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new-to-me #27 - Little Richard: I Am Everything 

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'The Space Race' Featurette Spotlights The Bright Dreams of Afrofuturism and Space

While some may recongize the Space Race defined the competition between two Cold War rivals – America and the former Soviet Union, National Geographic Documentary Films‘, The Space Race, from co-directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, weaves together the stories of Black astronauts seeking to break the bonds of social injustice to reach for the stars. Now a new featurette takes a look…

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Little Richard Documentary Soundtrack Streaming Now

Little Richard: I Am Everything: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is now available on all streaming platforms. The album has music from Lisa Cortés' superb documentary about the late rock and roll icon. Little Richard's hits "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Rip It Up" are featured alongside two previously unheard covers from Valerie June and Cory Henry. Tamar-kali's original piece from the soundtrack is also included on the 14-song album. The CD format will arrive in September and the vinyl version will come out in December. The black vinyl recording is coming and a Tutti Frutti-colored pressing of the album can be pre-ordered via VareseSarabande.com and CraftRecordings.com. 

The documentary follows Richard's life from his childhood in Macon, Georgia, becoming a rock star in the '50s, and his constant push and pull between secular life and religion. Richard's contemporaries, musicians, and academics were interviewed and shared their insights on his music, cultural significance, and personal struggles. In 2010, "Tutti Frutti" was added to the National Recording Registry because it innovated popular music. The documentary is one of the few times Richard's genius has been publicly recognized. In 1993 he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and he was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2003. He was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2015 before passing in 2020. Little Richard: I Am Everything can be watched on Video On Demand and more information can be found at littlericharddocumentary.com. Check out my review here. 

Tracklisting

CD:

Good Golly, Miss Molly – Little Richard 

Strange Things Happening Every Day – Valerie June

Baby (demo) – Little Richard

I’m Just A Lonely Guy (All Alone) – Little Richard 

Tutti Frutti – Little Richard and His Band 

Long Tall Sally – Little Richard and His Band

Lucille – Little Richard and His Band 

Bama Lama Bama Loo – Little Richard

Rip It Up – Little Richard and His Band 

Ready Teddy – Little Richard and His Band

The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard and His Band 

Send Me Some Lovin’ – Little Richard and His Band 

Tutti Frutti – Cory Henry 

Legacy – Tamar-kali

LP:

Side A

Good Golly, Miss Molly – Little Richard 

Strange Things Happening Every Day – Valerie June

Baby (demo) – Little Richard

I’m Just A Lonely Guy (All Alone) – Little Richard 

Tutti Frutti – Little Richard and His Band 

Long Tall Sally – Little Richard and His Band

Side B

Lucille – Little Richard and His Band 

Bama Lama Bama Loo – Little Richard

Rip It Up – Little Richard and His Band 

Ready Teddy – Little Richard and His Band

The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard and His Band 

Send Me Some Lovin’ – Little Richard and His Band 

Tutti Frutti – Cory Henry 

Legacy – Tamar-kali 

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Exclusive Interview: Little Richard I Am Everything filmmaker Lisa Cortés "it was important to give him agency to be the narrator of his journey"

Little Richard: I Am Everything, released in US theaters and on digital on Friday, April 21st, sees Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés excavate the Black queer origins of rock ‘n’ roll with Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard, as its “architect”. The fascinating and often thrilling film, which world premiered in the US Documentary Competition section at the 2023 Sundance Film…

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Little Richard. He's Everything, Everywhere and a Crazy Rocker All At Once!

@MagnoliaPics Little Richard, I Am Everything is an amazing #music #documentary getting very limited screenings, and it'll certainly bring the house down at many theatres for its engaging look at this talent. #moviereview at:

Screening and Ticketing Info can be found at LittleRichardDocumentary.com Anyone who knew who Richard Wayne Penniman was before becoming the musician that he is really requires knowing the era and influences that turned him into Little Richard, I Am Everything. This cinematic presentation is getting special one day screenings around America (please check local listings), and I hope it’ll arrive…

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“Little Richard: I am Everything” Hits Theaters April 21

It’s said the Beatles influenced everything.

But Little Richard influenced the Beatles. And Paul McCartney recalls imitating the “Long Tall Sally” singer when the future Fab was a child.

The backstory comes from the trailer for “Little Richard: I am Everything,” the Lisa Cortés-directed documentary due in theaters April 21.

In the clip, Richard proclaims himself the “king of rock ’n’ roll” and a commentator backs him up, saying: “Sorry, y’all, it wasn’t Elvis.”

“Michael (Jackson) was inspired by me,” Richard says. “Prince. James Brown - I discovered him. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player.”

Based around archival interviews and performance video alongside interviews with family, fellow musicians and black and queer scholars, “I am Everything” explores Richards’ inner contradictions as a religious gay man afraid of burning in hell.

“He was very, very good at liberating other people,” one commentator says of the musician. “He was not good at liberating himself.”

