Evidence Of The Old City, No. 66

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013

Quote Of The Week

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.

It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,

but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013

Birth Of The Cool

"My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

Granite And Steel

"way out; way in; romantic passageway

first seen by the eye of the mind,

then by the eye. O steel! O stone!

Climactic ornament, a double rainbow..."

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013

Quote Of The Week

"Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked."

45 Revolutions: Died Pretty

Sister Ray takes a Suicidal hate-trip Down Under with a layover in Cleveland... Rob Younger plays the part of the travel agent.

Inside Looking Out

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013

Free Beer... Tomorrow

Photograph by Lee Greenfeld © 2013

Digging For Gold: Supercharger

Supercharger - Self-titled (Radio X, 1991)

Brilliance. I first had the second Supercharger record because this one was too hard to find, rare and long gone by the time I knew about them. Then a bootleg version, lovingly subtitled The Fuck Greg Lowery Edition came out and I grabbed it. (Estrus reissued it right after the bootleg.) Anyway, I LOVED this band. Early '90s Bay Area simple punk rock'n'roll; think a more inept Angry Samoans with a little garage swing to it. Like I said, brilliance. I was bummed to have missed them in Seattle when I lived there but I did get to see two bands they spawned: the Rip Offs and The Brentwoods. I even got to play a gig with The Rip Offs and Spoiled Brats when I was in the Primate 5. Where at? The Purple Onion, of course! (Such a great music scene in SF back then, Spoiled Brats, Mummies, Trash Women.) This record has the infamous "Sooprize Package for Mr Mineo" — not sure who wrote it and played it first, these guys or the Mummies. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. Other bands I befriended did this one justice too; The Statics and Tie Reds. More gems include "The Ghost of Steve McQueen", "All About Judy", "She's So Cool", "Whiptofized"... the hits just keep coming and coming on this one!

Download: "Sooprize Package For Mr. Mineo"

Text by Tom Hyland

Quote Of The Week

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."