Bohemian Footnotes #3 – The Boho Dance
Down in the cellar in the Boho zone I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations1. I was a hopeful in rooms like this When I was working cheap It’s an old romance-the Boho dance It hasn’t gone to sleep But even on the scuffle The cleaner’s [...]
Bohemian Footnotes #2 – Bohemian Like You
You got a great car. Yeah, what’s wrong with it today? I used to have one too, Maybe I’ll come and have a look. I really love your hairdo, yeah. I’m glad you like mine too, See we’re looking pretty cool. Getcha! So what do you do? Oh yeah, I wait tables too. No I [...]
Bohemian Footnotes #1 – Bohemia After Dark
“Kenny Clarke, veteran modernist who still out-rhythms, out-solos, and out-guesses all comers in the percussion field is the pivotal point around which this album revolves . . . or, perhaps Swings, is a better word. As a great jazz musician, he is also able to recognize potential greatness in other musicians. After all, his part [...]
Everyone is reading New Escapologist, even beautiful women
The exciting new issue of New Escapologist has arrived, at last, at my home, where it is now being read by everybody. It is the longest issue yet released, with over one hundred pages, and looks as beautiful as ever. Moreso, even, as the lovely Ms. Samara Lieber has designed a new-look cover. It deals [...]
Authors on Stamps
“Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me. Most of my heroes ain’t appeared on no stamp.” Chuck D., Fight the Power.
‘Why, Coventry!’ I exclaimed. “I was born here.’
On the day that the latest Radiohead record, The King of Limbs, was released, I also had, palmed into my hand, the newest album from The Vichy Government. This was in a London side-street, just off the Coliseum, during one of Parsifal’s many intervals. It was the singer himself, Mr. Jamie Manners, who made the [...]
