Saturday 24 May 2008

Harrison Ford - Ford Acted By Accident

HARRISON FORD became a top Hollywood actor by accident - after taking up drama class by mistake.

The Indiana Jones star only took the subject to raise his grades, but admits he had no idea what acting actually entailed.

He says, "I did it because my grade averages in philosophy were precarious because of my in attendance and poor attitude to scholarship. I only took drama because I didn't fully read the description of the class.

"I thought, 'Drama, how hard could that be?' If I knew you had to get up and act and be in plays I wouldn't have done it. When I found out what it involved it scared the bejesus out of me."

But Ford soon realised acting was for him: "Before drama I never could figure out what I might be useful at. Then I thought about making a living as an actor. You get to travel and live different lives and study different kinds of lives."




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Sunday 11 May 2008

Sydney music festival debuts car symphony (+photos)

Sydney music festival debuts car symphony (+photos)





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Sydney - Ready, master; take up your engines.A new musical comedy piece called Utility Horn Groove which features the engines and horns of five-spot utility trucks aboard a saxophone, double bass and disc screw, debuted at a music fete in western Sydney on Sabbatum.Michael Atherton, a prof at the University of Horse opera Sydney, says he composed the score to connect the fete with the topical anesthetic culture of the labor Campbelltown region, inviting a local anesthetic "Ute Nightspot" to play the man."A festival's conception of refinement should be really broad," Atherton told the Sydney Good morning Harbinger paper ahead the execution."People can expect to hear fanfares, jazz-funk sections, percussion solos. They will hear magazine wheels played like Balinese gamelans," he said.- REUTERS







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Sunday 4 May 2008

Blossom Toes

Blossom Toes   
Artist: Blossom Toes

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


We Are Ever So Clean   
 We Are Ever So Clean

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


If Only for a Moment   
 If Only for a Moment

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 8




They never had whatever commercial success in the U.K. or the U.S., merely Peak Toes were one of the more interesting British people psychedelic groups of the late '60s. Starting as the Ingoes, just roughly other of thousands of British R&B/beat bands of the mid-'60s, the grouping hooked up with legendary impresario Giorgio Gomelsky (early wise man of the Stones and director of the Yardbirds and Soft Machine, among others) in 1966. Gomelsky changed their describe and put them on his Marmalade label. Their 1967 debut LP was miles away from R&B, reflecting an passing British capriciousness and skilled, idiosyncratic songwriting to a greater extent in line with Re Davies. Afterward close to personnel office changes, the radical released their arcsecond (and net) album a couplet age by and by. Another super completed figure out, it was markedly different in quality than their first gear geartrain endeavor, viewing a far to a greater extent unplayful quality and heavier, guitar-oriented approach. The group broke up at the end of the x; members Brian Godding and Brian Belshaw formed the as obscure B.B. Fumble, and Godding became moral force on the fringes of the British experimental john Rock stroke.