YOU CAN PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY: NY Dolls, TLA, November 25, 2006 NEW YORK DOLLS [FLICKR] PEACHES/MR. QUINTRON [FLICKR] CITIZEN MOM REPORTS: What the hell is Quintron doing back there? OK, there’s keyboards, and one of those whirling synth things you wave your hands over, and there’s a small drum kit, set behind the grill of an old Lincoln onstage at the Trocadero. The headlights work, of course, and when they blink to life, you know Mr. Q is about to go off. And my man lets loose, a Deep South dervish sweating through his nice white suit. […]
GLUCIFER: Dodgy Looking Bovine Seen Grazing Near Rittenhouse On Black Friday
Glue-filled locks on Walnut Street A sticky surprise for some retailers A vandal apparently seeking to make the annual Black Friday shopping blitz a little bit crazier for retailers in oneWhen the retailers arrived to open their stores early yesterday morning in the 1400, 1500 and 1600 blocks of Walnut Street, they found their keys would not work. Sixteen businesses were hit, Philadelphia police said, with about $200 in damage at each. The vandalism occurred between the close of business Wednesday and Thursday morning, they said. […] Another store got surveillance video of a suspect, a man who stood in […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
IMPEACH MY BUSH: Peaches, Trocadero, November 25, 2006 [FLICKR]
GETDOWN IMPERATIVE: Drop All Kittens, Puppies, Newborns And All Previous Engagements And Get Thine Ass To The Troc And Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture In Mr. Quintron’s General Direction TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the uninitiated, imagine if Pee Wee’s Playhouse was located on the Dark End Of The Streets of N’awlins where it’s sweaty and black and a little bit dangerous and the good times roll fast AND weird. Just the way you like it! Seriously, we saw these cats at Silk City 10 years ago at least. And we are still smiling about it. NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: The Oblivians Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron DIG IT!
GUNCRAZY: Murder, Mayhem And The True Blue American Values Of Transgressive Marketing
Five shootings in city just since Tuesday Police so far have no suspects in any of them By CHRISTINE OLLEY The wave of gun violence in the city continued this week with the shootings of five more people – all wounded since Tuesday. The first crime scene unfolded shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday on Larchwood Avenue near 59th Street in West Philadelphia. That’s where cops said they found a 19-year-old man who had been shot once in the right ankle. […] Less than an hour later, detectives were trying to determine why a 25-year-old man was shot twice in the […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
This week it’s kind of a no-brainer and besides after last week’s Moby Dick-sized Cover Warz tell-all we’re gonna keep this one short but sweet — for the winner that is. The loser, of course, will spend a week munching the cold and bitter turkey sandwich of shame, doubt and self-recrimination. But please, don’t take it too hard. Remember, this is only a game. And so, onto the commentary: CP laid this bizarre egg of a cover image that looks, best we can tell, like a bird-on-man gang rape to illustrate their WHY PHILLY ACTUALLY SUX self-haterade. Remember City Paper, […]
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING: Big Pharma Bummed By Dem Congressional Control; Let Us Get Our Violin And Play A Few Bars Of ‘WELCOME TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY’ AKA God’s Intended Soundtrack For The Reaping Of Obscene Profits
Drug companies are particularly hungry for Democratic help, including the industry’s trade association. “We woke up the day after the election to a new world,” said Ken Johnson, spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. “We’re going to have tough days ahead of us.” A post-election e-mail to executives at the drug company GlaxoSmithKline details just how tough. “We now have fewer allies in the Senate,” says the internal memo, obtained by The Washington Post. “Thus, there is greater risk over the next two years that bad amendments will be offered to pending legislation.” The company’s primary concerns […]
STOP THE PRESSES: Uncle Sgt. Byko Says Grace
“As we prepare for Thanksgiving Day, we imagine the new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com sitting down in their more-than-comfortable homes for an elaborate meal with their families. They have a lot for which to be thankful. They have great wealth. They are smart, they have worked hard, and they have earned it. They enjoy secure jobs, they enjoy secure income, they enjoy secure retirement plans, they enjoy the peace of mind of knowing their families will never do without. Why would they deny some of the same peace of mind to their employees, who also […]
ONE: For Your Consideration, Without Comment
“One” better. Johnny Marr + David Cross. [STEREOGUM]
THE BLOGS ARE COMING, THE BLOGS ARE COMING, RUN! Media Criticism Doesn’t HAVE To Be This Clueless
Or compromised. Unless your name is Ted Beitchman, and you are still — STILL, after four years — trying to punch a hole in the Philly mediascape with that glossy money-pit/inept score-settler/high-priced coupon flyer known as REALPHILLY — and getting about as far as a renegade spermatazoan trying to break on thru a Trojan Extra Thick. Hat tip to reader Philly Guy for the heads up. He reads it so we don’t have to. But check this sad swing at wannabe 215 Murdoch-ism. We just happen to speak Beitchman, so let us translate: Pay no mind to that moonbat slander […]
ORIGAMI IS MY LIFE
“Pink Bullets” by THE SHINS. Enjoy.