Lux Interior, three years

04Feb12

Filed under: 1980s, Music, The Cramps   |  Closed
Tags: anniversary, death, Lux Interior, The Cramps

The saddest song in the world

10Jan12

When I was still living in London, in a blitzed out, wistful little corner of Limehouse, I had an upstairs neighbor from Colombia. He was studying the shoemaking business at Cordwainers College so that he’d be able to support his father who owned a shoe factory. Most days he would be fairly quiet but occasionally [...]

Filed under: Music   |  Closed
Tags: 1990s, beauty, Cheo Marquetti, death, Henry Fiol, London, mortality, Oriente, Orlando Fiol, sadness, son montuno

Strange love

20Nov11

I have somewhat of a hard time admitting this, and few people know this about me, but I love and have always loved The Cramps. I love them not as a musical connoisseur, but with pure puppy dog love. Given my advanced age, I have a hard time making sense of this. When Lux Interior [...]

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Tags: death, Erick Purkhiser, Ivy Rorschach, love, Lux Interior, mortality, music scholarship, Poison Ivy, The Cramps, upset