THE RESULTS ARE IN!
THE MARTINITES HAVE VOTED WITH THEIR FINGERS!
Overwhelming support for the canonisation of Kurt Cobain, but a narrow victory against his harradan wife Courtney Love!
And, inevitably, a new poll: IS IT TIME THAT CHRIS MARTIN DROPS THOSE OTHER LOSERS AND GOES SOLO? Gwyneth thinks so!
October 12 2009 | miracles and news and reviews | 1 Comment »
How awesome can awesome be? You know how it is on the perfect date, when you meet someone and you JUST CLICK and feel totally comfortable with that person? Or you make some spaghetti sauce and it comes out the perfect consistency - not too watery & not too thick and goopy? Some mornings you might get up and feel in your heart & soul that all is well with the world - you see the birds chirping and the coffeepot is on… and you just had the greatest sex in the world ! Well, that’s how it was to go to a Coldplay concert here in California this past week - LIKE A HOT DATE, PERFECT PASTA SAUCE, & GREAT EARLY MORNING SEX, all wrapped up into one!
The 19,000 seat amphitheater was SOLD OUT! Traffic alerts were sent to prevent automotive quagmires! The night was warm & tropical - balmy baby-making weather! All different types of fans-both young and old were in the house. Lots of different nationalities-people from all over the world, but especially from right over the near-by border-Tijuana.
It was truly the World Music Gathering ! Soon the opening band, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, came on playing some funky hillbilly music, then a wonderful West African band by the name of Amadou & Mariam-which featured bongo drums and all kinds of percussion plus 2 female dancers that were doing the wild and crazy watusi!
Soon enough Coldplay started to set-up and a palpable (good) tension dosed the air with intrigue and the upcoming promise of Chris Martin et al. Yellow Stars were up in the sky, twinkling brightly… Kurt Cobain - are you up there anywhere? Can you see & hear this? Soon enough a black mesh curtain drops down… flashlights on the stage show the Brit boys to their proper places…. oh! The anticipation is building to a musical orgasm that is FINALLY ready to climax… they are here, IN PERSON!
They launch into the strains of “Life in Technicolor” and we are off to the races. Next is “Violet Hill”… I was too much in rapture to keep a full setlist but I know they played just about, if not all of the”Viva la Vida” album, plus older hits such as “Fix You,” “Yellow,” “Clocks,” “In My Place,” and a very good rendition - in honor of fallen Saint-to-be Michael Jackson - “Billie Jean.”
Chris was VERY POLITE to the crowd and kept thanking us for coming out. He is such the very nice fellow and kept saying “This is a good show,” which I take to mean the band felt the crowd energy was receptive and welcoming plus we were singing along, clapping, dancing and just eating up the band! Then towards the end the whole bunch of them take off running to a small stage set up in the hinterlands of the upper reaches in the cheap seat area! Here they come - I am ready and strain to reach Will (who right up close is heavier-set than I imagined). Chris is right there - sweating profusely - and I gaze into his heavenly face, which up close is surprising lined and wrinkled! He seemed too intent on racing up to that platform, so I shouted “Viva Church of Chris Martin,” and tried my mightiest to mind-channel him with this admonition: “CHRIS MARTIN - YOU MUST PROCLAIM THE FEMALE MESSIAH ON YOUR NEXT CONCEPT ALBUM!” But it was diffcult to concentrate since he went by so fast and I was striving to ooze sex appeal in my low-cut, seafoam green maxi-dress so that Chris might consider me as a bosomy groupie to dally with after the show.
They ended the show with the crowd going crazy and they took their final bows but came back out almost immediately to finish off with the encore, “The Scientist.” Then as my friend and I beat a hasty retreat to escape the traffic nightmare, you could hear the Great One speaking–rather sermonizing to the crowd about African Music, Oxfam, perhaps-even meat-free Mondays. A greater time I have to think hard about having at any other recent show (Incubus excepted) so I must say to all Church members: Coldplay & Chris are every bit as WONDERFUL, PERSONABLE, TALENTED, NICE, & PERFECT as you would be led to believe!!
(I was told by my daughter - who parked her Lexus in the VIP lot - that as she was leaving, she saw the band run out from the venue and pile into 2 black-tinted window vans and haul off away from the show-still in their “stage outfits,” which means they were at a hotel somewhere close-by! But they had 2 police escorts so following them was probably out-of-the-question.)
They spare no expense on putting together a first-class show with perfect visuals: MTV-type video screens that show all the stage action, excellent sound mix, fancy details like red and green strobe lights, Yellow balloons, rotating globes on stage, and - of course - the wonderful blasting of the multi-colored butterflies when “Lovers In Japan” is played. In fact, I positioned myself directly behind the machine that spits those babies out and they fell all over me, strobe lit - what a Coldplay turn-on!
