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
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(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.)
Prehistoric K-pop: http://youtu.be/YnbtmH95Ncw
Chapter Two There was no chance to finish he picked up so quickly. “Hi, I’m here. I’m just screening my calls.” “Why?” “There’s some people I don’t want to talk to.” “So why give them your number?” “I’d like to see you sometime.” His anxiousness to change the subject, made me suspicious. Was he hiding …
Sal Nunziato, of the Burning Wood blog, is offering a Weekend Mix which is a fascinating group of covers: Washington Post March- Tin Men Good Vibrations- Todd Rundgren What Does It Take- Garland Jeffreys I’m Not In Love- Richie Havens Say Goodbye To Hollywood- Ronnie Spector Spooky- Dusty Springfield The Inner Light- Junior Parker For …
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Chapter One I was nervous and excited to move to London. London was where the action was and after spending all my nearly seventeen years in rural France, I was ready for excitement. I was glad I had Aimee, my best friend since girlhood, along. I doubt I would have been brave enough to go alone. We …
http://youtu.be/-_PHcFKkA5E
In 2009 a pet chimpanzee went berserk and savagely attacked its owner’s neighbor, literally tearing the woman’s hands and face off. This horrible event was never far from my mind as I watched “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” As reckless genetic engineers ply primates with brain-altering chemicals, then prod them to perform, my …