seVen seen : Pink Panthers, Yellow Dogs and Perverted Birds

7:th tower of 2014

my Recent Discoveries
among Movies and Series

with stars from 1 to 7







Crown chakra


THE BIRDS
by Hitchcock
USA 1963

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. THE BIRDS (many different birds : seagulls, crows and love birds)

2. ANNIE HAYWORTH (Suzanne Pleshette)

3. MELANIE DANIELS (Tippi Hedren)

4. MITCH BRENNER (Rod Taylor)







Brow /third EYE chakra


ALICE IN WONDERLAND
by Jonathan Miller
based on Lewis Carroll

UK version 1966

5 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. ALICE (Anne-Marie Mallik)

2. FROG FOOTMAN (John Bird)

3. MAD HATTER (Peter Cook)

4. KNAVE OF HEARTS (Peter Eyre)







Throat chakra (with a Touch of the smaller Turquoise Thymus)


THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY

by Sophie Fiennes
UK 2013

4 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. SLAVOJ ZIZEK in THIS VERY MOVIE (Slavoj Zizek)
presenting his philosophy throung dissecting many movies

2. LAURA in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Celia Johnson)
"I wish you'd stop talking. I wish you'd stop trying and trying to find things out."

3. MOTHER SUPERIOR in SOUND OF MUSIC
inspiring Maria to reach out... even in a sexual way?

4. ALEX in CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Malcolm MdDowell)
approaching two dream girls in big record shop







Heart chakra


KEULRAESIK : THE CLASSIC

by Jae-young Kwak
South Korea 2003

7 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. JOO-HEE, the mother as young (Son Ye-jin)

2. JOON-HA, a boy in the old days (Jo Seung-woo)

3. JI-HYE, the daughter now (also Son Ye-jin)

4. TAE-SOO, another boy in the old days (Ki-woo Lee)



movie tune interpretation/transformation of Pachelbel's Canon?! which is also played in the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaXdjuukTk







Solar Plexus chakra


"YELLOW DOG" [GULA HUND]

by Hasse Alfredson & Tage Danielsson
Revue show for television
Sweden 1966

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. Lazy Woman with Unperfect Garden (Sonya Hedenbratt)

2. News Reporters Pretending to Swim (Hasse & Tage)

3. Poet (Gösta Ekman)

4. The Door-knocking "Whore Apprentice" (Birgitta Andersson)






Sex chakra /Sacred chakra


BARBARELLA

by Roger Vadim
based on Jean-Claude Forest

France 1968
in english language

3 stars


Roles who impressed me most
(though the characters are empty shells, I just adore the aestetics)


1. PROFESSOR PING (Marcel Marceau)

2. CONCIERGE /DURAND-DURAND (Milo O'Shea)

3. BARBARELLA (Jane Fonda)

4. THE BUDGIE BIRDS (many budgies)







Root chakra


THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

by Rober Wiene
based on Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Germany 1920

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. DR. CALIGARI (Werner Krauss)

2. JANE OLSEN THE GIRL (Lil Dagover)

3. ALAN THE FRIEND (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski)

4. CESARE THE SOMNAMBULIST (Conrad Veidt)












Below and Above everyone


PINK PANTHER
the animated

episodes 14-27
showed 1964-67

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Pink_Panther_cartoons

mostly by Hawley Pratt
music by Henry Mancini

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. THE GREEN ASTERISK (in episode Pink Punch)

2. PINK PANTHER AS SUPERHERO (in episode Super Pink)

3. THE SHEET GHOST (in episode Pink Panic)

4. GRANNY FLASH THE DRIVER (in episode Pink Pistons)



my seven favourite episodes

1. THE PINK BLUEPRINT (18)

2. PINK PUNCH (15)

3. VITAMIN PINK (17)

4. PINK POSIES (27)

5. GENIE WITH A LIGHT PINK FUR (22)

6. PINK-A-BOO (21)

7. PINK PANIC (26)








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Back with your Back in Brazil

my transformation of Back in The U.S.S.R. on Beatles White Album

the lyrics through a kind of distorted looking glass




[intro flight, from Ringo to Rio]


[first verse]

Feathers fill the jungle air with city sun,
shining all around your waist

By the way banana stocks grows pretty fun
Girl, you've got a fruitful taste!

[R A]

You're Back with Your Back in Brazil
Please Gimme Some Samba Until...
I'm Back on My Back in Brazil



[second verse]

Never been some place like this, a paradise
B! seems like two golden boobs

If I'm still awake tomorrow - will your dice (??)
roll us up to 22


[R B]

I'm Back on My Back in Brazil
Please Gimme Some Samba Until You're
Back with Your Back in
Back with Your Back in
Back with Your Back in Brazil



[stick]

Some of Chile's cheerleaders blows my mind
They dance like life were short

But Rio still shows a better kind
No tortoise never run run run run, run run run run, runs for sport

[solo]



[third verse]

Show us straight to big round things like cocoanuts,
pineapples so full of joy!

Let us hear your finger bells cling close to butts;
drum another dream for boys!

