January 2010
Happy new year everyone! →
I’d like to thank each & every one of you for reading Stupefaction, and want to extend a happy & healthy new year greeting for 2010 to you & yours! Now, where can I get a pair of Woody…
December 2009
Times Square →
When Flat was Where It's At →
I spotted this nice little find on one of Tim B’s many `Net sites (among them Stupefaction, The New York Nobody Sings, the Karate Boogalo Tumblr and I’m sure there are others ……
Preach brother preach →
Babs Gonzales “Voila” Hope Records
1. Le Continental
2. Me Spelled, M-E, Me
3. Them Jive New Yorkers
4. Lullaby of the Doomed
5. The Preacher
6. A Nite in Tunisia
7. Movin’ and…
Top Ten 09 →
In the spirit of copying what other blogs do at the end of a year, here is a list of the top ten most-viewed posts on JVNY in 2009: 1. Notes from the Backside: The summer-long drama that…
Garden Party →
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve Sheet Music →
Frank Loesser asks the musical questions What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve in this vintage sheet music offered on Abebook’s. According to the seller, the sheet music contains lyrics, music, and…
Nerviosismo →
via http://nerviosismo.tumblr.com/day/2009/12/17
Links for 2009-12-30 [del.icio.us] →
Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online
Flatiron: 1902 →
“Flatiron Building, New York.” The Manhattan landmark under construction circa 1902. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
The phenomenon of Ectasy →
by Salvador Dali. 1933
AbeBooks' Weird Book Room →
AbeBooks has a fantastic virtual Weird Book Room. I was thrilled to discover that I only have three of the books on the page: Mannix’s The History of Torture (highly recommended!), The How…
NY POST does it again! →
Another shot of old East 10th Street →
Following up on our earlier post today on 10th Street and Avenue A…. EV Grieve reader Mykola (Mick) Dementiuk sent along this Morris Engel photo from the 1950s of 10th Street between Avenue A…
Flatiron: 1902 →
“Flatiron Building, New York.” The Flatiron Building under construction circa 1902. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
The Replacements live in 1981 →
If you’re looking to kill some time over this holiday break, have a look at this gem - the Replacements live in Minneapolis in September 1981. Not just one song, but their entire set!…
Rowland S. Howard RIP →
Rowland S. Howard - RIP. Why is this time of year always so tough with news like this? Here’s Rowland & Lydia Lunch with their version of Lee Hazelwood’s “Some Velvet Morning”:
Robert Quine →
Hangover Hop (Live WFMU radio broadcast) 1992 Brian Redman, Me, Robert Quine.
Me, Jeremy Tepper, Quine, Hangover Hop 1992.
Since the old links don’t work, I thought I should…
Day by day →
“Stranded in the jungle. Locked inside a tube. Hate your next door neighbour. He’s got more than you. Going round and round. Day by day. On the Circle Line …” sings Billy Idol on Day By…
Irish folk songs…doggie style →
Jesse Owens and Anne Byrne with Seamus Gallagher Waverly/EMI Records (Courtesy of long-time LP cover lover, Way Back Now! Let’s Go)
It’s All Over Now… →
Dear ARC people -
As 2009 draws to an end it’s not too late to make a tax-deductible donation to the ARC. Really, who else has done what we’ve done? - without a bit of help from the government,…
Special *Glasgow Film Theatre* event on Tuesday... →
Special Glasgow Film Theatre event
on Tuesday 2nd February 2010.
More info.
Leo Martin - Kišna noć u gradu mom (1970) →
NPR radio interview →
The NPR radio show Morning Edition aired an interview with Tom Waits about his role as the devil in Terry Gilliam’s movie Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus on December 28. You can listen to it on line…
patti smith time : December 29-30-31 →
ok so you’ve had yourself a merry little xmas, but you’re not really ready for a rockin’ new years eve. well i haven’t been going out on new years eve for many a year. but on december 30th -…
Gillian's Found Photo #33 →
This guy seems to come from the same gene pool that produced Anthony Quinn and Louis Prima, no? A gene pool that originated in the part of southern Italy known as the mezzegiorno. I guess he…
*AN UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF THE 1977 TORONTO... →
AN UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF THE 1977 TORONTO PUNK EXPLOSION AS TOLD BY THE BANDS WHO WERE THERE…
Treat Me Like Dirt is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes,…
Peanuts - December 28, 2009 →
Bob Willoughby RIP →
Bob Willoughby - RIP. Visit his website here.
Jean Cocteau with Pompon in Toulon, August 1931 →
(Image copied from Pierre Chanel’s Album Cocteau, published by Éditions Henri Veyrier-Tchou, 1979)
Edwige Fenech →
Lonely →
A nice photo of Alan Vega just before going on stage. Not sure but i think that it was a small gig at the Abbaye de Forest in Brussels circa 1981.
Pic : Christian Fletcher.
Marc Almond’s early side project ‘Marc and the... →
It’s always hard to pick your “top ten” albums when pressed, but two things that always come immediately to mind for me are Nick Cave’s first solo record, From Her to Eternity and Marc Almond’s…
The Walker Brothers - After The Lights Go Out: The... →
1965… a very good year
Fad Gadget - For Whom The Bells Toll →
On this date in 1982, Fad Gadget released their eighth single, “For Whom The Bells Toll”. It was backed by “Love Parasite”. Both tracks appeared on their third album, Under The Flag, though the A…
Review: Winter 2009 →
Looking back on the past year at this blog, one season at a time, one day at a time, for one (4-day) week: In January we achingly said goodbye to the 61-year-old Amato Opera House. We took a…
Color portrait on board of Rita Hayworth →
via youfillmewithinertia.tumblr.com
Spike Priggen in Japanese Fashion Magazine #2 →
via youfillmewithinertia.tumblr.com Here’s another one of me from a 1983 Japanese Fashion Mag.
Spike Priggen in Japanese Fashion Magazine →
via youfillmewithinertia.tumblr.com This is me in a Japaneses Fashion magazine from about 1983.
Publicity Photo: Gary Lewis & The Playboys →
via youfillmewithinertia.tumblr.com
Vintage Ray-Ban Ad →
via youfillmewithinertia.tumblr.com
Green caravan →
Green caravan, originally uploaded by unpop.
Snapped on my ride out to Aylsbeare and Woodbury this morning, this little green caravan sitting outside a pig farm in Pinhoe.
2009: The Year In Review →
Well, 2009 is almost kaput and I’m a bit low on stuff to blog right now so I thought I’d take some time today to put together a sort of “greatest hits” list from the past year here at…
17 Bonus Reviews, Here Only; Don't Forget the New... →
Now that the X-mas rush is over, I wanted to post 17 bonus reviews that I had intended to include in the current issue 65, but ran out of time running up against that issue’s deadline. / Make sure…
Peanuts - December 26, 2009 →
In remembrance →
(Photo by William ‘Popsie’ Randolph) This week’s NY Times magazine has a nice group of articles on some of those folks who left the planet this year including Ellie Greenwich and …
R.I.P. Bob Willoughby →
I recently found out that photographer Bob Willoughby passed away back before Christmas. Bob was 82 and succumbed to cancer at his home in France but he left behind a huge body of work. Bob took…
JEAN COCTEAU SKETCHES →
"You Scumbag, You Maggot, You Cheap, Lousy..." →
Vic Chesnutt RIP →
Vic Chesnutt - RIP