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Welcome To The 1st Anniverasay
                        Issue of Mil Mania!

  Volume 2, Issue 9, October 2006

 

Music Mayhem    

 

As noted in the December edition of Mil Mania, I will continue to include news in every issue to keep readers up to date on the latest happenings with the three acts most prominently featured on www.artistinsane.com.  In addition,  for each issue I will also choose one additional artist — in some cases a new discovery I’ve recently made, in others an individual or group whose work I’ve long appreciated — to make a one-time appearance here.  And, of course, as with all aspects of Mil Mania, feel free to offer suggestions.

 

This month’s featured artist...is an album instead!   Hey, you know how unpredictable we “crazies” can be. 

 

Of Love and Hope: Soundtrack from the TV series, Beauty and the Beast

 

     If you’ve visited the
television review page of
my website, you already
know this all too brief blip
on the small screen was a
big favorite of mine as it
not merely shared the
story of a great yet impossible love, but it did so with the art and creativity of classic literature — which it, incidentally, also used to set the beautifully lyrical tone of the show itself. 
     In searching for something noteworthy to share with you this month, this soundtrack fairly popped out of my CD collection to remind me how completely it embodies the link I indeed believe exists — or can and should exist— between literature and music.  In fact, I daresay I have long believed music is literature, merely in a form sung rather than “simply” read.  And, in the case of this CD, it’s also literature that’s spoken with word-defying effectiveness.
     Featuring orchestrations to complement the written works of Frost, Rilke, Shelley, Shakespeare and others, as “performed” by “the Beast”, Ron Perlman, this CD not only perfectly captures the spirit of the world in which this character lived and the love he shared with “Beauty” Catherine Chandler, it truly thrills with evocation and the timeless meaning of great poetic language… culminating in the most memorable and moving rendition of E.E. Cummings “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled” one could possibly imagine. 

     Listen and decide for yourself, “if this be error and upon me proved”.  If so, I declare, “I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

     I warn you, though, copies of this long out of print work are a bit hard to come by...even where they make the claim regarding anything tangible (and probably some things not), “you can get it on ebay.”  You can, at the moment, however, Buy it Here from Amazon.com. 

 

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Third Eye Blind makes an
autumn return to the stage again
for a couple of East Coast dates. 
And, of course, we all await the much
talked about new album.  Other than that, I’m afraid I have no “new” news at this time. 

 

Brian Fitzpatrick likewise has been very quiet musically of late.  Here’s hoping for some “hot off the press” Brian Fitzpatrick music and accompanying tour dates soon!

Michael McDermott too has been hovering just below the radar since the September issue of Mil Mania was sent out — although it should be noted he recently had a song appear in the television show, “Three Moons Over Milford”...and, of course, he continues to share new music via Monday Morning Musical Madness.  His schedule heats up again in November, however, when he plays Schubas in Chicago for solo and band shows on two consecutive nights.  And, he’ll be taking his act on the road to St. Louis in Dec., before heading back to the Windy City for a pre-Christmas concert at the House of Blues.  Check out Michael’s page at myspace.com for more info.

Ravings of a
        Mad Woman