Breakfast On Pluto

I said I'd do it yesterday, and by crikey I did; my whole damn hold bin came home with me after all. Please join me in welcoming the newest additions to my craptastic family 'o crap that I still don't have any room for despite my big honkin' new house:

Let's meet our first used CD! :::"Spanish Flea" plays:::



Ghostface Killah, Fishscale is his latest release which features guests like Raekwon, Capadonna, and current R&B crooner Ne-Yo, among others. Only heard snips of this on the LVS at work as well as having "Back Like That" played in regular rotation in the store and I'm really liking what I hear. Some righteous funk potential in these beat snips. And the line "Rippin' out your guts like a hysterectomy" definitely needs to be crocheted on my next tea cozy.


I know it's been out forever now (and in my mindset these days a year IS forever) but I've been waiting for a used copy of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall to float in, and then thank Tracy profusely for pouncing on it as soon as she saw it and stashed it for me. This of course is the long-lost 1957 benefit concert recording discovered in an unmarked box in the Library of Congress last year, and since Monk and Coltrane supposedly never recorded a live album together (I think they did do one or two studio tracks with each other) this got bumped to the top of nearly every jazz hound's wish list in 2005. And boy, looking at the promo poster for this benefit gig (performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Ray Charles, and Chet Baker with the Zoot Sims Quartet) I think we need to go digging around in those unmarked boxes again and find this whole gosh-darn show!

Now on to the used DVDs. Got the first season of Wonder Showzen...


I don't get MTV2 so I've never actually seen this program, but damn if I haven't been reading enough about it as of late. A twisted parody of Sesame Street with puppets interacting with live children, ripping both into the current sorry state of children's programming as well as satirizing what we today are really teaching our kids out there. In between the "educational" matter are other strange skits and amazingly Dadaist moments (I hear the Easter eggs on this disk are full of them) and funny interactions with children doing their own live reporting on the streets. I think I may have bought this alone for the article I read in a recent EW about a little boy dressed as Hitler interviewing a man in a cowboy hat and asking "Whose hat is more repressive? Yours or mine?" Only a child could get away with asking something like that these days (or, er, can they?).


Next up I nabbed Crazy Love, the 1987 cult classic based on two of Charles Bukowski's short stories, and like many of Bukowski's work more than just a little autobiographical. Also the debut film of Everybody's Famous director Dominique Deruddere, this film apparently just sorta came and went during it's initial release, even though filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, actor Sean Penn, and pop singer Madonna have been talking about this film for years and trying to stir up more mainstream buzz. Though I suppose like everything else about Bukowski subject matter such as this will never catch on with the unwashed masses, although personally it's those very unwashed masses I think it should relate to. Since when did Bukowski get co-oped by the intellectually pretentious gallery-opening cheese-eating types? Would somebody like Bukowski even be invited to their Hamptons home soiree in his own honor? Okay I'm veering off track here... what else did I get again.... shitshitshit...


Ah yes, Satan Was A Lady. Hells yeah. Doris Wishman. Double H-E-double-hockey-sticks yeah. Not much else to say about that, except that the girl in this movie is bound to have some pretty impressive ta-tas. Such is the standard that the formidable Ms. Wishman meets, and oftentimes exceeds.