Sep 12

Bacliff: the album

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I was born and spent the first 10 years of my life in the Bacliff/Galveston Bay area of Texas and if I was to make an album of my childhood this would be it.

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Title
Artist
1
 Blue Bayou Linda Ronstadt
2
 Maggie May Rod Stewart
3
 Forever Young Rod Stewart
4
 Cracklin’ Rosie Neil Diamond
5
 Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) The Hollies
6
 Crazy Love Poco
7
 I Love a Rainy Night Eddie Rabbitt
8
 Lookin’ for Love Johnny Lee
9
 Drivin’ My Life Away Eddie Rabbitt
10
 Lost in Love Air Supply
11
 Bang a Gong (Get It On) T. Rex
12
 Smoky Mountain Rain Ronnie Milsap
13
 Open Arms Journey
14
 Luchenback, Texas Johnny Russell
15
 You and I Crystal Gayle & Eddie Rabbitt
16
 Let Your Love Flow Bellamy Brothers
17
 Jet Airliner Steve Miller Band
18
 Just Remember I Love You Firefall
19
 Kiss on My List Daryl Hall & John Oates
20
 You’re in My Heart Rod Stewart
21
 Lay Down Sally Eric Clapton
22
 Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes
23
 You Might Think The Cars
24
 Carry On Wayward Son Kansas
Bonus Track      Fallen Angles           by Bacliff Punx

May 06

Back in Black!…………..& White.

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I am more then excited by the new trailer for the 21st Bond film in the series, this is close to the excitement I had back in 96′ for the release of Goldeneye, its palpable no question. Even though the new teaser trailer that is floating around isn’t”supposedly official” its solid and gives a great warmup of more to come (if you want to see it click the image above and it will load). I personally would have edited the teaser with more “tease in it” start with a black screen, lay in the beat track of the theme but do it slowly, let the camera float over black & white dead bodies with playing cards in their hands and pockets, really tease the audience cause after 20 films you got to put the spark back in the marriage for this in order to keep it going. All aside though its a great trailer.

The series on the other hand concerns me. There were two things that the Bond Series needed to do after the Brosnan run:

One, was they needed to take the films more seriously and with a touch of class. Cause nothing says class less then a dirty old man quoting “I thought Christmas came only once a year?” that is a line that should never have been in the films. There needs to be less impossible “save the day” gadgets and more serious “tricks of the trade” you should watch a bond film like you used to watch MacGyver, always wondering how is he going to use that exploding pack of gum that Q gave him, not the invisible car that has 8 rockets and a ICBM in the boot.

Two, James Bond needs to enjoy the job. You don’t need to watch the guy grimace and sweat every moment, or worse yet find no pleasure in the work. The 2 things that should be part of any Bond is a Tux and a smile. Connery did it best because he didn’t flinch much and had a devils smirk every now and then.

I know how I see the Bond character is not how everyone does and I don’t sacrifice the endless hours and money that Barbara Broccoli and her people do, but if the comic movie revolution has taught hollywood anything its the simple fact that if you don’t love and value a series and its small rules and qualities then the viewers will not come out to see it. The comparative profits from a Bryan Singer film as opposed to a Uwe Boll is quite large so if you cant understand the qualification of film-making hopefully people are not dense enough to miss the quantification of film box office receipts. If your too tired to be a guarding fan, hire one.

Nov 30

Site Re-Design & Re-Focus

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As I wrote many months ago, iHudgens.com would be revamped and split in direction from its previous focus which was part portfolio, part commentary. This is the first stage of a total redesign. The posting and comment progress has been streamlined and the subject matter has been enlarged to any and all news related in any way to art.

In the comming weeks everything from Starving artist recipies, to Political news, to Gallery reviews will be going up. With a built in comment feature database, getting the information easier and faster is now possible just as soon as I get the hang of the new coding for this. As I mentioned in the earlier posts this site is in tandem with http://hudgens.us and I have high hopes for getting both running at full speed with good data quite soon.