Stephen! Think Outside the Box!

Okay, I promised I would never blog about him again, but the boy is getting weirder and weirder, if that’s possible. Check this out! Stephen Gyllenhaal took some time out from his busy Thanksgiving weekend at the Brooklyn home of his daughter Maggie and her husband Peter Sarsgaard (you can see her in the background) to do a YouTube video in which he mocks the “organicness” of the chocolate bars that were sent to his ex-wife...

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Daddy Cool, Cold Chisel, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Midnight Oil

It’s festa night in Quito, Michael and I are sweetly drunk on cheap rum, and Matt here at the bar is re-acquainting us with great Australian groups like Daddy Cool and Cold Chisel. So groove here with “Eagle Rock” and “Saturday Night”. And for good measure, here’s Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, circa 1964 and the great Midnight Oil doing “Blue Sky Mine” and the one song Americans might recognize, “Beds Are Burning”.

Yeah, I know I’m posting just music lately. You want profundity, I’m blogging at Open Salon now too. Go forth and leave your comments there.

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My YouTube Vid Approaches 1000th Viewer

I cannot believe that the man in this odd little sex scene once made my heart beat faster.

Con referencia a: YouTube - CantaraTV's Channel (ver en Google Sidewiki)

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Happy Thanksgiving from Norman Rockwell and the Lipp Sisters

To read this wonderful posting, go here. And while you’re contemplating this Norman Rockwell classic, “Saying Grace”, save a moment in your thoughts for Michael and me in a scene out of Night of the Iguana.

Addendum: Don't pity us. For Thanksgiving we had two T-bone steaks, fried potatoes, salad and a split of red wine, total $18.70. It was such a fantastic meal I took pictures.

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A Thanksgiving Thought

The examples were taken from a recently closely observed urban-artsy couple who turned out to be so horrifyingly typical, I’ve decided to use them in an upcoming book as my prime example of the degradation of the American family.

Con referencia a: A Thanksgiving Thought - Cantara Christopher - Open Salon (ver en Google Sidewiki)

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John Butler and the Puppini Sisters

Just heard at our local bar in Quito, here’s the retro girl group from England and Australia’s number-one eclectic soul man from Torrance, California. Thanks, Matt!

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A Boy and His Bride

Just want to share a particularly adorable picture of a San Francisco couple on Halloween.

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Three Shots Were Fired...

Last night’s episode of Mad Men hit me harder than I thought it would—right now real life is being informed by the fictional world of Sterling Cooper. Must sort it all out before I can write another “Mad Men Sunday” posting.

But let me at least share with you Abraham Zapruder’s now-famous amateur video that still haunts a lot of us to this day. It lasts just a few seconds. And yes, you do get to see Kennedy’s head being blown away. And yes, it actually happened—only now you can simply turn it off.

And for good measure, here’s the video of Oswald’s murder.

More: The most insightful commentary I found for this episode wasn’t by Sepinwall, wasn’t by Maureen Ryan—it was from a blogger at Open Salon who writes under the name Silkstone. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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A Happy Edgar Allan Poe to Round Out October

This October (on the seventh, to be exact) marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest imaginists. Here for your delectation is not one of his usual shivery slimy nightmares but a very satisfying tale indeed of love, revenge and menchhood...

(And once again, if the Apture popup isn’t working, go here to read and download.)

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Stephen Tobolowsky, Storyteller Extraordinaire

I was turned on to the wonderful, un-pigeonholeable 2005 film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party by none other than the director, Robert Brinkmann, who happens to be a mutual acquaintance of an old friend from San Francisco theater, as well by Tobolowsky himself. I talk a little about STBP in an earlier posting which you can find here.

Fans have been clamoring for more of the big guy, and now in response comes The Tobolowsky Files, a series of videos in which he shares more of his incredible, funny and poignant life stories. For the audio portion of his Halloween tale, click here to listen. You’re in for a (trick or) treat!

Want more Tobolowsky? His hilarious story, “An LSD Christmas”, was published in last year’s winter issue of Cantaraville, which you can read and download at my earlier posting. The editors of Cantaraville are pleased to announce that “An LSD Christmas” was nominated for a Best of the Web award.

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