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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from the desktop of bubbles inc.

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.

---------------------------------------below web exclusive from newsweek------------------------------

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)

Talking Heads at CBGBs-Warning Sign

SLICK RICK PARDONED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 23, 2008
GOVERNOR PATERSON ANNOUNCES PARDON OF
RICKY “SLICK RICK” WALTERS


Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has granted Ricky Walters a full and unconditional pardon of his 1991 attempted murder and weapon convictions, in order to allow Walters to seek relief from deportation from the federal immigration courts. Mr. Walters, who was born in the United Kingdom, was lawfully admitted to the United States at age 11, and he was raised in the Bronx. At the time of his crimes, Mr. Walters was a newly-famous hip-hop artist known as “Slick Rick,” who has since been credited with being a pioneer in the development of hip-hop as a mainstream musical genre. Walters was incarcerated for six years, and was released from prison in 1997.

“Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his convictions, had an exemplary disciplinary record while in prison and on parole, and has been living without incident in the community for more than 10 years,” said Governor Paterson. “In that time, he has volunteered at youth outreach programs to counsel youth against violence, and has become a symbol of rehabilitation for many young people. Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children.”

Mr. Walters faces deportation under a federal statute that mandates the removal of a lawful resident alien upon conviction of an aggravated felony or a weapon offense. For certain offenses removal can be avoided by a Governor’s pardon, but for weapon offenses, even after receiving a pardon, a non-citizen must seek discretionary relief from deportation from the immigration court. Mr. Walters was granted such relief by an immigration court in 1995, but that decision was later vacated because the Board of Immigration Appeals issued its decision 33 days after the expiration of a statutory deadline. Mr. Walters has been unable to re-apply for discretionary adjustment of his immigration status because of his attempted murder convictions, but he will be eligible to do so as a result of the Governor’s pardon.

In 1991, Mr. Walters pleaded guilty in Bronx County Supreme Court to two counts of attempted murder and eight weapons offenses arising from an incident in which Walters shot his cousin and an innocent bystander, both of whom survived the shooting. Walters’ cousin had made previous threats against Walters, and Walters believed his cousin had arranged at least one previous attempt on his life. Mr. Walters, who was 25 years old at the time of the incident, was sentenced to a term of 3? to 10 years in prison. He was released to parole in 1997, and was discharged from parole supervision in 2000.

In June 1995, an immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against Walters and granted him a waiver of inadmissibility and an adjustment of status that allowed Walters to remain in this country despite his convictions. The judge’s decision was based on, among other things, the “unusual and outstanding equities” of his case. Later that year, the Board of Immigration Appeals found that this relief “appears to be in the best interest of the country,” but the Board later vacated its decision on a technical ground – that it had no authority to act because on the day of its decision, Walters had served five years and 33 days in prison, 33 days more than statutorily permitted for a waiver of inadmissibility. Walters’ legal challenges to this decision have been unsuccessful, and he could soon be deported, unless the immigration courts agree to reconsider his request for adjustment of status in light of the Governor’s pardon.

Mr. Walters, who is now 43 years old, has lived in the Bronx without incident since his release from prison in 1997. He is presently employed as a landlord and rap musician. Mr. Walters has a wife and two children, all of whom are American citizens.

FRANCE GALL - 5 MINUTES D´AMOUR (1972)

words Bee Gees

Nara Leão - "as tears go by" (jagger/richards)

Woody Allen entrevista a Billy Graham 01

jina valentine to me:
hey . can you do a good woody allen?
i need a woody allen impersonation for my nietzsche class!

xo j
me to jina:
i was once told rather affectionately by a former lover that i was the perfect combination of woody allen and bill callahan aka smog. which is one of the most flattering comments i have ever recieved, however it is lovelife poison in a sense because that is not the kind of guy many girls can spend a lot of time with let alone co-habitat with. however in the short term and cracking jokes while we cross the street, or late night urban camping in bushwick with bodega candles and presidentes well it is so cinematic and oh just think the stories one can tell. but no, sorry, i am no longer an actor, i've retired from all of that.

thanks!
so, ant'ny, in the end, my stand by woody allen impersonator didn't work out either.
but i did manage to find --and just in the nick of time-- this interview with woody allen
and billy graham . priceless . (allen=nietzsche, graham=all others railed against...wagner maybe?)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6iAaxOAHCM
xx jv

Woody Allen entrevista a Billy Graham 02

see above for part one

Primal Scream - Accelerator @ Jools Holland 2000

as much as i love the screamadelica record and i mean i LOVE the screamadelica record. this is my favorite Primal Scream kevin shields from my bloody valentine on guitar, mani from the stone roses on bass, innes, etc - just a perfect lineup. i bought this record right before i moved to nyc and when the towers fell and the f-16s flew over my apartment and i slowly lost my mind this record and particularly this song was the soundtrack for the war on terror. 21st century stooges, no doubt.

This Is Carry On Screaming

half hour audio documentary about Primal Scream from 8/05/06

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060508_carryon.shtml

Love Messages From Overseas

make love not war . . no more nukes . . . we all need some more leoncie right now! say yes to today (and tomorrow) over and over.

My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow

i posted this video before on the willow house blog and i posted the tour details just below this post. but last night talking to rubens about this my bloody valentine tour the tale came up how one summer long ago at the beach i spent every night sleeping to my bloody valentine's loveless. my younger brother and i shared a room and somewhat musical tastes, we came to agree on this record loveless and at my brother's wedding a year or so ago he said how the sound of the beginning of this record still conjours the feeling of sand between his toes.

MBV:

06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-23 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-24 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-09 Paris, France - Zenith
07-17-20 Benicàssim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
07-25 Naeba, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-19-21 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (ATP New York)
09-22 New York, NY - Roseland
09-23 New York, NY - Roseland
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Ricoh
09-27 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
09-30 San Francisco, CA - The Concourse
10-01 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic
10-02 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic

Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change The World

great great band from detroit. they have a killer song from around 2003 called 'pale frail lovely one' i listened to hundreds of times.

John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air (1978)

this is for the elusive spanish billionaire heiress.