Robert Kennedy Funeral- Eulogy delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy

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

i love this song.

The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road 1970

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

LE MEPRIS (CONTEMPT) - Theme De Camille

Dexys Midnight Runners THIS IS WHAT SHE'S LIKE

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

Pretty In Pink, 1986 (Molly Ringwald)

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

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

yeah yeah i'm in trouble . . .

Television Personalities - A Picture of Dorian Gray

from the desk of pop genius dan treacy.

Madonna- Ray of Light.

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

i feel like this video today.

Stars!

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

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

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

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 )

yeah summer!

Lime - babe we're gonna love tonight

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

Lime - Your love

i think this video and song is so great.

HIS NAME IS ALIVE "COUNTRY GIRL" live 1996

the velvet underground of the 1990's