Twenty-Two Albums from the Aughts: 2000-2009

  • Sunny Border Blue — Kristin Hersh 2001
  • Maria McKee — High Dive 2003
  • No Doubt — Rock Steady 2001
  • Santigold — Santigold 2008
  • Tanya Donnelly — beautysleep 2002
  • Here Come The ABCs — They Might Be Giants 2005
  • The White Stripes — Elephant 2003
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station — Live 2003
  • Fishbone— Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Presents the Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx 2000
  • The Beatles — Let It Be…Naked 2003
  • Drive-By Truckers — Southern Rock Opera 2002
  • The Flaming Lips — Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 2002
  • Gnarls Barkley — Elsewhere 2006
  • Eminem — The Eminem Show 2002
  • The Chicks — Top of the World Tour: Live 2003
  • Foo Fighters — There Is Nothing Left to Lose 2000
  • The Langley Schools Music Project — Innocence and Despair 2001
  • Sleater-Kinney — All Hands on the Bad One 2000
  • The Chicks — Taking the Long Way 2006
  • Yo La Tengo — Summer Sun 2003
  • Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins — Rabbit Fur Coat 2006
  • Maria McKee — Late December 2007

Twenty-Two unexpected highlights from spring break 2025 Trip to LA

  • Mariachi Singing Shuttle Driver. LAX
  • Witness to the rise of the robots. Waymo and Coco
  • OG Dioramas. Natural History Museum
  • The Blue Boy (Gainsborough) and Pinkie (Thomas Lawrence) aren’t related. Huntington Library.
  • Living dinosaur called a Harpie Eagle. LA Zoo
  • Interactive Color Wall. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
  • Liechtenstein. The Broad
  • Skateboarder jumping through the watching crowd. Venice Beach.
  • Erewhon grocery stores. Beverly Hills, Culver City
  • No fourth floor. San Gabriel Sheraton
  • Hands-Off Rally. Downtown LA
  • Koons Balloons. The Broad
  • Bradbury Building, finally. Downtown LA
  • Wax Cylinder Juke Box. Autry Museum of the West
  • Indian Star Wars (Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology). Autry Museum of the West
  • Desert Garden Huntington Library
  • Greene & Greene design. Huntington Library
  • Three Graces. Rotunda Natural History Museum
  • Zapruder film hand painted frame by frame. MOCA
  • Watching off roading on a dry reservoir. San Gabriel Canyon
  • Photorealism. MOCA
  • Unexpected research at LA Central Library yields results!

Twenty-Two Albums from the 90s

  • The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest
  • You Gotta Sin to Get Saved – Maria McKee
  • Live Through This – Hole
  • The Real Ramona – Throwing Muses
  • The Ghost That Haunt Me – Crash Test Dummies
  • Hips and Makers – Kristen Hersh
  • 99.9F – Suzanne Vega
  • Sunburn – Blake Babies
  • Give a Monkey a Brain – Fishbone
  • Hey Babe – Juliana Hatfield
  • Last Splash – The Breeders
  • Star – Belly
  • Other Voices Other Rooms – Nanci Griffith
  • Copper Blue – Sugar
  • Automatic for the People – R.E.M.
  • Medallion – Sex Police
  • Country Love Songs – Robbie Fulks
  • Cutting Their Own Groove – Big Daddy
  • Tragic Kingdom – No Doubt
  • Astro Lounge – Smash Mouth
  • Still in Hollywood – Concrete Blonde
  • The Immaculate Collection – Madonna

22 Stores from the Mall

  • Record Bar
  • Radio Shack
  • Camelot Music
  • Morrisons
  • K&W
  • Piccadilly
  • JC Penny* with a decent electronics section
  • Ivey’s/Dillards
  • Aladdin’s Castle
  • Waldenbooks
  • Brendle’s
  • CompUSA
  • Eckerd Drugs
  • Tiger Direct
  • FW Woolworth
  • B. Dalton
  • KB Toys
  • Babbage’s
  • Mr. Dunderbak’s
  • Orange Julius 
  • Spencer’s Gifts
  • Suncoast Motion Picture Company
  • Tinderbox
  • Swiss Colony

