Can you feel it? It's the jazz age, Jackson! Those times, they were a-roarin'! It was a time to bust your conk and break it down. We latched on and made our own scene; we mugged in the sharpest drapes, lit up on mezzrolls and King Kong, kickin' the gong, and truckin' on the dancefloor. The off-time squares came on with the wrong riff, trying to bring us down with the Dry Law, but we went on the down low. It was all loose and easy; the art, the tunes, the times--it was all ace. Everything was the cat's bag and we burned in the pocket until it was time to get fitted by the shroud-tailor. That age was the livin' breathin' end. Can you still dig it?
Music
The most solid down by law alligators ever to handle an axe, the 18 carat canaries, the freak lips:
Helen Kane, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five/Hot Seven, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Savoy Bearcats, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Annette Hanshaw, "Whispering" Jack Smith, Fred Waring, Leo Reisman, Gus Cannon, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe "King" Oliver, Bud Freeman, Ted Lewis, Jabbo Smith, Joe Venuti, Cow Cow Davenport, Palooka Washboard Band, The Boswell Sisters, Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, Fats Waller, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Muggsy Spanier, Ethel Waters, Jack Teagarden, Johnny Dobbs, Adrian Rollini, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Marion Harris, Artie Shaw, Sophie Tucker, Cliff Edwards, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Hoagy Carmichael, Miff Mole, Benny Goodman, Charlie Palloy, Tiny Parham, Jimmy Durante, The Dorsey Brothers, Fred Rich, Ronane's Pennsylvanians, Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orch., Ted Weems, The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Irving Mills, Lem Fowler, Nat Shilkret, Billy Murray, Gene Austin, Eddie Lang, Milton Brown, Bob Causer, Don Redman, and much more.
Movies
Too tired for hoppin'? Then let's cut out and take in a moving picture show starring fly chicks and righteous cats:
Metropolis, Sunshine, Pandora's Box, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Golem, Spies, Safety Last, It, The General, Intolerance, Les Vampires, Haxan, Faust, The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, The Farmer's Wife, The Student of Prague, Foolish Wives, The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, Her Wild Oat, Orphans of the Storm, The Magician, The Freshman, The Diary of a Lost Girl, The Bells, Speedy, The Gold Rush, Flesh and the Devil, The Bat, The Woman in the Moon, one- and two-reel comedies from Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chase, Stan Laurel, and much more.
Heroes
Trust *yourself*--there ain't no-one else that should give you all that jive. But some of those who I would love nothing more than to share a few fingers of hooch would be:
Fritz Lang, George Grosz, Jacques Vaché, Hal Roach, Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, George Herriman, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Antonin Artaud, Wilheim Henrich Otto Dix, Greta Garbo, Louis Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Willem de Kooning, Kurt Weill, Max Beckman, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, André Breton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Josephine Baker, and many more.
I cut this profile solo with no chasers. Dig it.
DJ Dubonnet's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
DJ Dubonnet is listening to Leroy Carr-"Christmas in Jail--Ain't that a Pain" Posted at 4:24 AM Dec 10 view more
About me:
I'm a crazy character that deejays the hottest plates from the coolest gators ever to wax a disc. I'm keen on the red-hot jazz, blues, rags, barrelhouse, torch-songs, and other smokin' tunes with enough chops that comes on from the era of speakeasies, fly flappers, petting parties, charlestons, bunny-hugs, shimmies, and free-flowin' jittersauce. Them cats that laid down those tracks are all wearing wooden kiminos now, but what they left behind has enough to still get the joint jumpin'!
I tip along the Stroll looking to score gigs at any local speakeasy, tearoom, gutbucket, or anyplace else with enough room to cut a rug by those cats wanting to get their kicks from a deejay that has his boots on.
I am a regular at the Rosebud joint on E. Pike--every Tuesday night there you can cool your heels or heat them up. Check my flyer below for the full skinny.
And I also pop up every month to swing the hepcats at Dark Avenue inside the Funhouse dive. Slip on the gumshoes for an evening of cabaret-noir full of mystery, intrigue, and swingin' tunes.
I used to sling the sounds of the shellac at an actual speakeasy called Cafe Corsair--it had to throw in the cards before it got too hot, but they're looking at other digs elsewhere. Stay tuned!
Plant you now and dig you later!
Who I'd like to meet:
Vamps, tramps, flappers, dandies, hipsters, swing kids, and cats draping dapper dry goods and collars all the jive. If you'd like to skin me and head to the blind pig to see a man about a dog, that'll be Jake to me.
"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians
Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
thats right folks! Oblivious dolls latest installation... Miss O www.paynecreations.org carefully selected a group of SEattle performers, artist and socialites!
She photographed each subject in their enviroment, then stitched each one by hand into her own vision of these priceless beauties! Topped of by custom curio boxes for each set to reside in..
Miss O see's the world differently than most in which her dolls and films are the proof!
Miss O feels that these are by far her best work..(besides those mischievious Circus Contraption dolls), and has worked hardest on this project than any other.
Art will be displayed in the "Twin Peaks Lodge" located inside the Gainsbourg. Owner's JJ + Hannah have recreated a breathtaking, surreal recreation of a Lynch realm.....
Accompaning her doll/curio boxes are photgraphic images, darksided acrylic painted canvas and zines... also her short films will screen at 10p.m. followed by swampy ragtime blues genious "LONESOME SHACK"
A night like no other............... free of charge! (unless you purchase a piece of Oblivious Nations Creations)
