Monday, March 30, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #112 - The Thin Man (1934, dir. W.S. Van Dyke)

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Wait, you mean you haven’t seen The Thin Man ? Seriously?  But it was one of the top grossing films of 1934! And it has huge stars in it!...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #125 - Gilberto Gil – Gilberto Gil (1969)

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Gilberto Gil’s 1969 album, which like his 1968 and 1971 albums is simply entitled Gilberto Gil , is a wild mélange of psychedelic pop, Br...
Monday, March 16, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #111 - Cape Fear (1962, dir. J. Lee Thompson/1991, dir. Martin Scorsese)

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Two movies, made twenty-nine years apart: same title, same basic plot, yet morally a universe apart. The original, starring Gregory Peck ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #124 - Paul Kantner - Blows Against The Empire

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One of the more important figures in 1960’s rock and roll, Paul Kantner, the founder and idealistic heart of The Jefferson Airplane, has ha...
Monday, March 2, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #111 - Logan’s Run (1976, dir. Michael Anderson)

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“Computer: Do you identify the word Sanctuary? Logan 5: Negative. Computer: Sanctuary is a pre-catastrophe code word. Used for a plac...
Monday, February 23, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #123 - Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun

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Meat Puppets first burst out of the Arizona desert in the early 80s as one of the key bands on legendary punk label SST.  But while they st...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #110 - Jules and Jim (1962, dir. François Truffaut)

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François Truffaut pulls out all the cinematic stops in his 1962 masterpiece, Jules and Jim : voice over, dolly shots, aerials, pans, wipe...
Monday, February 9, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #122 - Lennie Tristano – Lennie Tristano

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Lennie Tristano is a jazz pianist whose small body of recorded work does not do justice to his influence on the music, which is audible i...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #109 - Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, dir. John Sturges)

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Director John Sturges is noted for a 30-year career of slam-bang action films, usually starring tough (or at least manly) guys in the lea...
Monday, January 26, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #121 - The Dream Syndicate – The Medicine Show

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Looking for a rock and roll hero who has had a career for decades, never “sold out,” never made a shitty record, never been, er… spoiled ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #108 - Wait Until Dark (1967, dir. Terence Young)

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What makes a movie scary is a very subjective thing. For instance, when I first saw The Exorcist , the scene that scared me the most (and...
Monday, January 12, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #120 - Mott the Hoople – Mott

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So the legend goes, Mott the Hoople were about to break up after four albums and not much to show for them. Then, famous fan David Bowie ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #107 - Melancholia (2011, dir. Lars von Trier)

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Claire: “What's going on Justine?” Justine: “I'm trudging through this gray woolly yarn, it’s clinging to my legs, it's rea...
Monday, December 29, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #119 - Marc Ribot – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

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In 1997, Ry Cooder released Buena Vista Social Club , featuring forgotten Cuban musicians being given a platform to get heard in the Stat...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #106 - The Wiz (or - Lighten up and let yourself be charmed) (1978 dir. Sidney Lumet)

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The year is 1978. American cinema is immersed in Blaxploitation, hard-boiled crime dramas and an un-satiated, seemingly endless lust for ...