“In eighteen months, he never once called me by my name… I have a lot of respect for him, but his manners need a little work.” –Sheryl Crow “We love Michael so much, we let the first kid slide.” –Chris Rock “You got to put the jelly on the jelly.” -Michael Jackson
posted 2 July 2009 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
Is there anything groovier than the first fifteen seconds of “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”? Over a buzzy bassline, Michael Jackson talks in a voice that’s as close to his natural speaking voice as most people would ever hear (the breathy falsetto was a guise he adopted when in public). “You know, I was, […]
posted 2 July 2009 in Tasty Bits. 2 comments
Trying to remember when I first became aware of Michael Jackson, I realized I had two separate exposures to him around the age of ten–and I’m not sure that as a child, I realized both came from the same person. I vividly remember hearing the ballad “She’s Out of My Life” on AM radio, particularly […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about Lester Bangs’ eulogy for Elvis Presley. In some ways, I suppose the career of Michael Jackson undermines his point–but the sentiment has never in my life seemed so true. If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our […]
posted 1 July 2009 in Excerpts. 3 comments
When the news of Michael Jackson’s death started to leak out, I was on a plane to Texas. So I missed those first few hours of conflicting reports–what I got was a flat announcement from a woman with a cell phone one row in front of me, ten seconds after the plane hit the Dallas […]
posted 1 July 2009 in News. no comments yet
More Andy Warhol: Tuesday, June 21, 1977 There was a black guy at the door of the Rainbow Room who didn’t know me and wouldn’t let me in and then another guy came to the door and it turned out to be this guy who always tells me that he wants his lobster pot back. […]
posted 29 June 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
Taken two weeks ago, around the corner from my house, a short waddle from the puddle in the street where they had set up temporary residency.
posted 26 June 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Another entry from the Andy Warhol Diaries, this one describing a dinner party. Saturday, June 18, 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Scorsese, Martin’s parents, were there. They’re taller than he is, which is unusual, because kids are usually taller than their parents…. There was a Negro girl with a baby, too, and the guy with the […]
Lately, it’s been reported that Val Kilmer is considering running for governor of New Mexico. Far be it from me to meddle in the internal affairs of another state, and I suppose Kilmer would be a step up from the guy on the corner shouting at the passing traffic, but hey, Land of Enchantment: I […]
posted 23 June 2009 in Archives, Articles. 6 comments
Taken, like the Squid vs. Whale picture from a few weeks back, on a trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York City; I then had fun playing with the settings in iPhoto.
posted 19 June 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
