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i love the oscars

2011-02-28T14:15:00.000-08:00

first thing i have to say is that years ago i was working with my dad in swarthmoore for about over a year on a pretty intense renovation of a house he was shepherding. in the beginning stages i was still in nyc and hanging onto my girl there, taking the early morning train to swarthmoore. in the later stages of the project i had moved back to philly. when the project was finally done the family brought their stuff back in the house and there was a group photo with a stunning girl at the back staring right at the camera and she looked so familiar but i couldn't place it. suddenly i realized it was anne hathaway, her uncle owned the house i had been working on for over a year. attention meg ryan and sandy bullock america's sweetheart is now sweet anne hathaway. wow great dresses, energy, etc. james had great one liners but he was definitely held back by the producers. best speeches were given by randy newman, christian bale, and colin firth. best dressed were anne hathaway, cate blanchett, amy adams, scarlett johanssan, and halle berry. biggest snubs were chris nolan for best original screenplay and annette bening for best actress. worst dressed were gwyenth paltrow and mila kunis.

biggest absences at the oscars this year were the films 'i'm still here', 'mesrine pts 1 and 2', as well the people and phrases that follow: corey haim, godard, joaquin phoenix, casey affleck, joaquin phoenix, kalup linzy, and the oscar goes to leo dicaprio. xo anthony campuzano/tc/bubbles inc.

ABBA, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2010-03-16T07:15:00.001-07:00

two fourths of one of the greatest bands ever.

valentine

2010-02-12T19:51:00.001-08:00

the image is not of the cardinal i saw the other day but this solitary lovebird will have to do. happy valentine's day in advance - a valentine mix from bubbles inc. stay warm, cool, etc but have fun xo this mix has got a bunch of my old favorites all present touching on love.

1. kahimi karie - melt the snow
2. sister vanilla - kissaround
3. the cure - 6 different ways (peel session)
4. mstrkrft w/ john legend - heartbreaker
5. womack & womack - teardrops
6. johnny mathis w/ chic - i love my lady
7. snoop dogg & robyn - sensual seduction (remix)
8. prince & sheena easton - you got the look
9. nina sky w/ big mike - move ya body
10. kleerup w/ robyn - with every heartbeat (remix)
11. hot chip - over and over
12. hilary duff - beat of my heart
13. s club 8 - one step closer
14. the archies - melody hill
15. transvision vamp - i want your love
16. pulp - babies
17. gwen stefani - cool
18. the smiths - rubber ring
19. evan dando - will you still love me tomorrow?
20. nicole kidman & robbie williams - something stupid

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Robbie Williams And Nicole Kidman Somethin' Stupid ( HD )

2010-02-12T18:01:00.001-08:00

this is the best though. nicole kidman you are the best. magical.

TRANSVISION VAMP-I WANT YOUR LOVE LIVE 1991

2010-02-12T17:53:00.001-08:00

happy valentine's day in advance xo bubbles inc.

a light inside of me just went out

2010-01-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

a light inside of me just went out. i read the catcher in the rye the summer between 7th and 8th grade on a couch two blocks from the beach on long beach island in new jersey. i hated the beach all liked to do then was sleep, read and at night go girl chasing. the catcher in the rye changed my life and i truly would not be the person i am without the work of jd salinger. rest in peace jd salinger from an ardent admirer and someone who was kicked out of two catholic grammar schools in addition to one prep school. truly yours, anthony campuzano

rest in peace jd salinger 1919 -2010

S Club 8 - One Step Closer

2010-01-26T00:03:00.001-08:00

i watched the documentary live forever the rise and fall of britpop tonite. it was added to youtube 2 days ago and when i watched it there were only 6 views. it is from 2003 so maybe everyone has already seen it. it is really great. great commentary from noel, jarvis and damon, but britpop apparently comes to an end with robbie williams and pop idol and junior s club. there is a great moment when liam says he doesnt see anything wrong with s club he says they seem like good kids. its really funny. he also says he doesnt care about tony blair. actually all liam says he cared about was doing it he says, which means like getting pissed and being on stage and being ridic famous. it's a good documentary. for the record i dont mind junior s club either when i bought blur, oasis, and pulp records i was also buying spice girl singles.

Blake Babies - Temptation Eyes

2010-01-22T11:52:00.001-08:00

not only does this song unquestionably rule but the video with juliana in a bikini and evan in his boxers 20 years ago was like some twilight/new moon type level sex appeal.

All Right - Still!

2010-01-20T15:00:00.000-08:00

the image is of the golden lion won by the philadelphia museum of art for their presentation of bruce nauman 'topological gardens' for the us pavilion at the venice biennale this past summer and fall. now it is winter, i can't wait till spring. the following is my official soundtrack until may 6 when my new show titled, you guessed it All Right - Still! opens at fleisher/ollman gallery in philadelphia.
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All Right - Still!
lullabies from the dead of winter 2010 and looking forward to spring
*all bootleg edition compiled in philadelphia via bubbles inc.

1. lonely (amy's theme) - the lovin' spoonful
2. i had a brontosaurus - lena zavaroni
3. dream lover - the paris sisters
4. breakaway - toni basil
5. temptation eyes - blake babies
6. back in your life - noise addict
7. bitter fingers - elton john
8. j'en ai marre - alizee
9. keep it going louder - major lazer
10. touched by the hand of god - new order
11. check my machine - paul mccartney
12. come together - primal scream
13. true confession (live) - the silvertones
14. ven y baila mi son - henry fiol
15. see those eyes (extended version) - altered images
16. we'll be there - rabbie burnsmith and his ticket toots
17. sometimes in vain - the parachute men
18. mercy seat - ultra vivid scene
19. on tape - the pooh sticks

