Daniel Johnston

you have got to hide your love away chicago feb 2008

two shows I want to see in the new year

one in NYC:

“Artist’s Choice + Muniz = Rebus” is at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400, moma.org, through Feb. 23.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/arts/design/26muni.html?ref=design

and one in LA:

"For the first time Mr. Prince’s work will appear alongside Berman’s in a show called “She” opening Jan. 15 and running through March 8 at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition focuses on a common subject where the two artists overlap in odd and unexpected ways: women." - Randy Kennedy for the NY Times Dec 22nd 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/arts/design/23prin.html?ref=design

It's All Too Much - original longer mixed

george martin rejected this killer song by george harrison for sergeant peppers or maybe it was john and paul. who ever did was a fool this song slays. i feel like this song as the year stumbles to a close.

Arthur Lee Live 1990 - Everybody's Gotta Live

no reason in particular just love this song. saw arthur sing this song in brooklyn in 2003 it ruled . happy holidays!

The Fall: Bingo Master's Break-out!

James Chimombe -

last week or so i heard the compilation viva! zimbabwe on wkdu in philadelphia. it was so so great i want to score a copy. james chimombe has a few songs on it alongside a band with the great name OK Success.

Bettie Page dies in LA at 85

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28185814/LOS ANGELES - Bettie Page, the 1bettie page sies in LA at 85950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.

Page suffered a heart attack last week in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, her agent Mark Roesler said. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.
"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."
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Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.
Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.
The latter helped contribute to her mysterious disappearance from the public eye, which lasted decades and included years during which she battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian.
After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.
"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars. ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."
The 21st century indeed had people remembering her just as she was. She became the subject of songs, biographies, Web sites, comic books, movies and documentaries. A new generation of fans bought thousands of copies of her photos, and some feminists hailed her as a pioneer of women's liberation.
Gretchen Mol portrayed her in 2005's "The Notorious Bettie Page" and Paige Richards had the role in 2004's "Bettie Page: Dark Angel." Page herself took part in the 1998 documentary "Betty Page: Pinup Queen."
S&M photos denounced as perversion
Her career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island. An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old's firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.
Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998, "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."
Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds."
Bettie Page's dark bangs became her signature, and were imitated by numerous fans.
In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.

"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.

Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.

Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.

She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.

Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.

Life grew more turbulent in later years
In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.

After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down because she had been divorced. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry.

A move to Southern California in 1979 brought more troubles.

She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady, and doctors who examined her determined she had acute schizophrenia. She spent 20 months in a state mental hospital in San Bernardino.

"She had a very turbulent life," Todd Mueller, a family friend and autograph seller, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She had a temper to her."

Mueller said he first met Page after tracking her down in the 1990s and persuaded her to do an autograph signing event.

He said she was a hit and sold about 3,000 autographs, usually for $200 to $300 each.

"Eleanor Roosevelt, we got $40 to $50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all," he told The AP last week.

Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tenn., Page said she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings."
The family included three boys and three girls, and Page said her father molested all of the girls.

After the Pages moved to Houston, her father decided to return to Tennessee and stole a police car for the trip. He was sent to prison, and for a time Betty lived in an orphanage.

In her teens she acted in high school plays, going on to study drama in New York and win a screen test from 20th Century Fox before her modeling career took off.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

While You See A Chance (Steve Winwood)

watched two episodes of miami vice last night and then heard this song on the radio later in the day. great song. did daft punk buy their pyramid at steve winwood's yard sale?

Heartbeeps clip

this movie is so strange and bad and great saw it randomly this afternoon it stars andy kaufman bernadette peters and randy quaid

Anna Domino - Land Of My Dreams

repost for meg. such a great song.

Elton John - Grimsby (Old Grey Whistle Test 1974)

reggie (and bernie) writes nothin' but the hits nothin' but the m-f-'ng hits

also check out david foster talkin' gangsta about how "Cash Rules Everything Around Me"

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/03/david.foster/index.html

in the morning, etc.

this set of tunes is part late summer part fall part now. time is a blur for me right now but this music is getting me thru. thanks to bones for the larry lurex and the comet gain. i put together an event for feb 18th at the international house in philly. a music set by meg baird and guests and a screening of the lovely film melody. (the soundtrack is all early bee gees songs including the two present on this mix) it will be free! dont miss it! more info to follow.

1. bee gees - in the morning
2. bee gees - melody fair
3. hopeton lewis - drift away
4. toots & the maytals - take me home country roads
5. 10cc - dreadlock holiday
6. debbie deb - when i hear music
7. the beautiful miss marianne faithfull - the ballad of lucy jordan
8. john paul young - love is the air
9. sheila b. devotion - spacer
10. johnny mathis w/ chic - love my lady
11. elton john - grimsby
12. larry lurex - i can hear music
13. michel delpeche - pour un flirt avec toi
14. bob andy - games people play
15. comet gain - love without lies
16. comet gain - say yes
17. johnny boy - you are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve
18. the pooh sticks - that was the greatest song
19. the fall - tempo house

download here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cr0vb5

enjoy ! xo bubbles inc.

Australia 2008 Movie Official Trailer (High Definition WideScreen)

this movie was so great

Jane Birkin - My baby song

the joyous jane birkin from 1975

Cheryl Ladd Performs Live! (1979 Special)

Blondie photos

it would be really great if someone bought me as a present these (as the Village Voice put it) these "preposterously foxy Debbie Harry photos" at Christies auction house tomorrow

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5144635&sid=1dc24ac7-b9ef-41c7-a4fe-6eecc9d8aa20

Ballrooms of Mars - Trex

1972 Slider Sessions

New Order - Confusion

NYC 1983 paradise garage, etc.

dick cavett and david foster wallace

two articles i enjoyed recently

dick cavett in the times last week

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

and david foster wallace from 2005

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace

ABBA "The Winner Takes It All"

great post on idolator about Ton Ewing's take on ABBA's UK number one singles

http://idolator.com/5093624/a-look-back-at-abbas-most-popular-songs

Olga Kurylenko from Quantum of Solace

Happy Mondays - Tart Tart

from 1987

Diana Ross - Upside down

nile rodgers is the man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Rodgers

and diana cant be topped

Sparks: Girl from Germany (live 2000)

Quantum of Solace Trailer #1

this however opens tonight and is most likely the best movie of the year. i wish i was bond . . james bond. i'll definitely see this this weekend.

