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RIP Dexter Romweber.

He was the real deal...

“TWO-HEADED COW”

A documentary about Flat Duo Jets frontman Dexter Romweber. Directed by Tony Gayton and edited (and partially shot) by Charles Wing.

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Inside the Mind of a Director with Hans Petter Moland on 'Absolution'

Hans Petter Moland Interview by Big Gold Belt Media –Everyone pays in the end. Buy or rent #Absolution now & in theatres: https://bit.ly/WatchAbsolution Director: Hans Petter Moland Writer: Tony Gayton Starring: Liam Neeson, Yolonda Ross, Frankie Shaw, Daniel Diemer, Javier Molina, Jimmy Gonzales, Josh Drennen, Deanna Nayr Tarraza, Terrence Pulliam, and Ron Perlman Runtime: 122 Minutes Synopsis:…

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Absolution (2024) Movie Review

Find out why Absolution, a slow-paced crime drama, is a must-watch. Join Liam Neeson as he tries to rectify his mistakes and reconnect with his family.

Absolution – Movie Review First Reaction – Absolution is slow paced and struggles to get going. Watch Absolution Here a JustWatch Director: Hans Petter Moland Writer: Tony Gayton (Screenplay) Cast Liam Neeson (Cold Pursuit) Daniel Diemer (The Half of It) Javier Molina (Reminiscence) Jimmy Gonzales (The Conjuring the Devil Made Me Do It) Ron Perlman (Hellboy) Plot: An aging gangster…

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Liam Neeson’s ‘Absolution’: A Crime Thriller About Redemption With Familiar Themes

Liam Neeson’s latest movie Absolution dives into the life of an aging Boston gangster trying to make peace with his past while confronting personal demons. Directed by Hans Petter Moland and written by Tony Gayton, the film combines elements of crime, family struggles, and redemption, though it treads familiar territory for the actor. Known for his commanding presence, Neeson attempts to add…

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- Man cannot live freely without embracing suicide and crime. - A pact made with relentless fire that says, while some live, others must die.

Murder by Numbers, Barbet Schroeder (2002)

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Murder by Numbers (2002)

As you get further into Murder by Numbers and its concept of “the perfect crime”, you'll be captivated. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing throughout. While it might not be groundbreaking and the ending is somewhat of a letdown, it’s an enjoyable thriller/mystery.

High school students, Richard (Ryan Gosling) and Justin (Michael Pitt) are determined to commit murder and get away with it. They do their research ahead of time, set up fake clues for the police to discover, and frame a perfect suspect. Despite this, Police Detective Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) immediately suspects them. Although the evidence points elsewhere, there’s something about the crime that doesn’t make any sense to her.

We’ve all played this scenario in our minds. Admit it. You’re watching a crime scene investigation show and you see where those who got caught made mistakes. That’s what these teens are doing. You don’t want them to get away with it, obviously. Thinking about committing the perfect crime is one thing. Going through with it is another. You wonder if they might just manage to slip through Mayweather's fingers. When the movie focuses on her figuring things out, that’s the good stuff.

I also have to credit the film's characters. Richard and Justin are actually believable as intelligent, but deranged teenagers. They’re doing this murder thing more out of boredom and depression than anything else. School and homework is too easy for them and they’re frustrated with their lives. They want to do something, anything that will have some impact on the world because they’ve read a few too many nihilistic philosophical books and, like all teenagers, assume the world revolves around them. The film also remembers to make them into teenagers; insecure about who they are, concerned about what girls and their peers think of them despite what they may say. Also enjoyable is Sandra Bullock, playing way against type. She's got a lot of personality but is deeply flawed and beneath the surface, she's been badly hurt.

The problem is the crime itself. It’s way sloppy. They’ve made some dumb mistakes, far too many for them NOT to get caught. If it had been one tiny screw up, maybe two, it'd be in that sweet middle to give you some uncertainty. As is, the police are playing catch up with the audience for far too long.

