Hitch A Ride With Marilyn Monroe

The Traveling Marilyn Monroe Statue
Photo: Michael Shinafelt

As anyone who knows me knows, I am a big Marilyn Monroe fan, which should come as no major surprise to those of you who may have just found out this information.

Here is a piece I did on this blog when My Week With Marilyn came out:

http://mshinafelt.blogspot.com/2012/01/reel-life-my-week-with-marilyn.html

So in honor of that I am posting some rare photos of one of my favorite actresses that are part of a traveling pop up exhibit. Also included at the top of this article is the photo I took of the traveling MM statue in Palm Springs, CA when I was there this past February, hey I may not have gotten to shoot the real thing but it was good enough for this fan. 

Marilyn frequently let crew members  photograph her on set when the cameras weren't rolling, to calm her nerves. 

Here, is a sneak peek at the lost photos of Marilyn Monroe, being showcased this month in a traveling exhibition curated by Pierre Vudrag.

Marilyn on the set of one of my favorites "Niagara"
Photo: Allan "Whitey" Snyder

Marilyn Posing for an Ad for Lawn Furniture
Photo: Mischa Pelz

One of My Personal Favorites from the Exhibit Circa 1952
Photo: Lani Carlson 

Hope you enjoyed this preview of some great images of one of the most amazing stars to ever grace the silver screen, I know I did.

Marilyn on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

Lions, Tigers & Trevor Hall, Oh My!

Yep, Trevor Is King

TREVOR HALL

SURPRISES FANS WITH RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM
CHAPTER OF THE FOREST
OUT NOW

#3 ITUNES SINGER-SONGWRITER CHART
#17 ITUNES OVERALL ALBUMS CHART


SOULSHINE TOUR WITH MICHAEL FRANTI BEGINS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 19^TH 

Trevor Hall is King of the Forest...

Singer songwriter Trevor Hall surprised his fans with the sudden release of his new 12-track album Chapter of the Forest. The album, which debuted at #3 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart and #17 on the iTunes Overall Albums chart, is available now via iTunes and the Vanguard Records store. Hall posted the announcement yesterday morning via Facebook with the following note: “Dear Villagers, IN FULLNESS OF HEART, I know a lot of y’all have been asking when the new album comes out.  Just wanted to let you know that it comes out……TOMORROW!" 

The 12 songs on Chapter of the Forest were born during a yearlong sabbatical where Hall returned to his beloved India, Nepal, Vermont, and Maine, and spent that time in deep reflection and spiritual connection embracing life-altering events. Hall explains in his own words, “This album is inspired by simplicity, by the roots of life, and by the beauty that one finds in solitude and in nature.  I am more excited than ever before due to the fact that this is the first record that I have done entirely on my own…purely from the heart.”  

Listen to “WISH MAN” here: https://soundcloud.com/vanguard-records/trevor-hall-wish-man

Beginning this Thursday, June 19^th, Trevor Hall will join the line-up with Michael Franti’s Soulshine Summer 2014 tour hitting 30+outdoor amphitheaters across the country. In the fall, Hall will embark on a headlining tour in support of Chapter of the Forest.

SOULSHINE SUMMER 2014 Tour 
06-19       Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl w/ Michael Franti
06-20       Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre w/ Michael Franti
06-21       Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre w/ Michael Franti
06-22       Tahoe, NV – Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena w/ Michael Franti
06-24       Jacksonville, OR – Britt Pavilion
06-26       Vancouver, BC – PNE Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
06-27       Seattle, WA – Marymoor Park w/ Michael Franti
06-28       Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
06-29       Troutdale, OR – Edgefield w/ Michael Franti
07-01       Missoula, MT – Big Sky Brewery w/ Michael Franti
07-02       Ketchum, ID – Sun Valley Center w/ Michael Franti
07-03       Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
07-05       Santa Fe, NM – The Downs at Santa Fe w/ Michael Franti
07-08       Kansas City, MO – Crossroads w/ Michael Franti
07-10       Chicago, IL – First Merit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island w/ Michael Franti
07-12       Des Moines, IA – Simon Estes Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
07-13       Indianapolis, IN – Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River St Park w/ Michael Franti
07-15       Toronto, ON – Echo Beach at Molson Canadian Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
07-17       Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summer Stage w/ Michael Franti
07-18       Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion w/ Michael Franti
07-19       Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion w/ Michael Franti
07-21       New York, NY – Pier 97 w/ Michael Franti
07-22       Philadelphia, PA – Skyline Stage at the Mann Center w/ Michael Franti
07-25       Wilmington, NC – Battleship Park w/ Michael Franti
07-26       Portsmouth, VA – nTelos Pavilion w/ Michael Franti
07-27       Charlotte, NC – Uptown Amphitheater at The Music Factory w/ Michael Franti
07-29       Boca Raton, FL – Sunset Cove Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
07-30       St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheater w/ Michael Franti
08-01       Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Music Park w/ Michael Franti
08-02       Nashville, TN – The Woods at Fontanel w/ Michael Franti

