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Courtney Love on Minneapolis

Julie — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:04:46 +0000

After the San Francisco debacle, [Courtney] moved to Minneapolis and played briefly with Kat’s new band, Babes In Toyland. (Jennifer was back in L.A. forming her band, L7.) She and Kat clashed, and she went to Alaska to strip. Then she moved to Portland briefly, and by 1989 she was back in Los Angeles. “I just couldn’t take it anywhere else,” she explains. “Minneapolis was so fucking un-pretentious. Everyone has a flannel collection and is in a band named after a welding instrument.”
— Lynn Hirschberg’s Vanity Fair article on Courtney Love, circa September 1992

Lady Gaga – Retro Physical (HQ)

Julie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:54:08 +0000

The high-quality version of an unreleased, (probably) The Fame-era track was leaked online today. This is the link to download Retro Physical, but I don’t know how long it will be functional. (Note that it was leaked by Burim, so it has the obnoxious, “Burim exclusive, baby!” watermark at a couple points within the song.) “Retro Physical” is the song that Lady Gaga dances to (~50 seconds in) during this old video, and has been a piece of Gaga apocrypha for years.

Here it is, if you’d like to listen without downloading (file is not hosted by me and may disappear):

http://www.filefreak.com/files/117282_bshc7/rp.mp3

Flowers of Edinburgh

Julie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:49:08 +0000

During the late 80s and early 90s, my mother had a cassette of amazing Celtic harp music. They were traditional songs, ones you’d recognize at Irish cultural events. We would listen to it in the car wherever we’d go.

She passed away of breast cancer in 1996, and somewhere in the scuffle afterwards, my family lost track of the tape. I was a young kid when all this happened, and though I couldn’t fully recall the title, I remembered and loved every song. We had been looking for it ever since whenever we’ve gone to specialty Irish stores, but have never found it. After a dozen years, I finally found it after some intense Google searching. I am very grateful to Bob and Evelyn McNally, who sent me a free copy of the CD after I told them how much it meant to me!