I was introduced to Bob Fass of WBAI radio a few weeks back at a retrospective for some Hippie Light show collective called USCO, and my jaw dropped because I'd been trying to figure out how to find him for a while. Last I heard he had been kicked off the radio. He's mostly known for exposing Bob Dylan, and Abbie Hoffman to the airwaves of New ( Read more... )

The sure way to gage the legitimacy of ones Warhol Superstar status gone by is to check the phone book. They're all listed, amongst the riff raff. I bet a few of them still even use rotary dial telephones ( Read more... )

..And if that last post was depressing enough...

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I was just about to make a "let's go through March" post, because, well... if I had a spike chart of my life, March would be in the red zone ( Read more... )

i look like i got roughed up by a gang of allergies in my sleep last night. i'm all ready for the cliche self portrait art project.... or at least an lj icon. i think i put in a good fight though.

A conversation."You really went to Wavy Gravy camp ( Read more... )

(oh nevrmind. shoulda known this would be old news five seconds after it happened ( Read more... )

Somehow or other, I'm (supposedly) eligible to vote in the upcoming Iraqi elections. I mention this (only half jokingly) because it amuses me more then it should. Unfortunately, I'd have to get to Dearbon, Michigan, Irvine, California or one of the other random locations (talk about taking a bad joke too far) they've decided would make for a ( Read more... )

the idiots of the militant hippie bookstore on 16th came up with the brilliant idea to rearrange their entire stock by jacket color. not by author, not by title, not by subject, not by anything other then primal color and randomness. color. the multiple blues, the sickly seventies greens, the various shades of reds, pinks, on to burgundies. the ( Read more... )

I'm not sure whether I'm coming or going. I've been watching movies. A lot of them. I signed up for Blockbuster because they have a $14.99 special and they give you two in store coupons (yeah I know it's a corporate shame, but I use Netflix too, but they never have the fucked up shit I want). I've been sneaking into two-fors (pronounced toofer ( Read more... )