INDEPENDENT LENS | The Cool School | PBS

cant wait to see this!
Today, Friday, Nov 14 7:00p
at International House, Philadelphia, PA
Price: $5.00 - $7.00
The Cool School: Story of the Ferus Art Gallery - An object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process, the film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive, often brilliant artists, including Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. The Ferus also served as launching point for New York imports, Andy Warhol (hosting his first Soup Can show), Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective and Pop Art show. What was lost and gained is tied up in a complex web of egos, passions, money and art. This is how LA came of age. The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales - The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales is a series of parables concerning modes of representation, language and cognition. Often conveyed through conscious misinformation, Baldessari's witty puns and jokes play off the relation of word, image and meaning; the intersection of what is heard or written, what is seen, and what is understood.

Johnny Mathis/Chic 'I Love My Lady'

keeping a - so far - 3 in a row streak of posts with love in the title comes news of this great unreleased track from 1981. i read it first on idolator.com follow this link to the perfectly named site disco delivery for the tune.

http://discodelivery.blogspot.com/2008/11/chic-johnny-mathis-collaborations-to.html

this is my current favorite song - bubbles inc.

Comet Gain 'Love Without Lies'

just got this record today . . thanks bones

Marc Bolan "Hot Love"

1973 live on NBC "Midnight Special"

COME AGAIN by BILLY NICHOLLS.

this song is so so beautiful. from 1968.

Kahimi Karie - MELT THE SNOW

Giacometti

"He does not draw up a single course but opens a multitude of paths which the object can choose, or at least seem to hesitate continually, drawing from its indecision its quivering autonomy and the trembling of a separate life." Jacques Dupin on Giacometti translated by John Ashberry circa 1962

(above photos - Giacometti walking to the studio by Henri Cartier Bresson and 2008 ArtBasel Switzerland Barnett Newman painting with Giacometti sculpture)

Buzzcocks - I Can't Control Myself

Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, July 21, 1978

Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens

great interview with mike alway of el, cherry red and if . . . records

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/4156/m_alway.html

Richard Serra Talks with Charlie Rose

Prince Buster - A change is gonna come

wow . . . . wow . . . congrats president obama!!! sam cooke, prince buster, etc it has been a long time coming since even before this song has been sung.

Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm

full length version happy halloween! (i played this record for the trick or treaters figuring it sounded kind of scary.)

Cloud Dance

the phillies parade was so wonderful today. i made it home by 6:30 to hand out candy. such a beautiful day. kraftwerk ohm sweet ohm (incomplete)

Jonathan Richman - Girlfriend / Roadrunner

Recorded at Joey Ramone's Birthday Party at NYC's Coney Island High in May,1998. A rare live performance of Girlfriend and Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman and original Modern Lovers bassist, Ernie Brooks.

Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell Trailer

going to see this tonite then rooting on the phillies through the remaining 3 1/2 innings suspended from the other night. let's go phillies!!!

30 Years of Film @ International House
SOUND ON SCREEN

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wednesday, October 29 at 7pm

Tel: 215-387-5125 • Fax: 215-895-6535
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

I'll Be There Acapella

michael jackson such a great voice. so much a star. so tragic.

GeGeGe - Spicks and Specks - amin - 我深深爱过的男孩 在哪里？

great bee gees cover with strange video

Jack Wild - Melody

let's go phillies!, etc

this early morning i am all about the phils in the world series and if they go onto win i will share with many of you my kindergarten class photo from 1980 where i wore my phillies ball cap - but there also is this exploding bedrock conservatives endorsing obama angle. in addition to colin powell's endorsment (and the resulting conservative backlash), christopher buckley was fired "from the magazine his father invented" in the words of the formerly polarizing figure peggy noonan for stating he was voting for obama - read the rest in this great article she wrote the other day. http://www.peggynoonan.com/article.php?article=438

N.B. she wrote possibly 90% of ronald reagan's speeches.

1971 film Melody - Melody Fair (The Bee Gees)

Who is the girl with the crying face
Looking at millions of signs
She know that life is a running race
Her face shouldn't show any lines

Melody fair won't you comb your hair
You can be beautiful too
Melody fair remember you're only a woman
Melody fair remember you're only a girl, Aah

Who is the girl at the windows pane
Watching the rain falling down
Melody life isn't like the rain
It's just like a merry-go-round

Melody fair won't you comb your hair
You can be beautiful too
Melody fair remember you're only a woman
Melody fair remember you're only a girl, Aah

Tracy Constance Margaret Hyde, actress and model (born May 16, 1959, Fulham, London, England) shot to fame in the 1971 film Melody after being discovered by film producer, David Puttnam. She learnt ballet at the age of four, did junior modelling for an agency and auditioned for a pickle advertisement.
Andrew Parkin, brother of Jane Parkin, saw photographs of the young Tracy and persuaded her mother, Maureen to audition her for the role. Parkin also recommended Tracy to director Waris Hussein, writer, Alan Parker and producer, David Puttnam. After screen tests and auditions, Tracy finally won the role.

