Nothing by Jay and the Americans. Or by the Beach Boys. Or the McCoys. Or Bob Dylan. Or Baez. Joanie Mitchell. Patti Page. Buddy Greco. Vic Damone or Frank Sinatra. Bobby Darin. Annette Funicello. Fifth Dimension. Ritchie Havens. Buffy Sainte Marie. Melanie. Screaming Lord Sutch. Any of the recent slutty twats, the ones with all the belly buttons and rehab issues. Or Ricky "I'm not gay" Martin. Or Neil Sedaka or...
Guilty secrets:
I have downloaded lots of Foreigner. Missing Persons. Lena Lovitch. Fisher Z. Donovan (!). Bing Crosby. Smiley Lewis. Clyde McPhatter. I actually bought Cheap Trick. I like INxS. Bob Hope and Jack Benny radio shows. Duran Duran!
Clearly, no class, yet also no foolish consistency here.
Why am I divulging these things, non-vinous as they may be? I'm avoiding CSI or some other gruesome TV garbage that's on in the next room. Waiting for Weeds.
looks like you're trying to get to level 7 on the Google PageRank hit parade. Lena Lovitch'll get you there, muy rapido!
Posted by: BR | October 30, 2007 at 08:41 AM
1. Lena did great B&W videos. Pre-MTV. Where is she now? Still giving Dale Bozzio robot sound effects lessons?
2. You should write about your Aero chair, no doubt Big Wine would be all over you afterwards.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | October 30, 2007 at 09:33 AM
Who the hell is Fisher Z. Donovan? I would never admit to downloading Foreigner, Cheap Trick and Duran Duran in a public place.
Smiley Lewis and Clyde McPhatter are a different story.
Posted by: Marco | October 30, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Maybe I'll redeem myself by saying that I have 6 Ethel Waters albums on my iPod, 3 hours of Lester Young, 4 of Mulligan and Chet Baker, all the Velvet Underground, all of Armstrong and the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, not to mention Arthur Crudup and 3 albums by the Boswells.
OK, and Midnight Oil too. And Men at Work. Fine, the Safety Dance is on there too. Happy happy days...
BTW, Marco, it seems a bit of AC (or his bitchy alter ego, BR) has rubbed off on you!
Posted by: Terry Hughes | October 30, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Redemption (Zin) it is. Just on the Lester Young alone. Michael Born @WBGO played Lester & Teddy's "Prisoner of Love" early Sunday morning as we drove downtown.
Now I know who BR is. He's the bestower of espresso machines. Look for a package in the mail soon. No, not another espresso machine.
I do share that southern Italian melancholic thing with AC/BR. It seems to be endemic. It may be only Demeter-Persephone doing their job.
Posted by: Marco | October 30, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Some of us have that Demeter-Persephone thing going on, while others make do with Zoloft. Speaking of Zoloft, FK is being unusually quiet.
Terry - I hear that Jancis Robinson will overtake you this week in the Google PageRank race. Stay tuned and stay medicated.
Posted by: AC | October 30, 2007 at 12:00 PM
1. Lexapro, anti-depressant "prossima generazione," not Zoloft.
2. I'm gonna post a lot of pix of Paris Lohan-Spears in compromising positions. Only problem is how to whittle them down to a manageable number. You'll see my Google Rank at 8 before Xmas.
And BTW, Italian boys, pshaw...everyone knows that Irish depressiveness is #1 in the Mondial. The rest of you just toy with your quaint existential melancholy. We Micks know how to be deeply, truly miserable all the time.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | October 30, 2007 at 12:13 PM
I'll drink to that!
Posted by: AC | October 30, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Tonight I'll raise a glass of 2001 La Granja to that too!
http://www.dehesalagranja.com/english/proceso.htm
See, this is why I love wine and food people who know how to drink up and live. Oh, I can hear the bucolic miserable melancholy of an ancient Irish air in the wilds of the Connemara.
PP:
"Gone are the days when a man drank four bottles of wine with no company except a bottle of Madeira."
Posted by: Marco | October 30, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Ah, Fischer Z. Don't feel guilty about Donovan, I just bought the remastered versions of "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow". The sonics are excellent and there are some good bonus tracks. Donovan is still doing live shows. He's drawing big.
Posted by: Marco | October 30, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Lene & her partner Les turned an old Vicarage in Norwich into a recording studio & manage to keep playing whilst raising two girls now approaching their 'teens.
We met as buskers in Tottenham Court Road tube station, Christmas of 1971...
http://www.lenelovich.com/
Posted by: djr | November 05, 2007 at 03:14 PM
Very cool. I am impressed, old man.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 07, 2007 at 12:45 PM