A.M. BIRD FEEDER ACTION !

9 seconds of procrastination via bird feeder action in our back yard this morning. Above, the production still; below, the video...

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Rest in peace KAREN BLACK, COWBOY JACK CLEMENT

Bad news from America: 
both individuals passed away on the same day this last week, our iconic beauty and namesake of the current band The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black, who since the 1960s specialized in off-kilter vulnerability, shown in the video below performing Shakespeare just a year ago since you'll be bombarded with Five Easy Pieces clips ad infinitum; and major C&W producer/musician Cowboy Jack Clement. Even if outside your purview, watch his vid y'all. Not only do we see/hear Cowboy Jack on steel guitar dueting with Johnny Cash, but also the latter literally slithering on the ground in and out of a Ferrari!


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JAMES WILLIAMSON FIELDS SOUTH AFRICA

Three representative photographs by yours truly here LINK adorning an interview with Iggy and The Stooges' guitarist extraordinaire James Williamson by cogent South African journalist/musician Michael Flek (of the continent's first acclaimed punk band Wild Youth.) Above, James with his Trussart custom snakeskin-patterned guitar.

LONG TALL MICK

 

Long Tall Mick is Mick Lynes, Montreal-bred, London-based traveling troubadour who alit at West Hollywood's Genghis Cohen club 7.27.13. during his U.S. tour.  

Mick introduces his audience to specific places and people in his life, self-accompanied on guitar and harmonica in a languid but forcefully bluesy style reminiscent of the early 1960s artists who first influenced a young Bob Dylan. A quick glance at his Facebook page shows his eclectic but superb taste in pop culture. Special mention must be made of Mick's excellent sartorial style, what with his silk brocade jacket and Gram Parsons-esque chapeau.

 

"Thank you, thank you..." and a full court bow.
Below, used Long Tall Mick set list.

WEIRD MOON OVER HOLLYWOOD

Weird moon resembling a slice of a cheese wheel over Hollywood at Fountain and Highland, returning from photographing Mick Lynes gig in West Hollywood.

LOMPOC DOG SHOW 2013

The Western Sighthound Regional Specialty (part of the Lompoc Dog Show cluster, Lompoc, Calif, an hour's drive north from Santa Barbara) always held last weekend in July, always perfect weather. Guest photographers: above left, Kurt Ingham, above right, Mary Ann Rose.
 

 Above, Paula Pascoe with her little puppy Dunsmuir Lehigh Aliwen Rose that won bigtime (quite an achievement for a baby,) and friend Laura Shuder. I suggested to her that she'll have many more formal winner pics, but few that show the fun and pride of owning Scottish Deerhounds like this shot.

 

Above left, winning Jaraluv champions taking a well-deserved siesta; right, spectator Kenzie, with the Best Smile in Show.

 

2 hounds, a Bassett and a Borzoi 

Below, Mr. Twister, media, and Sarahbelle, Golden Retriever.

These last two photos by guest photographer Mary Ann Rose, we win a raffle prize at the Golden State Scottish Deerhound Club banquet later that night;

and pose with Jean Weiss, whose Deerhound Leo competed in the lure coursing competition (see video below for example of same, a training run by Terri Crawford's Mangus demonstrating alternately keen chasing of lure and playful Deerhound behavior.) Regarding the two photos at top, Karis and I were not deemed the best American Bred Bitches, despite any and all fearsome reputation thereof...

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OBJETS D'ARTS

 I love ad hoc art. Photo on top: this installation was hanging above the house paint section of Orchards yesterday, obviously the inspired work of their talented house paint section employees.

Photo below, someone at 3M/Scotch(R)Brand with an arty sense of Surrealism designed this stiletto high-heeled tape dispenser...

KIBITZING WITH LITTLE CAESAR

 Singer Ron Young shrugs an apropos "Oy vey!" over a brief technical glitch during Little Caesar's 7.19.13 gig at The Kibitz Room, Canter's Deli in the Fairfax/West Hollywood sector of L.A., home to much of L.A.'s Orthodox Jewry.

 The sole survivor of a triumvirate of rock and roll-related restaurants open 24 hours daily (the fallen establishments: Ben Frank's on the Sunset Strip and Ship's in Westwood Village,) Canter's has been a popular eatery with noshing night owl rockers since the heydaze of the 1960s. Rodney Bingenheimer, Mayor of selfsame Sunset Strip alternates Canter's and Denny's to this day. And according to unverified rumor via another well-known band, Mick Jagger himself had been in there but 24 hours before. The esteemed meshugener came on the wrong night!  

 

Adding to the lighthearted ambience were song introductions along the order of "This is a song we wrote by AC/DC...This is a song we wrote by Keith Richards... This is a song we wrote by Bad Company! The Who! " etc. Don't be fooled again: the band remains a highly original aggregate of soul/r&b-flavored hardest rock with 4/5 of its initial line up. Furthermore, Little Caesar played the massive 2013 Download Festival in Donnington, England just prior to this amusingly petite (but highly popular) venue gig. Hence the kibitzing...

Little Caesar dug deep into their repertoire to offer ballad "In Your Arms" from their 1989 Geffen Records debut plus from same era, this photojournalist's personal favorite "Tastes Good To Me" with the filthiest (but humorous) analogies possible on cunnilingus without using a single X-rated word, counterbalanced by the excellent material on 2012's self-released "American Dream" including its powerful, trenchant title song (see video below):


Little Caesar are: Ron Young-lead vocals; Joey Brasler, Loren Molinare-guitars, vocals; Fidel Paniagua-bass, vocals; Tom Morris drums, vocals
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MODERN DAGUERREOTYPE?

Guest photographer: Kurt Ingham. Yours truly circa the late 1970s. Not actually a Daguerreotype, but Polaroid Type 42 roll film (discontinued in 1992) taken with a Polaroid 95 camera, brown degradation due to having remained unfixed and stuck in a magazine he excavated only today. He always knows the tech specs of every photo he's ever taken unlike...some of us...

R.I.P. MICK FARREN

 Rest in peace Mick Farren, prolific writer, singer, intelligentsia, Social Deviant, gadfly of rock and roll from the 1960s onward. The music biz became more formulaic today with his loss. In his native Britain, onstage with his original band The Deviants. Read "Give the Anarchist A Cigarette!" in his honor.