October 6, 2008
John Lydon butter commercial
"ever get the felling you've been cheated?"
over and over again johnny over and over.
October 4, 2008
apparently andrew jackson knew how to kick it...
i stumbled across a really funny article the other day (via arts and letters daily about the inaugural party that began the administration of andrew jackson. click the excerpt to read the whole thing:
This “reception” went awry from the start. When the staff opened the doors to bring out the first barrels of orange and rum punch, the exultant crowd burst in and knocked several over, soaking the floor in sticky booze and smashed glasses. The guests were, said eyewitness Margaret Bayard Smith, “a rabble, a mob, of boys, negros, women, children, scrambling, fighting, romping… Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses, and such a scene of confusion as is impossible to describe.” The crowd quickly took possession of the White House: So many people were squeezed inside that the building itself creaked and shuddered dangerously. A bodyguard of loyal friends had to form a ring around the scarecrow figure of Jackson so he wouldn’t be crushed to death or asphyxiated by well-wishers. The strangers behaved if they were in a Mississippi saloon, standing in mud-caked boots on the damask chairs for a better view. But it wasn’t all riff-raff. Even some of the stuffy D.C. toffs got into the anarchic spirit. “Everyone from the highest and most polished,” marveled one attendee, Joseph Story, an associate judge of the Supreme Court, “down to the most vulgar and gross of the nation,” wanted their slice of the action. There are numerous accounts from well-to-do white observers who were shocked to see free African-Americans in the throng, including bevies of children and one “stout black wench” (noted Senator James Hamilton Jr. with disdain) who sat by herself in a back room, “eating in this free country a jelley with a gold spoon in the President’s House.” Some compared the crowd to the barbarians in Rome.
October 2, 2008
Def Leppard - Photograph
there is an interesting moment in the Made In Sheffield documentary where they acknowledge Def Leppard. a member of Cabert Volitaire recalls Joe Elliot telling him loud hard rock is where the money is. my measure of whether i am a fan of a band is if i like more than three singles. Def Leppard fits my criteria and perhaps when i look at Cabaret Volitaire's work I can't specify the singles - but I can see how Pulp is equal parts Def Leppard and Cabert Volitaire. Pulp has over a dozen hit singles in my book.
Made In Sheffield - The Birth Of Electronic Pop
i have recently seen three great movies. one is this movie Made In Sheffield. the second was Animal House by jonathan landis which i surprisingly had never seen before. (i am in now in love equally with Karen Allen and Mary Louise Weller)
yet last nite i may have seen the best in this batch via a recommendation from the mellow legend who had seen it previously at BAM i saw it last night at the International House in philly, this movie begs a dvd release: Phileppe Garrel's "I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar" which loosely dramatizes his life with Nico and was filmed 3 short years after her death on a bicycle.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/movies/07guit.html?ref=movies
October 1, 2008
more katie couric goodness
so, i'm sure we're all gonna see this clip of sarah palin not being able to name a supreme court case other than roe vs. wade about a hundred million times over the next few days, but i thought i'd post the full segment to showcase biden's surprisingly sensitive response to the same set of questions. i'm no fan of biden-- he's been a toadie for the credit card industry in delaware and he's one of the key figures in our bullshit "war on drugs"-- but i think he's been a decent VP choice so far nonetheless. hopefully he won't fuck up tomorrow night...
(somewhere dred scott is weeping...)
johnny boy - you was the generation that bought more shoes
& you get what you deserve.
cant get this to post but watch this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hctbGB6DYhU
killer single and quite relevant in light of current economic events. -bubbles inc.
