Steve Fisk — “Donna Summer On The Radio” (from the compilation Regional Zeal, Palace of Lights Records, 1982)
Too soon? In any case, this piece was among the first things that popped into my head when I heard the sad news today. Donna Summer, Chuck Brown, Duck Dunn, MCA — it’s been a bad couple of weeks at the booty-shaking end of the universe.
Jan 10th makes me some sort of ultra-rare limited edition kraut record…
This is super weird. Why are so many more babies born in the summer? I guess the winter blues really get to people? Crazy …
USA only, overdramatic heat map scale, etc etc but I still looked for mine and so will you.
I like the St. Patty’s Day blip in mid-December.
Brilliant merchandising, or completely off the mark? Who’s buying jump drives in such quantities that they’d ever earn the Golden Egg drive? And are jump drives really “collectibles”?
Duran Duran, ‘Rio.’ Released May 10, 1982 — exactly 30 years ago today.
Damn. So many essential cues of/for the 80s rolled up in one package. Fourth/fifth grade nostalgia rat-hole alert in full effect.
This post from “overheard in New York” pretty much sums up my feelings:
Tourist counting her group, which is clogging sidewalk: “Carla? Has anyone seen Carla? Okay, Marie? Marie?”—
Passerby, interrupting: “First, let me thank you for visiting our city. We appreciate it. Second, get out of the fucking way.”
CO-SIGN.
(I’d say more, but my mind is a jumble of regret and “grass is always greener” sentiments at being back in NYC this weekend after moving away 6 months ago.)
Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time…
(via lunapancake)
Swell Maps’ posthumous “Collision Time” compilation came out April 17, 1982. Here’s “Let’s Build a Car.”
Ahhh. Just what I needed this morning — the grind, the chug, the energy.
Engine Kid’s slowcore cover of “The Needle and the Damage Done” has been on my mind lately.
Today’s musical selections from the letter “P”.
