Radio Soulwax, Librarian Girl

A good soundtrack while you're checking our friends Nick and Jennifer's new site,
The Librarian 

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Factus 8

The best part about the Jason Bateman/Chynna Phillips 1988 tv movie "Moving Target" is

Related: nice Radio One poster on their wall

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Jane Birkin, Swan Song, and the Golden God

Jane Birkin reflected in our "Sunshine" candle, and, related, happy birthday to the golden god Robert Plant, whose Swan Song Records logo coincidentally is the inspiration behind our golden butterfly's pose. 

And, on heavy rotation at our house since high school, The Song Remains The Same:

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A New Domestic Landscape: "Model Couple", 1977

With a killer domestic soundtrack.
Enjoying William Klein's Model Couple and Mr. Freedom on Hulu Plus, which if you didn't know has the entire Criterion Collection. 

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R.I.P. Storm Thorgerson

Gone to Pasture.

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Michael English's "Bottle" Airbrush Poster, 1970

Down from the attic en route to the kitchen. 

We had his crushed V8 can hanging for a while but I'd forgotten we had this one.

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"Can Anybody Play The Drums?"

 Thanks to how bored my in-laws are with none of their friends down to Florida yet, my father-in-law had some extra time to kill at an estate sale in Islamorada and found this old Who poster rolled up in a Garfield tube (that's killin' time). The poster's from the Cow Palace show in San Francisco, November 20, 1973. Notable for it being the night The Who launched the Quadrophenia Tour, but more notorious for drummer Keith Moon passing out on his drum kit from too much booze and tranquilizers. Pete Townshend then had to ask the audience "Can anybody play the drums?" (5:15) and 19 year-old Iowan Scot Halpin bangs out the rest of the show."

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Thinking of something for the man in your life?

There are some gifty ideas in our shop!

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Talulah Gosh is a Top Celebrity

The Independent has a nice article on the brilliant post-pop life Talulah Gosh, a favorite band from the late 80's. 

Above: A sticker I picked up in 1989 when I stopped by 53rd & 3rd, their label in Edinburgh on my up to the Orkney Islands and The Old Man of Hoy.

h/t Mary at Unchanging Window

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Carole King, 1971

And because it's Sunday, here's the 1966 demo of "Pleasant Valley Sunday", a song she wrote with her husband Gerry Goffin after they moved from Manhattan to the New Jersey suburbs:

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Charity Shop

So the kids can be alright: Roger Daltrey's Fillmore East jersey from The Who's 1976 US Tour, on Ebay UK to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust. (click here)

I love that he still has it.

Top: Michael Zagaris' photo of The Who at Oakland Coliseum, Oct. 9, 1976

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A/V Magic Show from 2ManyDJs

 SOULWAX 'MACHINE' from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.

Under The Covers Vol. 1 from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.

Under The Covers Vol. 2 from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.

Under The Covers Vol. 3 from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.

A multi-layered animated phenomenon.
Have a great weekend!

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Madman Across the Water

"Mr. Freedom- Tommy Roberts: British Design Hero".

One of the most innovative boutiques in rock fashion history, Mr. Freedom was as much a show as a shop—a fashion, art, and design mecca for Swinging London’s most outré set. In his new book, Mr. Freedom—Tommy Roberts: British Design Hero (Adelita), Paul Gorman tells the story of the boutique’s driving force: the stocky maverick entrepreneur Tommy Roberts, “one of those unpindownable figures,” the author says, “who fast-tracked vanguard ideas right into the mainstream.” Roberts was the first to sell slogan T-shirts, license images from Disney, and integrate the new Pop aesthetic into everything from the clothes and furniture he sold to the decorating of his shop, a task he regularly put in the hands of young designers and artists just out of art school. Hot pants, chairs shaped like dentures, and window displays of huge detergent boxes were the order of the day. Though Mr. Freedom’s moment was fleeting, such was its impact that when Cecil Beaton organized the Victoria and Albert Museum’s first fashion exhibition, in 1971, he featured 24 of the label’s pieces alongside loans from the British royal family, Madame Grès, Balenciaga, and Mary Quant.
-from Diane Solway's article in W


