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.

Contact: dietcockblog at gmail dot com

Jun 28

Los Angeles KinoKlub - The Hurt Locker

atencio:

Just a friendly reminder, tomorrow night you can join myself and fellow Los Angeles tumblrs dietcock, skeetonmischa and tothemaxxx for a 7:40 screening of The Hurt Locker at the Arclight Hollywood. We’ll be meeting around 7:15 for pre-film drinks at the Arclight Bar, and there’s a possibility we might go grab some food afterwards at a place TBD. Don’t be shy, come say hello.

I’m really glad we live in Los Angeles and not, say, Kansas City or Knoxville, because then the KinoKlub initials would be KKK and that would be, like, really fucked-up.

Posted at 8:22pm

Jun 14

Best. Velvet Underground. Cover. Ever.

The Runaways, “Rock and Roll”
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Posted at 4:29pm

Jun 7

ARCHIVES VOL. 1

Disc 04 TOPANGA 2 (1969-1970) 

TRACK 6: “Everybody’s Alone” — previously unreleased song
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Posted at 7:52am

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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Posted at 4:34pm

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?   (Click on the hamburger to see what I’m talking about)

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?  

(Click on the hamburger to see what I’m talking about)
Posted at 3:13pm

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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Posted at 2:54pm

Jun 3

“yeah, the one with the champagne eyes”

The Premiers — “Farmer John”
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Posted at 5:37pm

Jun 2
I want to be introduced like this some day. J.B., R.I.P.
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Posted at 9:49pm

Jun 1
AND DAMN PROUD OF IT! AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!
Posted at 8:53pm

May 23
The Shangri-Las, “Give Him A Great Big Kiss”
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Posted at 12:41pm

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