[R A]

You're Back with Your Back in Brazil
Please Gimme Some Samba Until...
I'm Back on My Back in Brazil



[outro flight]

Dance while Ringo play now!

[though Starr never did on this track...
well, I even used to believe Ringo was the one who sang it
but McCartney can do magic]






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Mad Alice not Opening Her Mirror

my transformation of Dear Prudence
on Beatles White Album


Lennons lyrics through a bit distorted looking glass
still about (wrong kind of) meditation :





Mad Alice, will you stay in your cave?

Mad Alice, like the earliest grave?

The clouds are out
Our town is black
Your moon is white
This track leads back

Mad Alice, will you live anyway?



Mad Alice, close that magazine!

Mad Alice, truth lies in between...

The world is mad
Some owls can laugh
Your mouse is dead
on photograph

Mad Alice, will you realise you dream?!



Feel them near, near, near...
Hear them fear, fear, fear...
See them here!



Mad Alice, why we hear you moan?

Mad Alice, be a woman soon?

The sun will take
my glasses on [no, off]
So let us feel
more glad than tough

Mad Alice, don't you want another room?







909

Crossing Zebra Road

originally intended to be an inverted reflection of "Why Don't We Do it in The Road?", but rather became something along the lines of "Revolution part 1"




Some miles ahead of Abbey Road

a year or two before The Beatles' end

we discovered a more specially chocking

zebra crossing which twisted our minds

         with unbelievably BLACK stripes

         on a very WHITE, unwinding street

         well, yes monkey, you saw right!

         but we heard a bird complain from left:

                      "Why do people like to cross this zebra

                            more than any other fucking thing?!

             Why can't they treat every street as equals?!"

then while our old brown shoes

stepped on that crazy creature

so curiously but lazy

for the 4.444:th time

           like Beatles rolled over Beethoven

           our reason began to (r)evolve:

                       "How boring if no road were unique...!

                         and if every street deserved the same

                        amount of attention - then

                        how could we dare to adore...?

and why would one bother to love anymore

one's favourite zebra some more than some horse?!"

Seagulls of Gothenburg City

White Bird (my first white beatle)

Transformation inspired by BlackBird, maybe most melodic track on Beatles' white album

a tune I thought was written in India but just found out it was born in Scotland?!






White bird screaming in the morning sun

takes that student hat
down to the bay,
rides away


We will always long for
her to visit us some day



Beetle fly!
beetle fly!
out of the black
into summer white


Seagull cry!
seagull cry!
out of your nest
to some city bright



White bird screaming in the morning sun

makes me shake these knees
of love and fear
- if comes near...


We were always dreaming
she would visit us some day








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seVen seen : Last Gravity of The World

Rising Down
6:th tower of 2014

my Recent discoveries
among movies and series

with stars from 1 to 7






Crown chakra


GEORGE HARRISON : LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

by Martin Scorsese
USA /UK 2011

4 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. RAVI SHANKAR (Ravi Shankar)

2. PATTIE BOYD (Patti Boyd)

3. GEORGE HARRISON (George Harrison)

4. RINGO STARR (Ringo Starr)

5. ERIC CLAPTON (Eric Clapton)

6. PHIL SPECTOR (Phil Spector)

7. MUKUNDA GOSWAMI (Mukunda Goswami)








Brow /third EYE chakra


THE WORLD'S END
by Edgar Wright
UK 2013

7 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. ANDY KNIGHTLEY (Nick Frost)

2. PETER PAGE (Eddie Marsan)

3. BASIL THE OLD WISE FOOL (David Bradley)

4. GARY KING HIMSELF (Simon Pegg)

5. TEENAGE TWINS (Charlotte + Francesca Reidie)

6. MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN (Steve Oram)

7. STEVEN PRINCE (Paddy Considine)







Throat chakra (with a Touch of the smaller Turquoise Thymus)


MONICA Z
(A LINGONBERRY BRANCH IN A COCKTAIL GLASS)

by Per Fly based on Peter Birro
Sweden 2013

Seen for second time now
felt much better than first disappointment
Should though be quite separated from the real persons

4 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. STURE B. (Sverrir Gudnason)

2. BENGT N. (Kjell Bergqvist)

3. BEPPE W. (Johannes Wanselow)

4. ELLA F. (Amelia Fowler)

5. MONICA Z. (Edda Magnason)

6. VILGOT S. (Oskar Thunberg)

7. TAGE D. (Jörgen Thorsson)







Heart chakra


LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX
First Season, episodes 1,2,3,4

by Sally Wainwright and Samuel Donovan
UK 2012

6 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. GILLIAN (Nicola Walker)

2. CAROLINE (Sarah Lancashire)

3. JOHN (Tony Gardner)

4. CELIA (Anne Reid)

5. ALAN (Derek Jacobi)

6. PAUL (Sacha Dhawan)

7. ROBBIE (Dean Andrews)







Solar Plexus chakra


LA BOHÈME
by King Vidor 1926

USA with Parisian material
based on Puccini's opera

5 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. MIMI (Lillian Gish)

