Brad Wood sent this in, and with summer just around the corner, this seems a perfect song to get us ready. In this old video from the 50s, I think Johnny got the better deal. Santo seems to be chugging along but someone forgot to turn his guitar up. Oops. I love Johnny’s little rhythmic [...]
One of my favorite songs to sing in the past few years has been “Complainte de la butte,” which I found on the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, sung by Rufus Wainwright. I knew that he didn’t write it and read that it was chosen for the soundtrack because of its reference to the Moulin Rouge, central [...]
The Rolling Stone has a regular section in its online magazine dedicated to new artists called ARTIST TO WATCH. In it they have photo equations that best describe what to suspect if you don’t have the courage to hit the play button on the sample song, and that song in this blurb is called “The [...]
Here is a terrific little 20 minute film by Francis Picabia (screenplay), and René Clair (adaptation and screenplay) called “Entr’acte.” I’m fairly sure that the music is by Erik Satie and in 1967 was adapted and orchestrated or reorchestrated by Henri Sauguet who also added some additional music. (Which one aped Chopin’s funeral march? If [...]
I know, after hearing that last song, you need more, OK here it is: “Wooly Bully.”
Here’s a rave from the grave and one that doesn’t get included on oldies radio stations. So to educate those that never heard it, and to bring back old memories to those of you that remember it, here it is: “Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
Love your animals and they will love you back.
Last night I met, face-to-face, the brilliant and multi-talented PK, of Loose Poodle fame. We overlapped one year at the New England Conservatory from 1976-1977 and thought we knew each other. We’ve corresponded via emaiil and blogs for the past year, and knew each other that way, but when we sat and looked at each [...]
This a song a cut my teeth on as a young guitar player in the early ’60s. And they actually said DAMN! I felt so naughty singing that word. That cool e minor guitar vamp at the beginning. Mmmm mm. So cool.
I just bought and listened to the audio book of David Lynch reading his new “Catching the Big Fish.” It’s a marvelous peak inside his persona and creative process. I would have thought that he was a William Burroughs type character, or Jack Nicholson, or Dennis Hopper. You know, probably smokes a lot of dope, [...]
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