Directed by　Waris Hussein
Produced by Ronald S. Kass David Puttnam
Written by Andrew Birkin Alan Parker
Starring
Jack Wild
Mark Lester
Tracy Hyde
Music by The *** ****
Cinematography Peter Suschitzky
Editing by John Victor Smith
Distributed by British Lion Films
Release date(s) 1971
Running time 103 min.
Country UK
Language English

Cast
• Jack Wild as Ornshaw
･ Mark Lester as Daniel
･ Tracy Hyde as Melody
･ Sheila Steafel as Mrs. Latimer
･ Keith Barron as Mr. Latimer
･ Roy Kinnear as Mr. Perkins
･ Hilda Barry as Grandma Perkins
･ Peter Walton as Fensham
･ Kay Skinner as Peggy
･ William Vanderpuye as O'Leary
･ Camille Davies as Muriel
･ Craig Marriott as Dadds
･ Billy Franks as Burgess
･ Tim Wylton as Mr. Fellows
･ June Jago as Miss Fairfax
･ Neil Hallett
･ Ken Jones as Mr. Dicks
･ Lesley Roach
･ Colin Barrie as Chambers
･ June C. Ellis as Miss Dimkins
･ James Cossins as Headmaster
･ Kate Williams as Mrs. Perkins
･ Dawn Hope as Maureen
･ John Gorman as Boys' Brigade Captain
･ Robin Hunter as George
･ Stephen Mallett
･ Ashley Knight as Stacey
･ Tracy Reed as Man and Woman in Hospital, TV Film
･ Leonard Brockwell

Google Earth(Location Info)
Gold Fish Scene
Lambeth Road.
N 51°29'48", W000°06'44"
Kennington Road.
N 51°29'36", W000°06'38"

The Clean - Whatever I Do Is Right

this is right.

New Order - Temptation

Primal Scream - Velocity Girl

Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums

and i still love her.

Squeeze - Up the Junction (TOTP)

John Lennon stand by me

happy birthday john lennon (and sean)!!

this past summer i got into a heated argument with michael gibbons of bardo pond when i said that my favorite beatle was paul mccartney. we eventually made up and in some ways i should have clarified my point better. most of my gripes with john have to do with how he treated julian on one hand and wrote a song like 'mother' on the other. also i am a pop music fan and paul along with the bee gees and bjorn and benny of abba is a true true master of pop. yet i have a special feeling for john i was born 5 days after sean and i remember watching television with my mother when john's death was announced. i also got a chance once to spend the night at my friend's parent's apartment in the Dakota and i had such goosebumps being in the building he yoko and sean called home. on an october 9th eight years ago i left my apartment in brooklyn and walked a few short blocks to an opening at Momenta Art. I was desperately in love with a french/japanese woman who lived in la and i remember recounting that day to her later on the phone. my freshly washed hair blowing in a beautiful fall day, the sound of 'midnight train to georgia' slipping through an opened window and the sight of 'happy birthday john and sean' spelled out in smoke in the sky 'love yoko' but really love from all of us.

i spent the last two days in the studio and today in particular it was thrilling to work alongside the sound of all of the john lennon dedications. his version of stand by me is one of my favorites.

also if you are in philly tomorrow night or before december 6th do stop by Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. I have two drawings in this show and I am very honored to be included in this great group of work. ok happy birthday john lennon (and sean) and let's go Phillies!!!!!!!!!!

CASTLE IN CONTEXT
OCTOBER 10 - DECEMBER 6, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 FROM 6PM TO 8PM

James Castle, untitled (figures sitting), n.d., found paper, soot

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition of it's 2008-2009 exhibition, Castle in Context. As a counterpoint to norms of categorization and distinction, the exhibition places James Castle in the context of art historical discourse by enabling the viewer to connect the artist's soot-and-spit drawings and found-object constructions with the work of contemporaries, many of whose practices were (or are) firmly rooted in the art world. Castle, who was born profoundly deaf and never learned to speak, read or sign, remained isolated from these mainstream communities.

The show will include: James Castle, Forrest Bess, Marvin Bileck, Pearl Blauvelt, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Anthony Campuzano, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Tristin Lowe, Agnes Martin, Native American art, Emily Nelligan, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Ann Ryan, Donald Sultan, John Walker, Terry Winters, Grant Wood and Joseph Yoakum.

Castle saw a surplus, a mid-century excess of stuff, and he reversed it. His articulations of ecology and economy were entwined. To him, the 'natural' (over-determined) relations between things-environmental things, cultural things, word things-demanded a perspectival reconsideration, a reevaluation of every artifact, relic, or fossil as potentially gut-punch personal, containing a mine-able truth value and an emotional ore inside the dull, scavenged stone. What could be more political than that? What could be more punk? He retrofitted the obscure, cocksure language of commerce and classroom, a language probably mostly mysterious to him, into lovely private codes at once arcane and transparently poetic. Here's an idea close to the hearts and minds of all those youngers: coding, the idea that what we do--what I do--is secret. OK, but make it matter to us; give us a map to how it means, or risk-dissolving into belly-button wankery. Look at the Castles. Think collectively and privately; temper analysis with innervisions (good Stevie Wonder record, that one). Make things that change minds.

-excerpted from a tack-sharp epistolary exchange between William Pym and Brendan Greaves, which
will be available in its entirety in a limited-edition publication created to accompany the show

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery | 1616 Walnut Street | Suite 100 | Philadelphia | PA | 19103

Camera Obscura : Super Trouper (ABBA Cover)

really great version by camera obscura of this top top pop single from abba.

Falling from grace

the gentle waves

Isobel Campbell and Eugene Kelly

the vaselines' son of gun live in brooklyn march 2006

The Fall Petty (Thief) Lout

Stand by me - Steve Alaimo

poetry

Every Day I Have To Cry Some- Steve Alaimo- 1963

i have the bee gees version on vinyl. this is the original.

