album cover #17: jimi hendrix experience electric ladyland. whoa, man, far out.
max abelson's super groovy music video spectacular
aka "max abelson and his funktified flying fortress of old music videos"
this is the plan:
m. 60s
tu. 70s
w. 80s
th. 90s
fri. 00s
i write for the new york observer -- email me at mabelson at observer.com
beck says: "mtv makes me want to smoke crack... condominiums rising above, and those videos are better than love."
tom waits says: "his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash, made good bloody marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time, had a little chihuahua named carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind."
phil spector says: "i'm dealing in rock n roll. i'm not a bonafide human being."
leonard cohen says about phil spector: "at a certain point phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, 'leonard, i love you.' i said, 'i hope you do, phil.'"
tom wolfe once told me about phil spector: "we were having coffee or something to drink, i forget, at 2 am at the plaza hotel. phil had this long hair, down to his shoulders, he’s a very strange looking guy, it’s, well, anyway, this was before longish hair was everywhere, it goes back. i could see at this table nearby, there were two couples, i remember, they were older people, at least in the 60s, they’d whisper at each other and look at phil and whisper at each other. finally this lady, tanked, comes over to phil and says, ‘alright, sonny, what’s your problem?’ and he said, ‘premature ejaculation, what’s yours?’ he didn’t bat an eye! he came back with it so fast.”
bubblicious flavors that could have been good names for this blog: bursts with thunder, gonzo grape, tropical tango, lebron's lightning lemonade
brian eno songs that will make excellent book titles for my ten-volume memoir, chronologically ordered: here he comes, baby's on fire, the lost day, swanky, brutal ardour, events in dense fog, the fat lady of limbourg, some of them are old, dead finks don’t talk, what actually happened?
ry cooder albums that every living man should own: into the purple valley, boomer's story, paradise and lunch
"whenever i start playing around on youtube i always end up watching that lady fall over while stomping grapes, so it's nice to have someone steer me in a more worthwhile direction." - the 33 1/3 book series' blog (on the spectacular).
there are no upper-case letters on this site, except for in this grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
#1 favorite song on the white album: long long long
#2 favorite song on the white album: happiness is a warm gun
#3 favorite song on the white album: sexy sadie
woody allen's reasons to live: "i would say groucho marx, to name one thing, and willie mays, and the second movement of the jupiter symphony, and louie armstrong’s recording of potatohead blues, swedish movies, naturally. sentimental education by flaubert, marlon brando, frank sinatra, those incredible apples and pears by cézanne, the crabs at sam wo’s, tracy’s face."
john lennon's middle name: ono
thelonious monk's middle name: sphere
my middle name: joseph
great maxes of history: max weber, max weinberg, max factor, max power, max abelson, max silvestri, max goof, max headroom, max ernst, max rockatansky
"i ain't gotta get you to like me but i can get a person to pay attention. like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, i want them to be able to ask me a question and i'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap. that's how you do it, that's how you bring people into whatever you want to bring them into." - lil wayne
"i love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. and mother. and god." - johnny cash
"a music video a day keeps the apple doctor away" - jesus
leave comments! email me! and please listen at a very high volume
see the archive (or search the site at bottom-left) for more grooviness
this is the plan:
m. 60s
tu. 70s
w. 80s
th. 90s
fri. 00s
i write for the new york observer -- email me at mabelson at observer.com
beck says: "mtv makes me want to smoke crack... condominiums rising above, and those videos are better than love."
tom waits says: "his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash, made good bloody marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time, had a little chihuahua named carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind."
phil spector says: "i'm dealing in rock n roll. i'm not a bonafide human being."
leonard cohen says about phil spector: "at a certain point phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, 'leonard, i love you.' i said, 'i hope you do, phil.'"
tom wolfe once told me about phil spector: "we were having coffee or something to drink, i forget, at 2 am at the plaza hotel. phil had this long hair, down to his shoulders, he’s a very strange looking guy, it’s, well, anyway, this was before longish hair was everywhere, it goes back. i could see at this table nearby, there were two couples, i remember, they were older people, at least in the 60s, they’d whisper at each other and look at phil and whisper at each other. finally this lady, tanked, comes over to phil and says, ‘alright, sonny, what’s your problem?’ and he said, ‘premature ejaculation, what’s yours?’ he didn’t bat an eye! he came back with it so fast.”
bubblicious flavors that could have been good names for this blog: bursts with thunder, gonzo grape, tropical tango, lebron's lightning lemonade
brian eno songs that will make excellent book titles for my ten-volume memoir, chronologically ordered: here he comes, baby's on fire, the lost day, swanky, brutal ardour, events in dense fog, the fat lady of limbourg, some of them are old, dead finks don’t talk, what actually happened?
ry cooder albums that every living man should own: into the purple valley, boomer's story, paradise and lunch
"whenever i start playing around on youtube i always end up watching that lady fall over while stomping grapes, so it's nice to have someone steer me in a more worthwhile direction." - the 33 1/3 book series' blog (on the spectacular).
there are no upper-case letters on this site, except for in this grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
#1 favorite song on the white album: long long long
#2 favorite song on the white album: happiness is a warm gun
#3 favorite song on the white album: sexy sadie
woody allen's reasons to live: "i would say groucho marx, to name one thing, and willie mays, and the second movement of the jupiter symphony, and louie armstrong’s recording of potatohead blues, swedish movies, naturally. sentimental education by flaubert, marlon brando, frank sinatra, those incredible apples and pears by cézanne, the crabs at sam wo’s, tracy’s face."
john lennon's middle name: ono
thelonious monk's middle name: sphere
my middle name: joseph
great maxes of history: max weber, max weinberg, max factor, max power, max abelson, max silvestri, max goof, max headroom, max ernst, max rockatansky
"i ain't gotta get you to like me but i can get a person to pay attention. like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, i want them to be able to ask me a question and i'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap. that's how you do it, that's how you bring people into whatever you want to bring them into." - lil wayne
"i love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. and mother. and god." - johnny cash
"a music video a day keeps the apple doctor away" - jesus
leave comments! email me! and please listen at a very high volume
see the archive (or search the site at bottom-left) for more grooviness