MSGM Pre Fall 2012/13 — on the Detective fashion wish list
Detective’s James Greer in conversation with Hole’s Eric Erlandson last night at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. Photo by Cecil Castellucci. A good time was had by many.
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Being arrested for public intoxication is not cool, but this man makes the most of it by pleading about the “brotherhood of men on the planet” and then belting out Bohemian Rhapsody in its entirety. Mama Mia!
I love coffee time.
Day 8: Coffee Time
The secret’s out: Red Pandas love coffee.
Buy this print:
It’s always coffee time chez Detective.
Détective receives some French pop love from a French pop lover.
Eric Erlandson – Letters to Kurt
On Thursday, March 29 at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, Eric Erlandson will read from and discuss his new book Letters to Kurt with novelist/musician James Greer. More information can be found by clicking on the hyperlink cleverly embedded somewhere in this post.
Detective will be in attendance.
Strictly speaking, this isn’t Détective business as such, so file under tangential activity:
Relatively short notice, but for Los Angeles-area residents, Détective guitarist/singer James Greer will be discussing Eric Erlandson’s new book Letters to Kurt at Skylight Books on Thursday, March 29. All the information you could ever want and more can be found by clicking here.
Eric was co-founder of the band Hole, as we probably don’t need to tell you, and as such has seen his share of rock madness from a probably too-close perspective. Letters to Kurt takes the form of 52 prose poems addressed, however obliquely, to Kurt Cobain, and the writing process was clearly a kind of cathartic experience for Eric. James looks forward to taking apart his fragile psyche discussing the book with him Thursday. If you’re around, please do come out.
A British one penny coin from 1903 defaced by the Suffragettes.
Currency.
Gherasim Luca
Empreintes 10
Le poète Ghérassim Luca détournait les vieilles photographies qu’il achetait au Marché aux puces. Il les disposait dans un ordre subtil en y ajoutant des textes ou des collages. Il constituait ainsi des albums qui racontaient quelquefois une histoire et qui étaient tous différents les uns des autres. L’album que nous publions ici a été fait par Ghérassim Luca en ajoutant de petits collages sur des photos d’indiens du Brésil.(http://www.usine102.fr/?/Editions/empreintes/)
Empreintes 10 – Gherasim Luca
Detective needs more wine. Donations are welcome.
la peur, oui, mais la peur de quoi… ?
Detective performing As We Go Up We Go Down live on Episode 51: The Trouble With Stevie Nicks.
Big Thanks To Sound Guy Ben Crutcher For Putting This Together.
We did a Guided By Voices song from Alien Lanes. It was inevitable, really.
During our recent appearance on the wildly popular podcast Hugs and Disses, we performed a Guided By Voices song from the album Alien Lanes called “As We Go Up We Go Down.” The song is now available for you to watch on the YouTube. James would like to point out that due to the vagaries of podcasting and/or radio sessions in general, the vocal level in his headphones was really high so he thought he was singing a lot louder than he really was, which if you ask me is a lame excuse, but there you have it.
This was the first song James recorded with his old band. He sang harmonies and played bass on the original version. He is doing neither here.
More Slake After Darkness. James looks up at the teleprompter to see the chord chart. The chord chart says “Play G.” He plays G. He is a professional.
In the old days, kids, we had to write down setlists BY HAND. I know, right? This job often fell to me during my tenure, as my handwriting was (marginally) better than Bob Pollard’s. Here’s an example. I don’t know from which show.
Fontaines du Grand Palais, Paris
Lucien Clergue (French, b.1934)
1963
Fontaines du Grand Palais, Paris 1963 (n et b)
You can find many of the Dziga Vertov Group films J-L Godard made in collaboration with his fellow “militant filmmakers” in the early 70s at the indispensable site UBUWEB here
Screencap from Le Vent d’est on UBUWEB.
The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice.
Her voice sounds exactly as I have always imagined it. That’s a little eerie.
Detective enjoys the sound of Virginia Woolf’s voice.
©Marion Blank, Paris (le luxembourg), 2012
Detective has spent many hours in these chairs.
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