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Beloved punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, the same day a feature story about him appeared in the The Austin Chronicle.
Nationally, Turner was best known as the frontman for punk-funk pioneers the Big Boys. With the Big Boys, Turner subverted the rapidly entrenching dogmas of American hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early '80s with humor, eclectic songwriting and outrageous costumes.
With guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Rey Washam, the Big Boys, which lasted from 1978 to 1984, became known for explosive and funky live shows. They slowed down punk tempos to allow for syncopated rhythms and played with nonpunk bands such as the Washington, D.C., go-go act Trouble Funk. The Big Boys can be seen as a direct precursor to funky rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone. The band's encouragement of audience participation made them iconic punk rockers.
stones boots
(claudine paris rehearsals 1977-79)
which doobie u.b.?
a blog oddly preoccupied with Michael McDonald, Cam'ron's Dipset crew and Disney Epcot. If you can fathom what the hell is going on, you'll find links to some great freestyle, mashups, remixes etc. There's even an R. Kelly video with its five parts synched up and played on top of one another. Not for the epileptic among you.via brian turner overdrive at wfmu blog
buyers guide 70's corvettes
semi-custom seat covers
from mark lombardi to sherman skolnick to...
google print / library search
rat rod pick of the week
1848 1889 map of jersey city
1872 map hudson county
1804 map jc waterfront
the drawing center bags it:
The Drawing Center, meanwhile, will not be moving to the site, Whitehead said. After weeks of discussion with the LMDC, Whitehead said, the museum was "finding it difficult to comply with the requirements."
The Freedom Center and the Drawing Center are parts of cultural space long planned at the World Trade Center site, which also would include a performing arts complex. But in recent months family members have waged a campaign to remove the two institutions from the site, saying they could include anti-American exhibits and distract attention from a planned memorial museum.
Debra Burlingame, the sister of an American Airlines pilot who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, applauded the Drawing Center's decision not to build on the site but said there is little point in continuing discussions with the Freedom Center.
"They're not telling the story of 9/11," she said. "They're going to have controversial programming that they cannot guarantee in perpetuity will be respectful."
this is a complete disgrace. no grass-roots support from the art community. none from artnet thats for sure. division within the drawing center board. no support from the dc for the artist amy wilson when the "victims families" (with the help of the daily news and gov pataki) conspired a mock crisis of content publicity scandal. respect for the victims = support for the atrocities intact war in iraq so just keep it the fuck to your self !?!? the institutions must now guarantee "respect" in perpetuality. does this mean no disrespectful ballets or plays too !?!? are these families going to stick around and vet all programs and exhibits on these hallowed grounds forever? are we talking about a theme-park of perpetual war supporting and 9/11 morning? who would want to function artistically under these restrictive conditions? i see artistic freedom of speech as we knew it, slip, slip, slippin' away. ...and nobody's saying nuttin'.
running on empty
via zoller
The fate of Edward Durell Stone's Two Columbus Circle may be uncertain, but one of the architect's early works, the 1939 A. Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury, N.Y., has become a success story.
"Jesus, on the cross, in his waning moments of life, calls to the crowd below, 'Peter!' The apostle Peter hears the call and moves closer to his liege. 'Yes, my Lord, he says. Jesus calls again, 'Peter!' Peter approaches the base of the cross, 'Yes my Lord, it is Peter, I am here for you what do you need?' Jesus calls, 'Come closer Peter.' Peter is beside himself, wondering what the son of God might have to say to him alone... He climbs the cross. Jesus calls 'Peter, come closer.' Peter replies that he is coming. At last, Peter reaches Jesus on the cross, and says, 'I am here my Lord, what can I do?' Jesus says 'Peter? Peter? Is that you Peter?' 'Yes my Lord, I am here for you.' Jesus says 'Peter, I can see your house from here....' "
The producer of a low budget film is trying to convince the newly hired director of the quality of the work by telling him the big names they've gotten for the cast.
"First of all," he tells him, "We've got Gibson in the lead."
The director is surprised, "You got Mel Gibson?"
"Well, no," the Producer responds, "we got Marvin Gibson, he's a distant cousin who lives in Queens, but he's very up and coming. And besides, we've also got Redford."
"You got Robert Redford?" the director asks.
"No, we got Jeremy Redford, but he's very talented and has lots of acting experience from years of dinner theater. But," he says enthusiastically, " we've got Streisand and in a singing role."
"Barbara Streisand?" he asks.
"No, Elizabeth Streisand." The Producer responds. "But she's got a great voice. AND we've got Goulet."
"You got Robert Goulet?" the director asks.
"Yeah," the producer replies, "we got Robert Goulet."
gaylord fields 08.07.05
lots of sweet surface noise from these 45 rpm only selections - go mono !
recommendation *****
there was only one guy left, the last great bolero singer. rip ibrahim ferrer.
The father of general semantics, Alford Korzybski stated, "A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness". What this means is that our perception of reality is not reality itself but our own version of it, or our "map".[An expression coined by Eric Bell and popularized by Alfred Korzybski.]
science and sanity reviewed
the map is the territory (google(satellite)maps/sims)
the rug is not the territory
non-sites
polaroid man
the album covers of andy warhol
Warhol took the cover shot; though many assumed the model was Jagger, it has often been rumored to be a hanger-on at the Factory, Warhol's studio, named Joe Dallesandro. Then Braun realized there had to be an extra layer of cardboard to protect the record from the zipper; that layer features another Warhol shot of a different man, possibly the twin brother of Warhol's "boyfriend" and assistant Jed Johnson, this time in his jockey shorts.
Note that Warhol had nothing to do with the design of the Rolling Stones Records tongue logo, which has now become synonymous with the Stones themselves.
so who did design the tongue logo?
astor place cube expected back soon
Recently, hood ornaments have become a subject of performance art, in the form of tableaux vivants, or "living pictures."
Live performers will recreate hood ornaments at this year's Pageant of the Masters, an arts festival that has taken place each summer since 1935 in Laguna Beach, Calif. The theme of this year's pageant, which runs through Sept. 1, is "On the Road: A Crash Course in Art and Popular Culture."
As students of primeval D-ology know, A.J., who quit college in 1968 to create the first computer-generated Dylan Word Concordance, is most famous for going through Bob's garbage. This "garbology" action was part of a full-scale assault launched by the Dylan Liberation Front, a bunch of Yippie pot smokers who thought Dylan, the most angel-headed head of the generation, had fallen prey to a Manchurian Candidate-style government plot to hook him to sensibility-deadening hard dope. These findings were based on A.J.'s highly idiosyncratic interpretations of "Dylan's secret language," a code that, once cracked, revealed words like "rain" and "chicken" (as in "the sun is not yellow -- it's chicken!") to actually mean "heroin." It was Dylan's addiction that led the poet to make sappy records like Nashville Skyline and New Morning when his great gift could have been better used speaking out against Vietnam, A.J. contended. "Dylan's brain belongs to the People, not the Pigs!" was among the fervent cries back in 1970, as A.J. led the forty or so smelly hippies in his Dylanology class to Bob's home at 94 MacDougal Street, where they screamed for Dylan to "crawl out yer window" and answer charges that he had been co-opted. After an unsolicited DLF-inspired block party for Dylan's thirtieth birthday, which resulted in the NYPD shutting down Bleecker Street, and a long series of hectoring phone calls (the tapes were compiled on a Folkways Records release entitled Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman, now a major Bob collectible), Dylan struck back.