Twilight Director Smackdown

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke posted this video on youtube yesterday...very cute -- just a little further evidence of Hardwicke's infinite human coolness...

School of Rock West Coast All Stars Rocked Me Like a Hurricane!

The West Coast All Stars from the Paul Green School of Rock Music totally rocked out The Roxy on the famed Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Check them out playing this classic Scorpions tune! The stripy guitar rules!

Kids Rock Philly Zappa-style!

Another Zappa tune from the Hollywood School of Rock at the SOR Festival...

"Willie the Pimp"... crank it!

Robby Krieger playing Light My Fire with Hollywood School of Rock

The Hollywood Redneck interviews Bit-Bit

This cracks me up!

Billy Bob Thornton Supports the Troops with Music

Check out this interview with Billy Bob Thornton...

http://www.military.com/entertainment/music/music-news/billy-bob-set-to-rock-military-audiences


The Boxmasters are going on tour July - September across the US... check them out...

American Idol has got nothing on the Hollywood School of Rock!

Here's something you don't get to see very often...



Awesome show -- Hollywood School of Rock rocked The Mint out with Peace Frog..

More vids of the kids to come...

Rock On!

"Touch Me" from PGSORM Hollywood's The Doors show at The Mint

"Touch Me" from the Paul Green School of Rock Music Hollywood Branch's Doors Tribute at The Mint...

The Doors Show at The Mint - Hollywood School of Rock

The kids were awesome and yes that is actually Arthur Barrow of Frank Zappa and Robby Krieger the original Doors guitarist watching the kids play and smiling! I love The Mint!!

And as a wonderful treat of a moment in Rock history Robby Krieger played a couple songs with the kids and took a few questions from the thrilled crowd.

It was amazingly cool...

From Yes to Hell Yes!

(video courtesy of The Hollywood Redneck)

It was beyond words -- The Canyon Club and The Roxy were rocked this week by the Paul Green School of Rock All Stars with "Guest Professor" Jon Anderson! Here's a sampling of what you missed... I suggest you buy your tickets now for the Yes tour this summer while you still can -- rumors abound around Tinseltown that the All Stars may be joining them!

The Revolution has begun!

Perry Farrell singing "Mountain Song" with the All Stars at the Roxy

The superb Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars (joined by Jason Hedy from the Hollywood School on bass) doing "Mountain Song" with Perry Farrell at the Salvation Army California wildfire fundraiser at the Roxy in Hollywood Jan. 17, 2008...

"Muffin Man" - Hollywood PGSORM

Paul Green's School of Rock Music - Hollywood Branch playing "Muffin Man" by Frank Zappa...

Hollywood PGSORM - "Stonecold Crazy"

Hollywood branch of the Paul Green School of Rock Music has an upcoming tribute to the music of "Queen" show coming up next month -- here they are doing "Stone Cold Crazy"

Rock History in the making on the Sunset Strip

Rock History was made during a wildly awesome show at the Roxy on the famed Sunset Strip in Hollywood Thursday night -- Paul Green's School of Rock Music All Stars played with Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros frontman and Lollapalooza founder)and later, Jon Anderson from Yes took the stage to sing a couple songs with the kids as a super special surprise treat at the end of the show!!!

Students from the local Hollywood and Santa Monica Schools of Rock Music rocked the crowd out and then the All Stars sent us flying into a majestic universe of sublime sound and feeling -- and the icing on this Rock 'N Roll cake was that the proceeds from this amazing musical evening benefitted the Salvation Army and its California wildfire relief fund -- and oh my, Sugarfoots -- what a star-packed crowd!!! Best $12 dollars I've ever spent!!!

Here's some vids for you to Rock to...

Hollywood PGSORM doing "Problem Child" -- a tasty appetizer of their upcoming AC/DC show...



Hollywood PGSORM doing Frank Zappa's "Muffin Man"... I looove it...and that's the uber-talented Carl Restivo from Satellite Party, who happens to be the music director of the Hollywood School guiding the kids thru a cool reggae groove...



Hollywood School doing "Stone Cold Crazy"...oh yeah, they have a "Queen" show coming up as well..I'm so there!



The superb Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars (featuring Jason Hedy from the Hollywood School on bass) doing "Mountain Song" with the fantastically talented Perry Farrell...and look at how much fun Farrell is having!!



And finally, the extraordinary Jon Anderson singing "Owner of a Lonely Heart" with the All Stars...a superlative moment, sorry that I have no white balance on my much loved but cheapy camera...



Rock On, Sugarfoots, Rock On!!

Maraboo

Classic Metal by Hollywood School of Rock

The kids at the Paul Green School of Rock Hollywood Branch blew away the packed house at the Roxy on Saturday -- 2nd week in a row!!!

This time it was an awesome classic metal tribute.

Here's a vid of "Ace of Spades" and "Walk"

Also, click on the player at the top of the page to hear more tracks from the show...with better sound!

Will add more vids later...

Enjoy!

Helter Skelter - Hollywood School of Rock at the Roxy

Okay Sugarfoots -- this had to be one of the best versions of Helter Skelter I've heard!!! Enjoy!

School of Rock Hollywood at the Roxy

Here's clips of Love Me Do and Hide Your Love Away

I Am the Walrus - School of Rock Hollywood at the Roxy

Went to the Paul Green School of Rock Hollywood's Beatles show...

It was awesome. The kids sold out the Roxy -- SRO Sugarfoots!

The kids opened the show with a kickass version of "I Am The Walrus."

