I try not to write too much here on my love of the 1980s, but sometimes the world forces me to do otherwise.
It started recently when in this piece on John Lurie and his Downtown Confessional book, the reviewer compared him to Pete Davidson. I mean, I’m sorry, but that is an egregious comparison, even in the slightest of ways. John Lurie is cool in a way Davidson could never be. Comparison aside, that’s a good review and I recommend it and anything to do with Lurie, including his book and his work with Jim Jarmusch.
Meanwhile there are people who are in the fight to save New York’s Extravagantly ’80s Subway Entrance. (shown above) Thank god. Someone wants to replace it with some banal all glass neutral atrium or something like thousands of other places. No way. Let’s hope they save this. It’s a small sliver of 80s goodness.
Finally, here’s a piece on Devo who were truly ahead of their time.
(Lnk to the image of Gabby Jones for The New York Times)
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