Monday, October 31, 2011
For audio frights, check out my recently promised murderous playlist at 33 avenue Miquelon. CLICK HERE FOR MY PLAYLIST POST. For visual terror, yesterday’s New York Times had a feature called “When the City Was a House of Horrors.” It’s about John Conn, who photographed the New York City subway system in the late 1970s [...]
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Monday, October 24, 2011
In 2007, in a post about Norman Mailer, I mentioned that one of my all-time favorite songs is “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” by British punk band The Adverts. Gary Gilmore was a murderer who was executed in Utah, by firing squad, in January 1977. He was the first person executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement [...]
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Every time I see Flo Rida’s 2009 “Right Round” video on the rap-music TV channel piped into my gym, I think, “Why is this guy standing on a giant, rotating Oreo?” Despite the big cookie, I love this song (which features Ke$ha‘s voice) because it samples, “You Spin Me Round,” a 1984 song by British [...]
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Time flies when you’re having grunge! In honor of the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind, here’s a list of my Nirvana-mentioning blog posts. What Wendy Wore: Smells Like Teen Spirit Blondie, Beatles, Bronski, Duran, Nirvana Seven Songs Have Sprung Music Makes the People Come Together Thinking of grunge makes me think of [...]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lately, I’ve become kind of obsessed with the hunka hunka burning love that is rapper Rick Ross. It’s not just because he’s gorgeous …. … or because he has one great song … … or because he’s a former corrections officer who took his stage name from notorious crack kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross, who then [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2011
I first noticed the new popularity of red pants at the Independent Fashion Bloggers conference in February. Soon they were on so many bloggers that I put a red-pants slideshow together for the Huffington Post. At that point, I remembered that I’d grown up watching male rockers on MTV jumping around in tight red pants. [...]
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
While we in New York await the arrival of Hurricane Irene, I keep thinking of another wild woman with a rhyming name. Here’s Dolly Parton singing her classic song, “Jolene.” Tell me you don’t love that ’70s country-music fashion!
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
“Freaks Come Out at Night” from Whodini‘s 1984 Escape album has been stuck in my head for days. It’s reawakened my desire for singer Ecstasy’s trademark hat. If I find a hat just like that, I’m getting it no matter how it looks on me. It looks like I might have to fight gorgeous blogger [...]
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
I’ve grudgingly attended only a few general-admission concerts and then only at very small venues. I missed the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art because I couldn’t bear to wait in line for more than an hour. But yesterday I waited — mostly on my feet and with no food — for [...]
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
My gorgeous sister Terri Berry recently moved to a suburb of Chicago, so I flew out to go to Lollapalooza with her. We took the train from her home into the city with a few zillion teenagers. Two of the female teenagers asked me if I was “SO EXCITED” to be going to Lollapalooza. I [...]
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