Jayne ,'The Train Job'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Since Joe didn't link, I will:
Lethem's cominh to the first ever Author's festival in Halifax, conveniently scheduled during the Time of Hellish Deadlines pour moi. Just to make this post somewhat about music, One Ring Zero are also performing as part of the festival.
Since Joe didn't link, I will
Sorry. I have JL issues (& I'm really lazy), but I know Hayden likes him so I pointed out the review. One Ring Zero are from Brooklyn, too. Will Paul Auster be there, too? May as well go for the Bkln hat trick.
This is why your wife should be drinking. It will calm both of them down.
Last night the bottle let her down. That is to say, she's drinking about half a beer a day. It's good for milk production, too.
And thanks for the link! I love a good Melville reference. And, to bring this on-topic, suddenly have the itch to crank some Fugs when I get home.
Also, Richard Thompson for Completists sounds like it was written for me. Hell, it sounds like it was written by me.
Vintage punk videos from the 70s including the Cramps, Ramones, Weirdos, NY Dolls: [link]
Vintage punk videos from the 70s including the Cramps, Ramones, Weirdos, NY Dolls: [link]
Sweet. I've got that Dolls performance on tape, already.
Speaking of rare rock vids, I recently bought a (grey market) DVD of The Spiders sixties movie Go Forward. The Spiders were a Japanese Group Sounds band, and did four full Help/Hard Day's Night movies at the peak of their popularity. It's super groovy mod action wackiness. I got them from Videobeat online, which has a ton of great, rare, otherwise unavailable rock clips and movies.
Well, I figured you had that one, David. In fact, I'd be sorely disappointed to hear that some bozo on the Internet had a Dolls video you didn't have.
In fact, I'd be sorely disappointed to hear that some bozo on the Internet had a Dolls video you didn't have.
This tape has the whole Kirsher concert. At the very end is a very very fuzzy, dim, fourth generation dub of the Dolls on Musikladen after their first album. It's so. Fucking. Great. I really want to see a high quality version of that performance. Of course, my greatest bit of Dolls vid is having Bob Gruen's TV documentary of them, Looking For A Kiss. That's a blast.
From this Richard Thompson interview:
Interviewer: Q Magazine refers to [French Frith Kaiser Thompson] as "The Traveling Nobodies."
RT: The Traveling Nobodies? [breaks into laughter and slaps knee] Oh, that’s brilliant! That’s great! We’ll have to use that. That’s wonderful.
Interviewer: The group’s latest album, Invisible Means, was released through Windham Hill in the States. As a result, it’s often found in the new age bins. What do you make of that?
RT: I think it’s wonderful! The sort of people who buy Windham Hill records are the sort of people who say "I need half-a-dozen records and I’ll take a stack!" They don’t necessarily look at the cover, title or artist. They’re also the kind of people, who if they don’t like a record, wouldn’t bother taking it back. They’d just chuck it in a corner. So, I hope we’ve sold thousands by mistake.
The sort of people who buy Windham Hill records are the sort of people who say "I need half-a-dozen records and I’ll take a stack!"
Pfffffthbbbb.