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All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 11
This Mix accompanies “Plug In, Tune Up, Rock Out,” Chapter 11 of my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77. Specifically it covers that period from 1964-66 when New York pop, blues and folk went fully electric.
To play the music mix for this [...]
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All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 11
It Doesn’t Get Easier (But It Still Counts as Fun!)
This Sunday July 25th, I completed the Escarpment Trail Run for the fourth time (in five years), and given that I finished five minutes ahead of my previous best, to clock in at 4,20:34, placing 46th out of a field of 187 finishers, I should feel completely satisfied. And believe me, I am.
Yet however many [...]
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It Doesn’t Get Easier (But It Still Counts as Fun!)
It Doesn’t Get Easier (But It Still Counts as Fun!)
This Sunday July 25th, I completed the Escarpment Trail Run for the fourth time (in five years), and given that I finished five minutes ahead of my previous best, to clock in at 4,20:34, placing 46th out of a field of 187 finishers, I should feel completely satisfied. And believe me, I am.
Yet however many [...]
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It Doesn’t Get Easier (But It Still Counts as Fun!)
No Fracking Way
As the BP oil spill fiasco unraveled in the Gulf of Mexico, my reaction was two-fold:
1) frustration, anger and a sense of helplessness at an avoidable environmental disaster happening so far from home, and
2) guilty relief that the disaster was not happening on my doorstep.
Last Saturday, any lingering sense of localized comfort was [...]
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No Fracking Way
Final Thoughts (or, What do we do with the rest of our summer?)
Spain deserved to win
Holland deserved to lose
Brazil deserved to lose to Holland, too
(Since when and why did two of the world’s most talented footballing nations decide to resort to foul play?)
Diego Forlan deserved the Golden Ball award
For rising to the occasion
For scoring some of the greatest goals of the occasion
And for smiling throughout the occasion
Even [...]
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Final Thoughts (or, What do we do with the rest of our summer?)
Tuli Kupferberg: The Beat Goes On
Tuli Kupferberg passed away yesterday, July 12, at the ripe old age of 86. Before he teamed up with Ed Sanders and Ken Weaver to form the Fugs, Kupferberg was already, as described in my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go,
a “beat hero” known for hawking his own magazine Yeah on the [...]
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Tuli Kupferberg: The Beat Goes On
Greetings From Asbury Park Part 3: The Drink
1) The Absolut Cocktails at the Beach Bar
When we first (re)visited Asbury Park, two years ago, to see James at the Stone Pony, the then newly-opened Beach Bar was a revelation. With couches, tables, stools and, yes, four-poster beds lined up along the south deck of the Convention Center Pier, and an outdoor bar overlooking [...]
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Greetings From Asbury Park Part 3: The Drink
Greetings from Asbury Park Part 2: The Food
It says something about the quality of dining on the Asbury Park Boardwalk that we re-visited three different restaurants during our four day stay there, eschewing any number of other options for the sake of immediate regratification. The food was so good that I feel the need to give each of these three places – [...]
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Greetings from Asbury Park Part 2: The Food
Greetings From Asbury Park Part 1: The Family
Families can be tough work, as every child and parent knows – especially during school terms, with all the inevitable early morning tension. That’s why you have to get away sometimes, even if it’s only a distance of three hours and 150 miles – where a half-mile of rejuvenated Asbury Park boardwalk and beach offers [...]
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All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 10
This Mix accompanies “Crystals, Angels and Raindrops,” Chapter 10 of my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77. Specifically, it covers the “girl group” sound of the early-mid 1960s, from the Shirelles to the Shangri-Las, via Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound and the vibrant scenes to [...]
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