WEEK EIGHT:
Golden Slumbers – At the time I felt very uncomfortable with the New Romantic’s working class kiss using sartorial elegance to rebel out of their roots and into the world. Partially because the music, all synth downbeat ambient bowie wannabeing. That includes Steve Strange but give Steve Strange this: he was the definition of THE FACE and also a real music guy who moved from lead singer of ultimate New Wave band Visage to promoting DJ concerts. he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 55. “Fade To Gey” remains a fine song with its prog rock arpeggios.
Recorded: All hail the late great Pop Staples, whose final album Don’t Lose this, was released fifteen years after his death, pieced together by Jeff Tweedy and Pops daughter Mavis Syaples and it is a great blue album which stole the week while nobody was looking.
Live: with dangerously cold weather all over nyc, the best thing you could do was run home after week and cuddle up with your cocoa or loved one. Me? I only braved the night air once, for the Mavaricks 150 extravaganza at a sold out Town Hall. No regrets, either.
Tickets: Laura Marling is playing Warsaw… on a Monday… in Brooklyn… on March 23rd… so yuck, but hey it is our first sighting of post Silent Movie, post full band Laura so I am thrilled beyond belief to be catching it.
Television: Oscar night was last night. Needless to say I only caught the first hour but my bet is “Glory” beat out “I’m Not Gonna Remember You” so fuck em.
Politics: You have a resident with the guts to say a war with Terrorists is not a war with Islam, a President willing to be rational, and the result? The GOP claim he doesn’t love the country. Really… I mean cmon.
John Oliver: After both a disappointing stand up performance and a disappointing first episode of the second season of Last Week Tonight. the second episode (I am always a week behind) was excellent, the tobacco segment, though I pretty much knew it, was fabulous. He is the natural replacment for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show”.