ROCK N'ROLL CURMUDGEON
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THIS WEEK : brill building legends: carole king 1958 - 1966, detroit cobras, band of susans, stacie orrico
LAST WEEK: mary weiss and the regining sound, the randies, billie davis, strawberry zots, churchfires, fando detroit cobras, foxx
LAST WEEK: detroit cobras, heartbreakers, back to mono phil spector 1958-1969 , ko and the knockouts, 13th floor elevators
LAST WEEK: ella fitzgerald, melt banana, heartbreakers, word salad, electric eels, garbage, the a teens, abba
ALWAYS: stax/volt and atlantic soul and r&b; tamla/motown; sun records; chess records; british invasion/ merseybeat/ brumbeat; phil spector; greenwich and barry; goffin and king; leiber and stoller; mann and weil; holland, dozier and holland; lennon, mcartney and martin; 1960s girl groups, garage, nuggets, psych; '70s pre-punk/glam rocknroll; '80-90s garage-trash; '90s altermative; '50s acoustic blues; '50-60s country and western; 70s funk; '40s big band swing and boogie woogie; '30s swing jazz; '70s bluegrass; '40-50-60s folk .
all-time favorites beatles, johnny thunders and the heartbreakers, detroit cobras, phil spector, the ronettes, lightnin' hopkins, pretenders, garbage
albuquerque's best R.I.P.s the drags, the jacobins, elephant, scared of chaka, karen, bright carvers, the hopefuls, word salad, the rondelles, luxo-champ, psychodrama, hazeldine, the chinese love beads, the alarm clocks, gary 7/hudson wake, the mindy set, the jackie o. fanclub, shine cherries
favorite rhythm section: keith moon
favorites: robert altman's mcabe & mrs miller; kurosawa's the seven samurai; 1930s-40s films noir; '30s cartoons <[i>betty boop's are full of sex, drugs, booze and hot swing jazz!], zefferelli's romeo & juliet, polanski's chinatown, coppola's bram stoker's dracula, marx brothers, w.c. fields, buster keaton, 70s "anti-heroes"
MUSICALS: wattstax, mayor of the sunset strip, hedwig & the angry inch, cabaret, hard day's night, 42nd street, coal miner's daughter, west side story, 54, the blue angel, nashville ...
teevee: the simpsons, PBS , anthony bourdain and turner classic movies is all i need.
radio: counterspin, democracy now, NPR. no, these aren't fair and balanced but they tell you about the stuff the "fair and balanced" guys won't.
george herriman's krazy kat
more comix walt kelly's pogo, los bros. hernandez love and rockets , adrian tomine's optic nerve, chris ware's acme novelty library and lots of other black and white "alternative" comic books.
latest music -related phil spector-out of his head, all you need is ears george martin bio; rotten: no irish, no blacks, no dogs ; ready, steady, go! the smashing rise and giddy fall of swinging london; big beat heat-alan freed and the early years of rock and roll ; woody guthrie, a life; the life & times of little richard; the last party- studio 54, disco and the culture of the night; moon; bubblegum music is the naked truth; soulsville u.s.a. -the story of stax records
FICTION:the memory of old jack by wendell berry; edgar allan poe
HISTORY: southwest, ethnobotany, biography, pop music.
NON-FICTION: the unsettling of america by wendell berry, one straw revolution by masonobu fukuoka
ZINES: ugly things, the big takeover, venus, garage & beat, BB gun
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