There are other instances where the wrong numbers have been placed in the equation. The first is a subplot with Detective Mayweather where we learn of her past, and why a particular parole hearing puts such a strain on her. It ends up tying indirectly to the crime committed by Richard and Justin and frankly, it’s lame. It’s a huge cliché that belongs in another movie. You can see where it’s going right away, features some bad acting and drags Murder by Numbers down. The second problem is related to this backstory. Several times, for no real reason, the teens suddenly change temperament in order to push Mayweather and the audience’s buttons. The most egregious example is a scene where Mayweather is observing Richard from her distance when he spots her. What follows is an intimidation (despite being a grown woman and a seasoned police officer she becomes frightened) and an attempt at seduction, which, combined with, some comments, makes the detective break down in tears. What?

Then we get to the picture's conclusion, which is awful. It’s yet another situation where a police officer should know better but walks into a building without any backup, just begging to be killed. It’s not enough for this tension about murderers possibly getting away with a horrific crime to finally be released; we need an action scene! It belongs somewhere else entirely and brings the movie down a notch by itself.

Murder By Numbers had promise, but the story isn't smart or well written enough. This story needed one or two more passes to buff out the dents, smarten up the story and needed a whole new ending. As is, this is not a terrible film. It’s actually got a long going for it, but the flaws cannot be ignored. It evens out to an average detective thriller. The kind of movie you can enjoy if you catch on TV or rented for a couple of bucks. You can do worse, but also a lot better than Murder by Numbers. (On DVD, July 14, 2014)

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Stüssy’s official launch date is anything but concrete. Don Letts, the musician, filmmaker and OG-affiliate of the brand says it all started in 1984, but Shawn Stüssy first remembers scratching his infamous punky scrawl in 1979. Without an official logo, per se, Shawn was making surfboards and branding them with a signature scribble -- a practice that, though he was unaware at the time, teemed with potential. He later applied it to T-shirts, earned cult acclaim, and a few years down the line, what is arguably the original streetwear brand was in business.

Underground culture was inherent to Shawn’s work, as was a William Burroughs-esque aptitude for combining scenes, ideas and tastes in simple, effortless clothing. Hip-hop, reggae, graffiti, surfing, skating, punk: a span of influences and urban cultures were brought together to create graphic-heavy garb, at a time when these influences weren’t as widely catered to. Before Stüssy, the youth were reinterpreting, borrowing and cutting garments up -- or, in the case of those seeking out higher-brow attire, stealing Ralph Lauren Polo. Stüssy filled a void; his work reflected what people wanted to buy.

Shawn’s ideas developed organically, spurred on by the ever-expanding network of individuals he came across. “He just kept on meeting like-minded people that were interested in similar things,” Stüssy’s former creative director Paul Mittleman says. “It just kept on going.” The International Stüssy Tribe, a club founded by Shawn, was the beating heart of the brand. One of the original members, Alex Turnbull AKA Alex Baby, remembers the first time he and Shawn met. Originally from London, then a hip-hop DJ in New York, Alex was hanging out with Jules Gayton, a DJ and part-time assistant to Jean-Michel Basquiat. They were routinely flying between London and New York, shuttling rare record collections across the pond. On one visit, Paul invited them over to the Stüssy warehouse. “It was basically a couple of rails of clothes in a space for something else, and Paul was just sitting there,” says Alex. “I remember leaving with a T-shirt and a pair of the beach pants, and they were just mind-blowing.” Never before had he seen such hip-hop amenable clothing. Not long after, Shawn would make a visit to London, attend a nightclub Alex was playing, and initiate six or so members with the now-infamous tribe jackets, complete with logos, names on the front, and ‘Staff’ stitched on them. Not your average hiring process.

