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April 16, 2015 10:28 AM   Subscribe

 
Well there's something you don't hear every day.
posted by Naberius at 10:33 AM on April 16, 2015


Who (the fuck) knew!?
posted by Sophie1 at 10:38 AM on April 16, 2015


Very cool link!

And awesome that he was one-half of Death Comet Crew!

This let me know about record store day on Saturday, otherwise I would have missed it, so thanks!
posted by wyndham at 10:40 AM on April 16, 2015


Mary Tyler Moore’s landscaper

I now have my new sockpuppet name.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:49 AM on April 16, 2015 [2 favorites]


I'm having a hard time figuring out what to make of Jean-Michel Basquiat's "sawed-off coronet." I gather this is a typo for "cornet" (otherwise it's a bit morbid – who did he saw it off of?) but even so I've never heard of anybody cutting the bell off of a cornet. It wouldn't really work if you did, I don't think. But maybe that means something different? Like that it was just really stubby? – I do know they make cornets and trumpets like that, maybe a pocket trumpet. I'm not sure.

As usual, the details that are probably the least interesting to everyone else are the things that catch my eye.
posted by koeselitz at 11:04 AM on April 16, 2015


How ... U.S. intelligence ... conspired to create a dance classic.

Much like the CIA's support for modern art during the cold war, I'd much rather have them focused on this sort of thing than bollocks'd assassination attempts and warmongering bullshit. Perhaps someone could buy the NSA some turntables.
posted by Joey Buttafoucault at 11:09 AM on April 16, 2015


Maybe it was this, koeselitz? Although I don't really know how a guitar would be sawed-off either.

That part of the article seemed (including Madonna smoking outside the studio) seemed so specific and fantastical that I chose to just read it as fictional embellishment.
posted by wyndham at 11:10 AM on April 16, 2015 [1 favorite]


There are two versions of the cornet. The longer version is more common in the US and is often called the "American" cornet. The short model has a variety of nicknames, including "English" and "Shepard's Crook." I'm betting that the "sawed-off" refers to a short cornet, but given the spelling maybe not.
posted by Lame_username at 11:11 AM on April 16, 2015 [2 favorites]


This painting really clears it all up. Basquiat draws a man playing a trumpet whilst wearing a coronet.
posted by Lame_username at 11:17 AM on April 16, 2015 [2 favorites]


"In 1983, he was stabbed during a snowball fight while en route to a fashion show at Danceteria and relocated to Germany with a punctured lung and an affection for “Sucker MC’s.”"

LOL. I wonder if he was ever at the 21st Street Danceteria when I was there as a kid.
posted by zarq at 11:23 AM on April 16, 2015


Here's a link to one of my favorite articles about this song, written by a DJ who was a teenage girl at the time. (Bonus: one of the replies tells the secret history of the Washington DC club scene in the 1980s.)

It's always stuck in my head for a phrase from this paragraph:
Back in the day of fake IDs, Robert Palmer girl tiny black dresses, bustiers, military jackets (ie the "coke whore" look), jacked up hair, when I owned a killer body whose power I barely understood, I remember dancing to this gem.
I remember thinking that entire books have been written to try to grapple with the emotional/cultural/sexual/social young woman's experience the author perfectly caught in those eleven words, "when I owned a killer body whose power I barely understood".
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 11:37 AM on April 16, 2015 [5 favorites]


Yowza
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:16 PM on April 16, 2015


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