Are there any stores in your fair city that carry back issues of gothy magazines?

Well, there's The Magazine which sells back issues of every magazine it can get its hands on. I have scored some Gothy material there (including a Dave Vanian cover when he had long hair and a puffy pirate shirt), but I doubt they organize that stuff like they do their vintage issues of Vogue or Playboy. You should call them.

You can also try Anubus Warpus on Haight Street. They carry contemporary mags, but have a bunch of old stock around.

Just got this question from a friend:

when i was a little girl (mid-seventies) my mom would play the acoustic guitar and sing songs to me. i recently pulled out her guitar and looked through the old sheet music, and i cannot find the music or the title for this song. i have tried to look it up online, but i'm having no luck. does anyone know what this song is called? it is played and sung to the same tune as "do your ears grow long".

oh, i found a little chickee over by the road side
the little chick was hungry and he almost died
so i took him to the farmhouse and i saved his little hide
if i hadn't come along he probably would have died

so i laid him on a nest
but he would hatch an egg
so i poured some boiling water down the little chickee's leg
and the little chickee hollered
and the little chickee begged
and the little chickee laid a hard boiled egg!

Anyone? Bueller?

It seems like the title is "Had a little Chickie" ETA Or "I Had a little Chickie" and some sites say it's to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."

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where as it should be called " you are a crazy animal abuser, I am rescuing the Chickee from your evil hand and calling PETA on your ass" or something.

Thanks Sue. I'll pass that along.

I am rescuing the Chickee from your evil hand and calling PETA on your ass" or something.

It was the seventies. Animal abuse hadn't been invented yet.

Not a single monkey was spanked, nor a chicken choked in the 1970s.

I apologize for my previous post. Please accept this cartoon as a token of my regret.

Moe Tucker loves Bo Diddley, girl group music, and calls Lou Reed "honeybun". I'm guessing the same could be said about David Johansen, but I'm just speculating.

While you're at eMusic, after reading the MT interview, check out Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam by Horace Tapscott. I was lucky enough to see him a couple times before he died, and love his album aiee! The Phantom. I'm not sure why eMusic doesn't offer that one, too, (it's the same label) but maybe it will show up soon. Anyway, this one is a lovely trio session and well worth risking 9 of your 40 monthly downloads on. And if you aren't a cheap bastard like I am & have one of the bigger monthly packages it's even less of a risk. There doesn't seem to be much correlation between goodness and greatness, but it's always nice to find out that someone whose music you admire is an admirable person, and everything I've read about Tapscott makes me think he was a real mensch.

from ImDb

Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas has rubbished reports he had sex with Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise - and is even more mortified he's been labeled a fellow Scientologist. The singer is horrified by claims he was caught in bed with the War Of The Worlds star and has finally spoken out to end the rumors. But he's even more offended by reports he's joined Cruise and other followers of L. Ron Hubbard's Church Of Scientology, which has been labeled a "cult" by some critics. He says, "If I were gay, Tom wouldn't be on the top of my list...It would be Brad Pitt. I'm more offended by the rumors saying I'm Scientologist."

I've never thought much of Matchbox 20's music but my esteem for the lead singer has skyrocketed.

Without knowing who he was, my wife heard an interview with that guy on NPR. She was thinking, "wow, he sounds like an intelligent guy," but unfortunately for her, they played some of his music, forever marring her opinion of him.

Thanks for the Mo Tucker interview, Joe. How's it going? Whatcha listening to? I have a couple of CDs I've been thinking about sending you, but I might try to instead use this Internet device all the kids are talking about.