Monthly Archives: February 2015

Poppers ReDux

February 5, 2015 – 8:24 pm

Jan. 2 1979 Suicide was headlining CBGBs. The duo weren’t for everyone, but the screaming fury of Alan Vega and monotonal drone of his keyboard player Martin Rev were an effective remedy for a long holiday of drinking, especially if the holidays were not ready to call it quits. My hillbilly girlfriend was in West […]

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This Train Is Fucked

February 5, 2015 – 1:07 pm

It’s good to know that the fellow Anglo-Saxons from the Antipodes are fuck-ups too when it comes to trains. ‘THIS TRAIN IS FUCKED’. Calling it as we see it, mate. Waltz Mathilda Alright.

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The Beat Lives On

February 5, 2015 – 12:19 pm

Beat icon Neal Cassady died on February 4, 1968. Walking home from at party in San Miguel de Allende Cassady fell asleep by train tracks. The night was cold and wet. The next morning his 3D body was discovered in a coma. This death from exposure launched the outlaw traveler from this 2D world into […]

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Skinny Legs And All

February 4, 2015 – 9:29 pm

Joe Tex scored a #10 hit with SKINNY LEGS AN ALL “I don’t want no woman with no skinny legs Look here! I thought about givin’ this woman to ClydeBut, noSay, I know the kind-a women Clyde likeOl’ Leroy’ll take her.Say, LEROY!You got her!” Amazing to think that those lyrics could get on cracker stations […]

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Stefania Fumo Photograph / Journalist / Cineste

February 4, 2015 – 9:24 pm

Stefania Fumo went into exile several years ago. She was in love. Her husband and she crossed the equator to live in the capitol. They ended up in his native Argentina. His home city Buenos Aires meant Good Air in Spanish. The relationship lasted a couple of seasons of better and worse, then he broke […]

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