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Used to go to church here every day before class at St. Mikes, which was next door, back in the 1950's.

I am again saddened to see that yesterday at the age of 90, Glenn Ford died. He was another of my favorites.

I don't remember where I got the DVD, it might have been Smith's in one of their old budget DVD bins.

I was looking for it last week so I could show my daughter's friends what a star I am, but I didn't find it. That means it's time to clean the house, or the kids rooms, where it's probably buried under piles of stuff.

Well, shoot now I am impressed =)...it's been easlier over 10 yrs. since I've seen that film...I think I'll take time out this Sunday to chill & check it out...I'll be sure to look for ya!

BTW where'd you manage to get a DVD?? I'm thinking maybe Casablanca here in SF wud have it...they have a pretty good stock of "oldies"...?? any ideas?

Vanessa, when the paratroopers started to drop, there's one very fast moving scene where I pull a girl out of the yellow bug. I was very happy when I got the movie on DVD so I could freeze frame on that part.

There's another scene where I'm in the back of a truck as the mayor's car turns toward the Serf. Thanks to the miracles of movie making, I'm in front of the bank as a guard just 10 seconds later. I came like that close to being one of the book burners, except that I was a "paratrooper" and not "infantry."

I also was the officer in charge of the raodblock the kids had to get past after they got their supplies. I had to act like I got shot in the leg as I dove into a ditch.

One scene that got cut out of the movie was where Bella walked out of the Castadena hotel to see his dead troops. Me and another guy practiced snapping to attention as they walked by. We did that on our own, after all you have lots of time between takes. We were told that the producer and directors commented that we looked real good on camera, but that scene didn't make the final movie.

For David Lopez:

LOL it seems like only yesterday!!! I was an 8th grade student a Memeorial Mid-Hi when that flick was filmed & I'm sure you recall the 1st scene where all the paratroopers begin to land on the schls footbal field...I still recall the filiming of that sooo clearly...geeeez how time flies!!

I think i may even still have my VHS copy!! I'll send it your way for an autograph K? =)

This is as good a place as any to post this:

Did anybody else read about the historic building on the corner of Grand and Lincoln in Las Vegas that collasped?

It's near and dear to me because when they filmed Red Dawn in Las Vegas, there is a scene where Jennifer Grey comes out of the building just before it blows up. Well, the camera pans on me as an extra before it goes to the actors who do their lines just prior to the bomb going off.

In the scene where they track the kids in the snow on Johnson Mesa, I'm the first one to get shot. Off camera, John Milius points this great big .45 at me and boom, he shoots, bam I drop.

Rent the movie, tell me how my acting was!

Maybe things like this listing and its no listing will change for the new year. It's only hoping. This is after all Santa Fe the different.

89.9FM KUNM Cheryl Hooks’ "Ear to the Ground" hosts ANTS HAVE VOICES Saturday March 11 7-8PM Simultaneous Webcast on kunm.org (http://kunm.org/listen)

Hey, Stefan....I wasn't able to play it.  Are you providing entertainment for the meet-up.  Hey, going to send you an email to make you aware of something.

PC, here's a present for you:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=65259490

It is Ants Have Voices to listen to and to download.

stephan .. o'siyo my brother .. gv ge yu .. witsatologi nihi! ..

shameless plug time: Sama Duo at the Travel Bug, 5 pm ish to 7 ish, tonight...

hey- peter, do tell us more about your amazine talent scout business investigating abnormal sexual practices in norther nm.

hey- mustafa is an mf for sure...another manifestation of the amazing talent clustered in northern nm...

peter breslin

I wrote a letter to the SFPS superintendent this morning, as a concerned former student of the SFPS system.  The following is a copy of the letter that I wrote.  I am looking for allies in this fight for the funding of the arts, so if you believe you can help, please e-mail me withyour thoughts/suggestions @ nashbaug@nmsu.edu

Hello there Dr. Carpenter,
I am writing you with a specific concern, as a am sure most of your writers do. However, I am hoping that this concern will come as a shock, being that it is coming from a dis-satisfied Graduate of the SFPS system. I graduated from Capital High in 2003, and have since been pursuing my studies in Music Education at NMSU. In my time here, I have learned a lot of what I expected to learn, but there have been some suprisingly enlightening experiences as well. My eyes have been opened to the poor level of opportunity I was given in my studies throughout the SF Public Schools. In light of these experiences, I have started to pay attention to differences in educational philosophies from city to city, and state to state. The schools here in Las Cruces aren't the best in the nation by any means, but they are well on their way. Besides an increase in funding, one thing that has been done down here is the installment of a Coordinator of Music for the L.C. Public Schools. I am aware that this has been done in Santa Fe, but this cannot have a positive effect unless the position is raised to full-time. This is the key to success. The problem isn't characteristic of Santa Fe alone, as I now know that this is a Nation-wide problem that needs to be addressed. I have become more and more disturbed at the fact that the funding for the arts in schools all across the nation is being cut. Some school systems are already making progress toward certain benefits. These benifits don't only benifit the arts. The school systems which support the arts reap enormous economical benifits as well.

