The crushing/consolidation of of radio post-96 really was the canary in the mine for what was to come
11.03.2026 23:40
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The crushing/consolidation of of radio post-96 really was the canary in the mine for what was to come
yeah, Caddyshack, Stripes and Ghostbusters have these kind of sociopathic guys as their heroes, going up against "The Man"--the story of the past 10 years is "what if those guys were worse than The Man?"
like the Trump-Kennedy Center thing is a total Al Czervik move. "Come on! Kennedy's deader than death itself now! Let's liven the joint up!"
"he's stupid, corrupt and vulgar, but he really sticks it to those elitist snobs!"
his "Caddyshack" character is, quite honestly, how a lot of voters view Trump
Regis Philbin sorta qualifies
good God! and there was that period in the 90s when "Time Has Come Today" was used in seemingly every movie & every third TV ad: was the licensing cheap?
yeah, Belafonte did what he could with it, if i recall, but...yikes
the 90s movie that has totally fallen into the memory hole is "White Man's Burden" (which i did see; it is not very good)
i had that soundtrack! (and never saw the movie, though it was a time when you felt like you had, given all the 'discourse' about it)
The Fugs, s/t (March 1966)
back cover of The Fugs
Ed Sanders: A Visit to the Charts The Fugs second album was released in March, 1966, with liner notes by Allen Ginsberg. It was a success, at least for the record company. A few weeks later we experienced the strange and eery (and very temporary) thrill of being on the charts. On July 9, the Trogg's "Wild Thing" was number seven on the singles list and "Paperback Writer" was number two. And wow! there on the album charts! The Fugs! at 89, just above Martha and the Vandellas Greatest Hits! It spawned the peculiar hunger which I call "chart-anguia," a thirst to get on the charts again, difficult to do with tunes like "Kill for Peace" and "I Feel like Homemade Yodel."
Bowie, in Vanity Fair, 2003: THE FUGS (1966, ESP) The sleeve notes were written by Allen Ginsberg and contain these perennial yet prescient lines: “Who’s on the other side? People who think we are bad. Other side? No, let’s not make it a war, we’ll all be destroyed, we’ll go on suffering till we die if we take the War Door.” I found on the Internet the text for a newsprint ad for the Fugs, who, coupled with the Velvet Underground, played the April Fools Dance and Models Ball at the Village Gate in 1966. The F.B.I. had them on their books as “the Fags.” This was surely one of the most lyrically explosive underground bands ever. Not the greatest musicians in the world, but how “punk” was all that? Tuli Kupferberg, Fugs co-writer and performer, in collaboration with Ed Sanders, has just finished the new Fugs album as I write. Tuli is 80 years old.
60 years old this month, with notes by Ed Sanders (2001) and David Bowie (2003)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - second night at Budokan, 50 years ago tonight. Some of this came out on the Odeon/Budokan release and elsewhere, but the whole audience tape is still a delight. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1859112...
Dean listening to playback of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands": "does it go on like this until we die? give me a key change, for God's sake!"
am curious as to the next twist in the Dean Martin storyline
Joan Gets Down
happy that most of my youthful shit-talking was on the Salon forums in the late 90s, which long ago got wiped. one's early digital life should have its share of "castles in the sand" to it
same! one day, hope to make it back
that's wild--i mean, i went to college in the early 90s and even then it would've been "huh, what's your deal?" if some guy was going on about "the Dharma Bums"
"Blow Up" and Kerouac are pretty odd, dated references even for a "it's still 2008 in my mind" thing
Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Pittsburgh, blowing kisses and maybe playing "Sweet Thing"? (well, no), while your mom gets very baked on second-hand smoke: www.patreon.com/posts/152606...
Joni Mitchell with CSNY, 1974
When you go to a party w/ your old stoner friends who you haven't seen in a long while, but you've got a job now & are in a new scene & it's all a bit awkward
it feels like there must've been a niche back when for "local newspaper movie reviewer who Hates Everything," which the paper could use as a hook: 'write in to tell him how much he sucks"
John Simon?
another wartime chart (all songs appropriate, in their way, for Gulf War I)
oh yeah, i've long given up on trying to maintain the YouTube links on the individual Bowie song entries---just a Sisyphean task now
in the last 2 years of high school, it was a routine to set the VCR to tape 120 Minutes, then hang out w/friends Monday afternoon to watch. Peter Murphy's "Cuts You Up" video reminds me of this period the most
probably before or after Tin Machine. i think it works as a single book though: no regrets about how it came out, apart from not getting the notes in
that said, it's very much a "everything's connected! in a bonkers, stupid way!" treatise that was spiritually akin to the nonsense he was reading in his cocaine years
"Sexual Personae" made Bowie's Top 100 Books list, which is one of the worst calls he made in his later years
a real regret I have is that for Ashes to Ashes, the book was just too long as it was & it came down to a choice of cutting 40+ pages of text or putting the notes on my website. I'll keep 'em there as long as I'm around, but long-term, yeah, they could be lost. bowiesongs.wordpress.com/ashes/notes/