3/20/23

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I finally watched the 2023 documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything. Director Lisa Cortés succeeds in making it feel cinematic, and the archival performance footage of Richard in his prime alone is worthwhile. The best “talking head” contributors are Richard’s late exotic dancer girlfriend Lee Angel and pioneering transgender nightclub entertainer Sir Lady Java - and John Waters, of course! (Waters recalls he used to shoplift Richard’s records as a kid, and that his signature pencil-line mustache is a direct “twisted tribute”). By comparison, big name guests like Mick Jagger and Tom Jones mostly offer show biz platitudes (and Billy Porter is self-aggrandizing).

One thing it accomplishes nicely: so often hidebound rock critics and filmmakers get hung up on "who influenced who" which descends into "who ripped off who" as if it’s always a negative thing. It's common knowledge that when Richard was just starting out as a performer without his persona cemented, two flaming queer Black male rhythm and blues musicians - Billy Wright and Esquerita - inspired his musical approach and appearance (the towering, processed conk, thick make-up and mustache). As one of the talking heads savvily argues, Richard didn’t “steal” from them: rather, they provided a mirror for Richard to see his true self. Similarly, Cortés gives Ike Turner his due. A musical expert notes that Richard's piano playing was beholden to Turner’s, something Richard admitted (he raved about the impact of hearing "Rocket 88", the 1951 Kings of Rhythm track widely considered the first-ever rock'n'roll single). Yes, Ike was a monster to Tina, but his trailblazing musical genius must be acknowledged.

The finale where Cortés demonstrates Richard’s effect on modern pop culture with a montage presumably meant to represent his spiritual descendants (Cher! Harry Styles! Lady GaGa! Lizzo!) is misbegotten. Are we meant to think anyone who EVER wore sequins owes Little Richard a debt? (At least the inclusion of Lil Nas X - a modern flamboyant Black male performer – is apt). Richard was instilled with a sense of shame and guilt as a child, and throughout his life alternated between extreme hedonism and extreme fundamentalist Christianity. Sadly, as one commentator argues, Richard set a great liberating example for other people but never truly enjoyed that liberation himself.

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Books wishlist

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher

The Art of Drag

The Art of Invisibility - Kevin Mitnick

Ballet de Sangre - Luis I. Rodríguez

Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass

Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Los Carpinchos - Alfredo Soderguit

Cicada - Shaun Tan

Confessions of a crap artist - Philip K. Dick

Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of Aides - William Masters

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Cuando Moctezuma conoció a Cortés - Matthew Restall

La Dame au petit chien - Anton Tchekhov

Designing graphic props for filmmaking - Annie Atkins

El día que los crayones renunciaron - Oliver Jeffers

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Ducks - Kate Beaton

The Ear - Piret Raud

First we read, then we write - Robert D Richardson

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock - Clinton Heylin

Genderqueer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - Gavin de Becker

He forgot to say goodbye - Benjamin Alire Saenz

Horns - Joe Hill

How Music Works - David Byrne

Illustrators In & Out

Is there a fish in your ear? - David Bellos

I Want You - Lisa Hanawalt

Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind

Mendel el de los libros - Stefan Zweig

Mirages - Laurent Durieux

Miseria - Suzanne Heller

Pink Lemonade - Nick Cagnetti

Professor Astro Cat's Human Body Odyssey - Dominic Walliman

The Question of German Guilt - Karl Jaspers

Russian Olive to Red King - Kathryn Immonen

Saga - Brain K Vaugn

The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustrarion - Richard Barnett

Something is Killing the Children

The Taqwacores - Michael Muhammad Knight

Tokio ya no nos quiere - Ray Loriga

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There - Eric LaRocca

Us - Sara Soler

Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

La vida secreta de los mocos - Mariona Tolosa Sisteré

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - Neil Gaiman

What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher

X-Ray Me! - Felicitas Horstschäferyo

You too can have a body like mine - Alexandra Kleeman

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Movie Review: The Space Race (2023)

Title: The Space Race Release Date: June 12, 2023 Director: Lisa Cortés, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Production Company:The Kennedy/Marshall Company | National Geographic Documentary Films | Diamond Docs Summary/Review: I remember well when Guy Bluford became the first Black American in space on a 1983 space shuttle mission.  But this documentary taught me a lot about the background of Black…

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Hoy en el mercadona vi a un tipo con camiseta de la MONA LISA como si fuera del grupo KISS y me ha recordado que el 2 de mayo es el 28 cumple de MONA O BELLA LISA CERATI..al que Gustavo dedico LISA del cd AMOR AMARILLO que compuso al menos 2 0 3 años antes de que naciera.