*the fine print: 1. i have a great version of this song on a john sebastian live lp out on cheapo records it is so great he whispers, "this is a song . . . that doesn't have any words" and then just whistles slightly and barely plays the harmonica. it sounds like wind and lonely and is so beautiful, this studio lovin' spoonful version is good but not as good as that one oh and the live one is also only like a minute long, perfect./
2. i got lena zavaronia's debut record from my good friend jack for my birthday this year. when it came out she was ten and it was the early seventies, she also appeared on johnny carson singing 'the end of the world'. johnny quipped about how he was worried about a ten year old singing such a sad song so convincingly, he had reason to worry. lena struggled all her life with anorexia (which eventually killed her) she also grew out of time, a tremendously talented singer who only sang standards. she is oddly a perfect susan boyle, american idol type but she died too soon for a rediscovery via the contemporary talent show. i think 'i had a brontosaurus' is a perfect song. so sad so strange, tender. rip lena./
3. when i was in college my close friends chris and steve worked at the video library in west philly and i got to see the kenneth anger films on the mystic fire videos. my favorites were puce moment and kustom kar kommandos. i recorded the soundtrack to both off the tv with a tape recorder. the paris sisters' 'dream lover' is so perfect for kustom kar kommandos. kenneth anger says everything so simply in this film that is just the length of the song with overdubbed engine revving./
4. toni basil is from philly! yeah she is. this song was written by ed cobb who also wrote tainted love a northern soul classic famously covered by soft cell and well, everyone. he also wrote dirty water, and sometimes good guys dont wear white. he rules and so does toni. this song is really known though from the groundbreaking film by bruce conner it soundtracks. it is played twice in the film once forward and then backwards and toni dances in and out of clothes. i saw it just recently at the international house in philly as part of the ica's dance with camera exhibition programing. it was breathtaking./
5. the grass roots really are one of the greatest bands ever except they are not a real band they are just a front for pf sloan who is one of the greatest pop songwriters ever! no joke look him up he wrote in many ways a soundtrack to live by. he also wrote 'temptation eyes' which linda ronstadt covered with her first band the stone ponys, but the version here is my favorite. blake babies were famously named by allen ginsberg and fronted by the adorable juliana hatfield. the video has her in a bikini and evan dando in his boxers. trust me 20 years ago that was some twilight/new moon etc level sex appeal going on. also the song just sounds so so great./
6. this is a jonathan richman and the modern lovers cover by the pre-teen aged ben lee. when i started art school, i got on famously with a riot girl because i truly truly loved noise addict, i still do./
7. when i was in la this past fall i spent a few days at my good friend justin's house with my broken leg, some drawings to work on and just a handful of records to listen. one was elton john and i listened to this song 'bitter fingers' about 25 times in a row at one point. it is such a great song. it has a great build, killer hook and a great message. it is helping me i tell you. it is hard to write a song with bitter fingers, it is hard to draw that way also so yeah let's all just take it easy and love one another./
8. this is my favorite song! i am serious this song is the best. alizee is so . . . i can't even begin i am a schoolgirl about her. the song translates to english 'i'm fed up' and has lyrics about being fed up and taking a bath and a goldfish? it doesn't matter what she is saying i sing along to it and i dance along, i do./
9. i first heard nina sky when i was urban camping in my studio in bushwick years ago. i was in a bad spot, went to questionable places late late at night, and i fell for nina sky. diplo who is from philly made this song. this past fall i went with jayson musson to this dub step thing at diplo's mad decent mausoleum and the kids were there. desperate, dangerous, happy, high, it was frightening yet familiar./
10. i hope kathryn bigelow wins the oscar for best director. one because the hurt locker is a powerful, important movie. two so her ass of an ex husband james cameron doesn't win. three because she went to the whitney independent study program and also managed to make a good movie (point break) starring patrick swayze, keanu reeves, gary busey, and lori petty - that had to be tough! four and most importantly in my book, because she may have directed the best new order video ever, the one for this song. go check it out it is great./
11. when philadelphia guitar wizard jack rose tragically passed away in december friends of his in england dedicated a radio broadcast to him. i listened online and they played some of his music and music by those he loved (and who loved him). at the end they played this which i thought odd given i had my battles with jack over pop music and would think he wouldn't stand for paul mccartney. this is a truly far out track though, reportedly paul is literally checking some type of audio equipment and turns it into a song. he is truly the master popsmith. anyhow apparently someone played this for jack and he had never heard it before and was suitably surprised that he liked a paul mccartney song. then his friends played a prank where they arranged to have someone later in the tour play the song over the pa before he came out and pretend it happened naturally like wow hearing this obscure actually decent paul mccartney song twice in one week?!/
12. recently my friend bones got married in nyc and the wedding was so much fun we all danced and smiled and laughed, people from all over. near the end i asked the dj to play this song, to get some glasgow, some madchester in the air and a father from great britain held his son who was wearing a kilt up to the speakers to listen, really listen. it made my night./
13. i will listen to any silvertones songs anytime, anywhere - they never disappoint. they are about love and free time and joy. they are the best./
14. another short i saw as part of the ica's dance with camera programming was charles atlas' from an island summer. the first part has this music and is set in coney island. there is dancing by karole armitage and others. you cannot take your eyes off of karole armitage, trust me. just her shucking her shoulders up in the swings will melt your heart and yeah coney island is the greatest place on earth. i miss the nathan's and the mangoes on the sticks and the afternoons with my girl there./
15. everyone wants to be altered images nowadays. sanitgold, ke$ha etc all the girls do, but they're not quite altered enough. i love this extended version.
16. this is the music from the other part of from an island summer that goes from the subway to a dance to studio to times square at nite. really great. the reprise of henry fiol at the end is from the credits./
17. when i was in eight grade andy bisconti lent me an nme comp with this song on it. i taped it and played it for years and years. when ever i hear it i am right back at summerstage. acting in children's theater, rehearsing with my director the now famous tina fey, making out with girls on the couch, playing cards outside, walking down the creek behind the theater . . ./
18. this song is so good. so good. kurt ralske is so underrated. i wish he still made music. further proof boston had a better scene than dc./
19. perfect song to end with, the criminally unknown pooh sticks. i copied this song from a youtube clip of a tape playing this song, yeah, really. 'i got it on taaappe!!'
here's to getting thru the winter, i had a thrill recently that i am gonna carry with me until spring. at the recent ica receptions i was tapped on the shoulder and turned around to find karen kilimnik stopping by to say hi to me! (swoon) true story too just ask constance she was there. xo anthony campuzano/tc/bubbles inc.

