Essays Archives - Legsville

DUNCAN HANNAH: THE CARY GRANT OF PUNK ROCK (AUGUST 21, 1952 — JUNE 11, 2022)

alexrosas2022-06-17T14:14:11+00:00June 17th, 2022|Essays|

Dunc had it all; the charm, the clothes, the looks, the brains, the talent, and more importantly, he was not an asshole. He didn’t need an entourage, he enjoyed going to see his friend’s work, and he enjoyed explaining why he liked something or did not like it. He was extremely accessible and his take on “the work” was inspiring. And his manner was classy, in an unpretentious way; more Mid-West down home. And his smile was infectious.

THE REAL ACID TEST: PRANKSTERS KEN BABBS & GEORGE WALKER

alexrosas2022-06-01T16:43:08+00:00June 1st, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|

Before the bus and after, tales of Ken Kesey, LSD, the Hells Angels, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and more.

THERE HAVE BEEN MORE MASS SHOOTINGS THAN DAYS IN 2022!

alexrosas2022-06-01T14:55:21+00:00June 1st, 2022|Essays, True Crime|

This was the 144th day of 2022. There have been more mass shootings than days in the year. Let me clarify that: there have been more mass shootings in America than days in the year. This is the only country in the world that can claim that dishonorable distinction. Think about that

SUNDAY! ONE NIGHT ONLY! THE MAN WHO KILLED JERRY LEWIS

alexrosas2022-05-19T01:43:47+00:00May 18th, 2022|Comedy, Essays|

Bobcat Goldthwait comes out and introduces the clips that Jerry brought, and the clips are running. There's the famous dance down the stairs from Cinderfella. There’s him doing the incredibly famous boardroom bit from The Errand Boy. And I'm watching Jerry look at himself. He was seventy-six, overweight and nobody knows who he is anymore, and he's looking at the twenty-six-year-old version of himself when he was super-famous. And I see Jerry look out at the half-full crowd, and then Jerry fell to the ground. And I think he’s dead.

ERIC CLAPTON IS A FIRST CLASS, GRADE A ASSHOLE!

alexrosas2022-05-18T13:19:40+00:00May 18th, 2022|Essays, Music|

This article was originally published by Chris Zappa on Medium in 2021 under the title, “I Just Can’t Even With Eric Clapton Anymore.” Chris has graciously given Legsville permission to republish it, and I encourage other music lovers to read Chris’ work on Medium as well as sign up for Zappagram, the mother of all music newsletters, which he runs on Substack.

AMBER HEARD BODY LANGUAGE

alexrosas2022-05-15T15:45:01+00:00May 15th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|

©2022 By Lillian Glass – Director/ Producer, Body Language Expert, Communication Expert | "First of all, she is once again copying Johnny's style as she too is wearing a vest under a blazer just like Johnny is wearing and has been wearing throughout the trial."

PICKLED PUNKS & THE SNAKE GIRL: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LEON

alexrosas2022-05-13T15:26:56+00:00May 12th, 2022|Essays|

Leon felt the muscles in his arms spasm after tearing down the Snake Girl tent in less than an hour. A job that usually took three other men two hours and a half-pack of cigarettes, he could do alone in fifty-three minutes.

THE BALLAD OF CYNTHIA PLASTER CASTER

alexrosas2022-04-30T18:03:22+00:00April 30th, 2022|Essays, Music|

Cynthia was truly an original thinker and a meticulous goofy artist who took the job of casting rock stars’ erect “rigs” extremely seriously while never losing her sense of humor about the job at hand. Join me now as we listen to Cynthia Plaster Caster’s story….

THE L.A.P.D. vs. BLACK FLAG!

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:01:41+00:00April 29th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays, Music|

Excerpted from CORPORATE ROCK SUCKS: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland. Copyright © 2022. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

APRIL 29-30, 1992: LET THE L.A. RIOTS BEGIN

alexrosas2022-04-30T15:55:21+00:00April 29th, 2022|Essays|

On April 29, 1992, jurors in Simi Valley, California acquitted five Los Angeles police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Los Angeles citizens responded to the news with a display of widespread civil disobedience and destruction that became known as the Los Angeles Riots. The evening the violence began, Burt Kearns, a producer of the syndicated nightly tabloid magazine series, Hard Copy, was sharing a pizza with correspondent Rafael Abramovitz at Santopietro’s restaurant. Thirty years later, the following is adapted from his memoir, Tabloid Baby.

TRIPPING IN LSD’S BIRTHPLACE: A STORY FOR “BICYCLE DAY”

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:02:17+00:00April 27th, 2022|Books We Love, Essays|

After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era. | By John Horgan on April 19, 2014 (Reprinted with John Horgan’s Permission) | © 2022 Scientific American, A Division Of Nature America, Inc.