Heroes

Nico

couldnt help but think of this rendition while reading the subtitles of Philippe Garrel's "I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar"

Made In Sheffield - The Birth Of Electronic Pop

i have recently seen three great movies. one is this movie Made In Sheffield. the second was Animal House by jonathan landis which i surprisingly had never seen before. (i am in now in love equally with Karen Allen and Mary Louise Weller)
yet last nite i may have seen the best in this batch via a recommendation from the mellow legend who had seen it previously at BAM i saw it last night at the International House in philly, this movie begs a dvd release: Phileppe Garrel's "I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar" which loosely dramatizes his life with Nico and was filmed 3 short years after her death on a bicycle.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/movies/07guit.html?ref=movies

Del Shannon Runaway Live David Letterman 1986

Johnny boy - you was the generation that bought more shoes

& you get what you deserve.

cant get this to post but watch this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hctbGB6DYhU

killer single and quite relevant in light of current economic events. -bubbles inc.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

RIP Brick aka paul newman aka alongside monty clift and cary grant my most envied film star.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Kids Incorporated

i often joke about my band called bubbles inc. but in many ways my ideal band already has happened and it is called kids incorporated and they recorded the greatest versions of the best songs before many of you were even born.

Comic Strip - Serge Gainsbourg

avec brigitte bardot

The Wedding Present-

everyone thinks he looks daft

Anne of Green Gables

this is slightly embarrassing but i dont really care what people think. this summer a friend (and die hard anne of green gables fan) screened this film for me (initially i resisted standing by my claim that besides duchamp/mondrian/picabia/braque/hemingway/brancusi/and fitzgerald i am strictly interested in only post-war culture) i have to admit that i fell really hard for the story of anne and mostly for the amazing performances by megan follows, collen dewhurst and richard farnsworth. this past weekend came a newspaper article by the creator of anne of green gables' granddaughter where she reveals that her grandmother l.m. montgomery actually committed suicide in 1942 and that it was covered up due to the stigma attached to mental illness.
here is the article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wmhmontgomery0920/BNStory/mentalhealth/

in the article the author cites a very telling line spoken by anne: "my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." - i would like to point out that this news and the later suicide of the actor richard farnsworth who played anne's adoptive father and who was the initial sympathetic character in the film adds another poignant note to this coming of age tale. anne is a sensitive soul in a cruel world, much like all of us. the sad point is that if l.m montgomery was the real life alter ego of anne, it pains me to think that at some point even her notable pluck and determination wasn't enough to keep despair at bay.

Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen Paris 85

let's change some things this november.

DION - born to be with you

many thanks to the mellow legend for sending me this record. pete townsend of the who's favorite ever. and it might just be the best. spiritualized, primal scream, etc owe almost their entire career to it.

The Cure - Barcelona First Song ( Plainsong )

for steve and dan

Go Gos - We Got the Beat (live)

last night i went to the megawords storefront and saw my dear friends steve and dan shred some guitar and drum machine. tonite i am going to see will pym talk about teenagers at the great show at temple gallery called volume attempts. but i am really most excited about my killer classic go gos pin that constance gave me last night. she bought it for me in boothwyn. it is purple and gold backed with the go gos logo seen on the drum riser here. the go-gos are my top west coast pop band even better than the mighty mamas and the papas (i know i know, but you got face it the go gos are tops) i love this video arden wohl take a look at belinda's headband! oh and could charlotte caffey be cuter?!


http://www.megawordsmagazine.com/storefront.php

http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions/volumeattempts/

http://web.mac.com/constancemensh/iWeb/Vision%3AThread/constancemensh.html

the midnight train

on the way home from nyc this weekend i caught the last train and just past princeton it struck and killed someone. it looks like it was a suicide. it was very sad. i have more to say in a longer essay but on the slim bright side it enabled a diverse group of people to have a thoughtful and wide ranging conversation at 3:30 in the morning in trenton nj, which i will take solace in. also thanks have to go to the nj state trooper who was thoughtful enough to make sure that amtrak train picked us up so we wouldnt have to wait till 7 am for septa.

great essay by carter ratcliff on a photo of barnett newman with michel auder and viva and what it means

http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue11/kissacrossages.htm

Cindy Sherman filmed in 1986 from State of the Art

B-52's dirty back road

Orson Welles' Lifetime Achievement Award

Do I Make You Nervous? - A Place in the Sun (1951)

Painters Painting

many thanks are due to my high school art teacher ms. starr who first showed me this great film in 1993 and for introducing me to the work of two of my most favorite painters - willem dekooning and barnett newman

OMD - Souvenir

OMD are practically infallible. truly flawless pop music. the convertible is great in this video. i dont know what it is about me and driving lately. almost 33 years old and the past few i really have been feeling the pangs of regret about not ever getting a driver's license.

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol 01-2 (1972)

oh montuak, lee radziwell, jonas mekas, the velvet underground . . .andy warhol i am so jealous.

I Can Hear Music- Ronnie Spector

she's the best and she is singing the best beach boys song.

YOU'RE READY NOW - Frankie Valli (Northern soul)

in my personal top 5 pop vocalists ever frankie valli is very close to the top. other voices that belong in his company are michael jackson, debbie harry, ronnie spector and evan dando.

Bangles on MTV

I love the Bangles!

Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane

ESC 2008: France - Sebastian Tellier - Divine (Final)

i love the eurovision contest (abba, france gall, olivia newton john, et al) would have been great to see sebastian battle morrissey in the final.

Photon Band - Stratosphere

Susanna Hoffs - Eternal Flame (Live)

live in Yokohama, Japan 1996

Twinka Thiebaud is my new Oona Chaplin (nee O'neill), Etc.