Some specific Food for thought: At a middleschool in Wisconsin, VH1's "save the music" program awarded a 25,000$ grant to a school that was forced to decline the offer, since there was no full-time music teacher employed there. I know that the middle schools in Santa Fe have already stooped to this level. And yet the school board wonders why the High School music programs have dwindling interest... you must remember where High School Students come from--MIDDLE SCHOOL.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I have prepared a full presentation to address the school board as a whole--I thought I would write first, to see if I can gain any allies in this fight, so if this idea seems amusing to you, please respond soon.
Thanks, and have a wonderful day.
Nathaniel C. Ashbaugh

my wife and I have purchased a house in Santa Fe and will be moving in June - we are both free-lance writers who have been actively contributing to newspapers and magazines in our area (CT, NY, RI) for 10 years - my wife writes restaurant reviews, feature articles and corporate profiles and I write film, music and theatre reviews - we hope to continue our writing in our new locale and would be happy to provide samples of our work to any prospective employers at Santa Fe publications, including online magazines. palehman@msn.com

Good Day New Mexico!
I am a Key Production Accountant in the Film Industry, one of my many jobs is to produce weekly and final Cost Reports for the film. I see that monies are spent in the local community during prep/shoot/wrap. This amount is quite substantial. I am looking forward to becoming a resident of your beautiful state sometime this year so I too will be concerned where money is spent. It is not necessary to bankroll a production, the funds will come from outside investors/banks/bonding companies if well known Talent is attached to the project. Although incentives are attractive to Producers.

In reference to a comment below about actors not spending "big bucks" earned in New Mexico. No, that most likely won't happen unless they fall in love with it and buy property to live there as some do. The actors salaries go to their Business Manager/Agent or their Corporations. However, the entire Cast and Crew does spend their weekly Per Diem on location. Money is spent locally on Lodging, Car/Truck rentals, Office Supplies, Film Processing, Catering, Craft Service-(daily munches for set) Local Equipment purchases and rentals, Local Wardrobe purchases, Hair-Make Up supplies. Truly the majority of the production budget is spent on location except for those who are brought in, they usually bank their salaries until they see wonderful purchases to buy in New Mexico. And there are a lot more in your beautiful state than some of the others. Happy Filming!

HollywoodFilms@aol.com

I saw a movie this weekend that was a pleasant surprise! It was totally entertaining and amazed me that the actors in it were as good as they were. Namely;The Matador. Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinear starred and both were good and believable in their parts; bearing in mind the fairly improbable premise. All in all, simply great fun.

Ants Have Voices will be performing at the new

Santa Fe Brewing Company (at the old Wolf Canyon building)

Saturday Night at

8:30 pm

I hope to meet you all there.

http://www.santafebrewing.com/

Web Ed, James Doohan, Star Trek's "Scotty" has just died at the age of 85.

Scotty has been beamed up. Rest in peace.

It brought out the Christmas sperip

I loved it

What does a man do standing up...

a woman do sitting...

and a dog with one leg up?...

Shake, of course.

You see, I bought a pair of 300 Gig drives to set up a mirror on this stupid PC. (I can't imagine that I'd want to recover all those boxes of ripped CDs.)

along about the end, well, after 250 some Gigabytes, I was into music of local artists that weren't listed on CDDB or Gracenote, or the one that Microcruft keeps. So I did a google search for Jack Clift hoping to find a page with an album cover on it.

I found that Jack Clift had been fired from Santa Fe's "Music in the Plaza" program. Now Jack Clift is a weird young fellow, a guitarist who has a tendency to hop up and down as he plays. It looks like he is playing guitar on a pogo-stick. But I first met him while he was playing for "Orange Blossom Special" a C&W dance band which is very famous up here in Northern New Mexico. The search brought up this link.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/1836.html

That [] upset me somewhat. So I did what was necessary to be able to comment on the stupidity of what had happened (a couple of years earlier, while I was out driving 18-wheelers around the country.

And that brings us up to today. Remember, this all started because I couldn't find an album cover for Jack's 1993 album. Thanks to "The New Mexican" for finding the link I need for "On a bright, bright morning".

For some reason Jack and his friends call their type of slow soft music (with some rock&roll drums) "Alternative Folk". They are the only ones who know what that means. It sounds like folk music with some surprises thrown in every so often.

In fact, it's a lot like "Cowboy Junkies" except that Jack doesn't sound like Margo Timmins. He does have a little Jack Palance or Mel Torme in his voice. That wasn't there on the first album, but he's a bit older these days. No more pink hair, none of those old "Blind 'em with the appearance, and then you can get through their ears to their heart..." stuff.

