February, 2012

February 1st 2012

CutTime - Two Minutes Hate, "I Can't Take It Anymore" (11 of 11)

Guest post by Two Minutes Hate Guitarist, Steve Tramell!

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Take a sinister looking singer, one out of tune guitar, and one Hofner Beatle Bass mash em together and you have the hurricane that was Two Minutes Hate!!! Born out the minds of the brothers Price. Tom(bass,bking& lead vcls), Gerry(lead & bking vocals) circa 1984.

Starting out with just bass, vocals and a toy piano( their friend Dee-mented). By 1987 adding one of many drummers and the twisted guitar of Steve Tramell. The band that scared and awed thousands was set. As seen by this clip, Two Minutes Hate was everything a punk band could be. We would never practice because "practicing would make us band, and we were a concept not a band".

Live shows was what Two Minutes Hate was all about. By the second song Jerry would be naked and the chaos would begin. As we were unsigned by any record labels this clip is a piece of music and NYC history.

Two Minutes Hate Stopped playing around 1994 expect for the every few years Reunion shows. Tom Price (who I am sadden to say passed away in Nov.2011. go to facebook & youtube for tributes.) went on to form the Brooklyn based mid 90s to 2011 band Ff (fat fuck).Their cd Lady Shoe was put out on Double Deuce Records. Steve went on to play bass in the Staten Island based band The Outcome, And Gerry is out there holding down the spirit of Two Minutes Hate.

As Gerry would say, "Who the fuck are you clapping for. You don't even know me!!!!!"

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Pre Two Minutes Hate clips of Tom and Steve in the band Poptones Inc!

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February 6th 2012

Slam Poem: Patricia Smith - "Building Nicole's Mama"

Posted by Paul Devlin:

Patricia Smith is one of the all-time great Slam Poets, a national champion 4 times over. This piece is one of the many that show why.

In SlamNation, this poem was excerpted as part of an opening montage. Roger Ebert, who was a friend of Patricia Smith’s from her Chicago days, reviewed SlamNation and focused on his experience of being profoundly moved by this piece when he heard it live. Patricia is still out there writing books and performing. Catch her if you can!

"Building Nicole's Mama" is from Teahouse of the Almighty.

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February 14th 2012

Slam Poem: Karen Wurl - "Educated Love"

Posted by Paul Devlin:

Happy Valentine's Day!

Fantastic quirky word play in this piece. I had several crews shooting the simultaneous bouts at the National Poetry Slam. Discovering gems like this after I had collected all the footage made editing SlamNation a lot of fun. Karen Wurl has gone on to write plays. More about her here.

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February 19th 2012

BLAST! - Theatrical Launch | Filmmaker Magazine

Posted by Paul Devlin:

I believe it is vitally important for filmmakers to share their experiences. Even failures and embarrassments. These happen to all of us, and it’s good to be reassured that we’re not alone. Whenever the opportunity arises, I like to speak up. And when I think I have enough to say for an article, I publish.

Releasing my science epic film BLAST! theatrically in the U.S. turned into its own epic story. When I wrote it out, I wasn’t sure how such an in-depth piece would work in a magazine. I structured it episodically with built-in cliffhangers, in case it had to be divided up into pieces. I fully expected to have to cut it way down for publication.

indieWire completely ignored my submission, but Scott Macaulay, Editor of Filmmaker, picked it up and published the article in its entirety in Winter 2010. The fact that it was the longest piece the magazine ever published became a selling point for the print edition of Filmmaker. I’m very happy to have contributed a comprehensive New Yorker-style story to our community of independent filmmakers.

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February 29th 2012

Slam Poem: Saul Williams - "Untimely Meditations”

Guest post by Misha!

Imagine Divine Inspiration slipping one of Saturn’s rings on Pure Talent’s finger and the two of them joining together in holy matrimony. Feel the blissed out perfection of these two beating as One sweetly singing truth. Lose and find yourself in the om of “Untimely Meditations”.

For me, there is no other spoken word performance that can even begin to hold a candle to Saul Williams’ performance of this piece in SlamNation The Movie. I have been waiting for years for this clip to become available on-line so that I could more easily share it with friends. Not even Saul’s own other performances of this poem compare to how electrifyingly he is plugged in to the divine wow in this presentation. There are great works of art that usher us into other realms. This is one of them.

~ Misha

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