Enjoy the clip! More vids to come from the Beatles show.

They're playing the Roxy again next weekend -- Classic Metal!

I'll be there to bring you more...stay tuned...

Wellsgate...meh

I am not that outraged by Wellsgate, sadly…I was not even that surprised by it. It seems to me it just confirms in a very small slight teensy weensy way that Hollywood is just one more example of corruption in one of our industries and in our society at large… we gasped at Enron… we were shocked by the election… we were horrified at Abu Grahib… and we’re paralyzed by the wars and afraid of terrorism and on some level each other…each time we’re surprised to find out that our politicians are corrupt… that corporate America is corrupt... and that our military reflects all this because it is a microcosm of our society whether society believes it or not... and when we’re at odds with each other over support of the war vs. support our troops vs. impeach Bush… Red states, Blue states, Flyover Country vs. La-la-Land… it’s a conflict of the soul of America.. We the People – hey, we’re the ones in control, right…isn’t that what it says?

If you don’t like your representatives, don’t vote them into office… if your boss is a crook, blow the whistle for all of us…and if you don’t like Wells or Finke, then don’t read them… but I’m going to continue reading them as long as they both shall write… if nothing else at all, they are both very interesting columnists to read…two very different styles and voices and insights and interests…in this day and age of pull-quote journalism…it’s refreshing to read columns that have something to say.

But, it’s curious to me that in such close proximity of time Wells’ deep desire for nude photos of women is revealed in a published “private” email and 18 year old Vanessa Hudgens’ “private” nude photo is published on the web – it’s so “High School”..but not so "Musical"… Hey, I wonder if Wells’ knows he can get nude photos of women without having to sacrifice his dignity and call his reputation into question? Hmmmm….

I think the best thing would be if he wrote his column from a nice beach (where everyone’s nude) in Spain…ahhh, the Costa Brava…I fondly remember spending a wild week in a tiny tourist town called Loret del Mar…nude beaches..long happy hours…spicy paella and dancing to collapse…that would be perfect for Wells…sit on the beach, gawk at the naked women and write about whether they turn him on or not…judge them, rate them… tell them which ones got it up for him and which ones are just wastes of oxygen uselessly roaming the earth… because after all women exist on this planet to be judged by him and to oh-dear-lord-it’s-the-most-important-thing-in-their-lives pass muster with him… after all, he is a critic

And as for the Vanessa Hudgens scandal…my philosophy has always been…if you’re going to take a nude photo under any circumstances, make sure it’s one that you are actually going to want to look at when you’re 60…find your inner Godiva

Hey Sugarfoots, let’s plan a fundraiser to send Jeffrey and Vanessa to a nude beach in Spain for a week, they deserve it, they've been through a lot… the opposite of rehab – total immersion training – where she can roam free and naked and maybe he needs to get naked to get over his obsession with nudity and to just be able to accept it for what it is …

But both incidents are prime examples of the American quandary over nudity… we complain about censorship and call it puritanical --- but as soon as a woman takes her clothes off – everyone stops and points and giggles or jacks off – if you want nudity more integrated into the society, then Jesus-Maria-Paul-and-Ringo Grow Up People!

Wells and Hudgens reflect both sides of the coin – she wants to be nude and he wants to stop the presses and stare…but c’mon Sugarfoots, we all do it in whatever peculiar way…don’t we…please tell me it’s not just me…

Bad Jeffrey Wells, Bad Boy!

For some Hollywood hilarity and hi-jinx check out Wellsgate which is taking place right now Sugarfoots on two of my fave blogs --

Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily and Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood-Elsewhere... history is being witnessed -- as two Hollywood Blogiators battle in the arena...

But.. for the time being I am taking the link to Wells off of my Favorite Guilty Web Pleasure list... he can sit in the corner until he comes up with something better than his "I'm just a guy" excuse for his naughty behavior... Nikki's gets to stay -- sorry, she gotcha Jeffy! Finke 1 Wells 0

Just to catch you up -- Nikki Finke posted an email that Jeffrey Wells had sent to "3:10 to Yuma" director James Mangold asking him for a still photo from actress Vinessa Shaw's love scene with Russell Crowe and profusely thanking him for getting her to take her clothes off... ick

And then Wells confirmed that he had sent it to Mangold and that he's just a guy, blah, blah, blah, and how could she post it, wah, wah, wah...pretty hilarious

Read it all at Finke's blog

www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/creepiest-email-from-a-blogger-to-hollywood


But, it's not that it's "morally wrong" or "unprofessional" or even that perverted by Hollywood standards...it's just uncouth and disgusting and dumb...far beneath the pseudo-intellectual persona he displays in his writing... it's hard to buy the pompous aging hipster critic act now...

Especially now that he's provided his readership with the sad depiction of a lonely man staring at a tiny still image of a partially nude actress in one hand and a rarely used withered appendage in the other, eyes half-closed, thinning hair dampening around his brow with a weak sweat as he blinks hard to conjure a connection to some warm flesh fantasy of an almost stranger that could... if only for a moment... want him...ROTF LMAO TFF…

And as far as the question of whether or not Ms. Finke did a terrible thing by posting his email to Mangold… boo-hoo -- it’s the Internet Jeffy! Welcome to the Jungle! If you don’t want it out there…don’t write it down… duh…

Oooh, I can’t wait for the next juicy chapter!!!

I'm getting a vision of the entire cast and crew of "3:10 to Yuma" laughing their asses off... especially Vinessa Shaw...