With time, the tribe grew. In London, there was hairdresser James Lebon, Gimme 5 founder Michael Kopelman, streetwear scenius Barnzley Armitage, The Clash’s Mick Jones, Big Audio Dynamite’s Don Letts, and jungle pioneer Goldie. In New York, skater Jeremy Henderson, hip-hop A&R rep Dante Ross. In LA, thrasher Tony Converse. Not to forget streetwear kingpin Hiroshi Fujiwara in Tokyo. It was a network of taste-makers, skate rats and musical vanguards, spread across what Alex considers the world’s most culturally adept cities. “With the exception of Kingston, Jamaica, of course,” he’s quick to note. Through his tribe, Shawn had innocently stumbled upon and mastered a communication method that a good proportion of brands are still eager to decode today. “Shawn even pre-empted the whole 'viral’ thing, foregoing big budget advertising and trusting in the organic process of word of mouth,” Don Letts remarks.

Profiling the brand in the 90s, BBC 4’s The Look interviewed Shawn, as well as some of his associates in an effort to unpick the fashion phenomenon. Shawn’s modest attempt to explain his craft was “pants and shirts… and jackets and hats.” But behind the brevity of his response lay a firm confidence; after all, his formula of quality over quantity had garnered enough interest to warrant a BBC feature. “A lot of people collect them -- like these, there’s ten of them, and some people buy every single colour”, explains then-Stüssy’s store manager James Jebbia, pointing out the ‘S’ logo baseball caps. As you’ll likely know, he would later go on to found Supreme, streetwear’s eminent household name. And just as Stüssy had done before, sampling, ripping and re-appropriating became key components of the Supreme creative vocabulary. The former’s infamous interlocking Ss, a humorous ape of Chanel, would foreshadow the latter’s cease-and-desist Louis Vuitton rip skate decks. Looking back, it was oddly prescient, given that both would work with top-tier conglomerate fashion houses years down the line.

Paul draws a parallel between Shawn’s work and 80s postmodern art: just as Jeff Koons placed submerged basketballs in the gallery space, Shawn placed lyrics from American hip-hop duo EPMD on clothing. ‘I get goosebumps when the bass line thumps’, reads a now-coveted T-shirt. In introducing aesthetics and cultures deemed low-brow into public consciousness, Shawn’s graphic style also shared much with graffiti writing, which, as Alex is keen to note, was still considered mere vandalism at the time: “You were still a criminal, it wasn’t accepted as art,” he says. Regardless of public opinion, that confluence of cultures it implied made it widely wearable, as Dante Ross echoes: “We could wear it to a thugged-out party, to a trendy event or to go skate in, all depending on how we wore it.”

At a time when streetwear is unarguably ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that streetwear was counterculture. “Without Shawn, there would be no streetwear”, says Ross Wilson, an acclaimed streetwear collector who sold a 1,000+ piece Supreme archive in 2018. “Shawn Stüssy is the reason I became immersed in this culture in the first place.” And it doesn’t seem like Stüssy’s contemporary relevance is in decline -- if anything, the opposite is true. ALYX creative director Matthew Williams grew up a Stüssy fan, citing it as “the first fashion brand outside of huge sportswear brands that I became aware of." He now regularly collaborates with Kim Jones at Dior, and his work featured alongside Shawn’s graphics in the house’s Pre-Fall 20 menswear collection. And then there’s Kim himself, who grew up working at Gimme 5, one of Stüssy’s first UK distributors. “He’s part of the community; he’s not just an observer,” Paul says.

While today the internet has allowed everyone, wherever they’re from, the opportunity to engage with street culture, things were trickier in the 80s. But despite the developments since, Stüssy has far from lost its lustre. If anything, the past decade has reiterated Stüssy’s position as a subcultural fixture. Whether throwing parties with Boiler Room or spotlighting Kiko Kostadinov, Stüssy has been – and still is – a driving force in contemporary culture and fashion. Nonetheless, its core values remain: quality clothing, radical graphics, and international community dedicated to representing the brand. As the network has expanded, it’s only grown stronger. The launch of Stüssy’s London Chapter store was a case in point: a BBQ attended by old disciples and a fresh batch of new ones. One of the newcomers to the brand, Jordan Vickors, is grateful for its illustrious history. “It’s been my home since the second I joined; everything Shawn, Alex, Goldie, Paul have built over the years has provided me with a hub of creativity and energy. I can’t thank them enough.” Indeed, as a print on a particularly iconic Stüssy T-shirt, referencing Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry”, reads: ‘In this great future, you can’t forget your past.’

