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Hullabaloo Vols. 9-12 DVD

Written by John Strausbaugh on April 2, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Hey kid. The next time one of us old coots starts rattling on and on about how great the pop music environment was in the mid-60s, try shutting him up with a single word: Hullabaloo. In those pre-MTV years, tv was hardly a pop music wasteland. There was rock, pop and soul all over tv
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Aidan Higgins’ Flotsam & Jetsam

Written by John Strausbaugh on March 26, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Sharing the streets on St. Patrick’s Day with a bunch of Irish-for-a-day amateur drunks never fails to have me questioning that side of my family roots (the Ryans, my middle name). I spent a fair amount of time in Ireland in the 80s researching traditional Irish music. The musicians, who did the Irish Catholic self-effacement
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Slaves of the Music Industry

Written by John Strausbaugh on March 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Everyone knows that The White Man Stole The Black Man’s Music. Right? That from the blues and ragtime up through jazz, rock ’n’ roll and hiphop, the black folk innovate, the white folk imitate. And the white folk make all the money. That’s the central line of a new essay collection, R&B (Rhythm & Business):
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Patti Smith Fights for Greenpoint

Written by John Strausbaugh on March 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Benefit People Fight the Power Sure, let’s all go. Leave it all for the Indians. Or not even. The rocks and insects. Then on Saturday night, half past midnight, at Warsaw (aka the Polish National Home) on Driggs Ave., I watched Patti Smith and her band rock a mobbed-deep sold-out crowd as she climaxed her
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An MBA Ex-Con’s Memoir

Written by John Strausbaugh on March 5, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Jimmy A. Lerner doesn’t conform to anyone’s idea of the ex-con. At 50, he seems more like what he was before he went to prison: your average Jewish guy from Flatbush, funny and wisecracking but otherwise harmless, with a wife and two kids and a house in the Bay Area suburbs, just another MBA holding
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Radical Thought

Written by John Strausbaugh on February 19, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It takes some balls, in the current climate, for a small press to release an anthology of its first quarter-century under the title Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader (Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 430 pages, $16.95). Then when you look inside you see the title was not suggested by one of Semiotext(e)’s dogmatic revolutionaries like Ulrike Meinhof,
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Shocked and Amazed! #6

Written by John Strausbaugh on February 12, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Percilla and Emmitt Bejano were a celebrated show-business couple, kind of like Tom and Nicole were, though I’d say neither as glamorous nor as monstrous as Tom and Nicole. The Bejanos’ branch of showbiz was the sideshow biz. An authentically "bearded lady" with dense black body hair, Percilla was billed as The Monkey Girl. Because
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David Zeldis, Outsider Artist/Writer

Written by John Strausbaugh on February 5, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I had a good night’s sleep and awoke early in the morning refreshed. It was my third day in the year two million A.D. I was in a much more sanguine mood. The pain from the fly bites was all but gone and they were healing nicely. I felt energetic but I was hungry again.
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Feral House’s Adam Parfrey Brings Us Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism Just in Time

Written by John Strausbaugh on January 29, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Consider, Adam Parfrey suggests, that no fewer than a dozen nations have issued stamps commemorating that little Palestinian boy shot dead cowering in the street with his dad, in full view of the news cameras, at the start of the second Intifada. Read what some young radical Muslims are writing, from a post-9/11 ode to
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Joel Schalit, Secular Marxist and Punk Rock Intellectual, Discusses Jerusalem Calling

Written by John Strausbaugh on January 22, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

For Joel Schalit’s eighth birthday, Yitzak Rabin gave him a model of an F-4 Phantom jet. This was in a Moroccan restaurant in the Old City of Jerusalem, in 1976. "I sat quietly," Schalit writes, "staring at my couscous, thinking, Rabin gave me a Phantom jet, Rabin gave me a Phantom jet…" As the American-born
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