So, I downloaded the three albums on the site that the New Mexican referenced, burned an mp3 disk, and listened to it. It was all 128k stuff, so it will be much better on a disc. And it looks like I can buy two of the three plus the cover so I can buy three new Jack Clift CDs. (I don't live close enough to come hear him play at Fiestas. You twits did invite him to play at Fiestas, didn't you?)

Just ask him to play some of his songs off his albums. They are soft and sweet, and you will not regret it. As for me, my money is in the mail. I think that tells you how much I like his music. But, I've never bought an Opera disc, so that should tell you a little about how I choose. I would have been driven off the Plaza by Opera Music, (or John Phillip Sousa, for that matter.) I listen to a lot of Alison Krauss, Linda Ronstadt, Laurianne Fiorentino, and Orange Blossom Special, and of course, Lawyers, Guns, & Money... (Love it when the Judge plays that pedal steel...).

hmm

Yeah Kaaren, and the only reason they were able to make this movie is because Roosevelt tricked us into getting into WWII. He knew about the attack on Pearl before it happened. Duck, here comes another black helicopter.

Bill understands it perfectly well, Steve. But this is a public forum and in public Bill will never admit the obvious if it even remotely suggests that this administration was wrong. Period. End of story.

Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 - the CIA has admitted it - even Bush has admitted it. He keeps lamely bringing up the "lessons of 9/11" as a nicely vague way of linking the two, but you notice that Cheney hasn't mentioned those mushroom clouds in a long, long time.

Those WMDs were long gone by the time we went in. Saddam refused bin Laden's request to establish a base in Iraq. Those are the facts, but Bill and his dust throwers will keep bringing them up over and over to deflect attention from the disastrous results of this invasion for America as if there really was something left in those issues to discuss.

There isn't. Bush was wrong. They just can't stand to admit it.

Hey Steve, did you perchance see the beginning of the second paragraph? "But seriously". Jeez, you libs have no sense of humor at all. I give up.

I don't think we had any business attacking Peru after Pearl Harbor and we didn't. Peru had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. For the same reason, I don't think we had any business attacking Iraq after 9-11, but we did. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Just what part of that did you not understand, Bill?

So, you think we should have attacked Peru after Pearl harbor, Steve? Where is the connection? Is there something you know and aren't telling us about Peru?

But seriously, I have seen several programs on the History Channel about this raid, and the Rangers and Alamo Guards that participated are true heroes in every sense of the word. The movie appears to follow the facts fairly closely and should be seen by all.

This tradition is well known throughout most northren NM towns. Thanks Jereme, its brought back fond memories of my childhood in Canjilon NM.

Excellent review. Unlike Turandot, this one wasn't armchair.

Hello Everyone.

Daniel Trujillo here.

I am just letting you all know that my band

ANTS HAVE VOICES

With Eleanor Carbett and Dave Vise

will be playing in Albuquerque at

Ned's Downtown

Friday

July 29

7-10

If you can make it down, come downtown, to "Ned's Downtown".

Hey, Daniel - it's not quite Friday but I'll take it! Happy to you too.

Oh hello everyone.

I just want to let you all know that my band,

ANTS HAVE VOICES

is playing at

El Paseo

next friday

MAY 27, FROM 9-CLOSE

I do hope to see you all there.

Happy Friday Kaaren. Hello R.C. Hello MAA. Hello Hanz. Hello Judy. Hello Khal.

A very beautifully written story.

Your story brought tears to my eyes and I'm at work so I'll have to read it later.

One of my favorite things about the weeks around Christmas and Christmas Day is shopping for food and searching for the present that will make people the happiest.

You are wise beyond your years, Alec. You've got it right!!!

The 'fortunate son' is like a dog on the run. Giving guns to the sons while he knows what he had done. Americans looking into the sun while we know George is only a pun (in the game).

Eric Idle rocks! We already know Steve Terrell rocks!

George W. Bush? Well, it's a nice day, today. Spring run-off is rolling through the bosque out back. Lots of wildflowers in bloom. Why waste the energy required to say something printable about the thug in the White House?

Great article! Thanks for writing about this important subject.

Rick ought to get together with the classic Yes lineup and come back to Santa Fe.

new mexico had a grant for home made harps...................and other musical instruments.........what did they do steal the money and the harps.............and state opertive has no right to any artist donated musical instrument or what ever device that makes music..........lets clean up our act today please and quit being thiefs!................lee

Aztec empire fallen to Spain...makes me think of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer".

Still, I look forward to seeing the

exhibit(s).

I thought it was a picture of one of the regular bloggers. I won't say which one.

"chere" is a cajun term of endearment. Cajun culture/language is distinct from New Orleans culture/language. My point is that your headline makes no sense. Its like "guten tag, amigo."

in a socorro office at a bank.......................once and maybe still is a group of terriost planning againist the u.s. goverment......and its people.........thur a lineage of mason's...................what a story and movie that will make..............

The classical performance scene, alone, makes Santa Fe an Enchanted City.

Wow! Cecil Taylor.