Dr. John's Record Shelf & Photo Gallery: November 2018

Friday, November 30, 2018

I collected these photos last week in Las Vegas, where my pal Bill and I went to do a little hiking in the nearby state parks. We communed with nature during the early hours off the day, then wandered around the Strip in the evening, which is when I made these pictures.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Photo of the Day

The Bench, Salt Lake City 2017

My Favorite Cartoonist, Today


Peter Arno

Toonerville Thursday

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Photo of the Day

New York, 2017

My Favorite Movie Scene, Today

This Week's Playlist

Three Dog Night

For the 18th straight season, we broadcast a special Guilty Pleasures edition of Dr. John's Record Shelf this past Sunday. The playlist appears below. Unfortunately, technical problems marred the broadcast, and the recording I usually post as a podcast is virtually unlistenable. But if you are a music fan of a particular vintage, you can probably hear most of these tunes via your own personal memory banks...

Joy to the World, Three Dog Night

Driver’s Seat, Sniff’n’ the Tears

Right Back Where We Started From, Maxine Nightingale

Stumblin’ In, Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman

Dream Weaver, Gary Wright

Lotta Love, Nicolette Larson

Moonlight Feels Right, Starbuck

Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder

Baby Hold On, Grass Roots

I’m Not Lisa, Jessi Colter

Some Kind of Wonderful, Grand Funk Railroad

Convoy, C. W. McCall

If You Love Me (Let Me Know), Olivia Newton-John

You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate

Little Things, Bobby Goldsboro

Sky High, Jigsaw

Lay Lady Lay, Melanie

DOA, Bloodrock

Speak to the Sky, Rick Springfield

Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers

Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance), Leo Sayer

The More I See You, Chris Montez

Ticket to Ride, Carpenters

Baby I’m-A Want You, Bread

Brother Love’s Travelin’ Salvation Show, Neil Diamond

Dead Skunk, Loudon Wainwright III

Last Song, Edward Bear

Big City Miss Ruth Ann, Gallery

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Photo of the Day

Chicago, 2014

My Favorite Photographer, Today

Garry Winogrand, New York 1969

Dear Santa

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree. If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

Books:

Rob Neyer, Power Ball (Baseball)

Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous (Biography/Photography)

Billy Bragg, Roots, Radicals and Rockers (Music)

William McKeen, Everybody Had an Ocean (Music)

Dave Hickey, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (Essays)

Dave Hickey, Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (Essays)

Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Music)

Sarah Churchwell, Behold America (History)

Jill Lepore, These Truths (History)

Robert Forster, Grant & I (Music)

Joseph McBride, Two Cheers for Hollywood (Movies)

Daryl Sanders, The Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Bob Dylan, Nashville and teh Making of Blonde on Blonde (Music)

Philip Zeigler, Between the Wars (History)

Ted Kotcheff, Director' Cut (Movies)

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Music)

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (History)

David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)

Johnny Rogan, Byrds: Requiem for the Timeless, Volume 1 (Music)

Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea (History)

Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Meier: The Color Work (Photography)

Jane Leavey, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created (Baseball)

Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (Biography/Humor)

Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical (Art)

DVDs

Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs

Armando Ianucci, The Death of Stalin

Lucrecia Martel, Zama

Monday, November 26, 2018

Photo of the Day

Toronto, 2015

My Favorite Song, Today

Rocks at Red Rocks

As a sequel to the photos of birds collected last week at Red Rocks State Park outside Las Vegas, here are a quick few of the eponymous rocks themselves. I'll have more to share over the coming weeks as I get a chance to look through the rest of the pictures I made that day.