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LOVE REVISITED, THE PANDORAS at the 50th Anniversary of the RIOTS ON SUNSET...
Left,Love Revisited. Right, JohnnyEcholsof LoveReVisited The night of Nov. 12, 2016 was dedicated to its 50th Anniversary of the Riots on Sunset Strip that sprang from Pandora's Box club in Hollywood,...
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JIGSAW SEEN and NEW YORK JUNK live at Silverlake Lounge 12.10.16
↑Jigsaw Seen↑ ↓New York Junk↓ Best show with which to end this year's blog: an incredibly cool double-bill of Jigsaw Seen (above) and New York Junk at the Silverlake Lounge 12.10.16.Jonathan...
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THE BLESSINGS, THE GLAM SKANKS et al for FOXES Magazine David Bowie event...
↑ THE BLESSINGS↑ ↓ GLAM SKANKS↓The first item of business for 2017 in FASTFILMBLOG will be one the best, last shows of 2016, FOXES Magazine's David Bowie tribute show of all Bowie covers at the...
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R.I.P. SUZANNE COPLEY / IGGY HONORS SUZANNE REDUX
I met her at the Ann Arbor MI Iggy and The Stooges' show in tributeto Ron Asheton in 2011. On January 5, 2017 Suze Copley lost her battle with cancer.She reached out to the world extensively online...
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R.I.P. ANTONY ARMSTRONG-JONES, LORD SNOWDON
Above, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon; below, author/feminist iconoclast, rock music enthusiast Germaine Greer, fair usage photograph © 1971 Lord Snowdon.Rest in peace Antony Armstrong-Jones,...
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HAUNTING FACE FROM THE PAST 2.0
Photograph courtesy of Seth Kallen Deitch in the Facebook group BELLE EPOQUE to ART DECO, The First 40 years of 20th Century. What a knowing look on this young fashionista! The poster thought her to be...
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R.I.P. OVEREND WATTS
Rest in peace Overend Watts, bassist of Mott The Hoople who passed away today 1.22.17 of throat cancer. He is seen on the left with exposed hoople in my above photo. This was taken at the Hollywood...
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INGER LORRE live at OLD TOWN PUB, PASADENA 1.29.17
Inger Lorre played a "pop up" unplugged gig of her Nymphs' and solo material with Eric James Contreras at Pasadena's Old Town Pub on Jan. 29, 2017. That dazzling Rita Hayworth smile at top belied both...
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JAMES WILLIAMSON AND DENIZ TEK COLLABORATE ON 'ACOUSTIC K.O'
When rock's rowdiestpunk pro- genitors convene to refashion a few faves into acoustic fare,results =puregold. They also are rock's two most extraordinary extreme over-achievers: James Williamson,...
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THE BLESSINGS TEAR AWAY ALL COMERS at Hollywood's STATE SOCIAL HOUSE 1.28.17
Excitement and excellence on Jan. 28, 2017at West Hollywood's Station House (onetime site of the 1960s Sunset Strip's famed Old World Restaurant, beloved of long-hairs unwelcome at any other eatery...
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ART BOOK FAIR 2017, downtown LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23-26
The ART BOOK FAIR of Los Angeles remains a colorful, must-see free event for our local denizens, this year from Feb. 23 - 26. Held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Building, Downtown L.A., it...
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SOUPçON OF MARSUPIALS
...well...maybe it is! Gremlins come to life in a pygmy opposum? Better to get a quokka (third pic) or raise a baby wombat in a sanctuary. For further convincing, witness the cuteness overload of...
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AFTER THE RAIN 2017
Above, during the rains, Gia the Scottish Deerhound cozy in her hearthside place by the fire, with Deerhound effigy I drew in the background...Below, fortunate end to our six-year drought in Southern...
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JOHN KAY AND STEPPENWOLF with THE HAILERS at The Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills...
He was born Joachim Fritz Krauledat, April 12,1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany, now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, so one can understand why he might have anglicized his name in the 1960s to...
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CHEETAH CHROME live at the WHISKY A GOGO 2.16.17: All This And More Tour
Superb show 2.16.17 at the Whisky A GoGo starring Cheetah Chrome celebrating the 40th anniversary of his CBGB punk darlings The Dead Boys. Wild and fun: there's nothing like the authenticity of an...
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HAUNTING FACE 3.0, MARIA GAMBARELLI, 1922
First three photos of this haunting visage were by George Maillard Kesslere in 1922.Here's who she was--Born in Italy in 1900, Maria Gambarelli came to New York as a child, studied with Anna Pavlova,...
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JUGENDSTIL JEWELRY
Austrian or German Jugendstil(about 1890 - 1910) jewelry, sort of post-Art Nouveau, proto-Art Deco
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REST IN PEACE MICK LYNES
Rest in peace Mick Lynes, musician and gentleman, gone too soon...It happened within this last week, I know not the causes. Canadian born "Long Tall Mick" the Gypsy rocker was performing in his home...
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BRITISH CAR SHOW 2017
At Sunday's 2017 British Car Show: Mr. Twister in learned conversation beside Lotus Super Seven, automobile of Patrick McGoohan's #6 inThe Prisoner....
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RUBY FRIEDMAN ORCHESTRA live at The Study 3.29.17
Ruby Friedman Orchestra, 3.29.17 at The Study, Hollywood. Amongst the plethora of good talent here, Los Angeles hosts two world class female singer/songwriters of indisputable greatness, Leslie Knauer...
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