Comments on: By popular request

By: kate

kate — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:06:44 +0000

More club buggery on youtube would be good to see.

By: dan k

dan k — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:19:05 +0000

Anyone from Boston should remember the Leonard Nimoy introduction to the Mugar Omni Theater: “Who put the bop in the bop sha-bop a ram a lam a ding dong?”

“He grew up a few blocks from here!”
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John Williams “A hymn to New England” is out there, but not the entire intro (including the first person camera shots of driving on the old SE expressway).

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:01:39 +0000

Last weekend I looked around for video of Robert Frost reciting “The Gift Outright” at JFK’s inauguration, but didn’t see anything on video sharing sites or the Library of Congress. Thought it was surprising, since the moment is referred to pretty commonly and Kennedy’s speech itself is easy to find online.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:16:05 +0000

I can’t believe the editor of the Washington Times told Frank Zappa “you ought to get out more” like this guy knows more about music than Frank Zappa. Worse, that “getting out more” would increase the number of pro-incest songs you here. Where’s this guy hang out, anyway?

By: novakant

novakant — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:39:50 +0000

notsneaky, it was seeing this that convinced me that urgent action needed to be taken; I mean, I was a Bowie fan and a child of the 80s, so thus used to all sort of crimes against fashion and good taste, but there are limits ;)

By: Jim Flannery

Jim Flannery — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:47:37 +0000

sg, the Biafra lyrics about space junk are a reference to the Skylab crash (which shortly followed a Russian satellite crash in Saskatchewan). You’re a young one, aren’t you?

By: Walt

Walt — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:16:47 +0000

bemused, obsession with the “academic hoi polloi”, as you put it, is a little pathetic.

By: bemused

bemused — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:37:23 +0000

“(2) that, as the above examples suggest, there was not a little cloaked racism in this paranoia, since Tipper’s main concerns about oral turpitude involved—again if I recall correctly—not Jello Biafra, but black rap and hip-hop artists. It wasn’t black or brown faces cringing in moral panic that Tipper imagined when she thought of the families besieged by the evils of Hollywood…”

Interesting psychic powers you’ve got there, Maurice. What evidence do you have that Tipper Gore is a racist? And the issue wasnt Hollywood but the stalwart defenders of the Constitution in the RIAA.

It seems that the adolescent males that called in to defend against the upstart mothers on that long-ago radio talk show with Biafra have graduated into the academic hoi polloi of today.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:05:35 +0000

“Jello also ran for Mayor against none other than Speaker Pelosi”

No- it was against Diane Feinstein (now senator). I’m pretty sure Pelosi was never Mayor of San Francisco, and I’m sure this was against Feinstein. (On an old Dead Kennedys video tape I had there was a section with Jello “cleaning up” Feinstein’s neighborhood with a shop vac.)

By: thompsaj

thompsaj — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:09:30 +0000

didn’t see 26, but megadittoes! (psych!)

By: thompsaj

thompsaj — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:08:25 +0000

Bubba, that zappa link is great! What struck me was that, while somewhat uncomfortable on TV, Zappa played the format perfectly – sticking to one part of the debate (“it’s about words”) and not getting sidetracked into defending specific “obscene” lyrics – especially with two hostile interlocutors and one who was supposed to take his side but didn’t. Also, I noticed he didn’t accept Novak’s characterization of his as an “absolutist” position when they didn’t begin to get into hate speech or fire-in-a-theater or anything.

By: Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:51:23 +0000

Rightous Buba: thank you for that Frank Zappa clip; it’s really great. It’s amazing how much more sensible Zappa is than any of the Washington talking heads. And “the left” position is represented by Tom Braden, formerly of the CIA. That’s political debate in America for you.

By: astrongmaybe

astrongmaybe — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:50:38 +0000

What ever happened to Kevin McAleer? Haven’t heard anything about him in a long time.

By: notsneaky

notsneaky — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:02:31 +0000

Wasn’t one of the points on his platform the requirement that downtown SF businessmen must dress up in clown suits one day a week?

By: Fledermaus

Fledermaus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:41:06 +0000

debate between Jello Biafra and Tipper Gore

Jello also ran for Mayor against none other than Speaker Pelosi back in the day under the Slogan “There’s always room for Jello”