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Don’t Believe Him. Don’t Despair. That’s What They Want.
As you know, I have avoided politics here on PIXELS since the beginning. This is not political. We are under siege. Elon Musk is executing a bloodless coup. Do not despair. Get into action.
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Wendell Peek – Iconography #23
The Rolling Stones—Thru and Thru From my memoir, The Rise & Fall of the HoneyBun Empire: [At a memorial service for my friend Greg Jones] I met Greg’s old friend, Jim Gable, who had gone to the CalArts Institute, the exclusive art school in Santa Clarita, California, with him in the late seventies. I had…
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David Bowie—Conversation Piece
He wrote this when he was a very young man. It resonates with me, still, fifty years or so later. I took this walk to ease my mind To find out what’s gnawing at me Wouldn’t think to look at me That I’ve spent a lot of time in education All seems so long ago…
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Celine Guillou—St. George Alley, San Francisco
By far my favorite rendition of this classic George Gershwin composition.
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[sunday] Max T. Frame—From Where The Music Comes
Rival Consoles—Howl (whole album) A British producer courtesy of the YouTube algorithm. Thank you!! Allen Ginsberg—Howl (first stanza) I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to…
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R.I.P. Marianne Faithfull
Legend has it that her nun’s habit was backless and she was naked underneath. I believe it. A rich girl, she had a rough life, struggles with addiction. A few years after this show, in 1979, she blasted back into the scene with her masterpiece, Broken English. She eventually got clean and sober and…