menright.com
Index
menright.com
Index
Welcome to menright.com. Here's an annotated table of contents:
Mike Enright Tunes Here are songs from The Ed Davis Band (including their 1978 single, "Keith Richards' Dead"); songs from Desi, Desi and Desi (including the A-side of their never-released single, the vocal version of "Telstar"); selections from As We Sow (Jan Weber's 2004 documentary, including the unreleased alternate title track); and a couple CDs worth of solo tunes from the Menright studio in both its 4-track and ProTools incarnations.
Along with the music are extensive supplementary materials: liner notes, photos, posters, links, and videos, including rare video material like the PortaPack footage of The Ed Davis Band in their last performance at a Cincinnati loft party, and concert footage of Desi, Desi and Desi from the rarely-photographed, never-videotaped interior of the legendary A7 Club.
Solo Digital | Solo 4-Track | Desi Desi Desi | The Ed Davis Band
The Carolyn Story Included are pages about all three of her East Village hardcore outfits: Killer Instinct, X.K.I., and The Bad Tuna Experience. G.G. Alin covered BTE's "Beer Picnic;" a video of the Experience doing the song can be seen on the upper right. As in the menright Tunes section, there are lots of mp3s, posters, photos, and liner notes.
Killer Instinct | X.K.I. | The Bad Tuna Experience
The Photos The first gallery, Photos From Digital Sources, presents images captured with a Nikon D-80 and a Sony MiniDV cam, all taken in the last couple of years. The second, Photos From Film, features selections from twenty-five years of 35mm negatives shot primarily with an ancient Honeywell Pentax SLR through a 28mm Zeiss lens. The third gallery, Photos From India, is a selection of D-80 images taken on a trip in 2006.
From Digital Sources | From Film | From India
We're Just Like You In the early days of video and performance art (when the PortaPack ruled) a half-dozen Cincinnati restaurant employees put together a "media artists collective" called We're Just Like You — and put on a show! They produced hours of reel-to-reel black-and-white videos, 16mm films, thousands of Polaroids, elaborate performance pieces, an in-house band, and the best loft parties Cincinnati ever witnessed. Click here for the WJLY story, including the 21st Century Premier of Spamwalk.
Bollywood When I start talking Bollywood I get two questions: "How did you get into this stuff?" and "What are some good movies?" I've been asked these questions so many times I finally decided to write something about it and post the information here. "How did you get into this stuff?" is answered in the Introduction; "What are some good movies?" has been answered in the List. In addition I've posted three pages of playlists culled from the great musical sequences of the last fifty years of Hindi cinema, along with links to their parent-film entries on the IMdb.
An Introduction | The List | Amitabh | Playlists
The Obsessionist These columns first appeared at Time.com, Time Magazine's website. The links below will take you to their original locations. (Unfortunately, the audio and video links that were initially included with the articles are no longer supported on the Time.com site.)
Phil Spector and the Ecstatic Moment | Monkey On My Back: My Life With The King (Kong, That Is) | Pal Joey: Remembering The "Nice" Ramone
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The Bad Tuna Experience
"Beer Picnic"
7/19/86 Lower East Side
Madhuri Dixit, looking wonderful at a press
conference for the "Unforgettable" Bachchan family
tour. (Carolyn covered it for Southasia-online.)
"California Run" from the Digital Photos section
"Anthony on his porch" from India pics
"East 10th Street Early 80's" in the From Film section
An animation in progress:
"3 Way Hat"
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Portrait of Harriet by
friend Terence Donovan