Great interview with Anthony Delia, the guy who drives around Williamsburg in his Subaru singing along to Motown tunes. Thanks, Russel Fong!
Poster by Matt Volz for the Beets, Christmas Island, Beach Fossils tour earlier this year. $8 here.
“Anybody who believes that sports cannot be an effective platform for social justice need only to have watched the game last night and they would’ve been forever changed. The broadcast alone last night, it started with one of the NBA reporters outside the arena covering a civil rights march that was taking place outside the arena. And then the in-studio hosts, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Chris Weber, all former players, took turns taking shots a Governor Jan Brewer and the law. And Chris Weber, former player, even cited “By the Time I Get to Arizona” and John McCain and his former support for boycotting the holiday of Dr. Martin Luther King. So it’s politicized this entire arena. And what the Suns did yesterday, is entirely without precedent.”- David Ziran, author of A People’s History of Sports
Los Suns! More at Ziran’s blog and Democracy Now!
Paul McCartney “Wanderlust.” Footage from the less-than-stellar film Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984). But, with Ringo and George Martin! The song, from the fairly good 1982 album Tug of War, is about his 1980 bust at Tokyo Narita airport for carrying 7.7 oz. of marijuana. He spent 10 days in jail and was subsequently deported. The lyrics may point to his suspicion that the pilot was part of the sting. Images of his stash can be seen in this vintage Japanese TV footage. More on Macca’s drug history here.
Christian Marclay “turntablist” performance from the October 29, 1989 episode of the short-lived music television show Night Music.
Chris Ware’s rejected Fortune 500 cover. Click to see the full size. It’s all in the details. More at The Beat.
“Vibration” by Tom Dissevelt, 1958. “In 1958, Philips tried to make ‘popular’ electronic music. For a couple of years “room 306” of the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven was allowed to make records like this. It did not catch on. You could say they were 30 years ahead of their time…” Via Tom Moody.
Photos I took of a super-colorful converted school bus camper.
