This just in, from Pete Erickson: “A few weeks ago you posted the Banana Splits theme song. Of all the Splits hits, “Doing the Banana Split” was always my favorite. Even if I didn’t know what the Motown sound was about, it always hit the right groove for me. This comes complete with an obligatory …
As leader of the group responsible for starting a youth cult, Generation X, BILLY IDOL was one of the original British punks who gave the rock establishment a good kick up the arse with such classics as “Ready, Steady, Go,” “Wild Youth,” “Your Generation” and “Dancing With Myself,” all of which are among the classics …
Crime author James Lee Burke has a new Robicheaux novel out called, The Glass Rainbow. Here’s an interview with Mr. Burke, call him Jim, about the book at Blogcritics.org. A review from Oregonlive.com. A review from the Seattle P-I. A review from Detnews.com. Blog review from Tricia Weight. A review from Bookhound. A review from …
Here’s a great blog post from Frances Archer about the neighborhood up in which I grew, North Park, in Chicago: A few weeks ago I told you I grew up in what amounted to a shtetl, an Old World Jewish town, on Chicago’s Far North Side. That’s not quite the whole story. A single point …
Frank Schaefer, author of “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back” has a great piece about the “counterintuitive contradictions” of the tea partiers bringing down their movement: Thank God For Sarah Palin’s Picks! (Good …
University of Washington Alum Amanda Knox declares her innocence in an interview from prison with an Italian magazine: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I have discovered a tersely excellent blog, Hands On, “Life and art in all their moving parts,” which is written by David Handelman, a journalistic veteran, an inked up old soldier, a printmag workhorse which rocks in it’s quality and rolls in industry access. Hands On is NOT about music, but Handelman did write for …
“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns I skimmed The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Inspire the Black Sox by throwing the 1918 World Series against Babe Ruth’s Red Sox? by Sean Deveney in the library and it’s fabulous, a well told sports story …
Bulldogs, pugs and similarly beautiful breeds tragically made up about half of cargo hold dog deaths in past 5 years. Never allow your dog to ride in the cargo hold of a plane. It’s that simple. For the full AP story, click here or on the photo below. ***************************************
Some Adventist pot sellers traveled from village to village across northern Madagascar. One Friday afternoon they arrived at a village and asked someone whether there was an Adventist church in the village. “No,” the person replied. “Does anyone in this village worship on Saturday?” they asked. “Yes,” the villager answered. “They meet in a house …
Here’s some bona fide, positive, East Portland news. Food trucks have opened for business at 43rd and Belmont in SE Portland, in the formerly vacant parking lot next to the Movie Madness DVD rental establishment:
This is BernardStreetCred’s take on PJ Harvey‘s version of “Wang Dang Doodle“: “I like PJ, and I love almost all covers on principle — but here’s an instance where the singer and song don’t quite match up, despite what seems like a clever fit (her cover of Highway 61 Revisited that’s floating around out there …
This in from LA-DSH: I watched and enjoyed the pilot of this new show COVERT AFFAIRS on USA last night. I’ve met one of the writers, Chris Ord, a fellow Westsider here in LA. I’m sure they’re repeating it throughout the week, but it’s also STREAMable on their site. It’s quite entertaining and well-done, if …
Here’s is John Siscoe‘s take on Koko Taylor and “Wang Dang Doodle“: “Despite the antiseptic setting and lackluster backing, this is a valuable clip. Any blues performance from the ’60s is a relative rarity, and this gives us a look at Koko Taylor when she was young and in her prime, plus a fleeting glimpse …
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80 – Yahoo! News So the ol’ goat finally kicked off. World will be a bit duller, sans doubt! I’ll never forget his greatest quote, offered up during the 1981 World Series, when I was amidst a ton of New Yorkers during my first month at Brown. That was …
High quality 1978 Rockpile clip: “I remember the night the kid cut off his right arm, in a bid to save a bit of power…”
After much negotiation, Ron Swanson submitted the following Top 25 list: I am not married to the list per se, but here’s the thought process, such as it is: put this out on the blog (more or less as is) and then add a link asking readers to vote for their fav songs to replace …
“I moved to Chicago for Major League Baseball, I might leave for the same reason.” – Jethro Burns A recent communiqué from BernardStreetCred: If you spy a copy of the rather expensive magazine Fretboard Journal, there’s a lovely, long article about Jethro Burns in it. Good stories from Sam Bush and Don Stiernberg, among others. …
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Happy Slip underwear humor. Happy Slip is the Stan Boreson of Fil-Am culture:
By Bradfordboy60 Transferring from the University of Pittsburgh to North Park College [now North Park University] was a difficult adjustment. It was a hard and lonely first quarter singing the Lord’s song in a foreign land. But, once negotiated, North Park became the place where I made some of my dearest friends and most treasured …
By Tom Kipp “If I had to boil down for a Martian what “it” IS that made rock music the joy of my life, there could be no finer aural aid than this [The Sonics version of “Louie Louie” ] guitar/vocal Tandem Scream from the Id. They say Grunge was “raw”, but it may as …
Behold a classic photo of Seattle children’s television star and Nordic-American humor pioneer Stan Boreson with his redoubtable basset hound, No Mo, and two enchanted children, at the opening of Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. To bask in the timeless glow of this 1967 photo, click here. * * * * * Here’s a recent photo …
Calling All Swedes and Swede Ams! How important is “Children of the Heavenly Father” to people of Swedish descent everywhere? Very much so. If you know the song, and love the song, why not celebrate and expand the tradition by singing it once a week (and change the world in the process)? The Lina Sandell …
Hunter S. Thompson said it best. This “is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war.” He was demeaning Las Vegas‘s Circus Circus, but his pejoration sticks like skunk spray even more aptly to this surreal, Hasselhoff in black leathers, vid schmear. “Danke schoen” indeed. Hasselhoff …
The passage below is from an interview with Greil Marcus posted on Blogcritics.org concerning “When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison“: “It is at the heart of Morrison’s presence as a singer,” Marcus asserts, “that when he lights on certain sounds, certain small moments inside a song…can then suggest whole territories, completed …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …
This may be our last chance to sell a screenplay, and here’s the premise: “Lady Gaga is a single mom working for the Mining and Minerals Management Service in New Orleans. She’s just trying to do her job and bring home the etouffee for her dead sister’s adorable child from [whatever country is hot next …
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