" I'M A RUNAWAY SON OF A NUCLEAR A-BOMB "

On 1/27/51 the US started nuclear bomb testing in Nevada 65 miles
north of Las Vegas..here's the M65 Atomic Cannon named "ATOMIC ANNIE" and this is the first and only nuclear shell to ever be fired from a cannon. It had a range of seven miles. I know this ain't got much to do with the STOOGES but I just think this is some crazy shit...the ultimate DEATH TRIP.

HALF-WIT HOLIDAY

Dateline 1/26/12 : "HOLD HANDS,YOU LOVEBIRDS!" Today is my birthday..here I am with frequent THREE STOOGES foil and self-proclaimed " fourth Stooge " EMIL SITKA at the unveiling of THREE STOOGES star on the Hollywood Blvd Walk of Fame. Thanks to Brother Phil O'Connor for the cool pic!
 See Emil in action

THE GYPSY WOMAN WAS RIGHT...

ZOMBIE FUNHOUSE
   IGGY in HAITI....Voodoo Dog(Slight Return).

ANYTHING BUT SAVAGED , HAPPY BDAY MDB

1-24 is the birthday of the MARQUIS of ROCK N'ROLL, OUR FIRST MINISTER of TRUE LOVE, and Thespian Supreme MICHAEL DES BARRES!    Thanks for being our friend, Michael...ROCK OUT and ROCK ON!

"YOU DON'T NOMI"

  January 24 1944 is KLAUS NOMI'S Birthday...here he
teams up with IGGY to 'defeat' BOWIE in the Venture Bros. cartoon "Showdown at Cremation Creek Pt. 2...like Bowie says: "BOYS KEEP SWINGING'...

VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE

On 1/18/52 ( one week before my birthday ) Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz AKA CURLY HOWARD took that final poke in the eye and left this mortal coil.." IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, KEEP ON SUCKING TILL YOU DO SUCCEED."...a motto IGGY ( "Here comes success!") POP might have been living with all these years..

SICK OF YOU

 ...at some point David Robert Jones and James Newell Osterberg had a falling out..or maybe over TIME they just grew apart ( "the door to dreams was closed..") Here's hoping BOWIE & IGGY have at least one more artistic collaboration together ( "we should be on by now..")..if not, let's hope Dave and Jim can at least reclaim at some point that Berlin state of mind and have a few more 'lachens'...if just for one day..

NEIGHBORHOOD THREATS...

HAUPTSTRASSE 155 !! David and IGGY'S pad in Berlin...
Loose translation:  " the main road".  I'll say...

...I CAN'T STOP THINKIN' 'BOUT ME..

"I WANNA GET STONED...AND RUN AROUND..."

"...YES, I'M ALMOST LIKE HIM..."

Their stay in GERMANY was reflected in their LP cover art...

"...WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT MY DREAMS!?..."

PORTRAIT OF POP...painted by BOWIE

BOWIE VS. POP!

From a 2006 cartoon by the Venture Bros. called "Showdown at Cremation Creek Pt. 1 in which BOWIE battles to the death against the tag team of IGGY POP and KLAUS NOMI! At one point IGGY says to DAVID: "I'm sick of being your IDIOT!" ENO famously said that few people liked the VELVET UNDERGROUND but every one of them started a band...few people liked the STOOGES but everyone of them that didn't OD young became somekinda artist..or at least started a blog...

"EVEN THE STOOGES...GET LUCKY SOME TIME..."

January 10...We take time out from our 7 DAYS OF IGGY/BOWIE to celebrate the birthday day of MR. SCOTT THURSTON..who's keyboard work on RICH BITCH alone justifies his Place in the Pantheon!

"LEPER MESSIAHS?"

January 8 is also DAVID BOWIE'S Birthday..we all know the Ballad of David and James so I'll just make this seven days of IGGY/BOWIE so we can be HEROES..just for one week...  

ALL THE WAY TO MEMPHIS...

January 8 was ELVIS'S Birthday..THE ORIGINAL ROCK N'ROLL frontman...IGGY'S "LUST FOR LIFE" LP was racing up the charts until THE KING died..RCA switched all their record manufacturing plants to making ELVIS records to keep up with the demand...IGGYS sales never recovered. On Oct. 8, 1994 the IG performed at an ELVIS tribute concert, singing
"RIP IT UP."

"...Didja see his CRAZY eyes?..."

This Sunday is SOUPY SALES B-Day! IGGY is quoted as saying that the songs on the STOOGES first two LP's had so few words to them because as a kid he heard SOUPY say on his TV show that kids should send him letters with " 25 words or less." Soupy's two son's Tony and Hunt also played bass and drums with IGGY early in the IG's solo career.

January 6. Too soon, too soon...

We lost RON today back in 2009...
Thanks for all the REAL COOL TIMES...

Kev Overboard

Happy B-Day to CHRIS STEIN!..BLONDIE opened for IGGY on his first solo tour. I hung out with Blondie back at their hotel after their first LA show at the WHISKEY A' GO GO..I'm sure they've forgotten but I'll probably be telling people about it until I take my final Death Trip...BTW, Blondie's song "Detroit 442" is named after IGGY'S hotel room number!

"Makes me wanna start a fight..."

The IG's ain't happy with his X-Mas gift...cool pants, tho'..

"And The Beat Goes On..." 1969, 1970...2012...

LITTLE DOLL'S 1ST CHRISTMAS! IGGY & the STOOGES Palladium show was the first night my lovely wife AMANDA & I got a babysitter for our then 1 month old BABY GLORIA. If that seems a rather tenuous STOOGES connection then consider this: one of JAMES WILLIAMSON'S pre-STOOGES bands ( The
Coba Seas ) recorded a live version of "GLORIA" and IGGY himself would do "GLORIA" live solo and with verious post-STOOGES bands! 

Fab Photo credit to Brutha Phil

DAY 31 A.I.

 " I RIPPED YOU,
       YOU RIPPED ME.
     WE'RE GOING DOWN,
       IN HISTORY "

     "BYE"..for now..