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Selection for Week of 7/23/10: The Horrors — Strange House

No Comments 23 July 2010

Things have been too sunny on the Dregs lately. Here's something to darken the mood a little. By Carlos Detres

The Joffrey Ballet's 1987 performance. Photo by Herb Migdoll

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Selection for Week of 7/16/10: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

No Comments 16 July 2010

It began with a riot in a Parisian theater in 1913 and it brought with it the soundtrack for one of the bloodiest centuries ever, ever, ever. By Carlos Detres

Vincent Price (left) and Peter Lorre (right)

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Selection for Week of 7/9/10: Podcast — Relic Radio’s The Horror!

No Comments 09 July 2010

Classic horror radio plays rediscovered by Relic Radio for their series entitled The Horror!. By Carlos Detres

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Selection for Week of 6/25/10: BIPPP — French Synth Wave 1979-85

No Comments 25 June 2010

This French synth wave compilation was found off some street in Amsterdam -- and thank god it was. By Carlos Detres

An advertizement for a brothel, from the original Blue Book, which was distributed throughout New Orleans in the Storyville days.

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Selection for Week of 5/14/10: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury

No Comments 14 May 2010

Billed as the sequel to Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York, this book contains vivid and lurid accounts of the The Vieux Carré pre-1930's.

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Selection for Week of 5/7/10: Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

No Comments 08 May 2010

The great philosophical porn novella, Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Batailles. By Carlos Detres

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Selection for Week of 4/30/10: Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway

No Comments 30 April 2010

Neon Angel is Cherie Currie's memoir about her life life as a teenage rockstar during the Runaways raucous quest to dominate the world.

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Selection for Week of 4/23/10: A Confederacy of Dunces

No Comments 23 April 2010

A Confederacy of Dunces couldn't be a more perfect title for John Kennedy Toole's novel. By Carlos Detres

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Selection of the Week of 4/16/10: The Cure — Disintegration Re-Release on Rhino Records

1 Comment 16 April 2010

Not yet released but all of us in-the-closet (and not so in-the-closet) shoegazers are anxiously awaiting the re-release of Disintegration...especially YH Etheart.