There is a very famous photo by Judy Dater that depicts the famed photographer imogen Cunningham encountering a beautiful nude woman named Twinka. I don't want to put nudity here so if you would like to see this photo go here: http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=twinka+thiebaud&spell=1 (and I recommend you do) Years ago I spied a postcard on a fridge in a house I was working on. Recently I saw the photo for the first time again found out the title "Imogen and Twinka" Further research reveals that she was the daughter of Wayne Thiebaud and lived with and cared for Henry Miller in his final years. If anyone has a spare $350 dollars I very much would like this copy of Henry Miller's Reflections Twinka edited and personally inscribed that came from the library of "the astrologer to the stars" - Sydney Omarr who was a close friend of Miller and advised and enjoyed the company of beautiful women including Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak.

I have always loved Oona Chaplin for many of the same reasons I am now bewitched by Twinka - beauty, pedigree, and the events in her life. She took up with Charile when she was 17 and was disowned by her fatehr Eugene O'neill in equal parts becuase Chaplin was the same age as her father and he rivaled him in fame. She also sewed thousand dollar bills into her mink as they fled Hollywood for Switzerland at the height of the Red Scare. Oona as an actress great granddaughter named Keira, but my heart is already taken by the Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard.

Two days ago I was eating at an inn in rural Pennsylvania when the automobile pictured above pulled in. Driven by an older gentleman and a fetching blonde, they soon sat outside and ordered food and an ice bucket with champagne. Later I approached them asked them if it was all right if I photographed their car. I said it was really cool. "No," the blonde purred, "it's hot." I took the photo, thanked them and asked what year it was. The older man said it was a 1954 Jaguar and besides the paint job and the leather interior it was all original.

oh and here are some tunes I would like to crank up in my Jag - Twinka, Oona (rest her soul) or Marion are all welcome to join me.


1. The Grateful Dead with the Neville Brothers - Iko Iko/Day O/Women Are Smarter
2. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
3. John Paul Young - Love is In the Air
4. 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
5. Sheila B. Devotion - Spacer
6. Jigsaw - Skyhigh
7. Sebastian Teiller - Divine
8. Prince - Neon Telephone
9. The Ohio Express - Down at Lu-Lu's
10. 10cc - Rubber Bullets
11. John's Children - But She's Mine
12. New York Dolls - Human Being
13. MC5 - Looking At You
14. The Fall - Tempo House
15. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Disco Devil

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enjoy! -bubbles inc.

ps: I scored the sheila b. devotion and the lee perry tracks from mixes compiled by the painter peter doig
and the track 'skyhigh' by jigsaw from a mix by the painter mark mahosky

10cc Rubber bullets

Queen Don't stop me now Live Hippodrome de Paris 1979

Zanna Van Acker and Anna domino

Ariel Pink

somewhere in europe/hot pink

LILYS - MEDITATIONS ON SPEED

New York Dolls - Human Being

quite possibly the greatest rock n roll song ever.

ROLLING STONES - GOING TO A GO GO - LIVE HAMPTON 1981

Dire Straits - So far away

Rudy's Three Words

all right!! joe biden for VP! great speeches today by obama and biden

Carlene Carter

ANITA MORRIS RETRO 1981

one of the most beautiful women ever.

SPARKS - Lighten Up, Morrissey NEW SONG

so great!

Morrissey - I'm a Human Being

another version of morrissey covering the new york dolls live this tome in nyc. possible his best b side since girl least likely to in 1992

THE RAINCOATS

i love you gina birch.

Morrissey - Human Being (live)

new york dolls cover scotland 2006.

The Fall - Tempo House

Mark E Smith on Drums

Crossing Jamaica Bay

Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America

(I'm onboard with what he said)

Help save the youth of america
Help save them from themselves
Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys
And the californian girls

When the lights go out in the rest of the world
What do our cousins say
Theyre playing in the sun and having fun, fun, fun
Till daddy takes the gun away

From the big church to the big river
And out to the shining sea
This is the land of opportunity
And theres a monkey trial on tv

A nation with their freezers full
Are dancing in their seats
While outside another nation
Is sleeping in the streets

Dont tell me the old, old story
Tell me the truth this time
Is the man in the mask or the indian
An enemy or a friend of mine

Help save the youth of america
Help save the youth of the world
Help save the boys in uniform
Their mothers and their faithful girls

Listen to the voice of the soldier
Down in the killing zone
Talking about the cost of living
And the price of bringing him home

Theyre already shipping the body bags
Down by the rio grande
But you can fight for democracy at home
And not in some foreign land

And the fate of the great united states
Is entwined in the fate of us all
And the incident at tschernobyl proves
The world we live in is very small

And the cities of europe have burned before
And they may yet burn again
And if they do I hope you understand
That washington will burn with them
Omaha will burn with them
Los alamos will burn with them

Françoise Hardy - Soleil

If I Could Write Poetry

The past two weeks I have been up at a horse racing farm outside Easton, Pa working on a barn renovation. I can't get over these three baby racehorses there. Another sighting near the farm was this vintage Triumph convertible. I have always maintained that I wasn't going to get a driver's license because my favorite car is a Rolls-Royce with a driver, but maybe I could get one just so I could spin around on the weekends in this Triumph.

These songs are are some of the ones I couldn't fit on my last mix. But I realized I like this group of songs just as much so here is part two.

Also I am very excited to announce that I am now an uncle! Wyatt Bishop Campuzano was born 8lbs 4oz and 21 1/4 inches at 2:12 am august 13th 2008 to mom lauren and dad michael.

