For your reading pleasure on this hot Monday, an episode in celebrity medicine from The Andy Warhol Diaries: Sunday, December 19, 1976 Went to work (magazines and newspapers for week $26). Lou Reed called and that was the drama of the day. He’d come back from a successful tour, he was a big hit in […]
posted 20 April 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
YouTube being what it is, I don’t expect these clips to stay up indefinitely, but I’ll post links to the videos I write about in the 1988 countdown when they’re available. (I tried embedding them, with nasty results–when I’m feeling more industrious, I might try downloading the plugin that allegedly solves the problem. For now, […]
posted 14 May 2008 in 1988, Links. no comments yet
The first time I ever saw this video was in my college’s basement TV room, where I watched MTV and not much else (The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, and election results rounded it out, I think). The camera swooped dramatically over a black-and-white lunar landscape as a dirty guitar riff came out of the speakers. Then […]
posted 8 May 2008 in 1988. 1 comment