Into the woods with Trevor: www.trevorhallmusic.com

Huston Huddleston Invades Hollywood

A spaceship is landing in Hollywood, CA, estimated time of arrival 2015, it's The Hollywood Science Fiction Museum which recently met it's start up goal and then some with a Kickstarter campaign.

Their Mission:  The mission of New Starship Foundation and the Hollywood Science Fiction Museum is to inspire people of all ages and nationalities with an uplifting vision of the future found in science fiction media, art and literature by teaching Real Science through Science Fiction, including technology, ecology, engineering, computers, robotics, math, medicine, space travel and all aspects of filmmaking through fun, interactive exhibits and programs.

Here to tell us more about this alien invasion is the CEO of the museum, give a great big "Live Long And Prosper" to Huston Huddleston!

MS: Huston tell us what inspired your alien invasion of Hollywood.

HH: One thing lead to another. It started because I saved the Enterprise Bridge (from Star Trek) that was a display tour set that was made for Paramount in the late 90's. I did a Kickstarter, I got a bunch of people associated with Star Trek to support me then we got to a point where A) We didn't have enough money to complete the restoration B) We didn't have a place to set it up, where would we store it? The biggest problem I had with the companies I was approaching for donations was that none of them cared specifically about the bridge itself, they weren't Star Trek fans, which is understandable. We needed to create a bigger picture, there is no exclusive science fiction museum anywhere in the world, and certainly none in Hollywood. So we are creating our own, it was the only logical conclusion. 

MS: So, what is going to set your museum apart from others?

HH: Our museum will be so universal, and so exciting it will have the fun of a theme park inside of a museum. I think we will get the numbers of people coming, and hopefully break records as far as museums go.

MS: It would be so dry otherwise.

HH: We are making it fun which is something museums normally don't do. 

MS: You also have fantasy and horror along with the science fiction.

HH: Some people actually complained to us that Herbie The Love Bug and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang can't be in the museum because it is a science fiction museum not a science fantasy museum and I'm like: "Why the Hell not?" The joy that people will get from seeing these will be way overcome by the people who are complaining about them.

It's Huston!

MS: Hey Huston, time for some fun! I picked five random sci-fi, fantasy TV and Movie titles and want you to say what comes to mind, ready.

HH: Sure, let's go.

MS: Planet of the Apes

HH: Pivotal film. Rod Serling wrote the screenplay, that's why it had so much apocalyptic insight. The film was unique and a major watermark.

MS: Bionic Woman

HH: Kenneth Johnson (creator of the show) has been supportive of our museum. That show is the first female superhero who wasn't treated campy, and could actually be a woman and not a cartoon character. She could be soft and feminine and kick butt! It was ground breaking.

MS: X-Men

HH: Stan Lee is a huge hero of mine. As far as the film it was one of the first to treat the situation as 100% real. X-Men brought the superhero movie to a whole new level of realism and the series just keeps getting better and better, and you have the integrity of some amazing actors and a director.

MS: Labyrinth 

HH: It's unique, it's a musical. David Bowie is a very underrated actor, I wished he'd do more. Jennifer Connelly is beautiful. I think it was Jim Henson's way of making something more mainstream since Dark Crystal didn't do well, he took the technology and made it more commercial.

MS: Star Trek

HH: Never heard of it (laughs) It was a groundbreaking TV Show, in too many ways to even mention. It has single handily inspired more astronauts and scientists I think than any entity. Every NASA person I have met says Star Trek is the show that inspired them.

Get your science fiction/fantasy/horror on at: 

www.hollywoodscifi.org

https://twitter.com/hollywoodscifi

Grace Valerie Live @ The House Of Blues

Go Grace!

Singer/Songwriter Grace Valerie took to the stage at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip last night and I was there.