And now onto the tracklist:

1. World Party - She's The One
2. Gloria Crawford - Sad Movies
3. Roman Stewart - Wolverton Mountain
4. Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There
5. Mental As Anything - The Nips Are Getting Bigger
6. Happy Mondays - Olive Oil
7. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Happy House
8. The Monkees - Vallerie
9. The Honeycombs - Have I The Right?
10. Macca - Coming Up
11. The Archies and Andy Kim - Lay A Little Lovin' On Me
12. The Archies - Jingle Jangle
13. Sandie Shaw - You've Not Changed
14. Malcolm Mclaren - Something's Jumping In My Shirt
15. Television Personalities - If I Could Write Poetry
16. Suicide - Johnny
17. Dion - Only You Know
18. The Monkees - Shades Of Gray
19. Curved Air - Back Street Luv
20. Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance
21. The Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over
22. The Rolling Stones - Going To A Go-Go (live)
23. The Rolling Stones - She Was Hot

ok, enjoy! - Bubbles Inc.

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I posted this on the willow house blog but if you don't visit there i figured i would put it here too. You should visit the willow house though because Dan posted a good mix too. I banded together some of my most played tunes from spring bleeding into summer. I may have emailed some of these to many of you late at night but here are a few in a somewhat order. Also some of these were posted here as videos in the months and weeks prior. I left off the Miley Cyrus tracks to spare you all. This mix is called 'Taking the A train to Jamaica Bay or I canoed the Gowanus Canal'

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b625w3


1. Dion - (He's Got) The Whole World In His Hands
2. Dr. Hook - Sharing The Night Together
3. Jefferson Starship - Miracles
4. Andy Kim - Baby I Love You
5. Dion - Doctor Rock n' Roll
6. Shocking Blue - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
7. Dave - Vanina
8. Ludivine Saginier - Papa T'es Plus Dans L'coup
9. France Gall and Michel Berger - Besoin d'amour
10. Ron Wood - I Can Feel The Fire
11. Eddy Grant - Romancing The Stone
12. Ween - Ocean Man
13. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
14. Steely Dan - Showbiz Kids (live in London July 1973)
15. Francoise Hardy - VIP
16. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Our Sealed
17. Human League - Open Your Heart
19. Luc Van Acker & Anna Domino - Zanna
20. Esso Trinidad Steel Band - I Want You Back
21. Hopeton Lewis - Don't Take Your Guns To Town
22. Glass Candy - Iko (geto boys demo version)

The photo above is one I took around 5:30 am in the Jamaica Bay wildlife refuge this past sunday. My friend Pablo and I were trying to go to Coney Island but went the wrong way on the F train so instead of turning around we just found another beach. I recommend taking the A train to Far Rockaway and getting off at the Broad Channel stop. There was a guy on our train carrying a surfboard! We soon met the man pictured Joseph from Poland. Real interesting character. Homeless but living off the land, in queens! he showed us secret paths and said we should play chess more , "keeps the mind active.", he said.

ok hopes this works! - bubbles inc.

Maddona 1982 First Performance Ever Rare

1985 - Star Hustler

Philip Glass - Sesame Street (extended cut)

F is For Fake..Introduction

Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night

The Sweet: Wig Wam Bam

ABBA 1979 USA TOUR REVIEW

when it comes to shows i wish i had seen the top of my list include david bowie at the tower theater in philadelphia in the 70's, nirvana at jc dobbs in philly 1991, daft punk at coney island in 2007, the vaselines at maxwells in hoboken in 2008, and of course ABBA in anahiem california in 1979.

also i cant decide how to order my weekend double feature is it The Dark Knight/Mamma Mia or Mamma Mia/The Dark Knight

Kylie Minogue and Kermit the Frog - Especially for You

The Faces - Maybe I'm Amazed

Pink Floyd - Bike

syd!

HUMAN LEAGUE - OPEN YOUR HEART (08/10/81)

Yazoo - Only You (high quality audio)

Patti Smith

singing "you light up my life" with joe brooks on "kids are people too" 1979

Sandy Posey 'Sunglasses' 1967 ... in Stereo

tracey ullman had a great version of this song in 1984.

make up to break up[siouxsie and the banshees]

100 club 1977

Madonna - Angel (12' inch Remix)

Can - Mother Sky

SONIC YOUTH - DIRTY BOOTS

Around and Around - Rolling Stones

Eddy Grant - Romancing the Stone

Tom Tom Club-Under The Boardwalk

summertime

Devo-satisfaction

bardo pond per tricia donnelly's request

wednesday night i saw bardo pond at the ica in philadelphia. they played at the request of the san francisco born artist tricia donnelly. in the cavernous gallery a discreet retrospective of her work is lined up against a back wall. bardo pond set up under an over hanging ceiling opposite the work and inbetween we sat on the floor like psychedelic beachgoers. in fact when tricia introduced the band she remarked about growing up by the ocean and how listening to bardo pond is a close match to the sound and expanse the ocean gives her.

i first saw bardo pond when i think i was 19 and i am now 32. i think i can honestly say i have seen them more than any other band. wednesday at the ica was in my opinion the best i have ever seen them. so very loud so very discreet so very gentle so very visceral. they were the ocean. the band was the water and lead singer isabelle the wind. howling, whispering, pleading, panting and pushing sound through a floating flute line. i went back later and reexamined tricia donnelly's work. the video of her in white jumping in the air like frothing water. the photograph of two twisting embracing black leather clad gloved hands the ink night sky. a wonderful wonderful night.

SCHOOLY D PSK 1985

John Cooper Clarke - Chicken Town

Mark E Smith Acceptance Speech - MOJO Honours List 2008

Kevin Garnett - Finals G6 Postgame Interview (June 17, 2008)

i hate the celtics but i hate the lakers more. that being said kevin garnett man, he deserves this. i was at the celtics win vs the sixers earlier this season. philly home game. throwback jersey game. the sixers wore the classic 83 uniforms. kevin garnett though, man if we had him when we had AI. well played to the dreaded C's. better luck never kobe.

