Wow. I think she’d be more powerful than Charlton Heston and Will Smith combined!

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I’ve now lived in Seattle over 20 years (doh! twenty!) and have seen many bands (kind of a ‘Seattle requirement’, similar to having work to do with technology or building airplanes, and drinking a LOT of coffee) – but aside from visiting bands from other places, there have been a few local bands that rose way above the pack. Manooghi hi was definitely one of them, but only 1.5 albums came out and they seem to have disappeared….I think the drummer lives in SF, I have seen one of the singers around locally but not sure about the rest….sad…. 🙁

here’s one from their prime…besides the links above from when we saw them live – got to see them at least 3-4 times, so that was at least something……

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I watched a bunch of these on YT earlier this week – these two were by far the funniest….

looks like a 20th anniversary special is coming up in Jan….cool!

‘MADtv’ 20th Anniversary Reunion Special Happening This January

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Jan Eliot is retiring…. 🙁

Eugene artist Jan Eliot retiring daily ‘Stone Soup’ comic strip

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So I finally managed to go see this, the last day of Chiho Aoshima‘s exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum this past Sunday. While it wasn’t a big exhibit – it was very, very cool. The highlight is the *huge* screened animation in the back auditorium – TAKAAMANOHARA. It’s so big you can’t see everything going on at the same time – you have to look back and forth, I suspect it would take many viewings to begin to keep it all straight. way cool! While the film below paints her as somewhat bleak in outlook, her art is intricate and amazing. Looking forward to her next exhibit in Seattle!

Other voices:
The Stranger
An earlier animation – “City Glow”
A review of an earlier exhibit in Catalonia at the Fundacio Miro.

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So for Prisoner fans, there is so much, yet so little. Here we have a great, completely enigmatic series that only lasted one season and was on tv the year I was born(!). So far ahead of its time, yet its prescient story is (literally) ever more real to us today, whether people choose to admit it or not.

But with all good stories, we are left wanting far more, and Patrick McGoohan – now sadly no longer with us – largely clammed up on the topic in his life and career after The Prisoner. And the recent 2009 attempt at an AMC remake of The Prisoner – despite a great Six (Jim Caviezel) and a potentially great Two (Ian McKellen) largely foundered in my view – too many attempts at distracting side plots without the deeper meaning(s) of the original, sadly.

But….in the late 80s, DC Comics published a mini-series that purported to ‘explain’ what happened to Number Six and The Village post-TV series. It was later put into a graphic novel – Shattered Visage – in 2000, which I only recently became aware of – I got a copy and have now read it twice (it’s a quick read). But it took the Wikipedia article to really begin to dig beneath the surface – like the series, I think the story is fairly deep, and actually even may shed some light on the VERY enigmatic (and often heavily criticized) ending episode of the series (Fall Out).

I won’t recap anything here, save to say i’ll need to re-read the story multiple times to dig through all the stuff noted in the Wikipedia article, to be sure. But for Prisoner fans, I think this definitely merits a read – or Six. 🙂

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but the first are still the best – the Daleks!

Dr Who villains through Time

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