Rhino Box Surveys Fertile '80s Underground
I think this list may be by the same John Moe as the one that's best listmaker on Amazon, ever .
Bust an Additional Move
Seriously, Eileen, Come On
(Won't You Give Me A Ride Home From) Funkytown?
Remember When You Lit up My Life? That Was Great
I Will Now Pass the Dutchie Back to You and Thank You for Passing It to Me Originally Because I Really Enjoyed the Dutchie
The Morning That the Lights Came Back on in Georgia
Everybody Was Kung Fu Making Up
Achier Breakier Heart
Whoomp! There It Continues to Be
867-5309 extension 2
We Never Took It and Persist in Our Refusal to Take It
snagged from pop culture junk mail
Among the items in a retrospective punk show opening at the Hospital gallery in September is a blood-splattered poster from room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel, where Vicious allegedly stabbed Spungen to death on Oct. 12, 1978.
Art dealer Paul Stolper and editor Andrew Wilson, who own a trove of original Pistols' posters, T-shirts and handwritten lyrics displayed in the show, told the Independent on Sunday newspaper that items from the couple's hotel room had been sold by Vicious' mother, Anne Beverley, who died in 1996.
They could not say where the blood on the poster for the Pistols' album "Never Mind the Bollocks" came from.
Vicious was charged with second-degree murder, but died of a heroin overdose, aged 21, before standing trial.
The gallery's show, which also includes clothes from the shop run by punk pioneers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, runs Sept. 24 to Jan. 23.
So I finished my choices for the Summer 04 Burn It. It's a nice blend I think. I didn't get everything I wanted on there - couldn't find all the songs I wanted online and didn't have the cds but I still had to narrow about 60 tracks down to 25 and that hurt a lot. But I think this is a nice combination of my varied music, and movie, tastes.
Considering the soundtrack theme this was a great source.
A weird love theme emerged so I'm calling it "Some Kinda Love Soundtrack" - a hat tip to one of my favorite bands who didn't make the cut (but one of its former members did).
Anyway, here's the list:
So now I'm working on the label and covers. Once I get the addresses for my group I'll be sending them out. I'm making five extra copies so if you're reallyreallyreally nice and email me your address I'll send one to you too.
Robert Quine was a founding member of the groundbreaking punk rock ensemble, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, creating the movement's anthem: "Blank Generation". But he's probably better known for his collaborations with artists such as Lou Reed, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Matthew Sweet, Tom Waits, Lloyd Cole, They Might Be Giants, and Marianne Faithfull.
Recently he'd released live recordings he'd bootlegged from various Velvet Underground shows as well as a compilation of Richard Hell & the Voidoids songs.
The cause of his death hasn't been confirmed though there are rumors of suicide. He had apparently been in a deep depression since the loss of his wife to cancer last year.
Here's the announcement on his official site where condolence emails will be forwarded to his family.
PS He had a law degree. ;)
I hadn't really been following music much the last few years. I converted a good portion of my catalog to mp3 and even did some kazaa downloading for a bit a few years back but with so many channels and Cody and I disagreeing on what to listen to I just slipped away from music for a while. Except every year I get a nice box set of music I like for Yule / Christmas.
So anyway last week I got in the mood to hear something new and started looking into those newfangled legit (ie probably paying for it) music sites. I asked Cody what he uses. Got my friend Jocelyn to ask her friend what he uses. The consensus was itunes.
I've downloaded many songs now, unfortunately. And I'm probably going to move my 6.11 gigs of mp3s over so it can all be in one place. And like a good demi-exhibitionist with a weblog/journal I wanted a big fat list of my music to show how diverse my musical taste is. Heh. Right.
But itunes only exports lists in xml! I don't do xml. :hiding her thrice-opened O'Reilly guide:
Remember I'm a kind of geek-by-association for the most part. Dad is an old-school geek, Cody is a geek, even Mom's a bit of a geek, sister Nicole's pretty geeky too. I was just an art school girl from hell that got a compaq in 1995 and got a bit addicted really. So consider me geek lite. Or hehe the Alice B Toklas of geeks sans mustache or the desire to cook very often.
I was utterly flummoxed by the xml thing and after a few unsuccessful searches I called Cody at work to ask if there was a standard aggregator program I wasn't aware of. Apparently not. But (and this is the cool kind of stuff you get being married to a geek to counterbalance the dead weedy yard and unfixed car) he'd helped a friend a few months ago with a similar question about converting xml to txt or html and he could whip a little program in vb on his laptop in a few days.
He showed it to me yesterday and it's pretty cool - it automatically goes to the default itunes folder and you can choose which fields you want in your list. You can export it as text, a full web page, or an html fragment if you just want to paste it into a page. He said in a few days after some polishing I can offer it for download here. Neat huh?
Robert Johnson left such a legacy of innovations in music that some thought he'd made a deal with the devil. His songs are still being played. A collection of his music won a grammy in 1990 and royalties for covers have been paid since the 70s but finding a legitimate beneficiary to the estate has been tough. Claud Johnson didn't know who his dad was until 1971 and didn't really think anything about it until someone approached him in 1998 after the blues singer's half sister died. After years of legal hurdles (and some rather unique testimony) Claud has now inherited his father's estate.
Considering I don't really care much for most of the celebrities with lists at itunes I'm not that surprised that I hate the songs they listen to as well. But I think Dan Kois was a bit harsh. Billy Corgan and Moby's playlists were quite good in addition to Thievery Corporation's - in terms of replayability blah. Was kind of sad to see Liz Phair listed her own songs too - or maybe John Cusack made her add them. I dunno sometimes I think I traded in my elitist music attitudes when I signed the mortgage.
Well except for Cody's penchant for what I teasingly call 'lesbean rock' I still think the Indigo Girls are shrill as all hell and Natalie Merchant needs to clear that air bubble of spit lodged in her throat. But it's one of our few points of contention and all couples have to keep conversations lively somehow.
link via Melissa via NewYorkish