From Timothy Thomas: “The Violent Femmes knit a a poignant piece of father-son psychodrama and an awkward admission of a teenage boy’s uncontrollable sexual urges out of something as mundane as needing to borrow the family car for a date.”: **********************************************************
This from Tim Cook via Facebook: “RE: the fifth Ramones record, and first bad one, End of the Century. These guys must not have noticed Spector ruined L. Cohen’s “Death of a Ladies’ Man” the year before. It would have been all worth it if only Spector could have put Marky Ramone down in 1980. …
From: John Ambrosavage To: East Portland Blog Subject: Bellhop at the Hilton Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:43:54 -0700 I sent this to the Mayor of Southern West Seattle – but I forgot to send it to you – I think – and I know how you love the 70’s – a friend of mine …
I’m tired of reading articles, mostly by secular press, about how bad and corrupt Christians are. The focus needs to be on Christ. If I have chosen to follow Christ, what does it matter to me if the whole world thinks I’m a hypocrite or my brothers and sisters are? Sure, it does to some …
This just in from the Mayor of Southern West Seattle: “I saw an episode of a series I had almost forgotten about, “Run For Your Life” – remember or ever see it? Ben Gazzara as a hip swingin’ lawyer… with only a year or so to live – wanders the country solving problems, smoking cigs …
This just in from Jon Chick: “I’ll keep a look out for good material. I really like the blog. Here’s something: This youtube vid is very old hat by internet standards, but I love that people take such care in vandalizing Steve Vai’s pompous shredding on a triple-necked guitar: Please don’t feel obliged to post …
1) We don’t care how you roll, and 2) you don’t roll so much as you accrete. It’s official, the suburban caucasian family rap video parody movement has jumped the shark. Fonzie roared over the tank during the first few seconds of this big budget Toyota “Swagger Wagon” commercial (above) which isn’t embarrassingly bad so …
This just in from Colette Moran, author of the fine blog, Clearly Nebulous: “Sometimes your children will surprise you with a blast from your past. I was curious when my 15-yr-old was playing this vid as she IM’ed on the computer… Of course, then I learned it had been used in a Shrek movie. They …
Stacked with cross cultural hahas, this “song” is the product of Geo Da Silva, a Romanian dance music “artist.” Performed in (barely) English, “I’ll Do You Like a Truck,” reached number five on the Dutch charts, according to Wikipedia. It’s a borscht belt (the original borscht belt) parody of every Budapest parent’s worst nightmare. The …
From: Kipp, Thomas J Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:02 AM To: Everyone Subject: FW: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder Welcome news from the ex-Silkworm boize in Chicago! Tom ________________________________________ From: Bottomless Pit Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:04 AM To: Bottomless Pit Subject: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder If you …
Ten years is not long enough. The Cross is for the long view, the lifelong view. Ten years is just a beginning. Anne Rice– said to have quit Christianity after only a decade– should consider patience, take some time and find a better situation before declaring an end to the search. Disillusionment with people and …
From: M Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:17 PM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: more unknown (to me) music I just found out about you know of these guys? a facebook friend posted it. I never heard of them. They sound historically very important eh? M ________________________________________ From: Kipp, Thomas J Sent: Wednesday, August 04, …
Selected nuggets from Wikipedia: “Mrs. Miller was signed to Capitol Records by Lex de Azevedo, a young up-and-coming producer at Capitol Records. His uncle, Bill Conkling, was the then-current president of Capitol Records. Azevedo was also a member of The King Family. He is now a successful music producer in the Mormon Church, and when …
Hard to believe I was almost 30 before I finally listened to Pet Sounds. SUMMERTIME, 1981 In preparation for my first cross-country road trip from the Midwest, to Seattle – where I’ve now made my home since 1985 – I was recording mix tapes to play in the car. I’d already filled several tapes with …
This Rollin’ Stone clip is extraordinary for several reasons. It gives us a Muddy Waters on film that’s as young as he’ll ever be, dressed to the nines, performing one of his signature tunes before a completely new audience, mostly young and largely white. It’s a warm summer afternoon fifty years ago. As yet there …
Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn’t be afraid. As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had …
Hostess Ho Hos are still out there. If there’s one product name that could have been pushed to obscurity by the rise of the hip hop nation, it’s this one. But no, the “tubular snack” persists, as “elegantly enrobed in delectable confectionary coating” as ever. And then there’s the Ding Dong. (With Ashton Kutcher pranking …
There’s a photo going round the net that’s started everyone talking. It depicts Paul Stanley’s feet on stage, ensconced in thigh-high platform shoes held together by duct tape: From: Howard Brown Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:13 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Paul Stanley’s boots Paul Stanley’s boots (click here): “Last night, my pal …
This just in from Jim Anderson: “Saw ’em with my daughter. Both “You Got Me” and “Mountain Man” are amazing. Check it out. Start with this…” * * * * *
Thanks Teee-ummm! On a parallel track, I’ve been intensively investigating the output of Gulcher Records [MX-80, Gizmos, Gynecologists, Dancing Cigarettes, et many al.] for the past two years or so and would recommend the punkier quadrants of their extensive catalog unreservedly! http://gulcher.gemm.com/c/search.pl?for_seller=GULCHER&table=ads&showall=1 I must have about 20-25 cds now, and am fascinated by this mid-to-late-Seventies …
Justin Renney brings you an excellent My Bloody Valentine live clip: Back in 1996 when a friend of mine introduced me to My Bloody Valentine I wasn’t that impressed. That same friend wound up gifting me a copy of Loveless a couple years later and by 1998 I was checking fansites like expectdelay trying to …
Is it a cop, or a male stripper dressed as a cop? If it’s the latter, when’s he gonna take it off? The action takes place in beautiful downtown Malmö.
By Emily Pothast To me, it’s quite telling that Glenn Beck essentially illustrates every negative point that Liberation Theology could possibly make against mainstream white Christianity in his attempt to defend it. “Christ is a conqueror, not a victim,” he says. Of course, Christ is either a conqueror or a victim, or both at once, …
My old friend and one of Pandomag.com‘s stellar photographers, Justin Renney, was involved in putting this amazing project together. He was Director of Photography, Music Director, filmed every scene, and is listed as an Associate Producer on the page called “The Team.” It’s an interactive movie, out now on DVD and available for a limited …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
Parini, the great 90s Seattle band which featured Lisa Orth– a longtime Seattle artist and musician, founder of 66 Saints and designer of cover artwork for “Bleach,” the first Nirvana album–on guitar and Dan Paulus on drums, passed into history a long time ago, but Rob Hursh has found, digitized and resurrected this fantastic clip:
Capt. Spaulding, tending to overgrowth in the garden of love, declares: “This is simply a decent-to-good song that could use some pruning — it’s too long by at least a minute — and which expresses a sociological statement of some sort with all the classic earnestness of youth. That is to say, it’s by turns …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …