The London Nobody Sings - (new blog alert)

(FROM THE ALWAYS INTERESTING STUPEFACTION BLOG)
http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2009/06/london-nobody-sings-new-blog-alert.html

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009

The London Nobody Sings - new blog alert
Our friend, Kevin, who writes the wonderful Your Heart Out, has launched a new blog today. Entitled The London Nobody Sings, it's basically a blog dedicated to songs about London.



http://thelondonnobodysings.blogspot.com/

THE LONDON NOBODY SINGS ...
A SITE DEDICATED TO SONGS ABOUT LONDON. AS SIMPLE AS THAT. THE ONLY RULES ARE THAT THE SONGS MUST BE BRILLIANT AND THAT THE BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS NUMBERS ARE EXCLUDED. THE SONGS MAY BE EXPLICITLY ABOUT LONDON OR OBLIQUELY ABOUT THE CITY IN SOME WAY. THERE ARE PLENTY OF GREAT SITES DEDICATED TO PHOTOS AND IMAGES ABOUT LONDON. THIS SITE IS DESIGNED TO BE A MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS THEN PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH US ...

THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2009

Tomorrow's ace faces advertised today ...
I suppose there is a kind of irony in starting a blog about London songs when I have never felt so out of love with London. Though I suspect that has more to do with modern life generally than London specifically. So it's appropriate to flash back to the punk era when people were busy singing about being bored and disaffected when life had hardly been more exciting.

There is an enduring mythology that a lot of songs from the punk era were smart, sharp blasts about city life, but when you stop and think about it was that really the case? Well, certainly Generation X could claim to fit the bill nicely. Listen to their first LP, produced by the great Martin Rushent, and nearly every song has some passing reference to London life. And Kiss Me Deadly is a perfect example of this. The way it starts: "The Greyhound's rockin' out tonight. So maximum rockabilly. When two punks choose to risk the subway for a tube to Piccadilly ..."

This blog is dedicated to the type of person who has been concerned for over 30 years about which subway, which tube line Billy was singing about. Was it the subway at Elephant & Castle? That's on the Bakerloo line after all ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjgegpohe4k



POSTED BY YR HEARTOUT AT THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009

Can't Wait For A "BORROWED PHOTOS" Post To Get This One Out There

http://juliasegal.tumblr.com/post/129605715/phil-collins-and-robert-plant-1983

Phil Collins and Robert Plant, 1983

THE WIRE: Byron Coley on Ponderosa Stomp

(CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE)

Robert Hull's POPKRAZY Flickr Stream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/popkrazy/3650639604/

POPKRAZY's Robert Hull has a Flickr stream of hundreds of great old collectables (& he sells some of them on E-Bay too)
Here are a few gems from his collection. See his Flickr for mucho more...

PUNK NOT PROFIT: Iggy Pop "Live Paris, France" 5-28-09

http://punknotprofit.blogspot.com/2009/06/iggy-pop-live-paris-france.html


TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009

Iggy Pop "Live Paris, France"



About time for some more Iggy, and this is another mandatory listen. Recorded live on 5.28.09 in Paris. Check out a live video from this performance, HERE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-LlmLtdfMs


Tracklist:
1) 5 Foot 1
2) Les Feuilles Mortes
3) Nightclubbing
4) I Want To Go To The Beach
5) King Of The Dog
6) Spanish Coast
7) I Put A Spell On You
8) How Insensitive
9) Nice To Be Dead
10) Passenger
11) Willow Weep For Me
12) Sweet Sixteen
13) A Machine For Loving
14) Shotgun
15) Outro

Iggy Pop (Pt.1) - Mediafire
Iggy Pop (Pt. 2) - Mediafire

**OR**

Iggy Pop - Megaupload
(CLICK TO ORIGINAL BLOGPOST FOR DL LINKS)

AT 7:47 PM

DOC 40: Mick Farren on current reality

"...Last Friday Bill Maher brought progressive dissatisfaction with the current state of Barack-Knows-Best into the open with a comedy bit that instructed those who accuse Obama of being a Marxist to realize that he’s “not even a liberal”, and explained how the Democrats were the new Republicans. “Shouldn’t there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal health care, legalizing pot, and steep direct taxing of polluters?”..."

http://doc40.blogspot.com/2009/06/flip-to-reality.html

DOC 40
MICK FARREN HAS PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE HORROR, THE HORROR.
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009

FLIP TO REALITY



One might think this is nothing more than a 1930s girlie book with an anatomically implausible cover, but, if you look very carefully, it’s just possible to see a small NRA logo on the right-hand side of the page. Part of the First New Deal, the NRA was a Federal Agency that gave the Roosevelt Administration the power to develop voluntary agreements on work hours, pay rates, and price fixing. The NRA, symbolized by the Blue Eagle (a stylized thunderbird) was popular with workers. Businesses that supported the NRA put the symbol in their shop windows and on their packages. That the Blue Eagle should be featured on the back-then equivalent of soft porn is an odd but telling confirmation of the trust and loyalty that FDR enjoyed among the American workers during the New Deal. Oh that Barak Obama could manage the same.
On November 6th, 2008, two days after the American people directed Barack to the White House, the tabloid LA CityBeat published my cover-story love-letter to the new President Elect, in which I likened him jokingly to Superman, but unequivocally demanded that he counter the corrupt collapse of free-market capitalism with massive, FDR-style public works and job creation. It was maybe an arrogant demand for a writer of gothic novels and one-time rock & roller, but I did have Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman at my back.
As I write this now, moving into the end of the first six months of the Obama administration, I see very little of either what I hoped for, or was tacitly promised during the campaign. LA CityBeat is history. Some 6000 writers are out of work and most without prospects.
My TV is a clogged artery of bickering politicians, with Obama under fire from both a dangerously insane GOP and turncoat, bought-and-paid-for Dems. We are being shown no awe-inspiring public works, no valiant and visible job creation, or any clear and present hope being offered to the unemployed and evicted. Layoffs continue, unions are sacrificed for the survival of corporations, and zombie banks dare to declare profits while putting the screws to their customers. Peace is nowhere near the horizon. Healthcare likewise. Obama is amused by the idea of legal, revenue-bearing marijuana, and any minor moves in the direction of a new socialism are tentative and apologetic.
Last Friday Bill Maher brought progressive dissatisfaction with the current state of Barack-Knows-Best into the open with a comedy bit that instructed those who accuse Obama of being a Marxist to realize that he’s “not even a liberal”, and explained how the Democrats were the new Republicans. “Shouldn’t there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal health care, legalizing pot, and steep direct taxing of polluters?”
I’m still not saying that Barack Obama isn’t astute and talented, but he may not be The One for whom we all worked so hard. Maybe we believed too hard just to get rid of McCain-Palin. Barack may still turn out to be a creditable head of state, but he is looking less and less like the Superman who could ease us through what may ultimately be the collapse of capitalism. I fear many of us will have to face reality and start making our own demands. As loudly as is needed.
The secret word is Tarnished
POSTED BY MICK AT 6/22/2009 01:00:00 AM

MIKELK: I out drank Charles Bukowski

http://open.salon.com/blog/mikelkpoet/2009/06/22/i_outdrank_charles_bukowski
http://stores.lulu.com/mikelkpoet

FROM ATLANTA POET: MIKELK

I out drank Charles Bukowski

I want to have sex with her
but she’s not here, today,
and, besides, she’s married.
That wouldn’t have stopped Charles Bukowski, would it?
Obviously, I am not Charles Bukowski,
even though that one fellow in that one copy shop
on that one day that I was making
one copy of one little book
that I had assembled for one female friend
said that I wrote like Charles Bukowski.
And I said, "who is that?" and, of course,
once I found out, I headed off to the B section
of poetry in the bookstores
and found out that this fellow had slept with more hookers
and lived in more rooming houses than I had
though I am not sure that he drank more than I did
though I think that he drank until he dropped,
and I have stopped drinking, so I out drank Charles Bukowski.
--1996

Remembering Joe "Christ" Linhart - 6/18/57 to 6/21/09

Word has come that Joe "Christ" Linhart has passed away at his home in Manila. No details yet on the cause of death...
(Since this was written, it has been learned that "Joe died in his sleep from a heart attack at his home in Atlanta. It was 3 days after his birthday, on Father's Day.....and he was home from Manila for an extended visit." Thanks Sebastien)

His son Alan has started a Facebook group in his memory at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=89554566698&ref=mf

In the group description he writes:
"Father, grandfather, artist, musician, filmmaker, shit stirrer and so much more. This is a group for friends and family of Joe to connect and share stories and photos of him. Stories can be whatever they are, no worries if they are offensive or what not, he would have liked it that way and to have people remember the true him. Please post any and all photos any of you have of him to this group so we all have something to look back on and remember his legacy. I miss you dad!!!!!!

I do not have full info for all his friends, so any of you that can, please invite anyone who knows him or was touched by his life to join the group by using the 'invite others to join' link below his photo..."




I first met Joe when he booked The Nervebreakers at Bleu's Grotto (a great old dark bar with paper-mache stalactites hanging from the ceiling) in Tulsa in 1980...
I remember his hospitality when we stayed overnight at his house afterwards...
Back then he was known as Joe Danger...