McGuinn, Clark and Hillman - You Ain't Going Nowhere - 1978

Happy Mondays - Stinkin Thinkin

Cripple Creek by Earl Scruggs and Friends

SUZI QUATRO - SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU

- Madonna - BORDERLINE (1984)

on june 11 at 4:36 pm est i heard madonna's hit song borderline on wogl 'oldies' 98.1 fm in philadelphia. it played right after a station id with the 'oldies' jingle. it felt like they were rubbing it that it really has been that long since i first heard this wonderful song in the back of a sweltering station wagon on the way home from the IGA nursing a free sticky lollipop from the bank. after the song played the dj announced that they play all the great hits from the 60's and 70's. so was this some sort of test, like slipping madonna in there to see if they can get away with it. barring the unfortunate playing of songs that sound like oldies (eg. bob seger's 'old time rock and roll' or billy joel's 'tell her about it') i guess they are tip toeing into their greatest oldies of the 80's now. i think borderline is a good choice for first oldie of the 80's. the beginning of the song is so beautiful, and the tempo is perfect i could imagine a great doo wop band like the flamingos singing a stellar version of this song.

Thief (1981) - Trailer

michael mann's first film. really good, tuesday weld is tops.

tuesday weld

last night i watched my first tuesday weld movie, 'thief' a 1981 movie which was the feature length debut of michael mann. it was a great movie, can't believe i never saw tuesday weld on the screen before. apparently she turned down two of my favorite films, 'bonnie and clyde' and 'rosemary's baby' this film 'thief' is alot like 'heat' and even jimmy caan and jimmy belushi, two actors i normally cross the street to avoid couldn't ruin it.

Shocking Blue - Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Karaoke)

shocking blue shocking blue the best the best

Papa t'es plus dans le coup

ludivine sagnier in 8 women

Johnny Thunders

godard should direct a johnny thunders biopic starring adrian brody. it could be like breathless but instead of bogart the idol is dion. and its junk not guns that gets the hero in the end.

The Fall Carrybag Man

i have wanted to post this video for quite some time but this news cycle is just right. 'the carry bag man' god bless the white house press spokesman and his forthrightness. curses to faulty microphones.

The Fall live in Paris having a few technical problems. circa 2006.

the most important story of the summer

Scott McCllelan did write the most important story of the summer. it will swamp the conventions and be all over the debates. two hours ago michael hirsh at newsweek posted a great summary of 'what happened' and it's relationship to punditry.

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THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON | MICHAEL HIRSH
'The Truth Shall Set You Free'
Bush's own spokesman is acknowledging his error on Iraq. Why can't the media?

By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive
May 29, 2008 | Updated: 4:43 p.m. ET May 29, 2008

The punching bag is punching back. During his three-year stint as White House press secretary, Scott McClellan was perhaps best known for his fumbling responses to questions from TV correspondents performing for the cameras. Now, with his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan is hitting back hard. Not only does he accuse himself and his boss, George W. Bush, of getting the War on Terror wrong, he faults the media for buying into the Iraq invasion too readily. As McClellan writes in his preface: "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided—that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

The media, for the moment, is focused on the extraordinary spectacle of a fellow Texan and Bush loyalist accusing his president of deception and incompetence. The Bush White House and its acolytes are suggesting that McClellan may have gone off his rocker. ("This is not the Scott I knew," current press secretary Dana Perino said with studied sadness today.) But the words of the supposedly "disgruntled" McClellan seem chillingly sane. And they are accurate: polls do show that most Americans have decided that the turn to Iraq was a mistake and a distraction from the real war against Al Qaeda. McClellan is also correct in recording that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion the U.S. news media were, for the most part, "complicit enablers" who focused more on "covering the march to war instead of the necessity of war."

The question I have is: why do we have to hear this from him? What's really extraordinary is how few prominent pundits and columnists have gone even half the length that McClellan has in acknowledging that they got things utterly wrong when they gave their full-throated support to Bush's still-unexplained turn toward Saddam after America's "victory" over the Taliban in Afghanistan. Consider just one example: The New York Times's Thomas L. Friedman, one of the most famous columnists in America and maybe in the world today. Here is Friedman writing on March 13, 2003, seven days before the Iraq invasion: "This war is so unprecedented that it has always been a gut call—and my gut has told me four things. First, this is a war of choice. Saddam Hussein poses no direct threat to us today. But confronting him is a legitimate choice—much more legitimate than knee-jerk liberals and pacifists think. Removing Mr. Hussein—with his obsession to obtain weapons of mass destruction—ending his tyranny and helping to nurture a more progressive Iraq that could spur reform across the Arab-Muslim world are the best long-term responses to bin Ladenism."


Many Iraq hawks have encouraged the pleasant myth that because most of the nation's most prominent pundits, like Friedman, backed Bush's shift to Saddam, everyone was equally fooled and gulled. But this is demonstrably false. Just check the record. Though they were a drowned-out minority, a small number of columnists and reporters—none of them "knee-jerk liberals" or "pacifists"—saw clearly beforehand that the Iraq invasion was a fatal distraction from the real enemy, Al Qaeda, which was known at the time to be a unique product of the anti-Soviet jihad in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, for example, is Friedman's colleague across the Times op-ed page, Maureen Dowd, writing a day earlier, March 12, 2003: "It still confuses many Americans that, in a world full of vicious slimeballs, we're about to bomb one that didn't attack us on Sept. 11 (like Osama); that isn't intercepting our planes (like North Korea); that isn't financing Al Qaeda (like Saudi Arabia); that isn't home to Osama and his lieutenants (like Pakistan); that isn't a host body for terrorists (like Iran, Lebanon and Syria)." (In case anyone is wondering, I myself was on the record calling the case for war in Iraq a "crock" during a panel discussion at Yale University on Nov. 6, 2002.)

