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GOOD DAY SUNSHINE
Snow on the mountains, brilliant cerulean blue sky, the view from third floor of the the physical therapy building parking structure; back home, tweeters on the roof; a deerhound on alert: a nice...
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DEATHMETAL with DARKRISE!
Feb. 16th in East L.A., brutal deathmetal from DARKRISE,all the way from Switzerland to the From Darkness Arose Immortality 2013 tour acrossthe USA with a passel of otherlike-minded bands...
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BUY IGGY and THE STOOGES, BE HAPPY
Photographs (C) 2011 Heather Harris. All Rights Reserved.Iggy and The Stooges' Tribute to Ron Asheton at the Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor show is now a DVD due out in April. You will never see Iggy and...
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RECENT CANINE PLAYDATES
Above and right, Callahanthe Deerhound came to race about full speed with Karis and Sarahbelle last week, pausing only to pose for a "Bob Guccione-style" backlit soft-focus shot at top.Hotter weather...
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ROCK OUT WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SWINGERS!
All photographs: The International Swingers, performing 2.7.13 to a sold-out, quite crowded Skinny's Lounge in Studio City CA. It's something of a jam band on steroids consisting of all punk and...
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INSIDE 'LIGHT OF DAY' RECONSIDERED
Light of Day beatific white lighting to suggest redemption/reconciliation, promo shot as featured in some cineaste magazine about production valuesAnother Light of Day promo shot of its fictional band...
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SNOWY MOUNTAIN RANGE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The day after a "winter" rainstorm remains the only time snow visits the mountain ranges of the Los Angeles basin, and even so it's all gone by noon of the same day. Here then are rare a.m. views of...
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VELVET THREADS, VINTAGE CLOTHING BOUTIQUE
Velvet Threads is a worthy vintage clothing and accessories boutique at 3203 Glendale Blvd. in the Atwater Village sector of Los Angeles, open to the public Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Unlike...
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THE DOGS record anew and promote JAIL GUITAR DOORS
Back in the recording studio to get newest song "Let's Go Baby" and a cover of Eddie and the Hot Rods' "Do Anything You Want To Do" down for posterity, THE DOGS also took time to promote Jail Guitar...
View ArticlePOPEulism via Phil Ochs
The headlines today overflow with news of a newly elected Argentine pontiff, which means a great deal to a great many. While avoiding corrupted religious processes, I nonetheless adore great art and...
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ROCKIN' WITH ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM
Andrew Loog Oldham, the manager who famously introduced the Rolling Stones to our known universe gave an articulate talk last night (3.14.13) at Book Soup, Hollywood promoting his third book "Stone...
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3 SMALL PHOTOS FROM 1969
Above, a photograph I took as a teenager of a friend in the Franklyn Canyon reservoir of Beverly Hills, famed locale of Opie's Fishin' Hole on the Andy Griffith show.She was a budding professional...
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LOUISE BROOKS in PANDORA'S BOX (1929)
I'm a fan of great silent movies because they're time machines, letting us watch people like ourselves who, however, lived about 90+ years ago. Haven't you ever wondered what it would be like to watch...
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WISTERIA 2013
W e l c o m e t o t h e w i s t e r i a j u n g l e . . . (our 101 year old wisteria vines didn't produce much in the way of blossoming this year due to unusually arid winter.)
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RON YOUNG with The Blue-Eyed Devils and Little Caesar
The Blue-Eyed Devils are an informal supergroup of top tier musicians associated with Unison Music Group (label and studio) which itself associates with Johnny Depp, Cher, Joe Perry, Adam Ant,...
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SELF ON THE MEND
I don't display my face on Facebookfor reasons of personal irony, but herein and above would be yours truly as of a coupleof days ago in our back yard with my arm andleg on the mend (see prior...
View ArticleGO YOUR CHEAPLY DEFAME TODAY!
This is an actual, verbatim business memo promotion that we received in the mails. The name has been changed to protect the guilty. Go your cheaply defame today! As "productX" experts, we have been...
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WISTERIA 2013 2.0 and signs of spring
Digital futzing with the few wisteria blooms of an arid winter...Below, a three day old Quarter horse foal and mum seen through a fence on my drive to the stable,and a Paul Klee-ish pattern emerged...
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ROY WOOD, 1974, bagpipes
Roy Wood playing bagpipes inWizzard live, Santa MonicaCivic Auditorium, 1974.
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BRITISH CAR SHOW, Van Nuys, Calif., 2013
Top photo: Sunbeam Imp; below left, beloved of Sarah Palin-- a Bristol; right, my brother ogles a SoCal surfer-styled woodie sidecar coupled with a Triumph motorbike: room atop only for a boogie board...
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