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My Interests

Art, Architecture, Books, Candy, Design, Ephemera, Felines, Film, Jack, Literature, Old Music, Old Toys, Ovaltine, Pop, Rags, Rusty Things, Spike, and Victrolas.

Music:

1920's & 1930's jazz & blues, Russ Columbo, Lee Morse, Al Bowlly, Ruth Etting, Helen Kane, Don Redman, Whispering Jack Smith, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Slim Gaillard, Forms of Things Unknown, Helen Morgan, Sophie Tucker, Robert Johnson, Tiny Tim, Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike.
Rock circa 1966-1974.
Punk Rock circa late 70's, CBGB's, etc.
Iggy Pop, nKAY?

Movies:

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Books:

Mostly Non-Fiction.
Art History. Biography. Poetry.
The Cat Inside by William Burroughs, Nadja by Andre Breton, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, You Can't Win by Jack Black, The Poetry of Robert Desnos, Anything by Roland Barthes, Michel Leiris, Ficciones by Borges, From A to B and Back Again: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Popism by Andy Warhol, The Crooner Mystique, I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl, Rilke, Rumi, Cavafy...

Heroes:

Jack, Marlene Dietrich, Al Bowlly, Lee Morse, Emily Dickinson,Bessie Smith, Jimmie Rodgers, Whispering Jack Smith, Louis Armstrong, Mary Oliver, Ethel Waters, Sophie Tucker, Russ Columbo, ee cummings, Dock Boggs, Ruth Etting, T.S. Eliot, Ma Rainey, Elanor Roosevelt, Nazimova, Lartigue, Susan Sontag, William Burroughs, Theda Bara, Patti Smith, Maya Deren, Rainer Maria Rilke, Brassai, Fats Waller, Tiny Tim, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Mina Loy, Lee Morse, Ethel Waters, e.e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Buster Keaton, Marilynn Miller, Harold Arlen, Werner Herzog...
Jack the Cat.
My Cousin Andrew.
LEE MORSE
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LEE MORSE: Echoes of a Songbird

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Iggy Pop - Ivan Kral interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpygvcJx9CA ...
Posted by confetta on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:38:00 PST

Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'

Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'http://www.squidoo.com/fatswaller Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In...
Posted by confetta on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:14:00 PST

LEE MORSE IN MARCH...

SONGS LEE MORSERECORDED/RELEASED IN MARCH...A Miss In Mississippi(Lee Morse) 3-24-1925 New York, New YorkAlone At Last (Gus Kahn / Ted Fiorito) 10-7-1924 New York, New YorkCareless Lov...
Posted by confetta on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:15:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for JANUARY 14TH&Happy 100th Birthday Russ Columbo!

Spotlight for January 14th, 2008 Happy 100th Birthday Russ Columbo!! BIRTHDAYS 1900 Charles Bocage Banjo/Guitar/vocals b. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA d. September 2, 1934. One of the "mus...
Posted by confetta on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:29:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for JANUARY 13TH&

SPOTLIGHT for JANUARY 13TH... BIRTHDAYS 1909 Danny Barker Banjo/Guitar b. New Orleans, LA, USAd. March 13, 1994, Age: 85. ~Biography by Scott Yanow A humorous personality as important for his storyt...
Posted by confetta on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for JANUARY 8TH&

Spotlight for January 08, 2008Happy Birthday Elvis! BIRTHDAYS1937 Shirley Bassey Pops Vocalist b. Cardiff, Wales, UK. A fine vocalist whose first fame came as a result of her singing the background...
Posted by confetta on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:52:00 PST

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL BOWLLY!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL BOWLLY... Albert Allick 'Al' Bowlly www.squidoo.com/bowlly(January 7, 1890/1899(?)-April 17, 1941) was a popular singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000...
Posted by confetta on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:36:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for DECEMBER 24TH&

Spotlight for December 24th, 2007... .. Harry as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley.BIRTHDAYS 1910 Henry CokerTrombone b. Dallas, TX, USA. d. 1979, USA. Studied piano and harp in Wiley College (Wash...
Posted by confetta on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:37:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for DECEMBER 22ND&

Spotlight for December 22nd, 2007... .. Max HansenSpotlight for December 22nd, 2007BIRTHDAYS 1913 Dudley Alonzo Brooks, piano arranger, b. Los Angeles, CA, USA. 1905 Art Christmas Alto Sax/multi...
Posted by confetta on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:02:00 PST

SPOTLIGHT for DECEMBER 20TH&

Spotlight for December 20th, 2007... ..  Irene Dunne BIRTHDAYS... 1898 Irene Dunne actress/vocalist b. Louisville, KY, USA. d. Sept. 4, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, USA. née: Irene Marie Dunn...
Posted by confetta on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:13:00 PST