DIET COCK

IT SEEMED LIKE A CLEVER NAME AT THE TIME; NOW I'M STUCK WITH IT

About me: I live in L.A. and work in the business of show. Other than that, none of your fucking business.

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Jun 28

Jun 14

Best. Velvet Underground. Cover. Ever.

The Runaways, “Rock and Roll”

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Jun 7

ARCHIVES VOL. 1

Disc 04 TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970) 

TRACK 6: “Everybody’s Alone” — previously unreleased song

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Jun 6

Arthur Alexander, “In The Middle Of It All”

This is from an out-of-print Warner Archives release of ’70s recordings by the late, great Arthur Alexander.  This is perhaps his greatest song; he recorded several versions of it, in the ’60s and on his ’90s comeback album.  This is the best version.  Listen and have your heart broken.

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Jun 4
Sometimes, when I’m bored, I’ll actually stop and read the rantings of the guest columnists at The Huffington Post.  I came across THIS doozy by Kathy Freston, wife of former Viacom/MTV overlord Tom Freston, which truly made my jaw drop.  I suppose marrying well is a license to have a soapbox on the Huff Post, but still I can’t help but wonder: why do so many rich, powerful media barons knowingly seek out and marry such complete raving apeshit lunatic nutbags?  
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Sometimes, when I’m bored, I’ll actually stop and read the rantings of the guest columnists at The Huffington Post.  I came across THIS doozy by Kathy Freston, wife of former Viacom/MTV overlord Tom Freston, which truly made my jaw drop.  I suppose marrying well is a license to have a soapbox on the Huff Post, but still I can’t help but wonder: why do so many rich, powerful media barons knowingly seek out and marry such complete raving apeshit lunatic nutbags?  

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O.V. Wright, “A Fool Can’t See The Light”

Lately I’ve been on a completely manic/OCD music bittorrent/downloading spree.  I think it’s because my external drive died and I had to go about rescuing the hundreds of GBs of music inside and re-tagging the data that got garbled and that got me in the appropriately hyer-patient mindset, bla bla bla.  I came across this song on my iTunes, discovered I had downloaded it at some point from some comp of songs the Wu-Tang sampled (can’t tell you which Wu song uses this one, alas), started searching to find as much of O.V. Wright’s discography as possible.  He was amazing.  Do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with his work.  Happy hunting.

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Jun 3

“yeah, the one with the champagne eyes”

The Premiers — “Farmer John”

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Jun 2
I want to be introduced like this some day. J.B., R.I.P.
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Jun 1
AND DAMN PROUD OF IT! AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!

May 23
The Shangri-Las, “Give Him A Great Big Kiss”
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