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30 March 2006 15:25 / first person I ever wanted to be

Most days, still kind of do.

Michael Stipe, 2003, photographed by?

One of the best live versions I have ever heard of ANY song by ANYONE is Harborcoat by R.E.M. from the 'Bochum 1985' bootleg. It makes me wish I could be Bill Berry as well, or rather play the drums the way he did back in 1985.

Harborcoat live in Germany, 1985
by R.E.M. / lyrics
album version on Reckoning, 1984

Too bad, isn't it, that the most recent R.E.M. album, Around the Sun, was such crap? Given that it was an overt response to 9/11 and the Iraq war, the impression I got was, 'OK, the war has creatively destroyed R.E.M.' I have high hopes for the next R.E.M. album, though. I found New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up both subpar (the former, dreadfully so - why in hell does everyone call it their 'return to form'? it's SHIT!). But after those records, they made Reveal, their best album since Murmur.

Beat a Drum
by R.E.M. / lyrics
from Reveal, 2001

file under; r.e.m.; sung
link is http://pleasureiseasy.info/2006/03/the_first_person_i_ever_wanted_to_be.html
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22 April 2006 12:30

Ida writes,


Hi Math.

Nice site - it's always nice to observe male beauty ;)

I used to like Michael Stipe too, not so much anymore, but in this picture he's gorgeous :) And I don't agree about Up - I think it's a great album (haven't heard much from Around The Sun). Over the years I have occasionally seen Stipe hanging around Copenhagen, I guess to visit Helena Christensen but I suppose in New York you'd see more of him. I wouldn't mind having the same local as Morrissey, though, on second thought, it would be pointless because I wouldn't dare got talk to him. Who's the nude guy - third pic from the left, bottom row?

02 May 2006 20:54

Math Tinder writes,

Ida, hey, thanks for posting. Sorry for the delayed reply; I've lately been neglecting this blog (and pretty much everything else) in the extreme. I don't really dislike Up; Hope is one of R.E.M.'s most stunning songs for sure; I just think it's a bit so-so compared to most of their catalog. I especially don't like Walk Unafraid, which unfortunately-for-me seems to be their favorite from the album, as they play it all the time.

I don't know who that is, third picture from left, bottom row. I took the image from a Richard Avedon panoramic picture of members of Andy Warhol's factory, but the subjects aren't identified in the Avedon book I have. Here he is in full, maybe you have a clue?

The subjects of / credits for the photos at the top and bottom of the site - or what I know of the subjects+credits - are at the 'about the site' page. Thanks again for dropping by, cheers!

03 May 2006 17:21

Ida writes,

aah, thanks for the pic. i wonder if they are the two johnson brothers, Jed (warhol's alledged boyfriend for a number of years) and jay? and then of course, gerard malanga. there's another nude pic of them at the bottom of this site

http://www.warholstars.org/chron/1967.html

but can't quite figure out if they're the same people as in your pic or not