Month: August 2011
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At 8AM on a bus in Jersey City, one man solos with Katy Perry’s California Girls:
This is one of the most popular vids in the US, and probably the world, today: http://youtu.be/z7ItSe4Q-gw and here’s the real video: According to Wikipedia: “Girls’ Generation (Korean: 소녀시대, Hanja/Kanji: 少女時代; Sonyeo Sidae, Shōjo Jidai) is a nine-member South Korean girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2007. The nine members are: Taeyeon (Leader), Jessica, …
Really, reallly good – I never really “got” Cookie Monster until I saw this…
Chapter Five April brought the much-needed Easter holiday. Aimee went home for the entire two weeks. Keith met me at noon and we feasted on crepes and tea before taking a walk in Regents Park. Spring was everywhere. The cherry trees were in bloom and the bare branches of other trees had light green buds …
http://youtu.be/Y2hkp12fwb0 The early years of Lollapalooza were a stentorian, sensual, bacchanalian, coming out party for Pacific Northwest music and zeitgeist. Isolated by geography and a lack of relevance to the LA-New York pop culture axis, Portland and Seattle developed extreme expressions of solidarity with the burgeoning alternative movement: Grunge music, outrageously eccentric sexual personae, slackerdom …
A father straps a camera to two year old daughter as she romps at the park:
And the stench of burning rubber hung over Los Angeles for weeks…
Chapter Four The days that followed, Keith still met me after school unless I stayed late to finish projects. I followed him to practice often, so I could talk with Ryan’s mother, Louisa. She always gave sound advice. On Saturday, twenty-five February, I turned seventeen. The Piss Ants were playing that night, but Keith met …
This is what extreme sports have always needed; a backdrop of the ruins of a beautifully decaying civilization upon which to do their tricks:
Fifteen years before the Specials, here’s a horn section bouncing up and down: http://youtu.be/3qbanCEieZY And here’s the Ventures’ classy take on the same tune. Here’s Brassed Off playing the Lone Ranger’s national anthem: http://youtu.be/gz_9FrhCBnI
http://youtu.be/6PN78PS_QsM
(Thanks to Tom Fredrickson, proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax Method, for sending a link to this golden oldie.) According to their Wikipedia entry, “The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling “Have I the Right?”, in 1964… The …
What do these five singers have in common? http://youtu.be/yEjSOqHZNhY
Chapter Three By the end of the week it was time for me to leave for France. Keith waited with me. Aimee had already gone so I had only my personal tape player for company. I grabbed a newspaper, noting the headline stating construction workers had drilled through the final wall of rock to join …
Go here. (Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the link.)