ALERT: (the source) Walt Wagner - Reworks [FULL ALBUM STREAM]

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 LPR Bleecker Street Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (official music video) #JimJarmusch Edit

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 LPR Bleecker Street Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (official music video) #JimJarmusch Edit

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 ...

AS the world is about to embark on a follow up Climate Change Conference post : Naomi Klein: 'Let Them Drown: the violence of othering in a warming world'

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

WOW! Allan Rayman | Roadhouse 01 (Acoustic) | Full Concert

WOW! Allan Rayman | Roadhouse 01 (Acoustic) | Full Concert

Lisa E Davis, provocative author and history sleuth stirs things up on visit to the Bay Area

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 surfaces the 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.