Dear Super Cool Mellenial .. I know you know the name, Kathy Acker. But you never met her ... I know it is not your fault. Age and death got in the way .. so here is a little gift for you ... really do listen so that when you hear her names dropped you will silently say to yourself ..".well actually I have listened to her speak about herself and her work. it is a GREAT.... here is the jump off point to all that Acker created
THE ICA INTERVIEW
David Antin.her friend and her mentor remembers Kathy starting in 1968
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Kathy Acker interviews Willam Burroughs Part 1/3
Kathy Acker interviews Willam Burroughs Part 2/3
Kathy Acker interviews Willam Burroughs Part 3/3
Hal Wilner produced this beautiful piece where Acker reads Rimbaud, laments Patriarchy and inhabits Medea
Dear Super Cool Mellenial .. I know you know the name, Kathy Acker. But you never met her ... I know it is not your fault. age and death got in the way .. so here is a little gift for you ... really do listen so that when you hear her names dropped you will silently say to yourself ..".well actually I have listened to her speak about herself and her work. it is a GREAT jump of point to all the Acker created
Why she is not a Broadway Star baffles me. Why VICE has not given her a chat show baffles me. Ellen DeGeneres meet you "bad" sister ... Markey gives new meaning to the phrase "FemmeTop"
well downtown she is a superstar.. here is a peek why .. its adult humor by the way ...
Tommy Keene master pop indie rocker and song craftsmen.. and my friend has passed in his sleep.
He was as good a guitar player on the indie rock scene as anyone, Please visit his song catalog .. in the usual places. Now I can say what he wanted to keep quiet ... and I did. Tommy was gay, Most people did not know and those in the industry kept it a secret. Why you ask in 2017? Well, homophobia killed Darby Crash, keep the Screamers w/ Tomato DuPlenty from being signed by a major, isolated Sister Double Happiness. The closet nearly killed Mark Eitzel, and I could go on but stop here. It's just the same fear that closet that is just the tip of the iceberg
Tommy was one of the kindest and sweetest indie rockers I ever met. His discipline and craftsmanship at songwriting is manifest on albums and cds. I am speechless at the moment to properly give him his due/
Tommy Keene was a musician that his peers resed and loved.
Tommy and Peter Holsapple two friends and master song crafters
Last saw him play in Brooklyn with Ivan Julien at Union.Hall a few months back.
We chatted after, He showed me pictures of his dog. Was glad to hear that he and a lover visited Steve Fallon (Maxwell's) in Rehobeth Beach,,,,,,, tick tock...make sure you tell the ones you are pissed at the moment that you also love them .(the lesson AIDS taught me) .. so when suddenly they are gone you send them on their Bardo journey wrapped in love To all who Tommy loved, speak up please. It's OK now
Loved you Tommy , my gay rocker brother.
here is a live video form the final tour .. a taste .. not perfec but now a memory to be cherrished
A BLACK WOMAN who despite racism and sexism ignited popular culture first through the Supremes and then as her own DIVA self.
Ms. Ross has been a presence in music right there with the Beatles, Stones and Ms. Aretha. DIANA ROSS: Artist, Icon and yes Diva with all that those three words imply. I trust that no matter what age your eyes and ears are you will grasp first the spectacle of this black woman and why she infused popular culture with an image of black femaleness that excited your girls' imagination and role-modeled what they could be despite the politics of the days of her life.She inspired Grace Jones, Sade and Tina Turner, who have managed to stand beside her as a groundbreaking visual images of Black femaleness. Ms, Ross sang the soundtrack of my party youth and hopefully yours, Her music is universal and timeless. Young people today hopefully will understand how out of Detroit and the housing projects three black girls survived by singing with fierce beauty and talent that still resonates across culture everywhere. Ms. Ross moved forward as a solo artist but her roots are still forever cemented in the self-affirmation and yes fun that the Supremes represented. Thank you, Ms. Ross.
