Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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Emma & Helen, 2012

My Favorite Song, Today

This Week's Playlist & Podcast


Laura Marling

More good times this week on Dr. John’s Record Shelf.  Below is a list of the featured music, and if you click here you can listen to a recording of the full broadcast.

Romeo’s Tune, Nicki Bluhm & the Gamblers
Indestructable, Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls
Nothing to Find, War on Drugs
I Feel Your Love, Laura Marling

The Wolf Pack, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages
They Say I’m Different, Betty Davis
I’m Living Good, The Ovations
Rain Dance, Hollis Brown (w/ Bo Diddley)

Fare Thee Well, John Sebastian & the J Band
My Silver Lining, First Aid Kit
Mother Nature’s Son, Beatles

Reputation, The Byrds
Only a Dream, Shams
Winter Song, S.F. Seals
I Believe in You, Bob Dylan

My Heart as an Arrow, Los Halos
Runnin’ Away, Asteroid #4
Mystic Minds, Those Darlins

Everyday People, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Rebel Girl, Bikini Kill
Dose of Thunder, Replacements
The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu

Lucky Devil, Mekons
Hurts So Good, John Cougar Mellencamp
Our Lips Are Sealed, Go Gos
99 Luftballoons, Nena
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Lobo

Goodnight My Love, Fleetwoods


Saturday, November 18, 2017

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The Reader, Rochester 2017

My Favorite Song, Today

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:
R.J. Smith, American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank (Biography/Photography)
Dave Kehr, Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade (Movies)
Kurt Anderson, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (History)
Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (Music)
Billy Bragg, Roots, Radicals and Rockers (Music) 
Daniel Wolff, Grown Up Anger (Music)
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
Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)
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)
Robert Coover, Huck Out West (Fiction)

DVDs:
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver)
Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver)
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
J’Accuse (Abel Gance)
In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

I can also always use SD memory cards for my cameras, any brand or amount of memory but preferably class 10.