In what seems like a plot line ripped straight out of Entourage, what if I told you that FOX Searchlight wants to make a biopic based on the seminal punk band The Ramones? Would that be something you’d be interested in? Well, the specialty division of 20th Century Fox is looking into optioning a movie based on the upcoming memoir I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir - which was written by .
Fox Searchlight has announced that they are going to attempt to move forward with a biopic on the Ramones, based on the upcoming book I Slept With Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh, Joey's brother, and Legs McNeil. The book, due in December from Simon & Schuster/Fireside, centers around Joey's life and career.Producer Rory Rosengarten (Everybody Loves Raymond) has been working on getting the rights ...
Dee Dee RamoneI guess everyone who cares knows that there is a motion picture feature about The Runaways in the making... I wondered who would be cast as whom... the one thing I had known for a long while that it was going to be directed and written for the screen by Floria Sigismondi, who is best known for her photography and for directing a ton of high profile music videos (Bowie, Marilyn M...
Ramones: Acid Eatersby James Greene, Jr. • May 26, 2009 RamonesAcid Eaters(Radioactive, 1993)You can knock the Ramones for a number of things (lying about being brothers, letting Dee Dee quit, inspiring Rancid), but what you can't deny punk rock's most revered foursome is their ability to execute excellent covers. Da Bruddahs, as no one has liked to call them since 1992, were pretty sharp when.
Of all the New York bands that ever were perhaps none are more famous than The Ramones, the band that is widely regarded as the first punk band (they probably weren't) and wrote songs that almost never surpassed three minute in length. The repeated choruses and verses all the time, and if you listen to it on a regular basis it sounds like some grown up nursery rhyme with dirty or dysfunctional ...
Ramones: Acid Eatersby James Greene, Jr. • May 26, 2009 RamonesAcid Eaters(Radioactive, 1993)You can knock the Ramones for a number of things (lying about being brothers, letting Dee Dee quit, inspiring Rancid), but what you can't deny punk rock's most revered foursome is their ability to execute excellent covers. Da Bruddahs, as no one has liked to call them since 1992, were pretty sharp when.
--- - |- Earlier this week, BBC News ran an article with the headline that Rock Drummers are 'Top Athletes' and ran a photo of Blondie drummer Clem Burke wearing a mask that presumably is some kind of measuring apparatus. The article discussed things like heart rate / beats per minute and stamina and all that sort of thing - full of double entendres the likes of which you remember and roll yo...
Discovering an author whose writing I like is a real pleasure. When that author is also a Mogger, well, how cool is that!A couple of weeks back, Brendan Halpin (http://mog.com/brendanhalpin/) did a post where he offered to mail a copy of his most recent book, a novel titled "Long Way Back," to Moggers who provided their address, until he ran out of books.I quickly mogmailed him and a few days l...
I was born in 1974. Films at the time like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II, Roman Polanski's Chinatown were big hits at the box office but you also had films like Jack Hill's Blaxploitation film Foxy Brown blasting out onto the screens of Drive ins and Grindhouses. There was definitely a big change taking place in cinema during the 70s. In the world of music, a big change was happe...
--- - |- Friday saw a tribute party called 'In Loving Memory of Johnny Ramone,' a charity fund-raiser to honor the late guitarist of the punk-rock legends The Ramones, held at his gravesite in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Fans viewed a concert from 1988 projected onto a mausoleum wall, and also a 1932 cult carnival film 'Freaks,' which is [...] ~~- The Ramones
--- - |- For any of us who grew up listening to rock and roll, air guitar was an integral part of the experience. "Air guitar is inherent to anyone who listens to rock music," says Craig Billmeir of Alameda, while noting that his old roommate's two-year-old begins the air guitar motions whenever a Ramones record is put on. "No one taught her that." Billmeir knows a thing or two about air gu...
Converse will be putting out a Ramones inspired Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker later this summer in collaboration with The Gap's (Product) Red line, which helps raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. According to a press release. Chuck Talyor's were worn by the members of the Ramones, and the shoes became a staple in punk culture. Designed to symbolize the way the band wore their Chuck Taylor shoe...
The other day I made a pit stop at a bar I don't regularly visit to get a couple of pints on the fly when, just as my first oat soda was served, a commercial flashed across the wall of TVs behind the bar. It featured slam-dancing soda pop cans who were partial to the classic Ramones tune "Blitzkrieg Bop.":http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=75817&si=rhino I thought: "somewhere, so...
*CUZ I FRIGGIN CAN'T !!!* Please go to my PAGE - if you can get there - to read the entire post... THANKS !!! TRUST ME, I would LOVE to get my thoughts down in the world of MOG - I shared the experience of a lifetime with 8 other people whom I now consider & LOVE like family... They are expressing their throughts & ideas regarding our trip to the SoCal desert & if I am lucky I can post a com...