Justo antes fotografie donde aprendí a montar en moto en 125 CC donde había pintada TODAS PUTAS, TODAS GUARRAS, TODAS CERDAS como fotografie ..dándo una semana de clases practicas para conducir con carnet de coche y en medio me fui a comprar una SUZUKI GSX125S con lema HERENCIA LEGENDARIA y justo cuando iba a entrar al concesionario a un CULTURISTA le dio un ataque EPILEPTICO y se abrió la CABEZA como fotografie..lo que me recuerda que los sufre VIRGINIA MAESTRO desde los 18 años..y estrene la SUZUKI yendo al monumento del SAGRADO CORAZON a finales de MAYO de 2018 aprovechando que iba a ir a ver a OBK [debut cd LLAMALO SUEÑO seguido de MOMENTOS DE FE..abandonando uno de los 2 tras cd ULTIMATUM..para luego grabar REVOLUCION y su directo en MEXICO volviendoles a ver en MAYO 2022 en VILLARREAL al ir a ver a VIRGINIA MAESTRO por sus fiestas donde hizo de Telonera de ANA CURRA de PARALISIS PERMANENTE que sólo lanzaron el cd EL ACTO=EL COITO..y el single QUIERO SER SANTA una burla de las SANTAS CATOLICAS O MARTIRIZADAS.. y los cuales u OBK actuaron tras AMISTADES PELIGROSAS que empezaron con GENESIS del cd LA ULTIMA TENTACION]

Por cierto..ayer en la calle [Juan Francisco María de la Salud] Donoso Cortés como aparque en cuesta y de frente..me resulta casi imposible mover los 250 KG de la HARLEY por lo que salí CRUZANDO LA ACERA tras pisar una PUERTA BLANCA que había junto a un contenedor pues frente a mi tenia una FAROLA y tuve que girar un poco pisandola..y lo de PUERTA BLANCA me recuerda a la parada de metro de MALAGA justo antes de LA LUZ/LA PAZ y que era la que estaba junto a mi hotel HILTON GARDEN cuando iba a la playa de la MISERICORDIA donde en septiembre desaparecieron 2 argentinos en una tabla Surf u hotel al que fui para descansar tras la feria de BORRACHOS , FUMATAS Y MUSICATAS de MALAGA..donde una TIPA me dijo A DONDE VAS GUAPO..y como iba a un CAJERO..la dije que a SACAR DINERO para PAGARTE..se quedó en SHOCK como unos segundos..y empezó a gritar como una LOCA "QUE ME IBA DE PUTAS" jaja..entonces o agosto 2019 me hospede en hostel URBAN JUNGLE [=Gira de ROLLING STONES =mi 1er concierto en estadio MANZANA+eRES con GUN de teloneros presentando su debut cd Taking on the WORLD]..cuya TERRAZA_ATICO está dedicada a la MARI DE CHAMBAO que con 30 años la salió CANCER y que grabó su directo EN EL FIN DEL MUNDO frente al GLACIAR PERITO MORENO en ARGENTINA..luego publicó su cd CHAMBAO, CD 10 YEARS AROUND THE WORLD y cd NUEVA ERA..y en las Fiestas de SAN LORENZO [Agosto 2022, MADRID] la grabe desde un lateral del Escenario "COMEME"

Por cierto..pasaba un AVION sobre el que practicaba con la MOTO

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"This week on Planetary Radio, we take a peek behind the scenes at National Geographic's new documentary, “The Space Race,” which celebrates the triumphs and struggles of the first African-American space pioneers and astronauts. Co-directors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés, space pioneer Ed Dwight, and astronaut Leland Melvin join us to discuss the film."

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National Geographic’s New Documentary Film The Space Race Tells the Little-Known Stories of Black Astronauts

National Geographic’s New Documentary Film The Space Race Tells the Little-Known Stories of Black Astronauts

From our Friends at D23 In The Space Race, Emmy Award-winning Producer & Director Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Academy Award® nominated and Emmy-winning Producer & Director Lisa Cortés shed light on the journey of the Black astronauts who confronted social injustice to pursue their dreams in space. Now available on Disney+ and Hulu, the National Geographic Documentary Film offers a compelling…

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Little Richard I Am Everything Is Showing Now

Little Richard: I Am Everything debuts in theaters and online streaming today. Lisa Cortés documentary about the late rock and roll pioneer is having a limited run but can be seen online everywhere. Richard's reign in the '50s and '60s put him in a place to be one of the Black artists to break the color line by bringing Black and white audiences together. His influence is often overlooked and he never really fully recognized during his lifetime. The documentary follows his path from childhood to stardom and John Waters, Nona Hendryx and Billy Porter are a few of the artists to chime in on Richard's impact. Check out the trailer below and go to the official website to access viewing options. Stay tuned for a review of the documentary. 

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Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment To Executive Produce Documentary ‘The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times Of David Hammons’

EXCLUSIVE: Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment, producers of Dear Mama, Euphoria, and Top Boy is happy to announce its affiliation as govt producers with Rosie Filmwaze LLC whose The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons receives its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York’s Film Forum immediately. Directed by Judd Tully and Harold Crooks, and govt produced by Lisa Cortés (Little…