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The Fall - Slippy Floor (Mark Mix)

2010-01-19T18:55:00.001-08:00

i am a little late but yeah newish fall single from november 2009, it slays. "it's a slippy flawwwr" yes!

an island summer (with strange powers)

2010-01-14T13:21:00.000-08:00

as part of the ica's dance with camera exhibition programing before the screening of bob fosse's 'all that jazz' last nite they screened some shots by maya deren, shirley clarke, and bruce conner's amazing 'breakaway' my favorite however i had never seen before. charles atlas with karole armitage 'an island summer' from 1984
this is part one of two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t8YxMVUydI
this is part two of two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpJQTwZn9s
it is really amazing. in addition this clip immediately brought to my mind the magnetic fields video for strange powers from 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci37lvMsTsA

Bye Bye Life - "All That Jazz" 1979

2010-01-14T13:12:00.001-08:00

i saw bob fosse's 'all that jazz' last nite as part of the ica's dance with camera exhibit. it was so great. here is the end number which is so great. also lcd soundsytems video (and even the song in some ways) is a definte homage to this clip
lcd soundsystem 'all my friends'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL79-7oo9Xc

close the door teddy pendergrass live

2010-01-14T12:39:00.001-08:00

rest in peace teddy. this is great music. also my props from a proud fellow philadelphian. you'll be missed man.

Primal Scream Come Together

2010-01-11T16:57:00.001-08:00

much much great music played by djs christian, growler, gabe, and bones himself at his wedding, thanks to gabe for indulging me with this verion of come together near the end of the night.. also i think sluggy, patti smith, serge and marvin gaye were the highlights tuneswise

The Pooh Sticks: On Tape

2010-01-06T12:29:00.001-08:00

such a great clip . . . i gottt it oonn taaape!

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Music Video)

2010-01-06T10:15:00.001-08:00

this is a perfect number one pop song.

Sandra - Everlasting Love

2010-01-06T10:01:00.001-08:00

there are so many great covers of this great song here is one from germany

Sandra - Around My Heart

2010-01-06T09:56:00.001-08:00

Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us (original video)

2009-12-30T13:16:00.001-08:00

this is the best, this is the record the past decade has tried to catch up with i love saint etienne!

lily allen - littlest things

2009-12-30T11:14:00.001-08:00

one of my most most favorites, keep making music lily

happy holidays!!!!

2009-12-24T13:03:00.000-08:00

happy holidays!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxxooxoxoxoxox from your friend anthony campuzano/tc/bubbles inc.

ABBA Lay All Your Love On Me

2009-12-23T15:26:00.001-08:00

congrats to abba on getting into the rock and roll hall of fame well deserved , also props to the stooges, jimmy cliff and the hollies.

alizee

2009-12-22T14:53:00.001-08:00

thanks goes to justin to letting me know about alizee. last time i was checking out current french pop i was into yelle and ludivine saginer, dont know how i missed alizee.

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS EVER FALLEN IN LOVE

2009-12-20T13:22:00.001-08:00

reading this http://pitchfork.com/news/37442-5-10-15-20-kurt-vile/ made me remember how i also liked the fine young cannibals for a spell, then i discovered this great buzzcocks cover they did for the film 'something wild' so great. thanks kurt!

Jarvis Cocker - Songbook Part 4

2009-12-20T12:05:00.001-08:00

sorted for e's and wizz

Mariah Carey - Fantasy (Pop Jam 95)

2009-12-12T01:36:00.001-08:00

i have to feel that chris smith really has not been paying attention to about 15 years of american music when he sends me this clip saying 'hey man have you heard this song, it's great' yeah i know that already man and pop music has been remaking this for a decade. but yeah it still is really great and i would like to thank chris for reminding me how much i dig this song.

Thinking of the Mighty Jack Rose

2009-12-07T12:42:00.001-08:00

The first snowfall of this winter.

I was coming from my studio in kensington on the el towards 69th street and the train exited the tunnel at 46th street. My recently acquired cell phone rang and it was my best friend Chris. He said I have bad news and literally as he told me the snow began to fall. Big, fluffy, beautiful flakes around 3 pm on the 5th of december, the first snowfall this winter and Jack Rose is gone. Chris and I only spoke for a stop or two and then I rode the rest of the way looking out the window thinking of Jack. The snowfall held fast while I transferred to a trolley and even when I walked the few blocks to the house. I was in a trance really absolutely stunned that the Mighty Jack Rose was gone.

I often joke that i have the musical taste of a 15 year old girl (from the valley circa 1982, manchester/glasgow 1985-89, or even new jersey circa 1997-2007) yet that is only partially true. I do have a wider fondness for music due in part to my close friends Chris Smith, Jack Sloss, Steve Gunn, Dan Murphy and many others whose own musical obsessions have tipped me to varying corners of sound. That is how I got to know the music of Jack Rose. I went to see him play numerous times, at first because friends were appearing on bills with him, yet quickly realized he was the main draw. I remember fondly sitting on a floor in a bookshop just watching his nimble fingers so effortlessly coaxing the most beautiful music.

