Five By Five: Year End Favorites, Part 2

I put out the call to some friends for a simple list of five favorites from the year...anything: events, concerts, recordings, personal moments, whatever. The title is in honor of the first responder, Andrew Loog Oldham, being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A big congratulations to him! And also a special shout out to my favorite fashion illustrator, Jennifer Lilya. She's got a book deal! This is the second of three installments. 

 
Robbie Dupree - Top 5 Best films of this Century:

No Country For Old Men

Inglorious Bastards

Hugo

Vicki Christina Barcelona

There Will Be Blood 

 

 

Jennifer Lilya - Top 5 for 2013:

1. Icon Inspiration: The triumphant return of Kathleen Hanna: The Punk Singer movie, the release of 
The Riot Grrrl Collection & The Julie Ruin album and tour.

2. Art Book: Bold, Beautiful & Damned. Classic 80s fashion illustration by the late Tony Viramontes. Delicious, perfect, traditional art.

3. Love & Beauty: Laurie Anderson's perfectly written obituary for Lou Reed. Pure magic in loss.

4. Live Music: Billy Idol at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester. Front row, of course. 58 years old and hotter than ever.

5. Personal Achievement: Getting a book deal & subsequently working virtually non-stop all year long. My step-by-step fashion illustration book and instructional videos will be released in Fall 2014 by North Light Books. Yay!

Tony Fletcher - Top 5 Books I Read in 2013:

Run Wild by Boff Whalley

Scream If You Want To Go Faster by Russ Litten

Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff

Red Army Faction Blues by Ada Wilson

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

 








Dan Selzer - Top 6 most played songs added to iTunes within the last year:

1. Clio - Faces

2. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

3. Holden - The Caterpillar's Intervention

4. Alex Fergusson - Stay With Me Tonight

5. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours

6. Sensational Creed - Nocturnal Operations

 
Jason Gross - Top 6 things that I hate about "Inside Llewyn Davis":

1. The person it's modeled after, Dave Von Ronk, is infinitely more interesting that the title character.

2. The title character himself is such a self-righteous, empty, blasé wretch that he dishonors Von Ronk's memory

3. Little in the film shows you what an interesting, vibrant scene that was going on in Greenwich Village at the time

4. Even though the musical movement was very political, you'd never know that from the movie

5. What's probably the worst Coen Brothers movie is also their mostly highly praised one that's already getting Oscar talk

6. The most interesting character is a cat. The people who you'd want to know more about (the driver and the club owner) get shafted for screen time.

Andrew Loog Oldham speaks...We should all listen

The legendary Andrew Loog Oldham was kind enough to spend some time answering a few questions of mine recently for Perfect Sound Forever. Read the interview in full here. 

PSF: What advice would you give a young ALO today? 

ALO: Fall in love with the game, be ready to get fucked, get up again, rub away the dirt and the pain and get back into the ring again. Most people are in the business for the wrong reasons; it only works if you are with the right act. Simple as that. Fuck the naysayers, fuck the experts. Believe in your truth and work it. Make sure the reward is in the minute of doing the work and not in the minutes you'd like to be applauded. Fatal – can easily remove the kill. 

And be sure to tune in next Tuesday when we have the ALO edition of the Stupefied playlist!

 

James Chance Film Noir Top 10, Part One

James Chance writes about his favorite noir films of all time in the new issue of online magazine, Perfect Sound Forever! Read part one now & learn about some cool movies only at http://www.furious.com/perfect/jameschancenoir.html.  

Pat Place interview now up at Perfect Sound Forever

The Pat Place interview I did back in September is now up online in the new issue of Perfect Sound Forever. Jump to the interview here, or check out the entire issue here. Hope you like it!

Danny Fields Interview

I'm very pleased to announce that my Danny Fields is up & available to read in the brand new June-July issue of Perfect Sound Forever. The table of contents can be accessed here. The interview was done during the summer of 2007, and for various reasons was delayed. Special thanks to Jason Gross for pushing me to finish it. I'm glad I did.

Just in case you have no idea who Danny Fields is, lets just say he was a Warhol/Factory regular, did PR for Elektra Records and was responsible for the label signing the MC5 & the Stooges, edited classic teen rags like Datebook and Sixteen, and was the first manager of the Ramones. If that doesn't pique your interest, I don't know what will.

My other interviews for PSF can be found at:
- Artist & Lounge Lizards leader John Lurie
- Writer/activist Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Dave Ruffy and Segs Jennings of the Ruts and Ruts DC

Michael Patrick MacDonald in Perfect Sound Forever

Read my interview with writer Michael Patrick MacDonald in the new issue of Perfect Sound Forever.

Check out his books:
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under