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.