JOHNNY DEPP TRIAL BODY LANGUAGE

alexrosas2022-04-26T21:58:32+00:00April 26th, 2022|Essays|

Johnny’s body language is open and his tone is appealing. He is articulate and his drawing out his articulation and pacing time is engaging. He comes across as in control and level-headed in his delivery and appears to be credible. While many of the revelations are shocking, he openly describes his experiences with Amber and holds nothing back. He is also credible in the fact that he openly admits his flaws and embarrassing issues as well.

PUNK ICON JORDAN MOONEY PASSES AWAY AT 66

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:04:27+00:00April 6th, 2022|Essays, Fashion, Music|

The punk rock stylist and fashion icon has passed away in her home in Seaford on Sunday. Jordan styled the Sex Pistols, managed Adam and the Ants, worked at Vivienne Westwood’s famous store, Sex and starred in the film Jubilee by Derek Jarman. The actress, model, artist and vet has been mourned by the masses on social media.

ANDY WARHOL–IMPERSONATING THE KING OF POP!

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:41+00:00March 9th, 2022|Essays, TV & Film|

One of the great unknown stories about Andy Warhol is that he hired someone to impersonate him on a tour of colleges throughout the United States in 1967. And Andy almost got away with it. Almost...

FEAR OF A BLACK NEW HAVEN

alexrosas2022-03-04T20:45:01+00:00March 4th, 2022|Essays|

Years back I lived in New Haven. There I resided in Westville, a mile or two out from Yale Law School where I was a student. An Orthodox priest and his wife rented part of their basement to me, a comfortable enough pied a terre with arresting Greek icons and cruciforms lining the walls just outside it. Joe Lieberman lived a few blocks away. He was famous.

PUBLISHING DURING THE APOCALYPSE & SURVIVING ADAM’S UNTIMELY DEATH!

alexrosas2022-03-01T15:43:20+00:00March 1st, 2022|Essays|

Adam Parfrey founded Feral House in 1989 and died in 2018-- though it continues to publish innovative, unexpected and thought-provoking nonfiction — inspiring films and cultural trends; exposing crime, malfeasance and stupidity; and celebrating artists and thinkers overlooked by popular media.

REMEMBERING WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS ON HIS 108TH BIRTHDAY!

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:46+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays|

Robert C. Hockett is a Professor of Law at Cornell University who used to live in Lawrence, Kansas and play in a garage band a few houses away from William S. Burroughs. On his 108th birthday, Robert remembers Bill hanging out at his house, watching the band.

THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS & MOVING SIDEWALKS!

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:08:30+00:00February 6th, 2022|Essays, Music|

©2022 By Amanda Sheppard | A glimpse into the Texas psychedelic rock & roll scene in the 1960s.

THE HIGHER THE HAIR – THE CLOSER TO GOD: GWEN SHAMBLIN-LARA; THE MILLIONAIRE PREACHER OF A WEIGHT LOSS CULT

alexrosas2022-02-01T17:51:53+00:00February 1st, 2022|Essays|

By Amy Haben | "Gwen may have had good intentions in the beginning of her career but became power hungry and evil once she became more famous and richer. Her alt-right values which became more extreme after she met Joe, didn’t help things."

TONE, PAYTON & NEAL: HOLLYWOOD’S MOST TOXIC TRIANGLE

alexrosas2022-01-29T20:55:09+00:00January 29th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|

By Burt Kearns | Tone was a movie star. Neal was a B-movie dolt who looked good in trunks. The woman was Barbara Payton, a badtime, badass blonde who’d gone more rounds (in the sack, of course) than both men put together.

THE RISE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

alexrosas2022-01-26T01:04:31+00:00January 26th, 2022|Essays, Music, TV & Film|

"At age 20, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the downtown scene with a budding sophistication equally rooted in abstract expressionism and the post-punk, no-wave, hip-hop, graffiti grit of the Mudd Club avant-garde." | ©2022 by Amanda Sheppard

REMEMBERING RONNIE SPECTOR BY JESSE MALIN

alexrosas2022-01-16T19:57:14+00:00January 16th, 2022|Essays, Music|

"She was always doing new things, but she still stayed connected to her roots and wasn’t too cool to show up and play at a small downtown club with punk bands and her friends."

IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A MISTAKE?

alexrosas2022-01-10T02:08:08+00:00January 5th, 2022|Essays|

Norman Mailer, Tom Baker, Jim Morrison, and Me - Copyright March 1st, 2022 By Legs McNeil

TARGET SHOOTING WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

alexrosas2022-04-29T17:06:02+00:00December 25th, 2021|Essays|

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