22 Atari 2600 Games

  • Breakout
  • Asteroids
  • Space Invaders
  • Ms. Pac-Man/Pac-Man Jr.
  • Defender
  • Centipede/Millipede
  • Vanguard
  • Canyon Bomber
  • Air-Sea Battle
  • Circus Atari
  • Yars Revenge
  • Mario Bros.
  • Super Challenge Baseball
  • Super Challenge Football
  • Bowling
  • Galaxian
  • Phoenix
  • Night Driver
  • Pole Position
  • River Raid
  • Barnstorming
  • Swordquest Earthworld/Fireworld

22 Things from the Film Blow-Up

Blow-up is a 1966 film by director Michelangelo Antonioni.

The mimes are the loudest thing in the movie.

In contrast the anti-war/anti-nuke protesters are relatively quite.

The scene with the photographer (Thomas) and the painter sets up the motivation of the film’s protagonist.

Vanessa Redgrave does a perfect job of dancing poorly to jazz trying to impress the photographer.

Herbie Hancock created the score and music of the film.

I didn’t know the trope of homosexuals as a sign of urban gentrification is as old as it is.

The antique shop owner is tired of antiques and wants to run away to Nepal and Morocco, but is told Nepal is nothing but antiques. All the while new London is being built around her shop and about to take it over. So there’s no reason to run from antiques as they are about to be replaced.

In the club the crowd watches the band silently and still as if looking at a piece of art rather than listening to music. They only erupt when they fight over a piece of guitarists guitar, the music being less important than the trophy of being there. Like a selfie?

A doss house is a flop house or a homeless shelter. This is where the photographer is leaving at the beginning of the film.

At first the photographer thinks the photos of lovers in the park will be a nice contrast for his book that is full of “violent” images. But he’s not satisfied with that vision and searches and finds a darker story.

CB radios are used as a primitive car phone for contacting a service to convey a messages to others through an operator.

I don’t think there was a murder. The people who steal the photos only take the photos of the lovers and not the one of the “body”. Why? They are only threatened by the exposure of the relationship.

The photographer is an opportunist. He see’s the couple and wants to capture them on film. He sees the antique shop as an investment that will return financially. When he sees the body he wants the photo because he sees that value.

Photography as an art form kind of takes a beating. Even though it is literally a representation of the real, it some how becomes an art form that’s so easy to hide the real and create fantasy.

The mimes at the end represent the photographer’s world of fantasy and he relates to that.

The photographer only shows joy when he discovers the lovers in the park.

The photographer refers to women he photographs as “birds” and leaves them to go to the park and photograph birds.

The opening shot is of the same empty field from the end of the film where the photographer disappears.

Literally in the opening credits, images of a fashion photo shoot appear in the letters. Establishing the world of the film.

The “The End” credit the letters are black. Nothing more to see?

In the mimed tennis scene the camera follows the mime tennis ball as it goes over the fence and roles across the ground and comes to a stop.

The photographer retrieves the ball from that location which is a good bit away from the tennis court. This demonstrates his immersion into the mimed tennis scene and his acceptance of the reality of the scene.

Twenty-Two Songs — Instrumentals

  • Back to the Apple — Count Basie and His Orchestra
  • Take Five — Dave Brubeck
  • Hang Up Your Hang Ups — Herbie Hancock
  • The Streetbeater — Quincy Jones
  • California Dreaming — Baby Huey
  • Blue Moon — Blossom Dearie & Les Blue Stars
  • Flying — The Beatles
  • Jessica — The Allman Brothers Band
  • Popcorn — Hot Butter
  • I’ve Heard That Song Before — Harry James
  • In the Mood — Glenn Miller & his Orchestra
  • Take the “A” Train — Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
  • Für Elise — Vince Guaraldi Trio
  • Peaches En Regalia — Frank Zappa
  • Summertime — Booker T. & the M.G.’s
  • Miserlou — Dick Dale
  • Star Spangled Banner — Jimi Hendrix
  • One Mint Julep — Ray Charles
  • A Taste of Honey — Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass
  • Unsquare Dance — The Dave Brubeck Quartet
  • Cry for Shadow — The Beatles
  • Sleigh Ride — The Ventures