Wednesday, January 15, 2020

New York, Old Ork

The Left Coast gets a lot of coverage here at th' House O' Foam©, and that's because it was - note past tense - the cultural hub of the twentieth century. From the 'thirties through to the back end of the 'seventies, L.A. (and to a lesser extent San Francisco) was the white-hot crucible of the culture known - and often derided - as pop.

But other stuff happened in other places, even in Gotham, and it was shadowy figures like movie fanboy Terry Ork who helped it happen. In spite of his best attempts, he avoided the Factory's icy clutches and set up Ork Records, signing street-buzz names and capturing the crackling neon zeitgeist of punk.

This is a swell compilation of Ork's finest, as essentially Gotham as a Weegee crime scene, before loft culture made Talking Heads and Blondie millionaires.

9 comments:

  1. First Again!! I'm on a roll!! Link please!

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    1. Here's yr linquage, MrDave. CURSE OF FOAM for the freeloadin' bums what use your link: the glovebox latch in your car will prove intermittently faulty.

      Orcs of Gotham

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  2. woo woo woo MrDave.......we're playing the debate drinking game with matt taibbi and thousands of others on twitter.....

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  3. two bottles of wine later......starting on the cuervo

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  4. f00kin ell..............i'm blotto.............matt taibbi hosts a swell byob party.

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    1. lol, what were your drinking cues? Biden makes incoherent sentence? Bernie throws out statistics? Warren provides antidote about a child with cancer gets denied coverage and/or has a plan? Buttigieg makes you look up his name to spell it? (/drinks) Klobuchar interjects herself without waiting to be asked (can't blame her I guess -- for the first 10 minutes it looked like it was just a two man debate). I had a strong case of deja vu and fell asleep half way through!

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    2. ooh ooh, I know! A candidate runs over their allotted time and get interupted!

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    3. Diversity was a 1 shot clear alcohol, 1 shot dark....Let's be clear, Biden stuttering, Klobuchar mentioning the midwest, were all single shots. Inclusion was a double shot.....there were over 340 possibilities. By half way through we were down to 564 people. If the moderators brought Warren's accusations of Bernie you downed a beer or 4 shots. The non drinkers were doing bong rips......

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  5. Freeloadin' Bum -
    Thanks! It's ok, my gloves have holes in them anyways

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