Crib Notes

This Tuesday night Fringe Factory and Movie Lounge present a free screening of director Barbet Schroeder’s 1969 cult/hippie classic, More.

The film captures a slice of life in ’60s Europe where youth and drug cultures collide.  Stefan (Klaus Grunberg) ventures to Paris after graduation, where he becomes enamored with a young American hippie girl, Estelle (Mimsy Farmer).  She lures him to Ibiza, where the dangerous and exotic world of LSD and nude sunbathing are pursued before succumbing to the destructive trappings of heroin addiction.

The film follows the two youths as they fall deeply into a downward spiral of drug abuse and denial.

Famous for its moody Pink Floyd soundtrack, songs in the film include “Green is the Colour,” “Cymbaline,” “The Nile Song” and “Ibiza Bar.”

DJs, as well as a few short films and movie trailers will also be seen and heard throughout the night.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Film starts at 10 p.m. FREE. The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge is located at 644 N. Highland Ave. near the intersection of North Ave. and N. Highland. For more information call (404) 874-5756 Ext. 450.

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For today’s Roll Call, we call out Atlanta’s favorite black hipster, Wil May, who’s been hibernating in L.A.

Who are you?
I am Wil May aka Bill Whitfield aka Lil WiWi fa sho. My mom calls me WILLIAM. I am WILLIAM E. MAY by birth. Regal, I know. And, in college [Emory University] they used to call me POSTMODERN. So I am POSTMODERN. I am an artist/music producer/the orchestrator of the MAKESHIFT movement.

Describe yourself in three words.
Uber, Astute, MAKESHIFT

Whom — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
As of now, Mr. Barack Obama. I wouldn’t want to just meet him. I wanna be homies with him.

Whom would you most like to slap in the face?
Billy O’Reilly (make sure you put Billy). He just says dumb, insensitive, incendiary shit to me.

What song do you wish you had written?
I can’t just say one song. Debussy’s “Clair De Lune,” Pink Floyd’s “Time,” OutKast’s “Elevators” and T.I.’s “What You Know.”

Lil Wayne or Little Richard?
Weezy F. Baby. Say what you will about Weezy but Lil Wayne’s work ethic is amazing. Peep the skit on his new mixtape Dedication 3 called “You Love Me You Hate Me.” He explains his work ethic in a hilarious way. Plus, Kanye, TIP, and Wayne are basically giving ppl evidence that the music industry still exists in a major way. And, now WEEZY is expressing that he wants to start pushing the boundaries of his craft. Hopefully he’s serious. So Weezy F. Baby over Little Richard. Plus, I was never a fan of Little Richard’s perm. I feel what he was doing back then in the beginning of rock ‘n’ roll and all, but now, nahh.

LP, CD or MP3?
The MP3 is liberating by nature. So the MP3. Only high quality ones though … 320kbps. The LP is cool, but for cultural reasons. CD’s are just annoying at this point.

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
I feel like I have. I was wearing Topsiders, colorful ones too, way before they got popular again, back in my early URBAN W.A.S.P.in’ days.

I would like to start a trend to seriously use and continually improve alternative, green and cheap energy to the masses.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
I’m not easily annoyed by things, trends or ppl. Trends are trends because they comment on something profound or seemingly profound. Ppl don’t like trends because they become clichés, and “errbody got ‘em.” But clichés are clichés only because at some point they were profound or interesting or cool … to a lot of ppl.

But one trend I would definitely end is 360 artist deals. It’s unethical.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
I think I played enough of that in high school during those summer nights on Lake Michigan, but still, who’s not down for a game of good, old-fashioned spin the bottle. So I would say Janelle Monae is with whom I’d play.

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Founding Pink Floyd member and keyboardist Rick Wright passed away this afternoon after a short battle with cancer.

Wright had been a member of Pink Floyd since the mid-sixties and most recently appeared on fellow Pink Floyd member David Gilmour’s latest release, Live in Gdansk. Wright was 65.

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(photo courtesy www.residentadvisor.net)

Three years ago, ERIC PRYDZ scored a house remix of Steve Winwood’s ’80s pop chestnut “Call on Me.” It was one of the first dance tracks to draw mainstream attention via a softcore video — in this case, a clip of gyrating girls doing aerobics in tight-fitting leotards — widely circulated on the Internet. Written off as a gimmick, Prydz then earned grudging respect with a throbbing electro-house remake of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” (retitled “Proper Education”). But it’s unlikely that the hipsters who’ve danced to that track at MJQ will show up to this rare Atlanta appearance. $20. 10 p.m. Wetbar, 404-754-9494. www.ericprydz.com.

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Since the Guardian interviewed musicians about overrated albums, I’ve decided to compile my own list. Please feel free to post a comment if you agree or disagree.

Nirvana – Nevermind
This has become the sound of 99X or any “alternative” radio station out there. It’s responsible for spawning some of the most heinous bands ever (i.e., Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, the Vines). Critics say it’s great, because it brought the underground to mainstream audiences. No, it didn’t. What it did do was bring a watered-down, derivative parody of underground music to the mainstream. In other words, they threw the Pixies, Mudhoney, and the Wipers into a blender and filtered it through Butch Vig’s cheesed-out, pop-metal production. Now it’s considered the album that saved rock or something.

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

From the amount of press these guys got, you’d think they were the Second Coming. It’s become a habit for the British music press to shit their pants every time a band of scruffy, doe-eyed, twentysomethings comes out of the woodwork (cough, cough, the Strokes). The problem wasn’t as much the album, but the insane amounts of hype it received. Unfortunately, the tunes couldn’t stand up to the hype. Now the band is facing a shit storm of backlash.

Radiohead – OK Computer
Have you ever noticed that the people who mention Radiohead as one of their favorite bands are always dumbasses? Hey, guy, guess what? Radiohead has been aping other bands forever. Sure, it adds some nice space echo and electronic bleeps and farts, but that doesn’t change the fact that “Just” is a rip-off of “Shot by Both Sides,” and “Let Down” is a Stone Roses song. Don’t get me wrong: I loved this album when I was in eighth grade, but I’ve come to realize how remarkably mediocre it is. Let’s face it. There are arguably two great songs on here – “Paranoid Android” and “Karma Police.” The rest is just decent, safe Brit pop with abundant bells and whistles.

Oasis – Definitely Maybe
I have to hand it to these guys for cultivating such hilarious, over-the-top rock-star personas. Their moron-brothers shtick aside, this album is B-O-R-I-N-G. Definitely Maybe is an exercise in how many different ways you can put together the same five barre chords. It’s the British Dookie. With that said, I still have a soft spot for “Live Forever.”

Pink Floyd – The Wall

I don’t think much needs to be said about this one. It’s the most bloated, self-important album of one of the most bloated, self-important bands. The scary thing is how the band stretched an EP’s worth of material across a double LP.

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