John Campos

Sebastien Tellier at Chop Suey

2009-04-14T18:08:16Z

Thank you to everyone who came out and helped me shake off the cobwebs. The show was so awesome.

Sebastien Tellier at Chop Suey, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

Carl's Jr

2009-03-28T22:55:07Z

Carl's Jr, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

Tonight @ The Bus Stop

2009-03-21T20:51:26Z

I knows there's lots of events going on tonight! But if you find yourself on the hill I'll be djing at the Bus Stop tonight for a test run on Saturdays. Come by!

Rock, Paper, Scissor, Lizard, Spock

2009-02-17T04:45:39Z

Because you need to know ...

Before and after.

2009-02-17T04:02:00Z

Mesmerizing!

2009-02-01T01:54:44Z

Look at what Morrissey Gone and Done Did

2009-01-30T21:50:50Z

From Line Out.

Swingtown

2009-01-29T04:36:52Z

Cancelled.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

New favorite Quote of teh Day

2009-01-28T06:04:53Z

"If musical genius was a satellite dish, I'd screw him on my roof."

All I Want

2009-01-27T05:04:35Z

All I want is an animated gif of Wanda Sykes as Biggie Shorty dancing as my lj icon.

Please!!!!

Buttons for Friday Night

2009-01-09T22:31:14Z

If you see me out tonight; ask for a button. I have 150 to hand out.

You can also download the pdf and make them yourself and hand out to your friends. It's formated for a one inch button maker when printed at 100% (no size reduction). Here's the pdf.

UPDATE: And please recognize the initial idea and design help of Mssrs Conquergood (unpetitours ) and Skovgard.

Temptation

2009-01-01T04:17:46Z

If you get the chance watch the NME Awards on MTV/Palladia for Jarvis Cocker and Beth Ditto performing Heaven 17's "Temptation." It's about the 43 minute mark.

Kurt Russell, Hell Yes!

2008-12-23T04:20:11Z

Kurt Russell *never* looked better!!!

I'd say yes to this any day.

Cipher in the Snow

2008-12-22T21:31:38Z

(Because of Seatte's Snowpocolypse 2008, I've decided to re-post an entry of mine from December 13, 2004)

For a while I have been thinking about a 16mm short film I saw in high school called, Cipher In The Snow. I wonder if anyone else out there saw this film while in school?? I have attached some info for it below. I discovered that the film was made by Brigham Young University’s Motion Picture Studio.

If you aren't familiar with this film (which is based on a true story), it is basically about a young boy (the "cipher" of the title) who simply falls dead in the snow one morning after a bus ride. The teacher who investigates what happened finds that the boy had no real friends, and essentially died of loneliness. The teacher learns that he was the boy's favorite teacher, yet he can hardly even remember who the boy was.

As one would expect, it is a morality tale, about befriending and having compassion for people who are different or who are outcasts.

http://store.yahoo.com/ldsvideostore/ciinsnv.html

CIPHER IN THE SNOW
Directed by Keith J. Atkinson.

Starring Robert Bridges, Bruce Kimball, Jacqueline Mayo, Roberta Shore, Walter Stocker, Larry Watts

Cinematography by Reed Smoot ("Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure", "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey", "Legacy", "Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets", "Harry's War", etc; cinematographer for multiple Academy Award-nominated films).

Screenplay by Carol Lynn Pearson (AML Award-winning author and lyricist of works as "My Turn on Earth", "Consider the Butterfly" and "Mother Wove the Morning").

Color, 24 min., 1973

The Birds Barbie

2008-12-19T09:07:54Z

The Flame

2008-12-19T06:40:27Z

Boy in the Plastic Bubble

2008-12-15T21:19:16Z

Boy in the Plastic Bubble, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

New Glasses

2008-12-06T02:28:47Z

New Glasses, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

McAds

2008-12-05T20:25:07Z

In solidarity with unpetitours earlier tweets that he was denied a McRib today I signed a online petition to bring back the McRib. Look at the lovely Google Ad I get on the confirmation page. Nice work McGoogle.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2008-11-28T00:01:36Z

Happy Thanksgiving!!, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

Virus

2008-11-27T22:27:25Z

Virus, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

Today's Super Sweet Retail Therapy

2008-11-23T03:22:53Z

Today's Super Sweet Retail Therapy, originally uploaded by John E Campos.

The Conversation

2008-11-19T02:21:01Z

Walking through the Seattle Center, while on my break yesterday, I overheard a slice of a conversation between tree-trimmers.

