There's Nothing Wrong with Love, 'specially if it involves Giving

Last Monday night I was a guest DJ at the PHANTASTIC INVISIBLE TENTACLE SPECIAL CLASSIC SOUL NIGHT at Beauty Bar to celebrate MLK Day.  It was really fun & the music was stellar.

Big ups to DJ Go-Karff & DJ Sandman for their amazing collection of music & superior DJ skillz.

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POPSHOP!
This week has been really great.  I've been meeting with people who want to work with me & my lil DJ company & have met some really awesome people.  My website is coming along nicely & will hopefully be up by the end of January.  It's all very exciting!

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PLEASE DONATE TO EAST VILLAGE RADIO!
Oy, I'm asking for donations again for Sandy Acres Sound Lab (my internet radio show on East Village Radio).  All proceeds go to EVR (not me) & go toward running the station.   I need to get donations in by FEBRUARY 15th so... if you feel it in your heart to donate, boy that'd be fantastic.

YOU CAN EVEN USE PAYPAL -- just go to the website & when you are at the "Send Money" link, use this email address:  sandyacres@eastvillageradio.com.

** If you donate $35 or more, I'll send you an awesome mixed CD so DON'T FORGET to include your mailing address **

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SHOW THE LOVE - FEEL THE LOVE

  Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Let's go back to another time, a gentler time.  When emaciated English dudes looked a lot like David Bowie (& danced on water!) & wore pleated pants unashamedly.  Here's the video - see what I mean?  I love the way he awkwardly hangs onto the mic & keeps squatting like he needs a bathroom break.

The Ramones - Baby I Love You
If you ask me, you really can't go wrong with a Ronettes song.  This one is from the End of the Century album (which also had another favorite of mine "Do You Remember Rock'n Roll Radio?") & was produced by Phil "Wall of Hair" Spector. 

The following is one of my favorite rock & roll stories (copied from the Wikipedia entry):

Early in the sessions, Spector reportedly held the Ramones hostage at gunpoint. According to Dee Dee, when Spector took Joey away for a three-hour private meeting somewhere in his cavernous mansion where the album was to be recorded, Dee Dee went looking for them. "The next thing I knew Phil appeared at the top of the staircase, shouting and waving a pistol," Dee Dee later wrote:

"Phil," I challenged him, "I don't know what your fucking problem is, waving that pistol around and all that stuff.... I've had it. I'm going back to the Tropicana."... "You're not going anywhere, Dee Dee," Phil said. He leveled his gun at my heart and then motioned for me and the rest of the band to get back in the piano room.... He only holstered his pistol when he felt secure that his bodyguards could take over. Then he sat down at his black concert piano and made us listen to him play and sing "Baby I Love You" until well after 4:30 in the morning.

....that shit is legendary.