Steven McDonald of Red+Kross (as mentioned earlier, one of my favorite bands) is now playing bass with the White Stripes, sort of, here is his brilliant 8 part performance piece on reddkross.com. Oh and check out the trailer to his Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, a film that shaped my adult life and download the mp3 Ballad of a Lovedoll.


Wayne/Jayne County & The Electric Chairs - Wonder Woman


Making his initial name as a prominent scenester during the heady days of the early-'70s New York punk club scene, Wayne County later gained additional renown as perhaps rock's most prominent transsexual performer, billing herself as Jayne County following her return to the U.S. from Berlin in 1980. Born Wayne Rogers in Dallas, GA (near Atlanta) in approximately 1947, Wayne County assumed his stage name for a production of the Jackie Curtis play Femme Fatale. County acted in several Andy Warhol-associated theater pieces and from there became the regular DJ at the legendary club Max's Kansas City. County found it difficult to find American labels interested in his trashy, campy, New York Dolls-influenced brand of rock & roll, so he relocated to London just as that city's punk movement was beginning to gather momentum. He found a home on the Safari label with a new band, the Electric Chairs, and issued his debut album � also called The Electric Chairs � in 1978. Further albums included Storm the Gates of Heaven and Things Your Mother Never Told You, both from 1979. County's autobiography 'Man Enough To Be a Woman' is part Hedwig, part hillbilly boy gone glam punk princess-riveting!
12:13 PM :

Begin odd bits: The giant heliopsis is in bloom and it looks like a creature from 'Mars Attacks', feel free to scrawl 'Surrender Dorothy' all over the screen. Thank you for the seriously cool postcard, and yes, I will take it 'al fresco', if that's what you're offering. Is chaos the natural order of things? The new Pro-Keds really are my new favorite shoes. Thanks, I'm now hooked on Tokyo Suckerpunch, Hokkaido Popsicle, Giant Robot magazine and Pancrase. David Weeks of Butter, is a looker, he and Lindsey make super cool items. Quigit is more useful than you'll ever know. End odd bits.

12:09 PM :

Tuesday, July 02, 2002
In a stressful time it's hard to be patriotic without being solemn. But at least half the reason one loves this country is that it's a playful, quite nutty place, teeming with ridiculous notions and silly pronouncements...For every Brooks Brothers, a Marx brother. Whose predictions are heeded more attentively � Alan Greenspan's or Punxsatawney Phil's? Since we are a fairly orderly society, we create our anarchies elsewhere...

Little anarchies like Blogs, Rib Cook Offs, Dear Abbey, Bubblegum, Rock n' Roll, Streaking, Spam, Pro Wrestling, The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum?! Jerry Springer, and many many more.

Compare Uncle Sam's stern demeanor to his bizarre outfit, and you'll see what I mean. America the beautiful is composed of grand principles and a continuous, if faltering, search for a more noble expression of being. America The Whimsical by Roger Rosenblatt in todays OP-ED section of the NYTimes.

1:25 PM :

Monday, July 01, 2002
A cold glass of water heatwave it's hard to concentrate while everything radiates pull the drapes and darken the room put on a little Coltrane to stop the sentences from breaking in ha...lf
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