This summer I got to hang out with Jack and eat his delicious pizza at a real record head party. Chris set his tube amp system up and everyone gathered around to hear the great sounds. There were alot friends their so even I got to play three songs like everyone else. I started with Marianne Faithfull's 'Easy in the City' and Harmonica Dan remarked that he had bought an autographed copy for super cheap that very morning and I told him I had bought this exact record from record exchange years ago. This was days after Michael Jackson died so I of course went next to 'Billie Jean' (also Thriller is an amazing sounding record) and Jack Rose immediately left the room. He was so mad I played Michael Jackson, but it was funny. It was totally cool, it was just that he had his standards and Thriller was not under consideration. Jack would probably hate for me to be talking about him alongside Michael jackson but I am going to anyway. They both were immensely talented, driven, complex and yes, kind people taken from the Earth far far too soon. Jack Rose was the coolest dude, a tough yet tender comrade. I was able to talk to him about my work and he sought me out at shows to say hi. I saw him last a week or so ago when he was DJing and he seemed so great. It is so terrible that he is gone, he was an inspiration and friend to so many and a dear dear husband to Laurie. I am so shocked and saddened that I won't get to see him again.

The Silvertones - True confession (live)

2009-12-04T16:54:00.001-08:00

these are the kind of dudes i want to hang out with

Diane Lane - Nowhere Fast

2009-11-24T08:04:00.001-08:00

breathtaking

Television Personalities live bootleg

2009-11-13T10:41:00.001-08:00

if you are under 30 you probably won't understand this clip yet. if you are over 30 or under and you hang on thru the 5 minutes and ten seconds it really is the only tvp's you need. however if you ever now or in the future or even the past find yourself falling asleep with a beer on your chest you may want to check dan treacy's back catalog.

THE PARACHUTE MEN - SOMETIMES IN VAIN

2009-11-13T07:58:00.001-08:00

in 1988 this was my favorite song totally via andy bisconti from an nme comp i loved this song so much. total soundtrack to summer stage for me. this is the sound i hear when i think of those great times.

Elton John - Bitter Fingers

2009-11-11T12:03:00.001-08:00

towards the end of my la trip i was working on drawings while justin was at work and he doesnt have much vinyl so i just played a warsaw bootleg, the first bikini kill, two songs off mott the hoople and this elton john song over and over. i think i played bitter fingers about 25 times in a row at one point. this is one of my favs of his lesser known songs along with the cage and grimsby. the hook with the piano and the guitar at the end are so great. also what a great line, 'its hard to write a song with bitter fingers . . .' words from and for the wise.

kustom kar kommandos

2009-11-09T11:23:00.001-08:00

the greatest music video ever made. followed i believe by diana ross 'upside down', michael jackson 'billie jean' , the bangles 'going down to liverpool' and the happy mondays 'wrote for luck' the version with the kids in it. that's my top 5.

New Order - Touched By The Hand Of God

2009-11-09T11:22:00.001-08:00

last nite hanging with chris and constance somehow a tangent went from c thomas howell to finding sarah jessica parker cute in only square pegs or la story to talk concerning kathryn bigelow and discovering this great new order video she directed. oh also switching the channel between cops and the lost boys and watching roger ebert review battlefield earth and pondering the demise of barry pepper's acting career.

Lena Zavaroni - Hi! Summer 1977 - 'I had a Brontosaurus'

2009-11-09T11:20:00.001-08:00

we miss you lena. great great song such a sad story

Misfits - Hybrid Moments

2009-10-31T13:32:00.001-07:00

i wonder what glen danzig is being for halloween . . .

Elton John - Your song

2009-10-18T02:45:00.001-07:00

sir elton john is one of the best entertainers ever.

Twiggy - In my life (Muppet Show)

2009-10-15T20:48:00.001-07:00

Noise Addict - Back In Your Life (Modern Lovers cover)

2009-10-15T08:25:00.001-07:00

R.E.M. - Nightswimming

2009-10-14T11:47:00.001-07:00

my favorite beatles song is hey jude, my favorite stones song is jumping jack flash, my favorite song turning 34 with a broken leg thinking of the summer and youth through pain killers and ice cream is this one.

Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People (Live in Barcelona )

2009-10-07T08:14:00.001-07:00

Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) it is gonna be a mess it is gonna be great i'm gonna be there and i can't wait happy mondays tonite in philly at the troc!

For Fans of Bubbles Inc*

2009-10-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

For Fans of Bubbles Inc.*

1. Theme de Camille - Georges Delerue
2. Love is the Drug (Long Version) - Grace Jones
3. Geto Boys/Iko (Demo) - Glass Candy
4. Everything I Own - Boy George
5. Cinq Minutes d'Amour - France Gall
6. Kiss and Make Up (original Donna Savage vocal)-Saint Etienne
7. Working On It Night and Day - Richard Hewson Orchestra
8. I Got the Music In Me - Kiki Dee
9. Just a Little - Beau Brummels
10. Love Goes On - Go-Betweens
11. Love Without Lies - Comet Gain
12. Fists in Pockets - Comet Gain
13. Another Weekend - Comet Gain
14. She's Real - Kicking Giant
15. Live and Let Die - Daniel Johnston
16. Words of Love - Paul McCartney
17. Perfidia - Carola Standertskjold
18. Every Little Bit Hurts - Small Faces
19. No One - Alicia Keys
20. Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets GIrl

*1. from Godard's Contempt 2. Roxy Music cover 3. ad hoc Iko cover tour only demo, includes sample of the Geto Boy's sampling of Issac Hayes' "Hung Up On My Baby" on their classic track "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" 4. from Top of the Pops performance, Bread cover heavily inspired by Ken Boothe's own cover 5. rumored to contain partially swiped melody from the aforementioned Bread track 6. Field Mice cover, another early Saint Etienne track like "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" that features a vocalist other than Sarah Cracknell, this time Donna Savage 7. from Waris Hussein's film Melody the only song on the soundtrack other than "Teach Your Children by CSNY that isn't by the Bee Gees 8. live television performance from the very cute Kiki Dee 14. seven inch version, one of my favorite songs the spring and summer of 1994 throughout my freshman year in college. when the record finally came out they had to drop the Ronette's sample and the recording never worked as well as this version 15. Wings cover live in Germany, I saw Daniel Johnston sing this at the Khyber same tour, same brilliance 16. Buddy Holly cover, Paul McCartney owns the rights to Buddy Holly's music, Michael Jackson's estate owns the rights to Macca's music 18. Brenda Hollaway cover 19. i used to talk shit about Alicia Keys then i really fell for this tune, play this really really loud 20. probably the ideal Bubbles Inc. tune here, Boy Meets Girl songwriting duo of George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam they wrote "How Will I Know", "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "Waiting For A Star To Fall" for Whitney Houston. she had great success with the first two and then turned down the third! what was she thinking?! so they made this great version themselves and had a hit.