The fifty-something caucasian man on top the cherry-picker was yelling down to his also fifty-something, but African-American, co-worker on the ground.

"Yeah, I used to date regular women. You know, nice, pretty, and that sort of stuff. But then I went to a James Brown concert..."

That was all I heard as I walked by about thirty feet away. I thought it was awesome.

Yma Sumac Dies

2008-11-03T21:45:50Z

Peruvian-born singer Yma Sumac dies in Los Angeles

Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born soprano who wowed international audiences in the 1950s with her stunning vocal range and modern take on South American folk music, has died.

Sumac's friend and personal assistant Damon Devine says she died Saturday at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles after an eight-month bout with colon cancer.

Yma Sumac , who died on Saturday, probably aged 86, was a Peruvian singer and a phenomenon in the 1950s whose varied, tempestuous career started when her extraordinary voice, ranging over several octaves, startled people on the album Voice of Xtabuy.

The album went straight into the bestseller lists and was followed by Mambo!, arranged by Billy May, and Fuego del Ande (1959), perhaps her best record. British radio audiences were intrigued and countless requests flooded in to Children’s Choice, Two-Way Family Favourites and Housewives’ Choice.

Broadway was fascinated by her appearance in Flahooley (which also starred the young Barbara Cook) in the spring of 1951.
This strange musical satire starred Ernest Truex and concerned a genie in a lamp carelessly left behind at a toy factory by an Arabian princess.

The show gave the extraordinary range of Yma Sumac’s voice a chance to range from low contralto to A above high C, but it also revealed that the voice had not been trained.

Her part and the two songs it entailed had been hastily and badly written.

Yma Sumac claimed to have been born on September 10 1927 (or 1925), at Ichocán, a mountain town north of Lima, though her personal assistant, who claimed to have seen her birth certificate, gave her date of birth as September 13 1922. Her Spanish name was Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavárri del Castillo; her Indian name, which meant “how beautiful”, was Imma Sumack, which she later altered to Yma Sumac.

She began to sing at church festivals and in 1941 a government official with a keen ear heard her. As a result Carlos Moises Vivanco, who was a musician and executive with the Peruvian Broadcasting Company, heard her and became her manager and, on in 1942, her husband as well.

Yma Sumac joined her husband’s Inca Taky Trio, which toured South America and Mexico and reached the United States in 1946 .

When she compromised her own musical impulses by appearing at the Blue Angel in New York, Capitol Records decided to take a risk; her first album for them, produced by Alan Livingstone, was released in 1950 . The record was a hit and, wearing exotic clothes and jewellery, Yma Sumac played to packed houses at the Hollywood Bowl and New York’s Hotel Pierre. Her voice became so well known that she became the subject of impersonations by comediennes : Joan Turner would do three or four bars of a Simac number and then spit, and growl: “Yma Tarmac - huh!’

She made two Hollywood films, neither any use: Secret of the Incas in 1954 marked one of Charlton Heston’s first appearances. In 1957 Omar Khayyam, which starred Cornel Wilde, was little better. The audiences would have preferred it as a musical since Yma Sumac had considerably livened up Hollywood’s version of Persian history.

In the latter part of the decade she divorced her husband, after he faced in a paternity suit brought by his secretary, who had had his twins. Yma Sumac remarried him in 1961, but they soon broke up again.

She toured North America with the Montreal and Toronto symphony orchestras; completed a concert tour of the West Coast and in 1961 toured the Soviet Union.

Yma Sumac fell out of favour during the 1960s, and spent the decade touring small venues. She attempted a comeback in America in 1968 with a disastrous concert in California. In 1972 she made Miracles, her first album for 13 years. It was not a success. However, her work continued to feature occasionally in soundtracks for films, and she gradually acquired a cult following. Bruce Springsteen declared: “It takes only a fraction of a second to succumb to her unique voice.”

During the early 1980s she recorded several more records and performed at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
In 1987 she appeared on a collection of Disney songs entitled Stay Awake, alongside such figures as Ringo Starr and Sinead O’Connor.

She had a run of several weeks at the Ballroom in New York where, flanked by what purported to be Incan statues, she was greeted by “young boys screaming. I was shocked”, she said. “But they explained to me that it was because they adore Yma Sumac. All the big stars come to see Yma Sumac. What is the name of that one, I think Madonna?”

Yma Sumac never remarried. She is survived by her son.

(via www.telegraph.co.uk)

johnecampos @ 2008-11-02T11:14:00

2008-11-02T19:16:52Z

Everyone at work is a chatter today as Jay from ANTM was at work yesterday.