Week 176: Invisible 2

I’m still trying to figure out this invisibility thing.

Week 175: Invisible

Like playing a show and not telling anyone about it, and purposely trying to keep people from finding out about it. Remember the series going on about 160 weeks ago? Cycle 2 is almost done. To be published later this year. Here’s a sample, that is very close to being finished. The other nine [...]

Week 174: Clean Up

I think only one person reads this. My apologies to you. I’m gonna unload posts that I meant to write, but never did and probably won’t. It will be unreadable. Apologies again. But it will clean up the queue.

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Try to get the words, to do something more, more than signify, more [...]

Week 173: The Contortions

AKA, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks, and various other names.

I’m always surprised when people do not know about the Contortions. Even people that I would think would know about them, people versed in 80s new wave and/or no wave, DJs, musicians, people who play music and sound [...]

Week 172: Tom Zacharias

Check out Tom Zacharias, you will not be disappointed. Here’s a post about him, which pretty much says it all. This guy apparently was the “star of a bizarre televized enema championship.” If that’s not enough to peak your interest, then I don’t know what is. You can also join him on facebook. Oh, [...]

Week 171: Café Flesh

I used to have this movie on a Beta tape, but someone took it while I lived on Lexington Street in the late 1980s and I never saw it again. I’ve looked for it at various times at video stores and on netflix (ha), but no one ever seems to carry it. This movie [...]

Snow Day

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Week 169: La Muerte de Tio Rosendo

Mi abuelo Pachu, made several recordings of his mother, my great-grandmother Bita, telling him old family stories. There is a stack of cassettes of Bita telling stories during her last months of life. Bita was my last living great-grandparent and I have many vivid memories of her. Hearing her voice already takes me back [...]

Week 168: Hot Chip

For some reason I’m fascinated by these guys. I’m not sure what it is. I don’t like the music all that much. I don’t hate it either. The chorus for Hold On is catchy, but not enough to be annoying and not interesting enough to deserve any kind of admiration.

It’s something about the [...]

Week 167: Elvis

Happy Birthday Elvis.

Some guy has been doing remixes of Elvis tunes.

Here’s the original of Let Yourself Go.

And here’s the remix.

There is something to be discussed here, but I’m already a day late with this post… maybe next year.

And here’s Dean Martin and Foster Brooks and drinks. [...]