This news is way old but I just ran across it while catching up on Psychotica’s history so I could talk with Gardner Goldsmith about them and the song Modern Utopia from the their 1999 album (delayed release of 2003), Pandemic. I had submitted the song for a “song vs song” podcast that Gard is doing to breakup the normal flow of his show Liberty Conspiracy which discusses current topics from a pro-liberty perspective. It seems that Pat Briggs and Paul “ENA” Kostabi reunited in 2008, rereleased Pandemic on Toxic Shock Records and are working on a new album rumored to be released in 2009 with a tour to follow. If the past is any indicator however don’t expect it till 2010 at the least.
Should be interesting to hear how they sound after a decade away from Psychotica.
Even though I purchased Pandemic from Ena back in 2003 through his Art Monkey Records I repurchased it through Toxic Shock Records to show support for their new venture and I recommend all the Psychotica fans out there to do the same if they haven’t already.
Update:
Turns out that Enrique Tiru Velez, Paul “Ena” Kostabi and Pat Briggs did an acoustic show in Sicily in April 2009 at foundation Mazullo in Taormina. It’s available for download at iTunes, Amazon and Napster. It’s just called “Psychotica Acoustic.” Footage of the event below.
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This list is created based on the things I remember so it’s going to be incomplete and not in order of the movie.
Things I didn’t like:
The whole initial scene with the birth of Kirk was way way overly dramatic. The back and forth between Kirk’s father and mother was sappy. The convenience of the mother going into labor as the ship is being attacked. The footage of the Captain as he was just about to hit the Romulan ship. The fact he was talking about his newborn’s name so calmly as he’s barreling toward death. And wasn’t there an “I love you” or the like that is cut off by him ramming into the other ship? I don’t believe the scene could not have been more cliche.
The young Kirk driving the convertible. Totally unnecessary scene that was included probably to be used in the trailer. Besides that its only purpose to show that he was a smart ass and trouble maker. We already know that and it could have been introduced later through the bar scene when it was fleshed out anyway. The choice of music was silly but I’ll let the slide. As with the vehicle. The Nokia product placement was uncalled for. The reason to throw the car off the cliff … was? As if he could have actually acted that fast assuming he drove up on it without knowing. As if physics can be manipulated by this young Kirk to make that jump even remotely possible.
Uhura’s ‘thing’ for Spock went overboard. There was no buildup to her actions in the elevator except for maybe the favoritism comment when she got Spock to put her on the Enterprise. The kiss at on the transporter pad was really ridiculous. You’re telling me that because Spock’s father told him he loved his human mother (which Spock really always knew) that he decided to give up (or at least merge with humanity) his Vulcan culture in the matter of a couple hours. We didn’t need that to show his human side… him fighting with Kirk was more then enough.
Spock kicking Kirk off the ship. Whatever happened to sending people to the brig? Sending him to what appeared to be a random M class plant? Little more then a death sentence. Especially given it was an large ball of ice.
The fact that Spock just happened to be on the same planet.
That while running from some crazy creature which gets attacked by another creature (very stereotypical) he just happens to run into the same cave that Spock Prime is in. And while the creature is about to eat Kirk a rather old Spock with a flaming stick makes it freak out and take off.
Wasn’t it Spock who mentions going to the relatively close Federation station? Why didn’t he go prior to Kirk’s arrival?
I understand that the timeline is already seriously changed… but Spock doesn’t hold back. He just blabs on about anything and everything including Scott Prime’s equation for transporting while in warp. Then later just chats it up with young Spock. Comes across as far too casual. Though I did like the comment about how Spock Prime got Kirk to stay quiet.
Fan boy complaint: Why did they call the planet Delta Vega? Delta Vega was located near the galactic barrier not in Vulcan star system. There was no reason to change the location. There were lots of fanboy eastereggs possible… why go with changing cannon? The general public doesn’t care what you call it and the fanboys will complain.
