Read Part One of this article here.
This year, I got a copy of Nirvana, a book by music journalist Everett True. Although I own Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad, I’ve never even read it. So to be fair, I read Azerrad’s book first.
Continue reading ‘Married and Buried: Punk As A Four-Letter Word, Part Two’
By Nicole V.
We all know music award shows are boring. They’re too long and too formal, and even though the awards most people don’t care about are presented in the non-televised portion, it still feels like a lot of filler. Still, I always watch portions of both the Grammys and the Canadian version, the Junos, every year.
Continue reading ‘Top Five Reasons I Love The Junos’
By Hanna
For Hanna’s interview with Dave Markey, click here.
The Reinactors follows the lives of a group of Hollywood Boulevard reinactors—those who impersonate well-known movie industry characters on the street, posing for photos and entertaining tourists—for a span of two years. Most of them are homeless or living in mobile homes; some of them are part-time actors in Hollywood or just aspiring to it, but they are all stars in their minds.
Continue reading ‘The Reinactors, Directed By David Markey’
By Emily Carney
1. Jefferson Airplane, two nights in Germany, 1978
“Give me head.”
Grace Slick earned the sobriquet “the Liz Taylor of rock” during the 1970s due as much to her propensity for Liz-like excess as her attractive appearance. Her heights of Babylonian overindulgence climaxed with two wacky nights in Germany in 1978, during which Ms. Slick single-handedly managed to alienate an entire European nation and change the lyrics to much of her band’s back catalogue, both tasks equally momentous in scope. Some “highlights” of the performances: Grace, who appeared to be completely wasted and was drinking throughout the show from a Dixie cup, changed the lyrics of “White Rabbit” from “Feed your head” to, inexplicably, “Give more head.” It probably didn’t matter what she sang, given her throat sounded completely mangled anyway; she had probably also smoked about 100 Kools that day.
Continue reading ‘WASTED! The Top Five Most Inebriated Performances/Tours (In No Particular Order)’
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HOTEL CALIFORNIA RADIO SHOW—TITLE: CROISSANTS AND COFFEE
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I am Terri Titwell, your gracious host. We are here daily at 8 a.m. in the Grand Dining Hall of the Hotel California to bring you interviews with your favorite celebrities, both living and dead, for your listening pleasure.
From Dracula to Diva—my guests today are Cult Classics. Some of the most interesting individuals, both on and off the screen, that Hollywood has to offer. All of my guests today are Stars of Cult Film.
Continue reading ‘Hotel California Radio Show: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, And Buster Crabbe’
In Rebel Without a Cause, Natalie Wood portrays Judy, a tough-talking teenage girl who exasperates her parents. She doesn’t seem to be able to decide if she wants to be a little girl or a grown-up. Her mother tries to placate Judy’s frustrated father by saying:
“She’ll outgrow it, dear. It’s just the age. It’s just the age when nothing fits.”
Continue reading ‘The Age When Nothing Fits’