I just finished reading Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood. While it was cool to read about Frank Zappa’s log cabin and Joni Mitchell living with Stephen Stills, I have to admit that in my heart, I still prefer balls-out rockers to any of these hippie fucks. What the fuck can Stephen Stills tell me [...]
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the eagle never hunts the fly
Posted in Bands, Books, Country Rock, Folk, Garage Rock, Los Angeles, Performers, Personal Shit, Songwriters, Television on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
manifestos.net
Posted in Art, Books, Futurism, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Poetry, Politics, Punk on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My friend DJ Algonquin just clued me into this amazing site, wherein are listed hundreds of manifestos, many of them accessible via various links. Of course, me, I’ve got a lot of art manifestos in book form at home, but not so many political or religious ones. This site has everything, from Rayonism to Luigi [...]
Bush gets creepy crawled
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Politics on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a fan of Vincent Bugliosi’s book Helter Skelter, in which he chronicles his prosecution of Charles Manson for the Tate/LaBianca murders in the early seventies. Though historical perspective and local L.A. hearsay tend to show how much Bugliosi and the police misunderstood about the case (MDA deal, anyone?), his account is still the Bible [...]
Thomas Pynchon and Porky Pig
Posted in Anarchy, Books, Comedy, Movies, Other Stuff, Television on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Pynchon loves him some Porky Pig. And this is why I have yet another reason to love YouTube.
If you’re like me, you have a giant mental backlog of things you want to remember to look up on YouTube. Now, most people, at least according to Patton Oswalt on Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil the other night, use [...]
Miranda July – “How to Tell Stories to Children”
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Interviews, Other Stuff, Performers, Poetry, Shows on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I couldn’t sleep last night, so I cracked open my Dave Eggers-edited The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 and plunged into the story where I’d left my bookmark three weeks ago. The story ended up being about an older woman and her motherly relationship with the child of some of her friends, a third-person account [...]
Mick Jagger as Alex of A Clockwork Orange?
Posted in Bands, Books, Celebrities, Movies, Performers, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Warhol on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Guardian UK reported today that there was almost a version of A Clockwork Orange that starred Mick Jagger, with a soundtrack by the Beatles!
In a letter uncovered this week, we learn of the Clockwork Orange conceived back before Stanley Kubrick came on board and made his film with Malcolm McDowell. It reveals that Mick [...]
Marcel Duchamp and Theresa Stern
Posted in Art, Books, Celebrities, Futurism, Performers, Poetry, Punk on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, so we visited the Norton Simon today, and to be honest, the Duchamp exhibit was a bit small. All the stuff was from the museum’s permanent collection, and though his twirling paintings-in-motion that had not been exhibited since 1963 were pretty incredible (perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, actually), I think the leeches at the Tate Modern [...]
The Goldbug Variations, Glenn Gould, and William Gillespie
Posted in Albums, Books, Classical Moosic on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was supposed to be writing a blog about Richard Powers’s The Goldbug Variations, and how I finished the book while on a plane to Mexico, with Glenn Gould’s 50’s and 80’s recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations tinkling in my ears via the power of my new iPod, and how once again I was overwhelmed by [...]
Persepolis and Persepolis 2
Posted in Books, Comics on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After seeing the trailer for the upcoming movie version of Persepolis over the holidays, I knew I had to read these graphic novels quickly, before the movie came out and could affect the voices of the characters in my mind as I read it. Using my newly renewed library card, I checked out both volumes [...]
Woody Allen Hates Johnny Cash!
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Other Stuff on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was reading Woody Allen’s Side Effects, a collection of short stories from 1975-1980. Despite how wonderful I think most of Allen’s films are (yes, they are, both the comedies and the dramas) I’m finding most of these stories not to be so great. They read like a transcript that’s unfunny in printed format even [...]
