Welcome to Death Row tells the unauthorized history of the most notorious rap label ever. And what a story it is–the rise and fall of Death Row and its power-hungry CEO, Marion “Suge” Knight, makes The Godfather look like a bedtime story. The film traces the entire controversial history of the label and the impact it had on not only the music industry but American culture. The film also details the relationship between Death Row and its biggest star, Tupac Shakur, and the effect that Shakur’s sudden death in a 1996 drive-by shooting had on the label’s fortunes (a story told in greater depth in Thug Immortal). Although none of the major players in this drama are represented on tape, an alarming number of believable behind-the-scenes sources makes this a documentary that goes a long way toward revealing the intimate connection between the music industry and organized crime, and the desire for power and glory that drives them both.
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GOOD: “We Like to Share” interview series
This past December, I conducted a series of interviews with people about the value of sharing information and resources in their respective fields of work. The interviews were edited into a podcast for GOOD entitled “We Like to Share” that was made available to people who attended the GOOD December series of events in Los Angeles. Last week, GOOD began posting CC BY-licensed text versions of the interviews on its website and will roll out one a week over the next few months. The first interview is with Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook, who was the online strategist for the Barack Obama campaign. Check back at “We Like to Share” each Thursday (starting tomorrow) to read interviews with iconic sharers like Jimmy Wales, Chris Dibona, Frances Pinter, Jesse Dylan, and Curt Smith.
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents (Updated)
Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker and torrent hosting service to serve its users. READ ARTICLE
Podcast with Peter Sunde on the GGF’s acquisition of The Pirate Bay: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadRev Billy: Mailbag
Dear Alterati Saints Of Perpetual Occulture,In honor of the 2009 Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday I’d like to submit Reverend Billy’s Free Speech TV Series, “The Last Televangelist”, for review. Specifically, our episode on Coney Island and the Mermaid Parade entitled “Freak-a-lujah!”
We have five half-hour episodes of the series online at the Church of Life After Shopping website: http://www.revbilly.com/work/the-last-televangelist
Here’s the Freak-a-lujah episode: http://www.revbilly.com/work/the-last-televangelist/freak-a-lujah
“The Last Televangelist” is like “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” meets “The 700 Hundred Club” meets “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”. You will be changed forever. Viewing it in your web browser will clear your Bookmarks of consumer websites. Ok probably not, but we’ve heard stories! I hope you folks like it, we love Alterati and appreciate all your support. -Michael O’Neil www.revbilly.com
For independent filmmakers: audio
Here’s a few links to audio collections I’m building from panels, talks and conferences I’m recording at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. I have over 30 hours of this type of material recorded so far and will be releasing it all over time on pod.lafilmfest.com.
Enjoy!
- Filmmaker Lunch Talks Los Angeles Times Entertainment Writer John Horn talks to various producers, writers, editors and directors about their filmmaking experiences.
- Finance Conference Various industry experts and filmmakers talk about the “art of finance” for the independent filmmaker in the current economic climate.
The GSpot: Michael Mailer
Joseph Matheny discussed the state of independent film and ponders some solutions to the “Internet dilemma” with his friend and partner, Michael Mailer. Also, a new episode of “In Your Ear” with Psuke.
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Michael Mailer (born 1964) is a film producer and the oldest son of writer Norman Mailer. He has produced over 17 films. He has one sister Kate and two brothers Matthew and Stephen an actor. He is the co-founder of Bigel/Mailer films. He is married to Sasha Lazard and they have one son Cyrus. (wikipedia)
The GSpot: Steve “Diet” Goedde
Joseph Matheny reunites with an old friend from Chicago, Steve “Diet” Goedde. They talk about old times and Steve’s new release: Goedde Concerto with Robert Waechter. Also, an episode of In Your Ear.
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Steve Diet Goedde was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and learned the basics of darkroom work and photography from his father, who was an amateur photographer. By the age of 13, Steve was obsessed with taking photographs and started educating himself about photographers that inspired him, most notably Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Diane Arbus.
He moved to Chicago in 1985 to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied filmmaking and painting. He refused to study photography stating that he had already acquired his aesthetic and visual style.
In 1998, photography publisher Edition Stemmle published a collection of Steve’s Chicago work entitled “The Beauty of Fetish” detailing his fascination with such fetishistic fashion elements as latex, leather, and PVC. Later that same year, he moved to Los Angeles where he started a series of photographs which would later become “The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II” (2001), also from Edition Stemmle.
Slish Pix in 2005 released a career retrospective of his work on DVD entitled “Living Through Steve Diet Goedde”. In addition to the numerous animated photo galleries, the DVD featured interviews, commentary, and behind the scenes footage.
Steve Diet Goedde currently lives in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles.
John Wisniewski interviews Richard Huffman about the Baader Meinhof (Red Army Faction)
Richard is currently at work on The Gun Speaks; The Baader-Meinhof Gang at the Dawn of Terror.
http://www.baader-meinhof.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
http://www.richardhuffman.com/
What events or conditions in 1960’s Germany lead to the formation of the Red Army Faction?
There were a number of factor that directly and indirectly led to the RAF. An important factor was the massive upheaval going on in the German university system; in the space of just a few short years, you had a very rigid system where students quietly listened to their professor’s lecture to them in a god-like manner, to an environment where students in many university’s were voting on their professors, their grades etc. Basically students were becoming empowered as never before. Coupled with this was an extremely strong Marxist ideology that permeated the university system. Marx’s theories on Capitalism were accepted as fact, and the notion of a Revolution among the western societies was accepted as well. It wasn’t a matter of IF there was to a revolution, but WHEN there was going to be a revolution and who would lead it.
Events in Germany politics also pushed many young leftists away from the mainstream. In 1966 there was no clear majority party winners in the federal elections, so the two main parties chose to form a super-majority government comprising about 95% of the elected officials. This “grand coalition” convinced many young left-wing Germans that the supposed left-wing party (the SPD), did not have their best interests in mind.
The Manson Family
The Manson Family is a 2003 American film. The movie covers the lives of Charles Manson and his “family” of followers.
The film had a long and troubled production history. Director Jim Van Bebber personally financed the production starting in 1988, and then continued to shoot it sporadically on weekends and off days.
Despite support from various people, including members of the band Skinny Puppy, who provided a musical score (in the form of Download’s Charlie’s Family album) that was released separately years before the film itself, the film remained incomplete. It screened on video as a work-in-progress at a number of film festivals during that time.
In 2004, Dark Sky Films stepped in with the funds to finish the film properly, and it has since been released theatrically and on home video. (wikipedia)
Join My Cult audiobook episode 6 - 7
The psychedelic prologue to Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning, Join My Cult! has been rewiring drug-addled brains for the past five years. Now, here, for the first time (because we never bothered to get around to it before), are two installment of the book in audio form. Music in this episode is by James Curcio, Nate Sampsel, and P. Emerson Williams.
Want to see what J read in the script in episode 7? Check out this video.
Want to read the novel instead? :
Join My Cult! eBook (PDF)
Past Episodes feed (iTunes or direct)
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