James Tauber's Blog 2007/05
Tintin Site Coming Back
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georges Remi, the creator of Tintin.
It is also exactly four and a half years since I started marlinspike.org, the first website dedicated to news about the Spielberg Tintin project.
Unfortunately, I neglected to renew the domain a couple of years ago but the good news is, I'm bringing it back at a new location in the next few days (along with all the old rumours from 2002-2004!)
Stay tuned!
UPDATE (2007-06-21): It's back at http://tintinmovie.info/
by jtauber : Created on May 22, 2007 : Last modified June 21, 2007 : Categories tintin : (permalink)
A Short History of You Me Us We
Being in Australia only half the time (and now less) has made my five year musical collaboration with Nelson Clemente slow moving. We have an album full of songs that we'll eventually get out, but last year Nelson very wisely got himself a real producer and has been working on his solo career in earnest.
One of the songs on his debut EP is actually one of our joint ventures. It has a long history, starting off as a fairly up-beat piano-centric instrumental I wrote in 1993 for a girl called Lucy Orlowsky. The song was imaginatively called "For Lucy". Ostensibly it was to congratulate her on getting an A+ on an essay for Ancient History. Later on I renamed the piece "Ancient History" with the obvious double meaning.
When I first started collaborating with Nelson, he added some very moving lyrics, changed the melody and called it "You Me Us We". I slowed it down and rearranged it for just piano and strings. It was performed a few times, including once on community television.
Then, for his solo EP, Nelson wanted to include a version of You Me Us We that fit the electropop style of the other songs. So I worked with producer Rob Agostini on the version that is now available. The intimate piano work is gone but the up-beat catchiness of the original 90s arrangement is back. And people seem to like it.
like totally one of the best pop songs this year...we fell madly in love with Nelson Clemente's 'You Me Us We'...It's the perfect blend of sparkly pop that will make you feel like the world isn't so bad after all.
Nelson Clemente's 'You Me Us We' is probably our favourite electropop song to be released this year and quite simply put, we can't stop listening to it.
To top it off, it is currently #1 on the ElectroQueer charts for the second week running, beating out Nelson's hero Darren Hayes.
Check out Nelson's Website.
by jtauber : Created on May 20, 2007 : Last modified May 20, 2007 : Categories music_composition you_me_us_we : 1 comment (permalink)
Pied-à-terre
Yesterday, I signed the papers to rent an apartment in Burlington. Every international man of mystery (to use Titus Brown's introductory description of me from PyCon) needs at least one pied-à-terre and this is mine :-)
For the last five years, I've lived in a hotel whenever working in the US. I felt an immediate sense of stability walking out of the leasing office yesterday with the keys to my apartment.
Now I just need to buy a bed and bedding, some towels, toilet paper, a desk and chair, and arrange Internet access and I'm all set! Other furniture, kitchenware and household "essentials" can wait :-)
by jtauber : Created on May 17, 2007 : Last modified May 17, 2007 : 5 comments (permalink)
Peter Jackson to Join Spielberg for Tintin
I've been tracking news on Spielberg's Tintin project for four years now and the breaking news is that Peter Jackson will join forces with Spielberg.
Exciting news indeed and I'll follow up as I find out more.
by jtauber : Created on May 15, 2007 : Last modified May 15, 2007 : Categories tintin : 3 comments (permalink)