2. VICOMTE PAUL (Roy D'Arcy)

3. MUSETTE (Renée Adorée)

4. COLLINE (Edward Everett Horton)

5. MADAME BENOIT (Mathilde Comont)

6. RODOLPHE (John Gilbert)

7. THEATRE MANAGER (Frank Currier)







Sex chakra /Sacred chakra


AGENT 007 : DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

by Guy Hamilton
UK 1971
based on Ian Fleming

4 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. MR. WINT & MR. KIDD (Bruce Glover & Putter Smith)

2. BLOFELD & BLOFELD (Charles Gray)

3. THUMPER & BAMBI (Trina Parks & Lola Larson)

4. PLENTY O'TOOLE (Lana Wood)

5. SHADY TREE (Leonard Barr)

6. TIFFANY CASE (Jill St. John)

7. JAMES BOND (Sean Connery)







Root chakra


GRAVITY

by Alfonso Cuarón 2013
USA with russian and chinese material

6 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. RYAN STONE (Sandra Bullock)

2. MATT KOWALSKI (George Clooney)

3. MATT KOWALSKI (George Clooney)

4. RYAN STONE (Sandra Bullock)

5. RYAN STONE (Sandra Bullock)

6. MATT KOWALSKI (George Clooney)

7. RYAN STONE (Sandra Bullock)














Far Away from Everyone
Below as Well as Above


[DEN OFRIVILLIGE GOLFAREN] "THE ACCIDENTAL GOLFER"
by Lasse Åberg
Sweden 1991

5 stars


Roles which impressed me most

1. FIONA McDOUGALL (Margo Gunn)

2. STIG-HELMER OLSSON (Lasse Åberg)

3. RODERIC McDOUGALL (James Logan)

4. GROUND PROTECTOR BERGLUND (Claes Månsson)

5. FARMER OLOFSSON (Bertil Nordström)

6. METTE GULBRANDSEN (Hege Schoyen)

7. OLE BRAMSERUD (Jon Skolmen)

8. ROSIE THE BARTENDER (Gerrie Ferguson)










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Radio City with Big Star

Big Star's second record seems at first to be a boring step back, but soon explodes slowly... revealing the most artful, melodical plants in straight, splendid rock ground. Seems strange as well as natural to know this was created 1974, not four years earlier nor four years later. From the almost mid-70's I usually enjoy glam rock more than anything, but here I don't hear and don't miss the glam at all.

as my Summer Album 14 : 64




most Grounded song: MOD LANG

most Sexy song: BACK OF A CAR

most Strong song: O MY SOUL

most Beautiful song: SEPTEMBER GURLS

most Amusing song: SHE'S A MOVER

most Mysterious song: MORPHA TOO

most Soulful song: LIFE IS WHITE




Reminds me most of
The Move
Neil Young
Badfinger
Thin Lizzy
The Byrds
McCartney with The Wings
The Who
Todd Rundgren
Gyllene Tider




Overall Album

6 compositions

5 instrumentations

7 feeling

2 philosophy

2 timeline (order of tracks)

3 concept (titles, cover picture)

7 historical importance

= 32


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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Swedish Summer City of VARBERG

Outside and inside of Fortress and some more streets

Built For Speed with Stray Cats

Obviously some could make real classical Rock'n'Roll even in the early 80's. Best attempt I've heard since Rockpile. Actually Dave Edmunds has co-written "Rock This Town" while almost everything is Brian Setzer's work.

as my Summer Album 14 : 62




most Grounded song: REV IT UP & GO (Big Old Bum)

most Sexy song: JEANNIE, JEANNIE, JEANNIE

most Strong song: RUMBLE IN BRIGHTON

most Beautiful song: LONELY SUMMER NIGHTS

most Amusing song: RUNAWAY BOYS

most Mysterious song: STRAY CAT STRUT

most Soulful song: ROCK THIS TOWN




Overall Album

6 compositions

5 instrumentations

7 feeling

2 philosophy

2 timeline (order of tracks)

3 concept (titles, cover picture)

7 historical importance

= 32


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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a Brasilian-Swedish Dance-Society

Performing at The Carnival of Hammarkullen

Bossanova Swap Meet with Atomic Swing

as my Summer Album 14 : 61


Atomic Swing is a swedish group I should have discovered closer during early 90's, never really realised how they play like the best bands in the world! This second record has less hits than their first, but right now every tune seems a superhit!




most Grounded song: STUCK ON A WORN-OUT RHYME

most Sexy song: LIKE A JOHN NEEDS A YOKO

most Strong song: MOON AGE REVOLUTION

most Beautiful song: ENVY MOON

most Amusing song: TEENAGE DIVINA

most Mysterious song: BOSSANOVA SWAP MEET

most Soulful song: HOODOOD IN MAMOU




Reminds me most of
R.E.M.
Rolling Stones
Traffic
Kinks
David Bowie
Jack Bruce
George Harrison




Overall Album

4 compositions

7 instrumentations

7 feeling

3 philosophy

4 timeline (order of tracks)

3 concept (titles, cover picture)

6 historical importance

= 34


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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