McClellan, far from descending into madness, seems to have embraced divine sense. In calling Iraq a blunder because it was "not necessary," he has returned the debate about war to its moral and rational origins. According to the theory of war going back to St. Augustine, "just wars" are always necessary wars. This is true even if they are waged only for humanitarian reasons (such as against Yugoslav autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in the '90s to stop ethnic cleansing). Force, in other words, may be used only after all peaceful and viable alternatives have been seriously tried and exhausted or are clearly not practical. (Patently not the case with Saddam, who by February 2003 had opened up all his palaces and other sites to U.N. inspectors.) By contrast, to start an unnecessary war with insufficient provocation—a "war of choice"—is, almost by definition, a war crime. Indeed, Count 2 of the indictment at the Nurembergwar crimes trial in 1945 cited "crimes against peace including planning, preparing, starting or waging aggressive war." This seems uncomfortably close to what America did in Iraq, especially if Saddam was, as Friedman wrote, known to be deterrable and pose "no direct threat to us today."

But let's not heap all the blame on Tom Friedman. There are many other prominent pundits who have failed to make commensurate confessions. They know who they are. This is more than a matter of correcting the historical record—or even purging a few guilty souls. Though many Americans have come out against the Iraq War, too many still seem confused about exactly why it was the wrong approach to the challenge of 9/11. A few prominent confessionals, like the one we've heard already from Peter Beinart in his book "The Good Fight," would help the national debate immeasurably. And perhaps help to guide us to a clearer consensus on how long we need to stay in Iraq now that we are there (which should be another debate entirely). And today, with more than 4,000 American families bereaved of their young, with tens of thousands more Americans living out the nightmare of lives without limbs or faces or with other disabilities, with tens of thousands Iraqis suffering similar fates—and with Afghanistan so unfinished—is it really too much to ask of these able-bodied pundits to acknowledge that they were complicit in one of the great strategic disasters in American history.

Scott McClellan seems to have undergone a genuine reckoning with himself, one that has eluded many of the lords of the media. In the opening words of his book McClellan notes that carved above the south entrance to the tower at the University of Texas—where McClellan went as an undergraduate and where his grandfather was dean of the law school—is a quote from the Gospel of John: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." He writes of those famous words: "Not until the past few years have I come to truly appreciate their message. Perhaps God's greatest gift to us in life is the ability to learn from our experiences, especially our mistakes, and grow into better people." Better pundits, perhaps, are too much to ask for.

© 2008

Anna Domino - Land Of My Dreams

the other day i emailed dr. hook's sharing the night together to my friend bethany in great britain and she emailed me back the great underrated andrew gold track 'never let her slip away' which is proto magnetic fields by the way. that became apparent when i shared the andrew gold song with my friend william who is from london and he said he loved it and that it sent him right to anna domino who i only know from her great work with steven merritt's own personal tribute band the 6th's but this song is pretty good too.

Dr. Hook - Sharing the night together (1977)

the summer of dr. hook continues. this band has an unending fountain of hits. i am not kidding.

hall and oates at the troubadour -'had i known you better then'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqE-3jul9s

i tried to post the above video but it wouldnt work but you should go watch it yourself. tonight on this great great news day, heartfelt tributes to syndey pollack, thelma keane and dick martin are all around. scott mcllelan dropped one of the greatest washington tell alls in history, and lindsay lohan just maybe marrying her celeb dj girlfriend samantha ronson. there are so many stories to follow. however my favorite is this clip of hall and oates at the troubadour in LA first time performing there in 35 years. also they play my favorite song off of abandoned luncheonette -'had i known you better then'. john oates sings lead wonderfully it makes you wonder why this is the very first tiomme they ever performed it live. i almost saw hall and oates live at the tower theater but in the end i treated my parents which was only rightly so since it is their copy of abandoned luncheonette that i still play to this day. firsthand account of the troubadour show follows via NME:

NME News
Hall & Oates return to LA's Troubadour after 35 years

Hall & Oates returned to the Troubadour for two sold-out gigs this week -- their first shows at the legendary Los Angeles venue since the Philadelphia duo played their first shows in the city 35 years ago.

The band were in high spirits during their two-hour set Friday night (May 23), which saw them playing hits including 'Maneater', 'She's Gone' and 'Rich Girl' as well as Daryl Hall's solo material and some obscure numbers.

"We've never played this one outside Atlantic Records," Hall said before the band launched into 'Had I Known You Better Then', a melodic ballad on which John Oates sang lead vocals.

The duo drew a diverse crowd ranging from the senior set to 20-something indie kids, possibly due in part to younger bands including Death Cab For Cutie, Fall Out Boy and Flight Of The Conchords name-checking them as influences in recent months.

Hall & Oates were backed by a tight five-piece band featuring musicians such as Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk, with whom they've played for years.

The house lights were turned up throughout their entire set, giving the proceedings an intimate, community vibe. "I see you all smiling, that's good," Hall said -- smiling himself throughout the entire night.

Adoring fans cheered and sang along to nearly every song, including a man who proudly displayed a license plate that read 'HNO4EVR'.

Hall & Oates returned to the stage for two encores, concluding the night with a rare performance of their massive 1981 hit 'Private Eyes'.

Hall & Oates played:

'Everything Your Heart Desires'
'When The Morning Comes'
'Family Man'
'Say It Isn't So'
'Uncanny'
'Had I Known You Better Then'
'She's Gone'
'Getaway Car'
'Cab Driver'
'One On One'
'Sara Smile'
'Maneater'
'Out Of Touch'
'Rich Girl'
'Kiss On My List'
'You Make My Dreams'
'Private Eyes'

--By our Los Angeles staff

Love - Message To Pretty (1966)