The mind meld scene where you see Spock Prime witnessing the destruction of Vulcan shows him standing there looking up into the sky. Roberto Orc claims it was done to be more stylistic. That ‘the idea was that Spock saw the planet’s destruction through ” telescope or some other type of measuring device,” but showing it on-screen “isn’t very cinematic.’ Then why show him standing there looking up into the sky watching it collapse into the singularity through the atmosphere of Delta Vega? Those kinds of scenes exist in lots of science fiction and I don’t recall one that was explained and present in that way.
Fanboy complaint: The mind meld happened pretty quickly and nonchalantly. Typically mind melds were treated pretty seriously.
Why the hell was an elder scientist and ambassador, Spock Prime, sent to deal with the supernova… by himself? You’d think such a serious situation would involve more people
Why so much red matter? If it takes a marble size amount to collapse a planet it seems excessive to have what looked like a few hundred gallons of it.
As for red matter… where the hell did it come from? What is it? They didn’t even try to explain. Apparently in the prequel comic and novelization they at least made mention of its origin.
What was up with Scott’s little buddy? The movie didn’t need any more comic relief. And when you account for the fact that Scott had very little camera time relative to others it was completely unnecessary for him to share those scenes with the little alien.
The whole beaming people from Delta Vega to the Enterprise was a bit much. It’s one thing to beam from the ship in warp where the target is relatively close to the source but this idea of beaming to a ship at warp which is also light years away has no foundation in the original shows/movies as I recall.
Chekov was over done. The exaggerated mispronouncing of v’s. That speech to the crew seemed forced into the script. It was the most time he had in front of the camera and it was painful.
Fanboy complaint: George Kirk and his crew appeared to make no big deal about seeing Romulans for the first time. At least according to cannon it was. It’s also odd that Spock nor any other Vulcan makes any comment as I recall similar to Spocks in the original series when they first meet Romulans.
The design of the Romulan mining ship was a tad ridiculous. Looked like an overcooked blooming onion on it’s side. As a mining vessel I can understand it being large (though the new NCC-1701 was more than times the original so it would have been even that much larger) but it’s size was excessive and it’s shape seems completely artistic with no thought of practicality or realism.
The exaggerated features of the Romulans vs the Vulcans was unnecessary.
What was with the tribal facial tattoos?
When Sulu, Kirk and Olson are skydiving down to the drill… did they really have to kill a redshirt like that? A jackass showoff who decides to wait to release his chute?
Cho was a poor Sulu. Sulu had more kick. I didn’t get that vibe from Cho.
A fencer knows how to use a folding katana like blade? And how convenient that he had one? And that the Romulans decided it be better to be running around a giant laser/phaser/plasma drill with hand to hand weapons rather than just poking out of the openings with disruptors and blasting them?
Fanboy complaint: the green chick scene was forced and unnecessary.
The blown up hands Kirk gets as a side effect of what McCoy did to him to get him on the Enterprise was silly.
The areas where the new actors tried to put forth mannerism similar to the original actors felt forced or where one time offerings to the fanboys and then the new actors went off to do their thing. I’m fine with their vision but don’t force the raising of the eyebrow or the Kirk speech pattern.
Uhura finds out that an entire fleet of Klingons are destroyed and doesn’t bother to tell anyone until Kirk is freaking out about lightening in space at his birth?
If you are cheating while taking the Kobayashi Maru test you’d think you’d be a little less pompus and blatant about it. Programming the Kingon ship’s sheilds to just drop randomly? How could that have not been caught. He didn’t try to hide it as some off the wall edge case. The original Kirk was awarded a commendation for “original thinking.” It surely didn’t look like that was going to happen in the altered universe.
The death of Amanda Grayson was so very expected. Winona Ryder as Grayson really didn’t do it for me either.
Some crazy thing is drilling into the center of your planet and you’re just hanging out in an old underground temple waiting for your son to show up and tell you bad shit is going on?
Why didn’t the Federation or Romulans figure out that the star was going to go supernova sooner and evacuate?
I understand that Nero was pissed… but couldn’t he have just gone over to the Romulans and told them whats going to happen? I suppose he was mainly pissed about his wife and child?