Paul Gorman's brilliant new book is my new favourite. Tommy Roberts is absolutely fascinating: entrepreneur, shopkeeper, designer, curator, restaurateur- like a more fantastic Terence Conran. The book is filled with creativity and inspiration- it reminds me of Conran's House Book in the regard that virtually every page has something incredible on it that you need to bookmark. Roberts makes one want to do more- be more creative, to push it. The clothing and furniture designs he had made for his boutiques (Kleptomania, Mr. Freedom, City Lights Sudio, Practical Styling) and restaurant (Mr Feed'em) were all amazing, fun, and ahead of their time. Paul Gorman and Tommy Roberts were on BBC radio last week, and Robert Elms asked Tommy, "Where are all these fantastic things? What happened to them?" "Well, we didn't keep anything, we just moved on to the next thing". Thankfully it was all documented, and thanks Paul Gorman for bringing it all back and into our bookshelf.

Mr. Freedom on Amazon
Paul Gorman's blog
related (literally) Mrs. Paul Gorman's blog, which you'll also like.

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Pierrot le Fou

Some of the millions of reasons to love Godard's Pierrot Le Fou, to the tune of Francoise Hardy singing "La Mer".
Put together brilliantly by youtuber Akaisoul.
Happy Weekend!

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Thin Lizzy- Whisky in the jar, 1973

Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da, 

Whack for my daddy'o

Have a happy St. Patrick's Day!

related

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Bowie by Skrebneski, 1978

From the book Skrebneski Portraits: A Matter of Record (1978)

previously: Bowie at the Beeb

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Couldn't decide between Debbie Harry with Stephen Sprouse, and Debbie Harry on the Muppets- so here are both

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New Yorkers in Their Favorite T-Shirts, 1979

By Their Fruits of the Loom Ye Shall Know Them. But if you don't, there's Andy, Debbie, Grace, Patti, The Smothers Brothers, Meat Loaf, Glenn Close (loving mutts even back then!), Legs McNeil, Suzy Chaffee, and a bunch of Broadway people, Punks, Penthouse Pets, and New York Rangers. All wearing their favorite t-shirts and shot by Jean-Paul Goude for Penthouse Magazine, July 1979. Gotta love Karla de Vito's classic "If it ain't Stiff...", but I think my favorite is Debbie Harry's Glaser-esque, Chwastian "Telluride Film Festival".

related:

Published!

from a Salvation Army in Bay Ridge Brooklyn a few years ago.

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"Hey you! you can't tape that You're under arrest 'cause it's illegal!"

Innersleeve of Genesis' lp Foxtrot, 1972, Great Britain.

related:

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A Relic From a Different Age

Our (my) newly acquired Wings sweater by The Ritva Man- one of only 5 black ones ordered by Paul McCartney from Mike Ross in 1975 for the Wings Over the World tour. Very 70's, very Ritva, and very glam rock- designed like a sports/concert t-shirt but made with flashy silver Lurex yarn, and a thick embroidered Wings logo designed by Hipgnosis.

More about The Ritva Man (our friend and recent visitor Mike Ross who's absolutely the coolest 70-something year old you could ever meet ) here. And if you're in London anytime, be sure to pop over to Surrey and check out The Lightbox's show Snap Crackle and Pop: British Pop Art meets the High Street in the Swinging Sixties. Writer Paul Gorman has a great preview of the opening night on his blog here.

...and just in from the encylcopediac mind and scanner-like eyes of Greg Allen is this awesomeness from the late Tony Curtis' closet: Three Ritva Man sweaters worn so much that the labels are unreadable, including a blue Wings, all three on the block at Julien's Auctions, Sept. 17th: No bidding against me...

Thanks Greg!

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