Rock and roll is here to stay

Photo via Of Monsters and Men- sold out State Theatre, ME performance July 30, 2012

Photo by Neon Black Teeth via Sugarhigh + Lovestoned

My local concert venue the State Theatre has been killing it lately.  Not only have some big timer bands come to our little city way out East, but the venue is pretty special.  It was built in 1929, showing some of the first films in the US.   It also showed the old time cartoons- Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Popeye! And apparently porn kept the theater afloat during hard times. Hey, however you weather the storm ;)After some ownership exchanges and remodels it is back better than ever, with a little help from the Bowery guys from the big big city...

Not that she didn't take time off.  Her Christmas vacation was a fifteen-day cooking marathon during which she prepared turkey, couscous, and chapon for various sittings of friends and family..."I spent my vacation in the kitchen, and I loved it.  The kitchen is one of the most important places in the house." Cotillard seems not just OK but entirely at ease when operating at full stretch like this.  "I've never been more exhausted," she tells me.  "But I've never had so much energy.  This is the paradox of being happy.  That's where it comes from."  She flashes an infectious full-beam smile from under the hood of her jacket and pushes deeper into the forest.
- Marion Cotillard via VOGUE

"Nothing automatically happens.  It's like people's journeys, like those kids at the Hole concert.  I don't know for sure, but maybe they're suburban kids- maybe they lied to their mothers, maybe they took a bus from Jersey to go to this Hole concert and wrote this shit all over themselves.  You know this kid was living in the Tenderloin district in some apartment with his alcoholic father.  He's getting up all over San Francisco, and people know who that kid is.  He doesn't go to school, he has no money for college.  That effort- that energy- is fascinating.  I've known some of these guys in New York and San Francisco since they were teenagers, and now I know them as thirty-year olds, and I've seen what they did to get somewhere, to find a way to make a name, make a living..."
- Cheryl Dunn, Some Kind of Vocation