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The beach boys -good vibrations

2009-09-19T03:09:00.001-07:00

the beach etc (or i am about to turn 34)

The Beach Boys - Keepin' The Summer Alive

2009-09-19T03:00:00.001-07:00

ocean city was so much fun. many thanks to justin, justin's grandmom and nate.

Kiki Dee - I've got the music in me 1975

2009-09-16T14:09:00.001-07:00

so great.

Enjoy The Silence (HQ) - Depeche Mode - Original Video (WTC Tribute !!!)

2009-09-11T15:50:00.001-07:00

thinking of this so long ago when i took the early morning off from work so i could vote for mark green and then shortly after on the bus enroute to dumbo as the police and fire trucks flew by us and after we passed the naval yard cell phone rumors came horribly true. i will always love nyc.

2009-09-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

On this first day of September I thought I'd post these mixes of the songs I enjoyed most this summer. If you regularly exchange emails with me you will remember the agony I endured when I realized one of my favorite songs on the radio was in fact a Black Eyed Peas song. However I shouldn't have been surprised, this was the most top 40 summer for me since 1997 when both 'MMMbop' by Hanson and 'Say You Will Be There' by the Spice Girls were among my favorite songs. In a way the combo of Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Pink, and Miley Cyrus could perhaps be this summer's Spice Girls for me, of course the Belle Stars were in fact an inspiration for the Spice Girls, and Taylor Hanson makes an appearance as the lead singer of the super group Tinted Windows. This summer I went to see Tinted Windows and throughly enjoyed it. The concert was mobbed with grown up Hanson fans and I went by myself yet luckily spied a few friends in the audience who were there to support the newly DFA signed and hyped band from Philadelphia, Free Energy. Also don't be afraid of the Philadelphia born Pink she is one of the best to come out of this landmark girl pop era. Her song 'Please Don't Leave Me' sounds like she is fronting New Order and is better than anything they had on their disappointing 'final' album 'Waiting for the Sirens' Call'. If I could I would love to produce a record of Pink covering Shocking Blue classics, I feel she not only could be up to the task but is the only contemporary vocalist that could approach the levels of Mariska Veres' greatness.

My favorite things this past summer do include: Fonthill, Anissa Mack's show at Small A Projects, random encounters in NYC with friends near and far, walking through the park to visit the Met and the Whitney, Brooke Shields remembering the King of Pop, rapping with the Michael Jackson T shirt vendor on Allegheny Avenue in Kenzo, watching the Goonies in the afternoon, Karen Kilimnik saying she liked my drawing, karaoke at Winnie's, sharing a wall with Andy Warhol, Irene Molloy singing Ave Maria during my beloved grandmom's funeral at Saint Phil's followed by my father's phenomenal eulogy, leading the fourth of July parade in Lansdowne, various birthday parties, Joe Biden talking about Teddy, followed days later by the dusk burial at Arlington, getting directions from Will Oldham's mother Joanne, visiting Knoebel's Grove with Mark and Gretchen, putting together a feast in Austin, Barton Springs, and waiting for the bats to come out with Kate, taking it easy at Harry's Roadhouse and befriending a museum employee in Sante Fe via Alexander Girard, waiting out the rain at Anthony's Cafe in Fishtown, Andrea Fraser at Fredrick Petzel/Dorthoy Iannone at Anton Kern and the New Museum, Mocha Dick at the Fabric Workshop, Cezanne and Beyond at the PMA, Jack Rose's pizza, Clubb O, Club 650, le Basket onward - laughing, dancing, talking shit and taking names. In addition to all of this are the following songs that made me really happy this summer:

A Bubbles Inc. Summer

(brought to you by Bubbles Incorporated)*

Disc 1

1 - Lily Allen - The Fear
2 - The Beatles - Sexy Sadie (take 6, 19 july 1968)
3 - Dwight Twilley - Looking For The Magic
4 - Dexy's Midnight Runners - I Love You (Listen To This)
5 - Camera Obscura - French Navy
6 - Sheena Easton - Telephone
7 - Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies R Good Enough
8 - Dexy's Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like
9 - Lily Allen - Not Fair
10 - Taylor Swift - Love Story
11 - Taylor Swift - You Belong To Me
12 - Pink - Please Don't Leave Me
13 - Shoes - Nowhere Fast
14 - Shoes - Fatal
15 - Tinted Windows - Messing With My Head
16 - Pink - So What
17 - Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA
18 - Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
19 - Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill

Disc 2

1 - Ace Of Base - Cruel Summer (Acapella)
2 - Stacey Ferguson/Fergie (Kids Inc.) - I Get Weak
3 - Strawberry Switchblade - Vicious
4 - Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
5 - Paul McCartney - Frozen Jap (Rough-Mix/Acetate)
6 - Anna Domino - Land Of My Dreams
7 - Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
8 - Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams
9 - Eddy Grant - Romancing The Stone
10 - Lime - Your Love
11 - Lime - Please Say You Will
12 - Gloria/Martika (Kids Inc.) - Glamorous Life
13 - Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times
14 - Alex Mix - Everybody's Going Do The Lovin'
15 - The Equals - Baby Come Back
16 - Lemonheads - Different Drum
17 - Saint Etienne - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
18 - Shop Assistants - Something To Do
19 - Adult Net - Where You When I Needed You?
20 - Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
21 - Brighter - Poppy Day

*Meg Baird played Dwight Twilley for me/Robert Botto sent me the Shoes record/The Mellow Legend sent me the new Whitney track/I stole the Ace of Base track off of Franny Arnold's computer/Rubens Ghenov told me how to make mp3's of my favorite Kid's Incorporated songs/Bones gave me the Macca track/Jason Killinger introduced me to little green lemons/Brendan Greaves included the Alex Mix track on the mix that accompanied his great essay on beach music/enjoy all of this music xo anthony campuzano/tc/bubbles inc.

disc one: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wubwzg

disc two: http://www.sendspace.com/file/9rj4wv

Robert Kennedy Funeral- Eulogy delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy

2009-08-26T01:20:00.001-07:00

Rest in peace teddy.

