BIG GEEK UPS to Shira Lazar for writing and producing this! And if you’re in LA, perhaps I’ll see you tonight at GeekOut ’09.
VIDEO: Lebowski Fest 2009 — “The Dude’s Prayer”
Photos and much more to come in an LAist review. Don’t miss the next Lebowski Fest in a city near you. http://lebowskifest.com
Video: Paul McCartney at Coachella
I saw McCartney over 15 years ago at Soldier Field with the parents and it was one of the greatest concerts I ever saw. Amazingly, at age 67, Sir Paul the Macca was as on top of his game as ever last night at the desert music festival on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. He hit nearly all the high notes and many of those are high high high. Over 2.5 hours McCartney and his band played 35 songs. Wow. Standouts were “The End,” “Helter Skelter,” and “Live and Let Die.” See the awesome videos shot below by YouTube user mwillie70. Here’s the setlist via the OC Register:
There’s a ton of blather from me about to go up about his deeply moving performance, largely a tribute to his late wife Linda on the 11th anniversary of her death from breast cancer. Read all about that shortly. But the power of the set list speaks for itself …
Main set: Jet / Drive My Car / Only Mama Knows / Flaming Pie / Got to Get You Into My Life / Let Me Roll It (with a coda of Purple Haze) / Honey Hush / Highway / The Long and Winding Road / My Love / Blackbird / Here Today / Dance Tonight / Calico Skies / Mrs. Vanderbilt / Eleanor Rigby / Sing the Changes / Band on the Run / Back in the U.S.S.R. / Something / I’ve Got a Feeling / Paperback Writer / A Day in the Life > Give Peace a Chance / Let It Be / Live and Let Die / Hey Jude
First encore: Birthday / Can’t Buy Me Love / Lady Madonna
Second encore: Yesterday / Helter Skelter / Get Back / Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) -> The End
Blankspaces Panel 4.7.09 – how to be green in LA
Thanks to Michael Liskin and Blankspaces for setting up a great event last night, here’s the video from the panel — some good stuff, although nothing particularly interesting from me. Also on the panel, Siel (Green LA Girl), Tracy Hepler (Your Daily Thread), Mike Hill (AoSA), Karen Solomon (Opportunity Green), and Natalie Freidberg (All Shades of Green).
UPDATE: Read Lisa Borodkin’s extensive review of the panel.