Showing posts with label Independent Film Contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independent Film Contest. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Fourteen Weeks to Go

Who is counting down the weeks until the Bicknell International Film Festival? Are you with us or are you doomed (Doomed to miss out that is . . .  on one of the most fun, unique and sometimes quirky event in all of Southern Utah)? Festival co-founders Trent Harris and Lory Smith called this "the largest international film festival in southern Utah" and "the smallest international film festival in the world."

Checklist:

Two great bands are lined up for the Friday & Saturday night parties, food, fun, festivities, and more. There will also be a few surprises this year; you don't want to miss out!

Now this week's music selection:
World Destruction by Time Zone. Time Zone was an electro band headed by Afrika Bambaataa, an American DJ from the South Bronx, NY - - an originator in hip-hop music and culture, instrumental in moving the street gang, the Black Spades, into the music and culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation. Bambaataa worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. This song, a collaboration with punk-rocker John Lydon, is Time Zone's most well-known single. It was later used on The Supranos - in the first episode of the fourth season. The song played at the beginning of the episode as Tony gets his newspaper and again during the closing credits.

World Destruction (1984) by Time Zone

Speak about destruction. (x3)


This is a world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.
Not giving a damn about the people who live there.
Nostradamus predicts the coming of the Antichrist.
Hey, look out, the third world nations are on the rise.
The Democratic-Communist Relationship,
won`t stand in the way of the Islamic force.
The CIA is looking for defectors.
The KGB is smarter than you think.
Brainwash mentalities to control the system.
Using TV and movies - religions of course.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
Is it a nuclear war? 
What are you asking for?

This is a world destruction. Your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
The rich get richer.
The poor are getting poorer.
Fascist, chauvinistic government fools.
People, Moslems, Christians and Hindus.
Are in a time zone still searching for the truth.
Who are you to think you`re a superior race?
Facing forth your everlasting doom.
We are Time Zone. We`ve come to drop a bomb on you.
World destruction, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom!

This is the world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.
The human race is becoming a disgrace.
Nationalities are fighting with each other.
Why is this? Because the system tells you.
Putting people in faceless categories.
Knowledge isn`t what it used to be.
Military tactics to control a nation.
Who wants to be a president or king? Me!
Mother Nature is gonna work against you.
Nothing in your power that you can do.
Yes, the world is headed for destruction.
You and I know it, cause the Bible tells you.
If we don`t start to look for a better life,
the whole world will be destroyed in a time zone!

In a time zone (x3)
Speak about destruction. (x3)
In a time zone (x3)
Speak about destruction

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Musical Countdown to BIFF continues . . .

Okay so in order to get on-track calendar-wise, that is to match up with the Friday startup date of the Bicknell International Film Festival (July 20th, 2012): here is the second installment of the Musical Countdown to BIFF. After posting the first installment earlier this week, I thought it might be a good idea to count how many weeks are between today and the BIFF? Twenty-four! So now I'm wondering; are there twenty-four good tunes about mass destruction, Armageddon, annihilation, apocalypse, catastrophe, decimation, devastation, holocaust, and the end of the world? Make that 25 with the addition of the first entry? Stay tuned and see (8-); but no problem picking today's standout song track.

A brief reminder that this year, BIFF activities include an
Independent Film Contest. Anyone can enter and win. Learn more about it at http://www.thebiff.org/ifc.html.

This Week's Countdown Addition - 23 Weeks til BIFF
:
Back in 1977 a debut album, "My Aim is True", introduced the world and the U.S. to an English punk band, Elvis Costello and The Attractions. They were at their peak and poised to break onto the American music scene with an appearance on Saturday Night Live and a concert tour. Elvis was 22 years old, skinny as a rail, and possessed his share of youthful angst. The band's album included a swaggering garage-punk story song, "Waiting for the End of the World". From there it was full throttle ahead. Written by Elvis Costello; let us know what you think of the choices, recommend your own picks:
Waiting for the End of the World (1977)
by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The man from the television crawled into the train
I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time
Everyone was looking for a little entertainment
So they'll probably pull his hands off when they find out his name
And then they shut down the power all along the line
And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine
They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out
Nobody was saying anything at all

We were waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming
'cause you really started something

Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again
We got to the station about twenty minutes later
The legendary hitchhiker says that he knows where it's at
Now he'd like to go to Spain or somewhere like that
With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes,
His suntan lotion and his castanets

He was waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming
'cause you really started something

And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest
All got onto the train when we were three stations east
Hiding from a scandal in the national press
They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress
You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach
But don't throw out the lifeline till they're clean out of reach

Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world

I been waiting
I been waiting
I been waiting
I been waiting
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
So long
So long
So long
So long, soooOOO long
Dear Lord
That's it for this week, back next Friday for No. twenty three.