I have RFK's funeral on vinyl (Andy Williams version of Ava Maria is the best i have ever heard other than Irene Molloy at my grandmother catherine's funeral) teddy's eulogy is so powerful. he was offered RFK's nomination for president and declined. he had his faults yet teddy was in my opinion the best senator and helped our nation in that role in ways we truly needed and continue to need (ie: health care bill)

Randy Newman - Sail Away

2009-08-23T01:44:00.001-07:00

i love this song.

The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road 1970

2009-08-18T21:35:00.001-07:00

i posted billy ocean's version of this great song of paul mccartney's on the willow house blog. here is the great original minus all of the treacley strings spector draped it with. this was the beatles last #1 single in the usa, 23 may 1970.

Perfidia - Carola Standertskjöld 1965

2009-08-17T13:44:00.001-07:00

LE MEPRIS (CONTEMPT) - Theme De Camille

2009-08-17T13:41:00.001-07:00

Dexys Midnight Runners THIS IS WHAT SHE'S LIKE

2009-08-08T18:50:00.001-07:00

perfect song. belle and sebastian and comet gain owe so much to dexy's midnight runners.

Pretty In Pink, 1986 (Molly Ringwald)

2009-08-06T15:01:00.001-07:00

RIP John Hughes and thank you for bringing to the screen my #1 1980's dream girl the beautiful Molly Ringwald.

Dwight Twilley Looking for the magic

2009-08-05T00:48:00.001-07:00

the day after meg and steven ran into me at the tinted windows show they let me know about this killer song.

Lindsey Buckingham Trouble

2009-08-05T00:42:00.001-07:00

yeah yeah i'm in trouble . . .

Television Personalities - A Picture of Dorian Gray

2009-07-31T19:12:00.001-07:00

from the desk of pop genius dan treacy.

Madonna- Ray of Light.

2009-07-27T23:36:00.001-07:00

i love pop music and this song is among the best. thanks to amelia and her friend for reminding me at winnie's about how much i love this song. also thanks to michael for introducing me to his friend who used to program 120 minutes on MTV.

The Pretenders - Kid

2009-07-22T21:12:00.001-07:00

i feel like this video today.

Stars!

2009-07-22T09:56:00.000-07:00

if you are in nyc july 23rd thru aug 28 do check out this group show i am in. and if you happen to be there on july 23rd from 6-8 come to the opening and we can hang out. details follow:

Stars!

“…to be a star is to be a blank screen…a blank screen for the projection of spectators’ phantasmas, dreams, and desires.” -Thierry de Duve

Salon 94 Freemans is pleased to present Stars!, a group exhibition featuring work by Anonymous, Anthony Campuzano, Carter, Jennifer Cohen, Katy Grannan, Ryan McNamara, Lucas Michael, Marilyn Minter, Niagara, Jack Pierson, William Scott, RJ Supa, and Donald Urquhart. The exhibition seeks to explore stardom as a sublime desire to escape one's self and become someone else. The work on view demonstrates a need on the part of the artist – or the subject – to be seen, to perform, to escape obscurity. Approximate versions of icons such as Liza Minnelli and Marilyn Monroe appear alongside more idiosyncratic figures such as Libby Holman, Amy Winehouse, and Big and Little Edie Beale.

Jack Pierson’s empty stage sets the tone for the show, invoking phantom performers and failed acts. Jennifer Cohen’s jazz hands and tapping feet betray the masochism of performance through their rigid choreography. A funereal shrine by Anonymous pays homage to fallen stars and questions whether stars’ very DNA is more beautiful than that of the rest of us.

The photographs of Katy Grannan and Marilyn Minter depict, respectively, strangers on the sidewalk in contemporary Los Angeles and the artist’s own reclusive mother, all of whom confront the viewer with their own versions of the Hollywood Dream. Grannan’s “Marilyn” impersonator appears far older than the original, every imperfection harshly illuminated in the spotlight of the Los Angeles sun, while Minter’s mother painstakingly does her makeup at her vanity but never leaves the house. Lucas Michael’s Still Life (LM Squared) depicts the artist re-enacting Liza Minnelli as she sat for her Warhol portrait. The doubled, blurred image undermines the impossible glamour of the Warhol 1970’s society portrait, while it also reveals the slippery space of a star’s identity; an impersonator, an interloper, can break in and steal a bit of the shine or revel in the famous pain and dysfunction.

Anthony Campuzano’s text-based drawing Treetops focuses on Libby Holman, 1930’s torch singer, Broadway stage actress, and R.J. Reynold’s tobacco heiress, and her obsessive relationship with the troubled actor Montgomery Clift, who frequently stayed at Treetops, her Connecticut estate. RJ Supa’s text paintings on mirrors implicate the viewer in both the desire for and the exploitation of fame. Paintings by Niagara and drawings by Donald Urquhart revel in a faux-naïve desire to be beautiful, to be glamorous and untouchable, while simultaneously evoking the distance between fantasy and reality. William Scott’s painting of Diana Ross depicts the star as a vehicle to another world. Videos by Carter, Lucas Michael, and Ryan McNamara, along with live performance by McNamara, show the artists enacting various tropes of stardom.

