Photo By Gail
Oh father high in heaven , smile down upon your son
whose busy with his money games — his women and his gun.
Oh Jesus save me!
And the unsung Western hero, killed an Indian or three
and made his name in Hollywood
to set the white man free.
Oh Jesus save me!
Continue reading Lyrics of The Day: Jethro Tull’s “Hymn 43”
As Pure and Strange as What I See (For Lou Reed), 2013 (All Photos By Gail)
Painter Erik den Breejen is back at Freight + Volume for There’s a Riot Goin’ On, his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Den Breejen’s paintings play with a mosaic of text, color, and pattern, and the embodiment of music, film, comedy and literature. He uses lyrics, quotes, jokes, and poems of iconic figures from the early 1970s to express the collective – and sometimes tragic – unconscious of the time.
Continue reading Erik den Breejen’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On at Freight and Volume
David Poe – When I Fly from David Poe on Vimeo
I’m really excited about this week’s clip, “When I Fly” by singer/songwriter David Poe, an artist I first wrote about way back in 1996. Poe’s music reminded me then of serious 1970s-era performers like James Taylor but also Art Garfunkel and the great Tim Moore (who, as far as I know is still alive, but hasn’t recorded an album in almost 30 years, WTF?). Anyway, “When I Fly” reveals evidence of those same types of seventies-ish influences. This says two things to me: 1. That, musically, David Poe knows his shit, and 2. Poe understands that if it works, don’t fix it. Continue reading Video Clip of The Week: David Poe, “When I Fly”
Photo By Gail
It must have been a while since I walked west on 7th Street towards Avenue A, because today I noticed for the first time that the Joe Strummer Memorial Mural has been restored to the East 7th Street façade of the exterior of Niagara Bar, located at corner of Avenue A and 7th Street. The original mural, created by street artists Dr. REVOLT and Zephyr after Strummer’s death in 2002, was removed in 2013 to facilitate structural repairs to the building. The piece has now been recreated (a little Googling reveals it reappeared in September 2013) by Dr. REVOLT in a similar but still recognizably different style.
Continue reading Joe Strummer Memorial Mural Recreated in East Village NYC
Image Courtesy of Alan Dicker
“IIIII’m bringing Bacon, so you better get this Bacon Dance Party Started!”