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                                             ‘ The world don't care about our plans. ‘

Hell on Wheels (2011 - 2016) created by Joe & Tony Gayton

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Behind the Scenes with Hans Petter Moland on 'Absolution' 2024

Hans Petter Moland Interview by Big Gold Belt Media –Everyone pays in the end. Buy or rent #Absolution now & in theatres: https://bit.ly/WatchAbsolution Director: Hans Petter Moland Writer: Tony Gayton Starring: Liam Neeson, Yolonda Ross, Frankie Shaw, Daniel Diemer, Javier Molina, Jimmy Gonzales, Josh Drennen, Deanna Nayr Tarraza, Terrence Pulliam, and Ron Perlman Runtime: 122 Minutes Synopsis:…

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: Murder by Numbers

Año: 2002

Duración: 120 min

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Guion: Tony Gayton

Música: Clint Mansell

Fotografía: Luciano Tovoli

Reparto: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn, R.D. Call, Tom Verica, Janni Brenn, John Vickery, Michael Canavan, Krista Carpenter, Neal Matarazzo, Adilah Barnes

Productora: Warner Bros., Castle Rock Entertainment, Schroeder Hoffman Productions

Género: Crime, Mistery, Thriller

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QRKY Radio Playlist For 03/07/20

QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 03/07/20

Listen Free.  Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.

Click on the individual song titles in BOLD below.  They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows.  Or, if you’d prefer to autoplay the music video playlist, just click HERE.  It;s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.

Night Life -- Ray Price

East St. Louis Toodle-Oo -- Duke Ellington & the Kentucky Club Orchestra

I Want A Bowlegged Woman -- Bull Moos Jackson

Ladder -- Joan Osborne

Stranded In The Jungle -- Cadets

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby -- Coon-Sanders’ Original Nighthawk Orchestra

Mister Bad Luck -- Oscar Jordan

Quaker Puffs (Retro Commercial)

JUBILEE Radio Show (12/20/43) with C.P. Johnson -- Armed Forces Radio Service

I’m GonnaTake Care Of Your Dog -- Rosie Ledet

Papa Was A Rolling Stone -- Temptations

Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean -- Ruth Brown

Down At Jasper’s Bar-B-Que -- Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon

Papa’s On The Housetop -- Jim Kweskin Jug Band

Don’t Forget Me -- Toni Lynn Washington

Life Buoy Soap (Retro Commercial)

As She Moved In -- Rich Harper Blues Band

A Change Would Do You Good -- Sheryl Crow

All Mama’s Children -- Carl Perkins

Worryin’ The Blues Away -- Bob Brozman

Ain’t That Peculiar -- Marvin Gaye

Hot Cross Buns -- Paul Gayton

It’s Too Late -- Carole King

Marlboro Cigarettes (Retro Commercial)

Money Honey -- Elvis Presley

One Hour Mama -- Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Jump, Jive And Wail -- Louis Prima

Fried Neck Bones And Home Fries -- Southern Hospitality

Stay High -- Brittany Howard

Crawling King Snake -- John Lee Hooker

Barbecue Bust -- Mississippi Jook Band

Nash Automobiles (Retro Commercial)

Peter Gunn -- Sarah Vaughan

Hips Don’t Lie -- Shakira

Garbage Man -- Harlem Hamfats

Camel Walk -- Ikettes

Every Woman I Know -- Billy “The Kid” Emerson

The Battle Of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton

Patricia -- Perez Prado

Old Spice (Retro Commercial)

Born Under A Bad Sign -- Albert King

I’m Wild About My Stuff -- Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe

The Amway Challenge -- Donna Kay Honey & the Cowpokers

Be What You Are -- Staple Singers

I Gotta New Car -- Big Boy Groves

Mississippi Mud -- Fontane Sisters

My Dog’s Still Walkin’ -- Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King

Theme From Shaft -- Isaac Hayes