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The American Metaphysical Circus: You Can't Ever Come Down
It would be too easy to wax nostalgic for nostalgic wax and just list the records that you heard first and will remember always coming out of your older brother's portable radio, the one in the...
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Jane Russell: Mean, Moody, and Magnificent
Obviously, once upon a time there were no Kardashian sisters, no up skirt websites, no mass produced semi-celebrity sex tapes, and no instantly publishable photographs of the glitterati sans...
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10 Reasons Why This Pic Works for Me
1. Look, I've always wanted a good reason for letting Paris Hilton into my heart. 2. Her hands are not perfect (read claw hand). 3. Any Captain Beefheart publicity is good publicity (even hoax...
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I don't have a new Pony, but I do have a new Hobby
Forget the burgeoning baseball season, forget rereading Raymond Chandler or keep reading Steve Erickson, forget the Boston Globe sports page, forget continually listening to Little...
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Starting with their Brilliant Name: The Clash
Maybe if Svengali manager Bernie Rhodes hadn't liked Paul Simonon's idea about a name for the outfit he and his friend Mick Jones had assembled, we'd never have The Clash, perhaps the most...
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The Word According to Festus
With the recent passing of that sublime and absolutely natural Westerner James Arness, who will live in perpetuity as the forever able and Zen-master-with-a -six-gun Matt Dillon in endless reels...
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Sunburst Finish: Be-Bop Deluxe at their most luxurious
Be-Bop Deluxe was one of those mid-seventies bands that plugged the gap between glam and punk like Roxy Music on one side and Thin Lizzy on the other, less ballsy than the latter and less campy than...
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Withnail and I: La Fin D'une E'poque
It’s (nearly) 2012! High time we made a collective admission; that is, for those of us who were there, or in my case, for those of us whose older brothers were there as the watershed moments went...
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Don Rickles: The Methuselah of Stand-Up
I’m putting this out here right now ___ Don Rickles should host the 2013 Academy Awards Show. Billy Crystal can watch from home, or maybe, since Crystal is such a fan of the octogenarian Rickles,...
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