One of my favourite LPs ever.
Released 25 years ago this month - September 1985.
This official promo wasn't broadcast at the time due to its poor reception.
Epic stuff; now just as it was then.
Archive for September 2010
Sammy Davis Jr & James Brown!!!
Monday, 13 September 2010 Comments Off
...or The Worlds Greatest Entertainer and The Hardest Working Man In Show Business as they also like to be called.
Like Wolfe and McLuhan, both are contemporaries.
Again, standing side by side it's obvious that they couldn't be more different.
Check Sammy: a comedic foil.
A way of softening Brown's tough Soul Brother Number One image?
Or maybe he's being the magnanimous host. Hey, it's Sammy's show, right?
With Marshall and Tom there seems to be a desire to find common ground.
Here Sammy surrenders at 'hello.'
Their mutual respect however is unquestionable. Likewise Mr Brown's amazing performance.
Marshall McLuhan & Tom Wolfe!!!
Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Comments Off
Superman meets The Hulk: who'd ever figure these major dudes sharing the same floorspace?
What's great about this clip, as well as the fact that these heavy-weights are in conversation, is the way they're both dressed.
I suspect Wolfe is conscious of the irony, of course.
There he is an incredibly smart, incredibly insightful anti-intellectual dressed in a shirt and tie, ultra formal, looking ultra conservative...
& McLuhan, a man so intellectual, so at the forefront of highbrow cultural discourse, a man who endeavours to deconstruct virtually anything & everything that moves...
...there he is all casual and unbuttoned in what looks like an Aloha shirt fresh from the local Goodwill.
Just check out their shoes: even their shoes are at opposite ends of the sartorial spectrum!
White bucks vs Hush Puppies.
& the conversation! The respectful ideological word-fight!...
Don't you wish you could have been there, maybe up in one of those trees, just watching the whole drama unfold?
Or am I on my own with that current fantasy?
Out Of Town - In The Heart Of The City
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By the time you read this post, the images may be totally out of date. Me and Pendleton Dave met up in this new space run by my old pal and true styler Jonathan Cooke (aka Cookie), and Peter Leonard along with his son Sean.
It's a feast of both the digestible and visual kind. Me and Dave had lunch there: and although I'm not much of a foodie, I have to say it was pretty amazing - simple but amazing.
(there's Pendleton Dave on the left and Cookie on the right, interrogating the finer details of a vintage shirt).
Then there's the interior; another unexpected treat. Reclaimed and vintage furniture, covered by toys, books, art, records, kitchenware and of course premium (but affordable) vintage clothing.
While you're munching on your eggs and tomato's (highly recommended) you'll be surveying the space imagining what that picture or those plates or that jacket will look like in your house or on your back.
Yeah, everything, even the tables you're eating at is for sale, said Peter.
That's the great thing about this space, people can take virtually any part of it home with them and we can replace it with something different.
What's also important is that people feel comfortable here - like a second living room or relaxed space to work.
For the hour or so we spent in there, I felt like I'd been transported to one of those really cool places you come across on Venice Beach or in San Diego...
Everything was colourful and sun-bleached and considered but in a really informal way.
We're all about mid-century modern.
We call it Out Of Town, partly as a reference to the Jack Hargreaves television programme which he filmed in what looked like his garden shed,...
...and partly because even though we're selling clothes and furniture, we see ourselves as totally different to what's going on in those industries.
This is one of those spaces you become enveloped within: in fact, as we left, both myself and Dave remarked on the quiet and calm of the store as a stark contrast to it's location - a stones throw from Old Street.
(there's Pendleton Dave on the left and Cookie on the right, interrogating the finer details of a vintage shirt).Out Of Town:
30c Great Sutton Street London EC1
www.outoftownlondon.com
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