Blue Masks

Culpa's Dipsy Doodle Diary 3/31/20:

Went to Sam's Club to pick up a few things today. Kinda weird, half the people in the place were wearing masks. Anyway, they still didn't have toilet paper, but at least I was able to snag 273 Family-Size packages of Q-Tips. I had planned to keep shopping but some of the other customers were giving me strange looks. I thought I'd better just get on out of there as soon as possible, you can't trust people who are wearing masks.  Anyway, we won't be growing our own potatoes but we should be able to hear any approaching marauders. And of course music always sounds better with cleaner ears.

Enjoy the title track from Lou Reed's 1982 LP "The Blue Mask":

"Spit upon his face and scream

There is no Oedipus today

This is no play you're thinking you are in

What will you say

Take the blue mask down from my face

And look me in the eye

I get a thrill from punishment

I've always been that way"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Mask

Shanghai Surprise

I was knocked on my back on a dock at Yang Tse. It's a hell of a way to see China.

                                         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Surprise

Dipsy Doodle Itis

Somebody got Dipsy Doodle Itis and the whole world is headed to Frantic City. My pizza delivery guy said "man I hope this virus never ends!" I'm no dodo, but what can I possibly say that hasn't already been said or link what hasn't already been linked? Thanks for stopping by, and here's to social distance. Let the sun shine in, face it with a grin, and stay away from the fish tank cleaner..

Tell It All, Kenny

RIP Kenny Rogers.

Enjoy this great clip of the First Edition from 1970. After "Tell It All Brother", Dean Martin joins them for "Hey Good Lookin'".

Steve Weber RIP

Steve Weber passed away on February 7 at the age of 76.

Best known for his work with Pete Stampfel in the Holy Modal Rounders, Steve and Pete also played with the Fugs on their first album, where Steve's classic "Boobs A Lot" first appeared, in 1965.

It was later re-recorded with the Holy Modal Rounders,and released on their 1971 LP "Good Taste Is Timeless" and as a single.

The song would be frequently played on the syndicated Dr. Demento radio show, and became more popular than ever with its inclusion on the 1975 "Dr. Demento's Delights" LP.

Cruising Into The Night

Released on September 12, 1989, Julee Cruise's debut album "Floating Into The Night" is a David Lynch project that serves as an intro/companion to the original run of the Twin Peaks TV series which would premiere several months later on April 8, 1990. Produced by Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, with lyrics by Lynch and music by Badalamenti, the album includes five songs that would feature in the series.  

An instrumental version of the opening track "Falling" would become the Twin Peaks theme. The other tracks used in the series are "The Nightingale", "Into The Night", "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", and "The World Spins".

Here's Julee performing "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart". Both clips are said to be from 1989, but the Twin Peaks pilot is mentioned in the intro to the second clip

       


  

"JULEE CRUISE: Floating Into The Night (Warner Bros.) This new age chantoozy is no mushmelon; her sentimental schlock and quasiclassical quietude are at the forefront of the latest hip convolutions. And when admirers claims she sounds best in a dark room at three in the morning, I wonder whether she puts them to sleep too. B MINUS"

-Robert Christgau

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