Stars! was curated by David Fierman and Amie Scally.

Salon 94 Freemans
1 Freeman Alley
New York, NY 10002

Monday - Friday
11: 30 am - 5:30 pm

Nothing Left - The Primitives

2009-07-17T18:57:00.001-07:00

i am sad - i am relaxed - i love sante fe - i am feeling ambitious - i am missing my grandmother - i am looking to the future - a lot is going on.

I'll Be There Acapella

2009-06-26T01:09:00.001-07:00

earlier tonite i could only think about the nba draft. i was on the internet checking the trades the buzz etc. one eye on the computer and the other on cable i heard the breaking news about the king of pop, michael jackson. i am so so sad about his passing. michael jackson is the definition of pop music. he is the very very best, singularly the best. the only ones who come close (the beatles, abba) are groups. i remember the moment when i learned john lennon died, when i learned river phoenix died, when i learned kurt cobain died, when i learned joey ramone died, and now sadly when michael jackson died. earlier today i was contemplating farrah fawcet's death which is also a profound passing, arguably the biggest stars of both the 1980's and 1970's passing within hours of each other. later tonight on nightline they replayed part of an interview with michael where he recounted details of his very first girlfriend, tatum o'neal. he talked about how she frightened him with her frank sexual talk and their date at her parent's beverly hills mansion. tatum's father ryan o'neal is mourning his long time love farrah but one thinks of the troubled tatum also tonite and what is running through her head this improbable night where she spans both epic passings. i will say this in regards to myself that in 1983 in particular december of 1983 the three people i was most in awe of were my grandfather, dr. j, and michael jackson. dr. j of course was a member of the reigning world champions of bastketball, my hometown philadelphia 76ers. my grandfather along with my grandmother had been my babysitters up until i had gone to school and he had passed earlier that year. michael jackson was the biggest music thing i had ever experienced. my dad liked rock and roll but i liked pop. i went as a village person for halloween in kindergarten - i liked barry manilow, i liked abba, i liked the fifth dimension, i liked christopher cross, i liked blondie, i liked men at work, i liked hall and oates, and i loved michael jackson. thriller is the greatest pop record ever it will always be. my dad made me and my brother a fake glove using a painter's glove and glitter. oh and back to december 1983 - we spent christmas break at my grandmother's house and the cable tv which we didn't have at home and everytime every hour when the thriller video came on we dropped whatever we were doing and ran to the tv. rest in peace king of pop michael jackson, gone far far too soon, there will never be another. love, anthony campuzano/tc/bubbles inc.

Mary Hopkin 1968

2009-06-21T03:52:00.001-07:00

cover of the bee gee's 'in the morning of my life'
(bee gees never released their version it only appears in the beginning of the film melody from 1970)

CCS - I Want You Back ( Jackson 5 )

2009-06-16T12:27:00.001-07:00

yeah summer!

Lime - babe we're gonna love tonight

2009-06-06T16:48:00.003-07:00

also my friend jason let me know about this song russ and lea told him about it so great.

Lime - Your love

2009-06-06T16:48:00.001-07:00

i think this video and song is so great.

HIS NAME IS ALIVE "COUNTRY GIRL" live 1996

2009-06-05T14:21:00.003-07:00

the velvet underground of the 1990's

Strawberry Switchblade compilation video

2009-06-05T14:21:00.001-07:00

unreleased strawberry switchblade song 'vicious'.

Cristina - "Ticket to the Tropics" (1984)

2009-06-03T07:00:00.001-07:00

The Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy

2009-05-30T16:23:00.001-07:00

Pointer Sisters-I'm So Excited! (Live)

2009-05-30T15:52:00.001-07:00

i'm so excited!!

ABBA : "Why Did It Have To Be Me"

2009-05-22T23:23:00.005-07:00

the best pop group at 3/4ths full. live in 1976

ABBA - So Long (Made in Sweden)

2009-05-22T23:23:00.003-07:00

the best pop group.

Suzi Quatro - Another Heart of Stone

2009-05-22T23:23:00.001-07:00

i can't help but dance when suzie quatro is playing.

Rolling stones - jumping jack flash

2009-05-16T19:41:00.001-07:00

the greatest the best song ever.

Velvet Underground - New Age [69 live version]

2009-05-16T17:36:00.001-07:00

Jonathan King - Satisfaction

2009-05-13T13:01:00.001-07:00

bubblerock. 1974. mick jagger's favorite version after the stones, no word on what he thinks about the devo and britney spears versions.

Catherine Deneuve - Chanel No. 5

2009-05-11T20:32:00.001-07:00

perfect commercial.

Heaven Knows-Donna Summer/Brooklyn Dreams

2009-05-11T01:30:00.001-07:00

million plus seller.

Beat Happening - Tiger Trap

2009-05-07T13:53:00.001-07:00

i still don't know how to drive.

Bee Gees - Lonely Days (Original Music Video)

2009-05-04T14:23:00.001-07:00

the plight of the brilliant and successful songwriters.

The Fall - White Lightning - 1991

2009-04-18T15:08:00.001-07:00

1st Madonna La Isla Bonita 1987 Mitsubishi Advert (HQ)

2009-04-17T15:41:00.001-07:00

this is a very effective commercial. i want to go out right now and buy a mitsubishi hi fidelity vhs player.

betty boo - where are you baby

2009-04-17T15:36:00.001-07:00

1990

Pandoras News Clip - With Paula Pierce

2009-04-17T15:22:00.001-07:00

international ramifications.

The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town Version 2

2009-04-13T19:00:00.001-07:00

just got back from north and south carolina, canoed the great pee dee river , camped and made bonfires on the beach. later shared an easter feast with friends new and old. we played many records at the house - the ones i picked included little anthony and the imperials and the go betweens sixteen lovers lane.