The singer of the Randy Jackson (yes, that Randy Jackson) produced hit single "When The Lights Go Down" and her current hit, and my personal favorite of hers "Not For Love" produced by the prolific Busbee sang both of these songs and others with a live band and she rocked it!

So enough of my word vomit and let's see the photos I took of the evening shall we????

Amazing Grace

Myself  & Grace Before The Show

Grace Laying It Down

Sing It You Two

Roll With Grace at:

https://www.facebook.com/gracemusic 

https://twitter.com/MsGraceValerie

AHS: Sarah Paulson Is A Two Headed Freak

Double Your Pleasure With Sarah Paulson

This season on an American Horror Story: Freak Show - it's two, two, two Sarah Paulson's in one.

If you need an explanation for this, hint, hint, this season is subtitled: Freak Show.

The wait is officially over now that we know who Sarah Paulson, aka our favorite Supreme, uh, I thought that was Diana Ross, will be playing when she returns for Ryan Murphy's horror show next season. Paulson announced her character by tweeting a photo of herself with two heads, who are apparently Bette and Dot.

When she took to her Twitter page she had this to say about playing the duo: 

"So excited to be playing Bette AND Dot this season. Two heads are better than one!" #AHSFREAKSHOW

Looking forward to more character announcements - Hell to the yes!

American Horror Story: http://www.fxnetworks.com/ahs

Pssssst! Heard Any Good "Propaganda?"

PROPAGANDA to be released on July 22

The controversial, worldwide sensation smuggled from North Korea

WINNER of Founders Grand Prize from Michael Moore for 

Best Picture at the Traverse City Film Festival 

Propaganda is the way of the world, get yourself some...

Controversial to its core, this hard-hitting anti-Western propaganda film looks at the influence of American culture on the rest of the world from a North Korean perspective, and has been described as 'either a damning indictment of 21st Century culture or the best piece of propaganda in a generation.'

Propaganda signals the birth of a new genre-bending generation of film maker. Using the 'fake North Korean propaganda' found-footage device, Director Slavko Martinov, (who just spoke at a recent TED conference) parodies its language and stylings, before targeting the mountain of hypocrisies and contradictions that make up the modern Western narrative. In doing so, the film delivers a devastating blow to those who might be quick to laugh at 'backward' ideologies before considering how political and cultural trends have weakened Western claims to the moral high ground.

In chapters with titles including "Rewriting History," "Creating Ideas and Illusions" and "The Cult of Celebrity," the film takes aim at advertising, war, TV, consumerism, religion, censorship, celebrity and historical revisionism - all sources of, or the result of state propaganda - in a way that is thoroughly North Korean, alarmingly authentic and disturbingly precise.

Propaganda has caused an international incident involving the NIS (South Korea's CIA), the Catholic Church, Homeland Security and the FBI. In fact, Martinov and his crew to this day stand accused of being North Korean agents by the South Korean government. If the best way to see our selves is through the eyes of another, then this jaw-dropping film will hold a mirror to Western media, politics and history, and the propaganda that has shaped them. 

Winner: Best Picture - Traverse City Film Festival

Official Selections: DOXA 2014, CLIFF Film Fest, Olympia Film Festival, CPH:DOX 2013, Melbourne underground Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, PUFF Festival - Hong Kong, Docville Festival 2013, Doc Edge Festival 2013, Byron Bay Film Festival, IDFA Film Festival 2012

Pre-order: http://mvdb2b.com/s/Propaganda/MVD6321D

Ponyboy Shares The Cure's "Secrets"

"Nobody knows we love
I catch your eyes in the dark"

"Secrets, Shared with another boy, Talking all night in a room, All night, 

Everything slowing down, I wish I was yours" - The Cure 

And so goes the song "Secrets" made famous by 80's super group The Cure.

My favorite kind of pony ever Ponyboy has taken this song to it's literal extremes in their cover of it and the companion video off of their CD "Hookups." 

You've gotta love these art fags as nobody addresses being gay in society better than them. Lady Gaga should bow at their feet.

Oh, in case you did not know, the band consists of two very talented guys Charles McVey & David Zey,

The video directed by Charles packs a punch! Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

 To quote my "boys" : We found your ad on Craigslist, so we made a little film about it!

Ponyboy + The Cure = Amazing 

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJIY-Nvgzo

Daddy I want a Ponyboy, get one here: https://www.facebook.com/GodHatesPonyboy