Filed under: gay, hot | Tags: best week ever, headmaster magazine, new york city, pulp
This video of Pulp at the Reading Festival in 1994 has been on Youtube for a year and it only has 1400 views so far, which is a crazy shame that maybe we should all collectively cry about. It’s so good! And the sound is good, too.
Anyway, I’m going to see Pulp IN THE FLESH at Radio City Music Hall tonight and I am so so so so so excited. I haven’t seen them live ever, and also I haven’t been to Radio City since my largely Jewish sixth-grade class took a big trip (with most of our parents) down there to see the Rockettes. (It took us six hours to get there and the one clear memory I have of that trip is this one girl Lori Carocciola’s mom spent some of the gridlock time by dancing in the aisles when “Rumpshaker” came on the radio. Oh, and that we almost didn’t make it back home because that same girl’s dad had disappeared into a bar at one point and the bus driver wouldn’t leave because we were one person short.)
Earlier this week Pulp announced a show at Radio City Music Hall, and tickets went on sale at 10am, and when I checked at 9:59 tickets hadn’t gone on sale yet and when I tried to but two tickets at 10am they were sold out already and when I tried to get one ticket at 10:01am that was also sold out and then when I tried again at about 10:04 I got stuck in this endless loop of Ticketmaster wait time.
Argggggggggggh.
Filed under: hookers, people from rhode island, porn | Tags: amazon, cybersocket, gay art, internet porn, movember, pedophilia, prostitution, pulp, rhode island, sweden, the smithsonian, the un, trafficking
While I sit here and wait for a call from a pair of models who may be flaking on me, I thought I’d drop you some news updates.
A little over one year after prostitution was criminalized in Rhode Island, the police have brought their first trafficking charges against two 23-year old men from New York who, according to be police, first came to Rhode Island because of the prostitution law. Surprisingly, the Providence Journal article spends three paragraphs describing how the trafficked woman was not carried away in handcuffs, and how she was immediately taken to meet with an advocate from Day One, a local rape crisis center.
The UN, however, does not have nice things to say about American sex work laws.
The king of Sweden used to visit Mafia-run sex clubs when he was younger, according to a new book.
The Smithsonian is looking at gay portraiture for the first time since, like, ever.
Consumers went nuts this week calling for an Amazon boycott, after it came out that they were selling a pro-pedophilia book. Hundreds of people responded by angrily giving the book a one-star rating.
Nominations are out for this year’s Cybersocket Awards; again, I realize I know nothing at all about the current state of porn.
It’s Movember.
Finally, you’ve probably heard this already, but it’s worth repeating: Pulp are getting back together!
[image: Croatian designer Matija Drozdek; via Escape Into Life]
I can’t even tell you how many boners this song has given me since I first bought Pulp’s His N Hers album as a tenth-grader. But we’re probably talking about a three-digit number.
Filed under: music, personal | Tags: petula clark, phones, pulp, sheena easton
I got a new phone. Not that that concerns you, but hey! Any excuse to post this video.
Two more phone-related wonders by two of my favorite artists after the jump:
But here’s a song about giving thanks for all of you nice people out there.
It’s from Scott Walker’s 1970 album ‘Til The Band Comes In. I’ve never heard the album in its entirety, though the second half is supposed to be very terrible; Jarvis Cocker included it on his list of “sad imitations that got it all wrong” at the end of Bad Cover Version (a song Walker himself produced.)
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#7. Pulp, The Birds In Your Garden
This week, despite the fact that I am completely ass-broke, I bought Further Complications, the new Jarvis Cocker album. I haven’t put it on yet, though; I’m waiting for the right moment.
As a teenager I thought Pulp were The Greatest Band To Have Ever Lived, from the very first time I heard “Common People” on the radio. I was a complete Anglophile at the time, and also very horny and awkward and therefore able to relate to the dozen anthems–and they are anthems, every last one of them–on Different Class. Then This Is Hardcore came out in 1998, and I liked that album just as much, maybe more, even if the songs were a little harder to warm up to. (“A Little Soul” is one of their best, though, as are “Glory Days” and the very underrated album track “Sylvia.”)
In December of 2001, when I made this list, We Love Life wasn’t even out in the US yet. I got it on import from Canada. The record was… okay. The poppier numbers, like “Bob Lind” and “The Night Minnie Temperley Died”, stood out immediately, though there also seemed to be a lot of sluggish wankery in “I Love Life” and “Weeds” and “Sunrise”. (more…)
Filed under: mixtape, music | Tags: abba, abba covers, mamma mia!, mixtapes, pulp, Stephin Merritt
I can’t think of a current movie that makes me want to have sex less than Mamma Mia! does. Nevertheless, I’ll take any excuse I can to write about how much I love ABBA (a lot!)
Oddly, while the group’s songs are for the most part perfectly crafted, there aren’t that many great covers of ABBA songs, and the most popular ones (the ones in Mamma Mia!, the A-Teens and Erasure’s ABBA phase) are all pretty boring, I think.
Nevertheless, here’s slightly less than an hour’s worth of ABBA covers, ABBA interpolations, and songs that I think sound like ABBA. There’s equal parts cheese and shoegazing, which I think is interesting. (More than one of the fuzzier songs come from ABBAsalutely, the Flying Nun tribute from 1995.) The only really glaring omissions, I think, are Evan Dando’s Knowing Me Knowing You (which I like a lot, but only have taped off the radio about ten years ago) and Elvis Costello and Anne Sofie Von Otter’s Like An Angel Passing Through My Room, which I also don’t have and which would have probably sounded terribly out of place, anyway.
1. Camera Obscura, Super Trouper
2. Bike, My Love My Life
3. Lush, Hey Hey Helen
4. The Leather Nun, Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
5. Loves Ugly Children, Honey Honey
6. Pulp, We Can Dance Again
7. Salma & Sabina, Mitha Maze Dar
8. Army Of Lovers, Hasta Manana
9. The 6ths (featuring Anna Domino), Here In My Heart
10. Information Society, Lay All Your Love On Me
11. JAMs, The Queen and I
12. Martha Wainwright, The Name of the Game
13. The Headless Chickens, Super Trouper
14. Boney M, Felicidad
15. Tall Dwarfs, On and On and On