Do what myself and (TRCM) Brother Rob out of Vancouver, Canada do - stretch your over-worked credit card to the limits of a bankruptcy filing and get to as many of these Coldplay shows as possible. Chris warned us at the end that they won’t be back for several years! Maybe he is to accompany Father Drobbingdon into the bunker to save himself from the impending chaos and be around to lead what’s left of the world to the 2nd coming of the Female Messiah he is almost ready to proclaim?
All Hail the Greatest: Chris Martin. To reside in the same space and time and air with him, even for 2 hours at a packed concert venue is to partake of the most magnamonious and creative love-mind of our time and age. I feel blessed, cleansed, and perhaps a little bit better person overall for that time I spent at the Coldplay concert. God Bless Coldplay and Chris Martin in infinitum! VIVA COLDPLAY!
July 23 2009 | news and reviews | 3 Comments »
Violence: Heavy
Racism: None (Morgan Freeman’s in it)
Homophobia: None
Blasphemy: None
I suppose the reason I’ve always liked Batman is that unlike all the other superheroes, he doesn’t actually have any superpowers. He can’t fly, wasn’t bitten by a mutated spider nor changed by radiation - he’s just a regular guy with some hi-tech toys and something to prove.
A lot like Chris Martin, really. He’s a normal man, who just tries a little harder than the rest of us. By living his life more purely, he has become what he wanted - The Messiah.
Sure, Batman may be a bit of a vigilante, but nobody’s perfect. He’s headstrong with ideals, makes mistakes, and sometimes acts before he thinks. But instead of a angry, violent man with a fetish for rubber, we see a man who is battling his personal demons, and trying to do what’s right. Those who have been part of the Batman era for a long time know that Batman’s no killer - he cares about others and wants to do the right thing. Just like Chris Martin. So anyone who says he shouldn’t have hit that journalist, or scraped the other guy’s car with his keys can shut up because he’s no worse than Batman, and everyone knows Batman is cool.
This is the fifth Batman movie - but the first one to get it right. It is far and above the last 4, and probably even better than Spider Man but in a different way. I’m also glad that whacko Tim Burton isn’t allowed to make them anymore. It’s brilliantly directed by Christopher Nolan, and Christian Bale is brilliant as Bruce Wayne/Batman (oops! possible spoiler!) Katie Holmes out of Dawsons Creek is brilliant AND gorgeous as Wayne’s childhood sweetheart, even if she is a Scientologist.
Batman Begins shows the importance of compassion, especially to those that don’t deserve it. Batman’s motivation is a reminder that it is not only what you do, but why you do it. Indeed, our actions are open to misinterpretation, and erroneous conclusions being formed - like Chris and the journalist. This movie reminds us that the decent, moral position is to understand, that evil is actualy the result of being poor, and that criminals are to be understood and treated and helped, rather than justly punished and locked up like they deserve.
There was a strong message here about facing your fears, about learning to control them, and using them to your advantage, that was very poignant. Truly, I could picture Chris watching this film.
I loved this film - straight off the bat!
May 12 2008 | reviews | No Comments »
Violence: Some (Terrorism)
Rasism: None
Homophobia: None
Blasphemy: None
There are some films that are just important for the world, not created for entertainment, but as an examination of the human spirit in the face of extreme circumstances. United 93 is one of those. It ranks up there with Shindler’s List, Titanic and Cocoon.
Untied 93 has come upon us soon after the fact. Some feel too soon after the fact. But whatever you feel about the moral issues, as a movie, it is a staggering Tour-de-France.
Writer/Director Paul Greengrass says Untied 93 is a fictionalized retelling of what happened on 9/11. At the same time it depicts the ‘fog of war’ better than any documentary on the subject could. There’s no political slant here, and there’s no finger pointing – except where the finger should point, at all the Islams in the world.
Untied 93 has been cast for a documentary feel, and there’s barely a familiar face on screen. Ben Sliney, national operations manager for the FAA at Kennedy Airport and actually in charge of the command center on 9/11, appears, playing himself. This casting decision adds an eerie sense of realism. However he’s rubbish at acting, and his performance actually lets the movie down.
The movie’s clear on what is really important in life. This collection of strangers came together to confront an unthinkable threat. Valour in the grim face of death shows heroism above human capability, and resides within the spiritual. They asked themselves, are we going to sit here waiting, or are we going to do something? As Chris sang, “If you never try, then you never know.” I think there is wisdom in that.
The only problem I had was that much of the movie was filmed with hand-held cameras, and the person in charge of the movie camera panned too fast and my stomach got nauseous.
9/11 should never be forgotten. Each generation has a duty to pass down religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice, bigotry, and genocide to the next. I think people NEED TO BE REMINDED of what happened on 9/11, it being hardly ever mentioned in the media. This movie does it’s job and for that I am greatful.
Perhaps it is distasteful to make a blockbuster movie so soon after the real events. But if it is going to produce top-notch infotainment like Untied 93, I say –
“LETS ROLL!”
April 26 2008 | reviews | No Comments »
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