Grace Slick Remembers the Grateful Dead
“And we didn’t have to change our clothes during the sets. They were lucky if we showed up. I mean, we didn’t have to have funny outfits or exploding chickens or dancing boys or any of that kind of stuff. It was just you show up, you play your music, and then you either go home or you go to another club—a club that’s open. It was just very easy. Rock ’n’ roll is not a difficult medium. It was marvelous. All the people who say, ‘Well Janis was miserable and Garcia was miserable and Jim Morrison’—no, they weren’t.”
“But heroin is different from alcohol. Alcohol, unless you have a car accident, alcohol is usually a slow, stupid death. When you say, I think I’ll have a little more heroin, a little more could kill you. But with alcohol a little more just makes you a little drunker. And then over the years you’re . . . well, you get fired from your job or your wife leaves and then your liver, and it’s a slow, stupid death. Heroin is very sudden. And we were young and stupid in some ways, in a lot of ways. So you have just a little bit more, and . . . You just have a little more and it’ll kill you.”
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JERSEY BOYS National Tour Returning to San Francisco in 2016
Filming Notes from All Over:
HBO Exits ‘Veep’ From Maryland After Getting $6.5M California Tax Credit
From Perspective Magazine, "Welcome to Nowhere," by Ruth Ammon, Production Designer
and:
Louisiana Movie, TV Industry Fears Slowdown After Limits Placed on Tax CreditsBlockbuster bill could dim state's film marquee
"To put it in perspective, we've spent $1 billion on film tax credits and cut higher ed by $700 million in the last seven years," said Rep. Jim Fannin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "I think had we funded higher ed with that money we would have gotten a higher return on our investment."What's next for Michiganders who hoped for film career?
What happens when government invites citizens to join a big new policy initiative, only to reverse course a few years later? When people invest their own money, take retraining classes or move back home to build a new industry, only to have the state change direction?Here's what Illinois has paid out in film tax credits
Metro Detroit's film community is finding out.
Last week, the Michigan Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Rick Snyder that could represent the final nail in the coffin of the incentives program launched in 2008 to attract film, TV and digital media projects.
The tax breaks come at a time when Illinois faces an approximately $6 billion deficit in the upcoming budget year. Gov. Bruce Rauner has ordered the film office "to defer application approvals for film tax credits" as a cost-cutting measure.Film industry is paying attention to Illinois' tax-credit freeze
Local film industry bemoans lack of state incentives for production
For the third straight year, the Florida Legislature has decided not to replenish the state’s empty tax incentive pot earmarked for film and television productions.Film, game backers regroup after Florida legislators drop incentives
Texans Protest Film Incentive Cut Change.org petition demands special session to save program
In North Carolina: 'Dirty Dancing' filming delayed until late summer
The grant system replaces more lucrative tax cut incentives. From 2010-14, film productions could claim a 25 percent refund on all qualified expenses in the state — up to $20 million. Under the new system, no production can receive more than $5 million from the state.Meanwhile:
SF home-buying ‘insanity’ means paying $1 million over list price
Nearly $1 million for this forsaken SF fixer-upper – corpse not included. Hurry!
And in Mountain View:
8 SF-BASED MOVIES & TV SHOWS YOU CAN WATCH ON NETFLIX TONIGHT
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