He joined a cool little punk combo called Los Reactors in Tulsa with Tommy Waggoner.
Here's a description from their Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/losreactors

"Los Reactors, based in Tulsa, OK, were formed in 1979 and remained together until 1983. During that time, two seven-inch vinyl records were released by the band:


Dead In The Suburbs 3-song ep (b/w Culture Shock and Pregnant Girls) - 1981 - Cynykyl Records
Be A Zombie b/w Laboratory Baby - 1982 - Cynykyl Records

During the late 1990s, various Los Reactors songs were included in compilations, notably the Killed By Death series. In 2001, Rave Up Records based in Italy released a 12-inch vinyl album with all of the material from the singles, plus an additional bunch of live recordings. This led to a CD release of the LP material by way of Ripoff Records in 2004. In 2005, Los Reactors re-grouped to play a couple of reunion shows in New York City and Tulsa, with more shows planned for the future.

Here's a video of Los Reactors performing live on a Tulsa variety TV show in 1982. The song is Wonderful Life."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2N8Us105c





I moved away from Dallas (down to Austin) in 1984, when I returned in 1986, Joe had moved to big D & had a band called The Healing Faith & had adopted a Jeffery Lee Pierce look & persona. They opened the show at the Twilite Room on March 15, 1986 for a Nervebreakers' re-union gig playing before Johnny Thunders.





From Joe's personal Myspace page at:

http://www.myspace.com/joe_christ

Here is a list of his bands:
LOS REACTORS (1980 - 1983)
G SPOT (1983 - 1985)
JOE CHRIST and The HEALING FAITH (1985 - 1987)
BIGGER THAN GOD (1989 - 1996).


Here is a list of his films:
THAT's JUST WRONG! (2005).
Other movies (all shorts) are: MY STRUGGLE (2000)
AMY STRANGLED A SMALL CHILD (1998)
IS IT SNUFF? YOU DECIDE! (1997)
SEX BLOOD and MUTILATION (1995)
ACID IS GROOVY KILL THE PIGS (1993)
CRIPPLED (1992)
SPEED FREAKS WITH GUNS (1991)
COMMUNION IN ROOM 410 (1988).

He & his movies have been written about in the following books:
That's Blaxploitation! by Darius James (St Martin's, 1995)
Slimetime by Steven Puchalski (Headpress, 1996)
Killer Art by Lynn Powers (Pontalba Press, 1999)
His movie Speed Freaks With Guns was novelized by Nancy A Collins in her short story collection Nameless Sins (Gauntlet Press, 1995)

On his YouTube page, you can see trailers for some of his films & videos he shot:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealJoeChrist


He seemed to be a nice man who reveled in his in his own weirdness. Of course, there are alot of stories around about him cutting off his penis after a 3-day speed run. I'll let someone else speculate about those tales and just say he apparently found contentment living in The Philippines in his later years. RIP Joe...

COSMOZEBRA: The Loafin' Hyenas

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=107484244104&h=UOdyY&u=7xRHj&ref=mf

COSMOZEBRA
AN UNDESCRIPTIBLE ACT OF ALTRUISM, GENEROSITY AND ECOLOGIC CONSCIOUSNESS
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009

The Loafin' Hyenas



Yet another part-time Austin resident : T.Tex Edwards. His most famous outfit ("Pardon me, I've got someone to kill" with Out On Parole) is a record with a strange destiny. First released in 1989 on Sympathy, at the same time on New Rose. The latter french label added 4 more tracks on the CD version. Saustex Media has re-released it lately with an extra bonus song, unavailable all these years.
In the mid 80's Texan Troubadour Tex rode to California where he joined the Loafin' Hyenas (not to be confused with Chicago's Laughing Hyenas - several records on Touch & Go), some kind of supergroup including Click Mort (early Cramps guitarist) and Rob 'Graves' Ritter (Gun Club bassist). They issued two singles on Sympathy but their posthumous full-length was released on New Rose in 1990. Strictly applying the "garage-swamp-rock'n'roll-blues for dummies" code (a crossing-line between the Cramps, the Gun Club and Beasts Of Bourbon), this record is a must have.
A brief note about Long Gone John's Sympathy For The Record Industry : moving from Long Beach CA to Portland OR, the man got dizzy unpacking the giant boxes and put SFTRI for sale. No official buyer. Few weeks ago all SFTRI products have been removed from each e-store (itunes, amazon, emusic etc). So if you own a SFTRI record, keep it safe, sell it at a highly price on eBay or share it kindly (depending on your greed or your heart). So long Long Gone John & thanks for the ride.

The Loafin' Hyenas : self-titled (LP-1990)
Can't find the doorknob / Boot in the toilet / Bonehusker stomp / Goin' south / Scatter / Way of the world / Scratchin' fleas / Move it / Klawhammer krunch / Forbidden see / Diablo devil / If looks could kill / Things must change / What goes on

Download it here.
POSTED BY COSMO AT 7:01 AM