Now that at least Kirk and Spock (at least) know the star will supernova… does that mean they will try to stop it from happening?
Lens flares. Lens flares everywhere! Even in my raccoon wounds.
Things I liked:
The telling of Spock’s childhood. If you watched TOS and/or TAS you knew he had a very conflicted childhood and was harassed by others for being half human.
McCoy was good. Liked that they figured out a reason for his nickname.
That’s all that I can think of at the moment off the top of my head. I’ll update this with more if I recall anything else.
Josh Freese, journeyman drummer for Nine Inch Nails, Devo, A Perfect Circle, Sting, and the Vandals, has unveiled a unique promotional plan for his new solo album, Since 1972, which is available in stores on April 14. According to a press release that just went out, the album will be available in a total of eleven configurations, ranging in price from $7 to $75,000. At the low end of the scale is a simple digital download that includes three videos, while the $75,000 package includes such items as “Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna,” “Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one),” “Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story,” and of course “Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.”
The full list, with all eleven price points, is included below.
JOSH FREESE: SINCE 1972
$7
Digital Download of “Since 1972″ (including 3 videos)
$15
CD/DVD Double Disc Set
Digital Download
$50
CD/DVD Double Disc Set
T-shirt
“Thank You” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.
$250 (limited edition of 25)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Signed Drum Head and Drumsticks.
Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into.)
$500 (limited edition of 15)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Signed Cymbal and sticks
Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together in a Sensory deprivation tank (filmed and posted on youtube)
Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and “all you can eat” Shrimp on)
$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks.
Josh washes your car OR does your laundry….or you can wash his car.
Have dinner with Josh aboard the “Queen Mary” in Long Beach, CA
Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)
$2,500 (limited edition of 5)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
Signed DW snare drum.
Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)
$5,000 (limited edition of 3)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes.
Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes.
Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
Get drunk together. If you don’t drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on “Since 1972″
$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour.
Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken n’ Waffle in Long Beach for dinner.
Josh takes you and guest to “Club 33″ (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror)
At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours….take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.
$20,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour.
Maynard James Keenan, Mark from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on youtube)
Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd St where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining “Nirvana.” See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted using a Fake I.D. at when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high- school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts And Legends” tour. (separate rooms…no spooning.)
Josh writes 2 songs about you and it’s made available on iTUnes and appears on his next record (you can sing back up on em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever….)
Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again…couples welcome and discreet parking available)
Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet.
$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….
If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.
Vileevils are Graham Crabb & Adam Mole, formerly of Pop Will Eat Itself. The Vileevils were formed when the 2005 reunion of Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI) failed to become a full-time project. Singer Clint Mansell and guitarist Richard March were too busy with side projects to dedicate themselves to writing and performing new material, and so the remaining two members decided to form the spin-off band.
The first Vile Evils release was a collaboration with U.S. act 3kStatic in March ‘08 entitled ‘Council Housed And Violent’. Shortly after, ‘Fucking & Fighting’, the first Vile Evils release proper was to folllow.
Second single ‘The Way I Feel Inside’ billed as Vileevils vs. Zombies features the dulcet tones of legendary Zombie Colin Blunstone.
The ‘Evils were the subject of a Sony Acidplanet remix competition where budding remixers were invited to remix next single ‘No Fear’. The results (Vile Evils original plus the 3 best remixes) are available for download and makes up part of their third release EP: No Fear.
All singles are available through itunes search “Vile Evils”.
The debut album “Vive Le Vileevil” is to be released in February 2009.
New Album “Vive Le Vileevil” out in February! The debut album is to be released in February entitled Vive Le Vileevil named after the iconic Vivienne Westwood/Malcolm McLaren Vive Le Rock t-shirt first designed in 1972 but later updated and popularised by Sid Vicious as part of the Seditionaries range in 1977. The album contains all new versions of the singles, and will be available in a limited edition containing exclusive art work.
Coinciding with the release will be a small nationwide tour.
I would have loved to see PWEI reform but Vileevils has some decent sounding material. Looking forward to their first album.
