Photos From Outer Space 3
March 7th, 2013 by chocko
Here is another edition of Chocko wandering around town in paparazzi mode. Noomi Rapace made an appearance at Apple in Soho in NYC to promote her new movie Dead Man Down which reunited her with Niels Arden Oplev, the director of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which features Noomi’s breakthrough role as Lisbeth Salander. My favorite parts of the discussion came from the q+a with the audience. Noomi talked about how her role in Prometheus gave her nightmares about being impregnated with alien babies and she also revealed how she intensely prepares for her movie roles. Thai kick boxing every day for seven months to prepare for Prometheus. Damn, girl! Noomi begins filming the movie, Animal Rescue with actor Tom Hardy next week in Brooklyn.
Filmmakers Joshua Green, Capella Fahoome and Ramona S. Diaz also stopped by Apple Soho to discuss Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey. Their documentary tells the story of Filipino singer, Arnel Pineda’s rise to rock-n-roll fame as the new lead singer of Journey. The movie opens this weekend in select cities. The filmmakers will be present for Q&A’s during the opening weekend at The Quad Cinema in NYC.
Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia stopped by New Museum to discuss hip hop in 1993 and share stories from their influential hip hop radio show on Columbia University’s WKCR which aired from 1990 to 1998. Stretch and Bobbito introduced the world to hip hop artists who were unknown at the time, such as Jay-Z who only had a 12″ record deal and is doing better now, Nas, Big L, Black Moon, Wutang Clan and the Notorious B.I.G. It was cool to be in the audience and listen to stories about artists such as Wutang Clan strongarming their way into the studio to get “Protect Ya Neck” played and an unsigned Biggie Smalls who almost stopped rapping after losing an on-air demo battle to a group called The Bronx Zoo. Stretch mentioned that the shows will be archived and accessible in one form or the other soon. He is presently working on a series of music documentaries focusing on overlooked 90’s albums such as “The Infamous” by Mobb Deep. Bobbito has a documentary Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC which is due out later in 2013.
Geneviève Castrée stopped by Desert Island in Brooklyn to sign her first graphic novel, SUSCEPTIBLE published by Fantagraphics Books. Geneviève is a talented cartoonist and musician who was born in Quebec and now lives and works in the Pacific-Northwest. The crowd at Desert Island was treated to a slide show featuring drawings from Castrée’s new book while she provided the funny insight and commentary. The occasion also marked the independent comic book shop’s fifth anniversary.
Legendary horror punk band, MISFITS signed their new album DEA.D ALIVE at Forbidden Planet. The new release on Misfits Records is a live album which features material from the post-Glenn Danzig era of the band. Chocko is a huge Misfits fan, but I have to say the sound on this album stinks like a mummy’s buttocks. I’ve heard bootlegs from old VHS tapes sound better than this new album. If it is a live album, it sounds like it was recorded from outside the venue. I will say, the artwork is fantastic! Pictured from left to right: Eric “Chupacabra” Arce, Dez Cadena and Jerry Only rocking the devil lock. Which one of you dudes smudged all my autographs? Shout-out to Dez for signing my Black Flag albums!
Skyzoo signing his album A Dream Deferred a couple months ago at the New Era Flagship in NYC. This would have been a dope event if Skyzoo performed a couple songs like the flyers advertised. The album is NICE.
Rachael Rakes (left), the Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, moderated a Q&A with Park Chan-Wook (middle) director of Oldboy. Park made a recent appearance at the Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens to promote his latest film, Stoker. If you’re a fan of the Korean director’s previous films or if you just want to catch a creepy, revenge movie…definitely go see it. You will enjoy it immensely. Astoria, Queens is no joke. After the event, it was a bummer to find that the Planet Chocko spaceship parked on 37th St. had been broken into. The lock on one of the doors was sloppily busted up and some space suits from the trunk were stolen. Be careful out there fellow astronauts!
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Tags: Bobbito Garcia, Geneviève Castrée, misfits, Noomi Rapace, Park Chan-Wook, photos, skyzoo, Stretch Armstrong
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