Monthly Archives: January 2010

Wolf’s Moon

January 30, 2010 – 5:05 pm

The full moon through this Saturday will be the largest and brightest of the year. This is also called the Wolf Moon, which will be 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than a typical full moon.The moon’s orbit around Earth is not a circle, but an ellipse, with one side 50,000 km closer to […]

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Winter Ist Hier

January 29, 2010 – 9:13 pm

It’s cold outside my Brooklyn apartment and I’m debating whether to bolster my interior heat core with a bacon and eggs from the Academy. The temperature is 19F. Cold, but I’ve been colder. -40F atop Wildcat Mountain across from My. Washington. The year was 1971. The chairlift operator warned that that our run would be […]

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CHINESE ROCKS – song of the day

January 29, 2010 – 8:51 pm

Nothing says 1970s Lower East Side better than Johnny Thunders performing the classic CHINESE ROCKS. “I’M LIVING ON CHINESE ROCKS. ALL MY BEST THINGS ARE IN HOCK.” For a listen to this song, click on this following URL Is this the past or the future of mankind? I’m hoping for a little of both although […]

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Look Away – Iggy Pop

January 26, 2010 – 9:58 pm

Sometimes you have to ask yourself why Iggy never was a superstar. LOOK AWAY conveys the story of Johnny Thunders and Sable, his muse. Heroin, the needle, and beauty. Definitely not Top 40. Go to URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nN3KsdtF9o to hear this classic. For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2009/03/06/music/louie-louie-by-iggy-pop.htm

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Herb Brown Opening 1/27 BLT 270 The Bowery

January 26, 2010 – 9:41 pm

I used to have dreams about walking in public without my trousers. It was a scary thought and Herb brown captured this phobia in his paintings from the 1960s. Exhibitionesque elegance and tomorrow the BLT gallery at 270 the Bowery will be presenting his works. I’ll be there. And so will the international B-movie legend […]

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