Monthly Archives: March 2015

Sitting In The Korova Milk Bar

March 26, 2015 – 1:27 pm

I loved CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 homage to Anthony Burgess’ violent vision of the future. After famed interior designer/sculptor Alan Jones refused to work on the film for free, the director hired set designer John Barry to replicate Alan Jones’ naked female tables and chairs for the movie’s Korova Milk Bar. For years I […]

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The Birth Of Puberty

March 26, 2015 – 12:40 pm

This morning the temperature in New York finally rose above freezing. This afternoon my longtime fiend AK phoned from Jupiter Beach. “It’ll be in the 80s later. We might go to the beach.” “Not a chance I’m swimming at the Rockaways till this summer.” The ocean was never warm off New York. “I called to […]

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Assata For Freedom

March 25, 2015 – 7:47 pm

Resistance is not futile.

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Save The Library

March 25, 2015 – 7:41 pm

Haoui Montauk was a poet. He lived a long life in the last century. The New York native regarded the New York public library as the epitome of intellectualism. Haoui was right, but in the era of greed-driven ignorance certain special interests have sought to change the format of the library’s mission from knowledge to […]

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Joy Division USA Tour 1980

March 24, 2015 – 2:22 pm

32 years ago New Wave rockers across America were excitedly anticipating Joy Division’s May 1980. The Manchester band was scheduled to appear at Hurrah in New York for three nights. None of us were expecting to hear the news of the singer’s suicide on the eve of his departure. Ian Curtis was dead. He had […]

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