Monday, Dec 15, 2014
things to do whilst having bad head cold: La Baie des Anges,
jacques demy 1963, Jeanne Moreau's is bleache-blonde like Dad's second Mrs.
Highland and a compulsive gambler; 7 pm harvard film archives, i may go see
it AGAIN this week! my usual WRCA 1330 AM shows (see
website for schedule!) plus Coast
to Coast AM WRKO; supper at Charlie's Kitchen and first Modern Lovers and
first Pretenders on cd-spinn - great Music To Eat By! Sickness IS a blessing:
ALICE COOPER has a show on WZLX, he
played "ballroom blitz" by The Sweet, then did some trivia
("Humphrey Bogart and Princess Dianna are seventh cousins, but I'm sure
they've never kissed";Alice as Highland!; THEN into Mountain's "nantucket
sleighride"!!! (maybe I was Corky Laing in '74 on an O. Rex recording
with the Gruberger Brothers (RIP), whom I know woulda freaked out in a moonage
daydream over this; mostly you hear "misisppi queen" NOT that i mind
THAT neither!). Sunday was Worldwide
Monkee Day but I wasnt Monkee-ing around, but stayed mostly inside with
my usual WRCA gospel AND WJIB classic country on sunday morn; Bob Bittner played
a 1966 Jim Reeves RECORD with surface noise on a TURNTABLE and MENTIONED it!
(Peter Sheinfeld Rockin' at night, friday night, Gee Julie made some mention
about me liking "sockhop music";"that IS rock-n-roll" sez
the Coasters!). indoor movies whilst sick; The
Invisible Invaders (1959), John Agar, a few steps above Plan 9,and go
to Video Underground, washington street, near Midway for Giroux-approved video
needs! all i remember of last night before "Golden Slumbers" was watching
some 1947 Heddy Lamar film on youtube....tyme for THIS Bear to hibernate! regret
missing the Real Kids, but fighting laryngitis and wanna sing at captain
PJ benefit saturday 27 december! without my vocals sounding like wild
man PJ".....
Wednesday, Dec 17, 2014
I feel REFRESHED and can tell y'all about Trash Night 2014, $7, Brattle
Theater in hah-vud square; Starcrash
(1979 ) is a "grade Z" eye-talian version of Star Wars,
endorsed by Jeremy Cargill of Ugly Things and Jay Dobis Natick-via-ISTANBUL
(doin' Turkish pysch comps!): Pepe Lester introduce me to Jay as "the
guy that turnt Jon Richman onto the velvet underground". ok, so make this
spaghetti western cheap-o Star Wars knock-off, like those "sword and sandle"
classics i loved 50 years ago in manassas, virginny; badly-dubbed english too,
of course! Gee Julie had NO interest in seeing scantily-clad eye-tallion wimmen
but i sho did! Her operative question: "did they shave?" and since
i did sleep through half the movie (earthy, crunchy cold pills, man)...the answer
is: nary a hair seems out of place! (use of "nary" copped from Meltzer's
Gizmos Line Her Nodes, as is half my writin' style;"nodes" was from
Al Kooper's I stand Alone, columbia record club 1969, when i delivered papers
in 6 feet of Buffalo NY snow!) (take everything i say, divide it in half, thet's
thuh truth....ok, so 'twas only 3 foot of snow, it 'twas...where's me Jameson?....)....
Thursday, Dec 18, 2014
since Gee Julie and I are RABID WJIB lisseners, here's a couple-a oldies BOB
BITTNER played and it aint even winter yet, but this Bear is hibernatin'!:
"Chevy Van"-sammy johns,starts in A-suspended, what
I call TOMMY (rock opry) chords. check THIS week: wednesday 30 april
75, embassy in Saigon falls to Ho Ci Minh (sumbtich wuz better off workin'
at the Parker House!) and my paternal grandmother/7th cuzzin Maxine
Highland McCutcheon dies thursday 1 may 75,"Panic in Detroit",
coz her onliest son had gave his life for a LOSING war (Dad was my seventh
cuzzin, onct removed). (editor's note: WAIT! Kenne are you saying
your father was your 7th cousin once removed???) maybe I wuz in
Dee-troit for funeral then BUT saturday 3 may 75, has "Chevy Van"
peaking at #5 billboard charts, which meant it was somewhere in my unconcious
spring '75, still stuck in Brockport, NY, spinning my wheels, gittin'
stoned, lissenin' to Sabbath, praying for Gizmos/Sex Pistols to make
rock ROLL again...also, this morn i LOVED the Handymen's version at
Plough and Stars of "let the sun shine in" AND, if you strum
the B to F# with wicked downstrokes, toss in the G and D, it's ALMOST
"Sonic Reducer"! 2015 Korps kover?!?!?!?!?!?!??!"........
Friday, Dec 19, 2014
2 for One Tuesday at video underground,
washington street, jamaica plain and Gee Julie picked out a couple-a Svedish
films! (Sator approved!). one was a Bergman (not watch yet, me the video) and
other is Vi Ar Bast!
(We are the Best!) Stockholm 1982 and these Svedes are about five years out-of-date,
but is still quaint "coming of age" (cf. Stand By Me) story
of three 7th graders trying to form a "punk" band (in my tyme woulda
been a "psychedelic/san francisco" band since that was the '68'69
"rage" or were power trios the vogue? i was NOT playing age 12; 14,
yes). this girl punk-band sounds somewhere between O. Rex/Shaggs/Slits, cute
impotetence, charming (all kinsda adjectives, all kindsa adjectives)..."Hate
the Sport" is a hit and a boy band they hook up with has another "hit"
about "fuck reagan/fuck breznev"....more info on di-rector and his
wife plus the soundtrack; good Swedish "old-school' pink! The Vikings were
the original "dont give a fuck" punk-rockers, it's in their DNA (mine
= proto-germanic = PRE-Viking, so there!)...."....
