Duke who? (It’s okay: ka-HAH-nah-MO-koo.) Here’s a short history and photos of his statue on Waikiki Beach.
He’s called by many the “Father of Surfing” and a hero to most any surfer, including Woody, the lead character in our stage musical “Go-Go Beach” (book & lyrics by John Wimbs). Woody’s big plan for the gang after graduation centers around a used car lot he is about to inherit from his girlfriend’s father. A few scenes later, flower child Bulldog returns from San Francisco and has a few things to say about the blasphemy of naming a used car lot after the Duke, but until then it’s just the boys having some fun in the 1966 California sun!
So, here is Austin Miller, star of the 2006 NYMF production of Go-Go Beach, and more recently “Hot Danny” from the NBC reality show “Grease: You’re The One That I Want”, singing the song “Duke Kahanamoku’s Roadsters and Jalopies”.
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Duke Kahanamoku’s Roadsters and Jalopies
Lead vocal by Austin Miller
Add’l vocals by Mike, Matt Hinkley, and a lot of other folks that helped out on “Surf’s Up”
Lyric by John Wimbs
Music by Brent
Produced by Brent
(c) 2001 (p) 2007 Dream Bus LLC
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Audio interview with director Lauren Lazin by NPR’s Farai Chideya
Documentary Recounts the Last Days of Left Eye –NPR News & Notes, May 18, 2007
iTunes version (segment 4 of podcast episode)
Singer at the End of Time: The Video Diary of Lisa Lopes –Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, May 19 2007
“Last Days of Left Eye” premiered tonight on Vh1. Mike and I watched it at our neighbors’ apartment since we don’t have cable.
About 9 minutes into the documentary when Lisa is talking about her grandfather playing at the Cotton Club, there is a 25 second cue of old-time swing music. Well, I wrote that and the full cue is 2:38. I also wrote it for trumpet, but was asked to switch it to sax to fit Lisa’s story.
Since MTV owns this track and the guys at the club worked really hard to learn it, here is the full Cue LL42, as I intended it, for trumpet, clarinet, trombone, tenor sax, piano, bass, and drums.
Cue LL42 Cotton Club
Written & Produced by Brent
(c) and (p) 2006 MTV Networks
Published by MTV Songs (ASCAP)
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(btw, there were no guys at the club. it’s all synth.)
First I find out that puppies have belly buttons, now her baby teeth are disappearing.
It started with a little blood in her water dish. For about a week now, each day has another tooth or two missing. Already new ones are growing in on top — let’s hope they aren’t as sharp. It doesn’t faze her one bit, and we never see the teeth that fall out. She must swallow them, which is too bad, cuz I miss out on puppy tooth fairy action.
At the risk of being “that parent”, here are two photos from the Frankie photocast.
Posting these kinds of things reminds me of this Ben Folds Album.
Our bud Austin Miller was in last week to record vocals on a new Go-Go Beach demo track “Duke Kahanamoku’s Roadsters & Jalopies”. I am mixing the track this week, and we’ll be posting it online soon right here.
Fans of the show will recognize “DK’s R&J” as “Surf’s Up!”. Revisions to the story line before last year’s NYMF production called for a song to lay out Woody’s big plan for The Gang after they graduate. Don’t worry, all the good stuff from “Surf’s Up” is still intact. Stay tuned!
This week’s issue of Newsweek has a write-up on “Last Days of Left Eye”, including the Vh1 trailer. That’s not our score in the trailer, so you’ll just have to watch the show Saturday to hear it. Newsweek article found here:
Left Eye’s Fatal Vision Allison Samuels, Newsweek – May 21, 2007 issue
Can’t find these two online yet, but People Magazine (3 of 4 stars) and Entertainment Weekly (B+) are also running reviews. First airdate is this Saturday, May 19 at 9pm Eastern, with more showings over the weekend. (Showtimes)
Clipping from People Magazine
Clipping from Entertainment Weekly
After a year of film festival appearances from Harlem to Amsterdam, Austin, Atlanta, and Hollywood, “Left Eye” is finally coming to Vh1. (Official Site)
(Click above to see the full postcard.)
So since we don’t have cable, someone set your DVR for Saturday, May 19 – 9pm EDT. (More showtimes)
In celebration, we’re posting another track used in the film. I should mention that we didn’t score this film to picture. We met weekly with the director, Lauren Lazin, and produced a custom library of music for editor David Beinstein to cut to. The final variations on 80+ tracks and themes totaled over 4 hours of music. We wrote each track to have a lot of variety to choose from, and often times they chose just a certain 15 seconds of a couple minute long track. So we are posting cue “LL39″ (for lack of a better name) here in its entirety so that it does not go unheard.
Cue LL39
Written by Mike
Produced by Mike and Brent
Guitar by Jeff Widenhofer
(c) and (p) 2006 MTV Networks
Published by MTV Songs (ASCAP)
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