Come on down to David Byrne's Giant Suit Emporium – We're burning down the house with savings! @ColbertLateShow @StephenAtHome pic.twitter.com/LxxlThSt4D
— David Byrne (@DBtodomundo) March 21, 2018
This Is How You Shoot A Video
Surrounded by a roomful of adorable dancing young women. And you just know they all smell amazing.
Not a bad song, either. This one’s pretty old, though. I should probably see what these guys are up to now.
Rachael & Vilray
Feast your ears, bastards! Rachael Price from Lake Street Dive and songwriter Vilray V. Vilray (no surname) perform new tunes written to sound like those from the 30s and 40s. I’m reminded of a line from A Clockwork Orange, which I am currently re-reading for the first time since college …
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
And here’s the NPR podcast from whence I discovered them …
Another Cheap Trick Song Stuck In My Head For Some Goddamned Reason
And so I pass it on to you. Happy Monday, bastards.
P.S. – The cover art is a parody of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run.
Attention Kmart Shoppers
https://youtu.be/XsI2ad5vxCY
Although The Treasury on Lamar was more my speed, I can definitely appreciate this.
This is a digitized version of an in-store reel to reel tape that was played within a Kmart store in 1973. In my opinion, the opening Kmart jingle is the most important artifact of this recording, but the music and small number of commercials make it a great listen.
The Genius Of Shane MacGowan
YouTube’s algorithms recently presented me with a Late Late Show installment featuring Shane MacGowan, along with a room full of famous friends, family and collaborators.
The tribute is framed as a sort of after-hours jolly at Tubridy Tavern. Pint glasses and candles are set on tables; in the backdrop looms an image of the Brooklyn Bridge (in reference to Fairytale, obviously).
Aidan Gillen recalls MacGowan’s music speaking to him when he was a young actor living in London. Glen Hansard remembers when growing up in Ballymun, the Pogues and Bob Marley were on everyone’s mix-tape (and duets on A Rainy Night In Soho with Lisa O’Neill). There are video eulogies from Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, actor Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Paul Simon (apparently taping his piece on a golf course in the midst of a hurricane – so bravo for that).
I was surprised to learn that pneumonia and a fractured pelvis led to MacGowan’s sobriety in 2015. And even though he has teeth again, holy shit does he look (and sound) awfully fragile in his wheelchair at the tender age of 62.
Anyway, all this heaped praise reminded me of Hell’s Ditch, the only Pogues album I’ve ever owned. I’m getting reacquainted with it today and thought I’d share with you bastards. Enjoy or don’t.
Seen the carnival at Rome
Had the women I had the booze
All I can remember now
Is little kids without no shoes
So I saw that train
And I got on it
With a heart full of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I’m walking on the sunnyside of the streetStepped over bodies in Bombay
Trying to make it to the U.S.A.
Ended up in Nepal
Up on a roof with nothing at all
And I knew that day
I was going to stay
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the streetBeen in a palace, and I been in a jail
I just don’t want to be reborn a snail
Just want to spend eternity
Right where I am, on the sunnyside of the streetAs my mother wept it was then I swore
To take my life as I would a whore
I know I’m better than before
I will not be reconstructed
Just wanna stay right here
On the sunnyside of the street
How Have I Never Seen This Video?
From 28 years ago.
And yes, that is Tom Waits speaking as Tommy the Cat.
Music History: Top Singles, Each Decade
Great twitter thread. I’ve included a few hits.
ARCHIE HENDERSON (@jazzemu_) I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000 BC:
1960s – Herbie Bonson, Do The Crunch pic.twitter.com/9M9fNUJP8k
— Archie Henderson (@archiehench) December 5, 2019
1790s – Beethoven, Post-deafness Acoustic Sessions pic.twitter.com/Wx9xtM1lJb
— Archie Henderson (@archiehench) December 5, 2019
3220s BCE – The People of Babylon, The Aliens Are Gone pic.twitter.com/FsqIMKJAmB
— Archie Henderson (@archiehench) December 5, 2019
Sick Of Waiting
Underground Garage plays the hell out of this guy. Good stuff!
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd
Fascinating schtuff.
We visit the studio of paper engineer Matthew Reinhart, an award-winning designer of pop-up books including most recently Star Wars: The Ultimate Pop-Up Galaxy. Matthew shows us his handmade pop-up prototypes and his process for designing the interactive pages of this new book.