Monthly Archives: January 2010

CHINESE ROCKS – song of the day

January 29, 2010 – 8:51 pm

Nothing says 1970s Lower East Side better than Johnny Thunders performing the classic CHINESE ROCKS. “I’M LIVING ON CHINESE ROCKS. ALL MY BEST THINGS ARE IN HOCK.” For a listen to this song, click on this following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-M9Ymvgd0A Is this the past or the future of mankind? I’m hoping for a little of both [...]

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Look Away – Iggy Pop

January 26, 2010 – 9:58 pm

Sometimes you have to ask yourself why Iggy never was a superstar. LOOK AWAY conveys the story of Johnny Thunders and Sable, his muse. Heroin, the needle, and beauty. Definitely not Top 40. Go to URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nN3KsdtF9o to hear this classic. For a related article click on this URL http://www.mangozeen.com/2009/03/06/music/louie-louie-by-iggy-pop.htm

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Herb Brown Opening 1/27 BLT 270 The Bowery

January 26, 2010 – 9:41 pm

I used to have dreams about walking in public without my trousers. It was a scary thought and Herb brown captured this phobia in his paintings from the 1960s. Exhibitionesque elegance and tomorrow the BLT gallery at 270 the Bowery will be presenting his works. I’ll be there. And so will the international B-movie legend [...]

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Southbound Obama

January 26, 2010 – 9:12 pm

The night Barack Obama was elected president the city of New York danced in the streets. We sang PEACE TRAIN in bars. I hugged men my age with tears in my eyes. Their eyes were wet too. It seemed like 40 years of government by assassination, corruption, and deceit were coming to an end, then [...]

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Come-Back 101

January 26, 2010 – 6:42 pm

A man was sunbathing naked at the beach. For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting sunburned, he had a hat over his privates. A woman walks past and says, snickering, “If you were a gentleman you’d lift your hat.” He raised an eyebrow and replied, “If you weren’t so ugly it [...]

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