Is this the legacy of years of civil rights struggle that we leave to our 17 years olds? .... just look at how he talks about women .. and himself...where did he learn this .. and why is he using a language of hate to self-describe himself? .. and please don't explain that he "is street." We collectively abandon our youth if this is the legacy they reflect ...and get rewarded for spitting out into our society... why do I suspect there is a white music bro at the top of the heap profiting from this youngsters popularity.
AH! I have been following Robin Holcomb ever since she released her first album on Nonsuch.
It made my top 10 that year in the Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll. Then she moved to Seattle. Holcomb rarely plays in NYC / One more reason I am grateful for Roulette... I missed her when she played Roulette live this year...Please join me in listening to the recording of the live performance
Finally, an artist who has had a wide influence on a generation of indie music legends is recorded. Who knew a neo-classical/rambunctious jazz musician was being listened to by so many "rock" musicians ..Think Monk meets Glass! (Yes, Monk meets Glass!!!!)
Sub Pop will release Walt Wagner’s 'Reworks' – an album of renditions popularized by the likes of Band Of Horses, DJ Shadow, My Bloody Valentine, Prince, Fleet Foxes, Phoenix, and more – on November 17th, 2017. The veteran pianist recorded the songs live on October 9th, 2016 at the famed Canlis Restaurant in Seattle, Washington.
Remember vinyl is the sonic choice for all ears, all recorded music
Tonight,,, At LPR ...oh so wish i could be there but can not break a commitment I have made previously .. ... please in you are near ... go .. TRUST ME .... and report back, please. She is a MAJOR ARTIST outside the US ...
Tonight,,, At LPR ...oh so wish i could be there but can not break a commitment I have made previously .. ... please in you are near ... go .. TRUST ME .... and report back, please. She is a MAJOR ARTIST outside the US ...
The rest of the world is gathering again (UN Climate Change Conference - will take place 6-17 November in Bonn, Germany and will be presided over by the Government of Fiji.) to try to stop the destruction of the planet by humans who put financial profit ahead of human needs and protecting the environment. The Trump administration in an act of arrogance is sending pro-coal advocates but unofficially US environmental groups are sending a shadow delegation, to represent the vast majority of US citizens who believe in Climate Change and the role the US plays. DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG will be broadcasting from the CONFERENCE DAILY
Lisa E. Davis author of Angie the Spy shocks Berkeley, Ca. bookstore audience with her revelations about the closeted lesbian who brought down the Communist Party USA and took her money and bought large chunks of P-Town when land was cheap.
This is my good friend, Greenwich village neighbor and spirit sister Lisa E. Davis the author of two of my favorite recent books.
Under the Mink cover
She wrote UNDER THE MINK the story of gay Greenwich Village in the 40's and 50's with many lesbian bars popping up and those mafia run "straight people" boîte de nuit 's where gender illusion ran supreme. Girls would be boys and boys would be girls. to titillate the uptown crowd playing naughty. In a Damon Runyon-ish voice, she reveals how life was for some girls in the lavender underground populated with the politicians, madams, and mob bosses!
found in Lesbian Herstory Archives
I suggest strongly that Todd Haynes or Ira Sachs or Steak House gets their hands on this book and turn it into a time and place premium series a la Broadway Empire A crime story with a sashay sense of humor and a world of hidden wonder.
Under Cover Girl
Her most recent book UNDERCOVER GIRL, the story of Angie the Spy surfacesthe almost erased true story of Angela Calomiris, a lesbian who worked for J Edgar Hoover and became an FBI informer. wsingle handily brought down the Communist Party USA. Its shocker revelation and made me think hard about assimilation politics and the ability of homophobes to pretend not to see who is standing in front of them and closeted homosexuals to use their own kind and then walk away when they get what they want the no longer useful agent. How resourcefulness helps to, in the LGBT world , obscure a person's past and seems not to matter when, like Angie in P-town, you are collectively in bed with the lesbian community Both books are an excellent and yes fun, educational reads. You can buy in your local bookstore (best) or buy online .. or better yet from Lisa at a reading or her in public conversation, Yes she is on facebook..... book her for your college history courses Watch a recent video of Lisa E Davis reading and in conversation with an audience at the San Francisco Public Library,,, not her knowledge linked with wicked, dry wit.
