Laurent Thibault and Iggy Pop, taking a break from cutting "The Idiot" in summer '76
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
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Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Would anybody in NYC like a free copy of the OED? We are downsizing...
there's something comforting & Old Hollywood about this ridiculous story. you can imagine Louis B. Mayer squinting at a press release. "what the hell is the..'Peasants' Revolt of 1381'? Can this be a Robin Hood picture? look, we can sell a Robin Hood picture" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
Marketing meltdown: why has Andrew Garfield’s new film suddenly added Robin Hood?
Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure
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that long mid-seventies moment when Wenner paid authors handsomely to figure out what the hell exactly happened in the last few years of the 60s (also, some music here and there)
Dr Pop Culture USA@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 24h agoRolling Stone (August 28, 1975)
filmed 60 years ago on this date, 28 Aug 1966: most exterior shots of "The Prisoner"'s opening sequence, with McGoohan & the stuntman Jack Cooper driving the Lotus Super 7 (No. 6's HQ's entrance was the Abingdon St Car Park) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1_...
The Prisoner (1967) | HD Opening Titles
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A new biography of the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith is out right now and I had the pleasure of sitting down with its author Jamie Fisher for my newsletter www.isthisrealpdx.com/remembering-...
Remembering Elliott Smith With Author Jamie Fisher
Hello at long last, my lovely subscribers. It's been a minute. I had planned on taking the week before last off so I could venture north with my sister and spend a whirlwind weekend in Victoria BC. B...
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I wrote about Dolly and Appalachia for this week’s Scratch. www.talkscratch.com/dolly-parton...
Dolly Parton Loved Being Dolly Parton
It was one of the most important aspects of her art.
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my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
Dolly Parton Never Wavered
From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.
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the last few days are a hard reminder to celebrate people while they're here. so, here's to Shirley Manson, who turns 60 today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIPM...
Garbage - Live in Boston 1995 ( Full Concert )
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also keep thinking about 1946 being the start of the baby boom, too: all these very different children growing up in a world that felt irrevocably changed from the one their parents had grown up in. they had to forge their own identities, choose their own models, escape however they could. or not.
J Bogart@jonathanbogart.net · 3d agopeople up and down the timeline hoping all the 80-year-old camp icons we love and revere are safe, meanwhile there's an 80-year-old camp icon we all hate and hope is taken instead. camp is a neutral descriptor. artifice is artifice whether wielded for good or evil, and it can be wielded for either.
Tim Curry: "I Put a Spell on You," one of my favorite versions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbXr...
Tim Curry - I Put A Spell On You
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One kid on IT unthinkingly wore a Rocky Horror shirt to the set. There’s Tim Curry slouched in his chair, full Pennywise gear, smoking. ‘You like that, do you?’
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
My Pop Con paper about Tim Curry's pop music career. I said a lot of what I had to say about him here. A witty man, a great friend--especially to Holland Taylor and Annie Potts--and an enigma who supported his many LGBTQ fans, but kept his private life private, even in his memoir. Rest well, icon.
"I Do the Rock": A Stimulating Study of the Song That Defined Tim Curry's Pop Career
Here is the text of the paper (and a portion of the slide show) I presented at the Pop Conference on April 23, 2022. Full title: "I Do ...
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my Tim Curry story, which I think i've told a few times. I interviewed him when I was in college--he was starring in "Three Musketeers." Asked him something like how did he approach a villain role & he said he liked to give directors 3 options: "standard," "over-the-top" and "top over-the-top"
Vigo is an easy one: you could see it all in one ambitious evening
Dr Pop Culture USA@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 3d agoWho is the filmmaker that you seen ALL or almost all of his or her work?
Jonestown, but only as a vague, disturbing thing in the background. The first "i remember where i was when it happened" was Reagan being shot
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5d agoWhat's the first historic event that you remember?
there are literally hundreds of Dolly Parton compilations, and this is one of the best, from 1997. tightly focused on a period, has all the big hits & a few great lesser-known ones:
"What Would Dolly Do?" doesn't work any other way. Walter Chaw wrote upon her passing that Olivia Newton-John's "brand was kindness," a spot-on assessment of her unique place in the culture. Similarly, Dolly's brand was generosity. She chose to be The Greater Good itself. That's what we've lost.
Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...
On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era
Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...
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Power-listening to Dolly Parton this afternoon, I'm kind of struck by a weird resemblance to Eddie Van Halen, in that both had kind of astonishing musician's-musician sensibilities buried deep within outsized, very commercially succesful personas
i think it was in the linda ronstadt doc - her and emmylou talk about getting trio together, and how absolutely geeked they were to get in the same room with dolly - how instantly brilliant she was
Jes Steele ✌️@piratito.com · 4d agoDolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
![When the 1974 recording of the song reached number one on the country charts, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to record the song.
Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.
[28] Parton refused. She recalls:
I said, 'I'm really sorry,' and I cried all night. I mean, it was like the worst thing. You know, it's like, Oh, my God... Elvis Presley.' And other people were saying, 'You're nuts. It's Elvis Presley!'...I said, 'I can't do that.
Something in my heart says, 'Don't do that. And I just didn't do it... He would have killed it. But anyway, so he didn't. Then when Whitney [Houston's version] came out, I made enough money to buy Graceland. 29]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxplkzuausfufk5dthatrd5m/bafkreihq5mquwwvljjtys7fyqpnwvzj4cnfrkinrrbuhflwrdkxerzcghi)
RIP Dolly. I’ve been listening incessantly to the cover of “After the Gold Rush” she did with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. That the immense technical skill she had as a vocalist was possible to overlook in light of her other gifts is a testament to her achievements. youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?...
Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
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critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc
one of the great anti-nostalgia songs: the old times are gone, thank god. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuv...
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
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