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captain america

tierra o muerte

About Me

zen socialist

"Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire" -- Larry McMurtry

My Interests


ROCK N'ROLL CURMUDGEON
www.thewigwambam.com
blog.myspace.com/wigwambam

but since rocknroll and farming don't mix:
ENVIRONMENTAL CURMUDGEON
Itchy Green Thumb

PIRATE RADIO myspace.com/rebelradionm

I'd like to meet:

people whose goddamn profile page doesn't take 5 minutes to load.

Music:


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

Movies:

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 ...

Television:

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.

Books:


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

Heroes:

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My Blog

wig wam bam 78

wwb 78   An Angle, The Ashes, Black Maria, Caleb Miles & Friends (featuring Chris Dracup, Chuck Hawley, Debra "Debo" Orlofsky, and Junius Kerr), Danava, The Foxx,  Gingerbread Patriots, ...
Posted by captain america on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:59:00 PST

mo' pitch perfect reviews

more of my crud here mary weiss & the reigning sound the randies  at pitchperfectreviews.com/...
Posted by captain america on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:38:00 PST

dirt city beat 5.17 - 5.31.07

in this week's Local iQ:   Banana Split   Japan's Melt Banana invade like twelve tons of fire-breathing Gojira rock, leveling buildings and hapless citizens alike. You'll tremble at their ...
Posted by captain america on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:38:00 PST

You're Gonna Miss Roky Erickson

in this week's Local iQ:   You're Gonna Miss Me May 28 -31 at 430, 630 and 830 p The Guild Cinema 3405 Central Ave NE Albuquerque, 505.255.1848 www.guildcinema.com     Unlikely as it...
Posted by captain america on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:35:00 PST

Launchpad 10 year Countdown

in this week's Local iQ:   It was just over a decade ago I cut off my hippie hair and wandered downtown Albuquerque in search of loud obnoxious music. I found plenty at the Golden West (then th...
Posted by captain america on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:29:00 PST

new enviro-rant blorg...

 http://blog.myspace.com/itchygreenthumb 
Posted by captain america on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

more biased musical opinion online. mine.

pitch perfect reviews dot com the site by ex-'burque kid rachel heisler
Posted by captain america on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:51:00 PST

dirt city beat 5.3 - 5.16.07

CUT TO THE QUICK   If there's a lesson to be re-learned from punk rock, its that guitar solos should never be more than 3 seconds long. While not quite that short, Into the Quick's Joel Sanchez ...
Posted by captain america on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:36:00 PST

gordy's birthday photos

a couple of hundred-plus pix from the gordy anderson birthday extravaganza. mary jo anderson fast heart mart black maria word salad and you. right here  by the mysterious photographer......
Posted by captain america on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:05:00 PST

to all rebel radio pirates:

who's got rebel radio stories, photos, flyers or rants? submit them at rebel radio for a special edition rebel radio zine coming in october to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our first bust....
Posted by captain america on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:14:00 PST