Super Furry Animals - Run-Away

2009-04-01T23:51:00.001-07:00

single from 1997 the beginning of this video definitely quotes jean christope averty's melody film of gainsbourg's histore de melody nelson that i screened at the ica

the fall - hit the north

2009-03-26T00:33:00.001-07:00

hit the north hit the charts etc so great and the blackpool flume ride at the end so funny.

Kinks - Hot Potatoes

2009-03-25T23:39:00.001-07:00

this is my favorite kinks song.

Saint Etienne - Kiss and Make Up

2009-03-22T14:50:00.001-07:00

was listening to the new camera obscura single french navy i like it but it could use a downbeat remix similar to this great original mix of kiss and make up from 1990. donna savage on vocals. also this video is better than the camera obscura video. and this version is better than the sarah cracknell version. and finally this is a field mice cover.

2009-03-22T13:57:00.002-07:00

Commentary: Peggy Sue and a love so rare and true

By Bob Greene
CNN Contributor

Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose current book is "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams."

(CNN) -- After days on end of grim and dreary news, the first weekend of spring is with us, and with its arrival comes, to many people, the yearly promise of new romance and a chance for lasting love.

But if figuring out the secrets of how to revive a battered economy is something that is complicated and elusive, that quandary is simple in comparison to matters of the heart. The legendary experts on romance, star-crossed and otherwise, are generally not available for comment. Romeo and Juliet have left the building.

However, there is one person I know who has a better feel for the vagaries of love than most, and I sought her out the other day.

"Spring is the time when you allow yourself to hope that love will come around again," said Peggy Sue Gerron.

You may not recognize her full name, but you sure do recognize the first part of it.

Yep -- she's that Peggy Sue. The Peggy Sue of Buddy Holly's unforgettable 1957 hit, a song of longing and heartbreak that is instantly familiar today even to people who weren't born until decades after it came out. "If you knew Peggy Sue, then you'd know why I feel blue ..."

Juliet, that other symbol of the glory of love, may have been a fictional creation of William Shakespeare's imagination, but Peggy Sue was, and is, real. She lives in West Texas, just as she did when Buddy Holly recorded the song. She was actually not even his girlfriend, although she sensed a certain yearning on his part. She was the girlfriend of Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets, Holly's band.

"I think the reason people think about finding love in the spring is that the season represents new beginnings," she said. "The flowers are blooming. The air smells good. You feel that you have a chance."

In the song, Peggy Sue, implicitly, was the one who did the dumping, not the one who got dumped. But time has made her understand:

"I think, I really believe, that on a rare occasion, two people in life run across each other in a path like two comets. And when it happens, I think that feeling lasts forever."

Which is to say: With a love so rare and true.

And that, she said, is what makes people keep looking for love regardless of how many times they may have tried and failed. She has a theory of what being in love does to a person:

"Your eyes are a little bit shinier and your skin is a little bit clearer when you're in love. When you meet that person, you think: Whatever you're doing, I want to be right beside you when you're doing it. I want to be near you just because I like to see your smile."

Not that being Peggy Sue means she has all the answers. "I don't," she said. She is 68 now; she has been married twice, divorced twice. When she introduces herself to new people, they often say, "Oh -- like the Peggy Sue in the song!"

Sometimes she tells them she is in fact that Peggy Sue; sometimes she lets it go. It's an uphill battle to convince them she's not kidding.

And as the woman who eternally will be a symbol of true love's ways, she thinks she understands why people never give up on hoping to find the right person. "You have a tendency to put the walls up after you've been hurt," she said. "You think it's not worth trying again. But then you do it anyway. It's like it's not even up to you. It's stronger than your intellect."

For those who, as spring arrives, have just lost a great love, her advice for dealing with the sadness is to remember that some people never find love in their whole lives. "Even if you're the one to get left, you've been lucky to have the feeling. And the feeling, unlike the person, will never leave you."

Somewhere this spring -- many somewheres, undoubtedly -- the words, sung for the first time more than 50 years ago, will come blasting once again out of a car dashboard's speakers:

"Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue."

And people in 2009, hearing it, will remember anew just how much happiness the right person can bring.

"When I first heard the song," Peggy Sue said, "I just thought the drums and the lyrics and the melody were so great, it made me want to get up and dance. As I grew older, it began to seem like more of a love song to me. It began to seem more like a song about not giving up."

Living in Lubbock, Texas, a ham radio enthusiast in an age of Twitter and text messages, she said she is currently not dating anyone.

And with the arrival of spring, and its universal promise of life's best possibilities, she acknowledges that there is hope in her own heart, too.

"Always," said Peggy Sue.

The Would be Goods Emmanuelle Beart

2009-03-22T13:57:00.001-07:00

london june 2008

14 - The Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch..

2009-03-18T14:58:00.001-07:00

everybody everybody wants to be this band write these songs but they can't. even the dog even the video wants to join this band.

Lisa Lisa Cult Jam Lost In Emotion

2009-03-18T11:44:00.001-07:00

welcome spring - hit the beat now!

Dazz Band - Let It Whip

2009-03-15T18:23:00.001-07:00

bubbles inc. approved. this might be my theme music.

Ellen Foley - What's the Matter Baby/Stupid Girl Medley

2009-03-15T18:15:00.001-07:00

another clip from the very very underrated ellen foley. i need to get her records.

The Beatles - Hey Jude

2009-03-11T22:46:00.003-07:00

last week i posted on the willow house blog how jumping jack flash is my favorite rolling stones song . . . well this is my favorite beatles song. mick is my favorite stone and paul is my favorite beatle. so there you have it.

Psychic TV — Good Vibrations

2009-03-11T22:46:00.001-07:00

Strange Powers

2009-03-09T06:18:00.001-07:00

the magnetic fields, coney island circa 1992.

Laura Nyro - He's a Runner (Jan. 15, 1969)

2009-03-09T06:00:00.001-07:00

save the country is my favorite song of hers but i already posted it so here is the great great laura nyro from the same appearance.