Top Five Records Bought For A Dollar (or less!)
Published on March 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Music, Retrovirus, Top Five Lists |By Katrina Randell
All photos by Matthew Armstrong
I love records. I love buying campy records at thrift stores, the Sally-Anne, or places like Toronto’s Neurotica records. Below you will find my top five favorite records that either me or my fiancé purchased for a dollar, or in some cases, less.
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Top Five David Bowie Looks
Published on March 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Music, Top Five Lists |Ah, the chameleon. He’s been so many people over the years. Here are my favorites!
1. Ziggy Pirate
This is the very end of the Ziggy period, and Bowie has streamlined and cleaned up the look. No more astral circle on his forehead; no bare feet or knitted leotards. Just straight up glam pirate. See the “Rebel Rebel” video here.
(astral disc, bare feet, knitted leotard)
2. Hunky Dory
Pre-Ziggy, but not pre-glam, as this was total cinematic glamour. Sometimes compared to Lauren Bacall, this Bowie was on the back of the Hunky Dory album. This also includes the period when he wore the infamous “man’s dresses” and “came out” to the press.
If you can find the David Bowie Black Book from 1984, there’s a fantastic picture of him standing in front of his house in a man’s dress. I never should have sold that book.
Original cover for
The Man Who Sold The World
3. Screamin’ Lord Byron
The troubled, reclusive rock star character from the short film Jazzin’ For Blue Jean. That shadowed makeup still looks cool, and the frosted highlights look like actual frosting.
4. Jareth from Labyrinth
Of course, the Goblin King. Tina Turner wig, sculpted eyebrows, and Romantic attire. Plus, of course, the tights that caused the founding of the David Bowie’s Area website. When I was in Tokyo last year, there were tons of kids sporting this exact look. It’s lacy goth.
5. Sphinx
An experiment that did not go very far. In a photo shoot with Brian Ward in 1971, Bowie tried some different directions. Indeed. Brian Ward also shot the Ziggy Stardust album cover.
And a bonus, the worst look: “Be My Wife” video
1977, Paris. Unplucked eyebrows, slight trace of a moustache. . . just about the least-groomed he’s ever been. Is he trying for this particular reaction from me? Check out the video.
With added teeth!
WASTED! The Top Five Most Inebriated Performances/Tours (In No Particular Order)
Published on March 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Music, Top Five Lists, Video |By Emily Carney
1. Jefferson Airplane, two nights in Germany, 1978
“Give me head.”
Grace Slick earned the sobriquet “the Liz Taylor of rock” during the 1970s due as much to her propensity for Liz-like excess as her attractive appearance. Her heights of Babylonian overindulgence climaxed with two wacky nights in Germany in 1978, during which Ms. Slick single-handedly managed to alienate an entire European nation and change the lyrics to much of her band’s back catalogue, both tasks equally momentous in scope. Some “highlights” of the performances: Grace, who appeared to be completely wasted and was drinking throughout the show from a Dixie cup, changed the lyrics of “White Rabbit” from “Feed your head” to, inexplicably, “Give more head.” It probably didn’t matter what she sang, given her throat sounded completely mangled anyway; she had probably also smoked about 100 Kools that day.
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Top Five Most Useless Star Wars Characters
Published on January 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Movies, Top Five Lists |By Megashaun
1. Ponda Baba
Who is he?
In Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi enter the Mos Eisley Cantina in search of a pilot willing to fly them to the Alderaan System. Luke orders a drink and an alien with an ass for a mouth takes exception to the young traveller’s looks. That alien is Ponda Baba, a creature from the Aqualish race.
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Top Five Thrift Store Finds
Published on January 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Top Five Lists, Toys and Collectibles |By Lisa Haviland
Mrs. Lou Reed
Sunglasses from Buffalo Exchange, Brooklyn, NY; 2007
The Commack Flea Market was a teenage thrift-store-junkie’s dream: rows upon rows of inexpensive mini-stores—more like clothing bodegas than actual stores—in a multi-level arena five minutes from my parents’ house. It was in the confines of this Long Island mall-reprieve maze that I learned to dig through the chintz and hone in on second-hand gold.
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Top Five Ticket Stubs
Published on January 30th, 2008 in: Issues, Movies, Music, Top Five Lists |By Less Lee Moore
Like many hardcore fangirls, I collect memorabilia relating to my obsessions. I try to remain unfazed by the remarkable similarities between my collector habits and those of serial killers, and concentrate instead on the tenacity of spirit that such pack-rat-edness surely exemplifies.
There are many bands and movies I’ve seen more than once. Now I’ll take you on a pictorial journey through my favorite collections of multiple ticket stubs.
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Top Five New Year’s Pop Culture Resolutions
Published on November 29th, 2007 in: Issues, Top Five Lists |It’s the start of a brand new year. Everything is fresh, untainted, golden. You can change your life! You can change the world!
At least that’s what we convince ourselves will happen. Truth is, the pressure of living up to your own outlandish expectations often means that the only things you’ll change at the start of a new year are your sheets.
Here are some New Year’s Resolutions we might actually stick to.
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