[Documentary] San Diego Rare Americana Authority Lou Curtiss Remembered Director: Yale Strom, Run Time: 70 min., Release Year: 2023 Last night, I saw the documentary about Folk Art Rare Records owner Lou Curtiss called Recordially Yours at Digital Gym on Market Street. Good flick, but it could have had more of Curtiss’ origin story. It began his tale when he […]
movie review: Recordially Yours
DJ Kelly Lynch, r.i.p.
[Tribute] “I’ve Got The Power” Ruled the Floor I found out today that San Diego club DJ Kelly Lynch died last year. Heather Evans aka Mz Kitten told me. I first met DJ Kelly Lynch in the late 1980’s when he was spinning House music for Chaos Productions at an Australian-themed bar and mini brewery (before they were cool) called […]
Street chase, North Park, 1997.
[Action Photo] Welcome to The Hood 35mm-to-digital conversion I had only been in the new North Park apartment for a month or two in early summer 1997 when one afternoon the calm of the neighborhood was interrupted by multiple sirens tearing down the street outside. They passed my apartment on Lincoln Avenue going east, then the loud scream of tires […]
Smoker’s fetish, 1997.
[35mm film-to-digital conversions] Spark up a conversation ~Reviewer Rob Some may remember when a girl would approach you in a bar with an unlit cigarette and a certain “look” signaling that you needed to give her a light. I wasn’t a smoker but after a while I learned to carry a lighter in my pocket so as not to be […]