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.

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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