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Articles by Glenn O'Brien
Rebirth of the Cool: Our 1988 Tony Bennett Interview Original
This article originally appeared in the February 1988 issue of SPIN. In memory of Tony Bennett, who died on July 21 at the age of 96, we’re republishing it here. Tony Bennett is cool. I have felt this way since the early sixties. Sinatra was hip, but Tony was cool. He was a swinging singer. He was a rocking role model. He was a hip cat. His bow tie looked good undone. When I was about 15 I went to a concert downtown by myself.
Ozzy Osbourne: Our 1986 Cover Story
This article originally appeared in the September 1986 issue of SPIN. It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. I like to keep busy. Besides, this guy is something else. What did I know about Ozzy? Not much. He was a bit a bat. He bit the head off a parakeet in the office of the president of Columbia Records. he used to be in a famous group called Black Sabbath. Now he is a solo act. All of his records are platinum. He was one of the rock stars targeted by the Parents Music Resource Center.
In Memory of Max’s Kansas City
On the last Wednesday of Advent, toward Midnight, I had the urge to and did taxi down to Max’s Kansas City for a nightcap with a lady friend who happens to write a column of witticism and miscellany in an underground magazine for the wealthy.
Glenn O’Brien on Young Michael Jordan, an NBA Style Icon
Michael Jordan was cute. I swear. Before he got the HeadBlade dome and the landing strip on his upper lip for a Hanes commercial, before he got his ear pierced—back when he was 18 and the new face on Dean Smith’s UNC Tar Heels—he was a cute kid. Boyish. His childhood nickname was Rabbit; his ears stuck out. He hadn’t made high school varsity until he was a junior. Back then, he was on the short side for hoops. But then the pituitary kicked in and the world changed.
Michael Jordan's Trainer, Tim Grover, on Counting MJ's Steps and Carrying His Clubs
Tim Grover has a vivid memory of meeting Michael Jordan in 1989. Jordan, still seeking his first NBA title, had a simple message for the man ostensibly tasked with pushing him: "You better keep up." For 15 years, through six NBA championships, two retirements, and a baseball stint, Grover kept up, helping Jordan stay in remarkable physical and mental shape.
Michael Jordan: The Original NBA Style Icon
Michael Jordan was cute. I swear. Before he got the HeadBlade dome and the landing strip on his upper lip for a Hanes commercial, before he got his ear pierced back when he was 18 and the new face on Dean Smith’s UNC Tar Heels—he was a cute kid. Boyish. His childhood nickname was Rabbit; his ears stuck out. He hadn’t made high school varsity until he was a junior. Back then, he was on the short side for hoops. But then the pituitary kicked in and the world changed.
Flashback Friday: The Alchemy of Love
Back in a simpler age, people believed that when they’d fall in love they’d hear birds and violins. Now we know the truth: Your brain belches phenylethylamine and sets off your norepinephrine system. It’s all in “The Alchemy of Love” by Glenn O’Brien, originally published in the September, 1980 issue of High Times. Love comes on like acid. Same sort of weak feeling in the stomach. Same sort of hallucinations. Love is a trip.
Downtown 81 | Film Threat
By Lorry Kikta | December 6, 2019 Before I ever lived in New York, I always had a fascination with it. Particularly the music scene in the ’70s and ’80s. Punk, in many ways, was born in New York. After its inception, the music continued to grow into a larger, weirder community. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was dangerous, dirty, and, most importantly, a wellspring of artistic activity.
20 Christmas Gifts Your Boyfriend Will Actually Like
20 Christmas Gifts Your Boyfriend Will Actually Like While some men will eventually cave and tell you, there are still those stubborn few who will leave you clueless. But before you start stressing out about what you’re going to get your man, take a deep breath and have a look at our fun Christmas gift ideas for your boyfriend. Whether your guy is a sophisticated businessman or a casual, cool geek, we have stylish finds for all that they’ll actually like.
The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing
A major magazine that I write for every month and to which I am undyingly and contractually loyal happened to be working up a business scandal piece on a company that I happened to have done some work for. Would I please, my dear editor entreated, talk to the reporter doing the story? Well, okay, I said, being a sport and generally in the service of truth. I don’t usually talk about my clients, I had nothing bad to say about them and they were out of business anyway. So I talked.
Talking Heads: Our 1985 Cover Story
This article originally appeared in the June 1985 issue of SPIN. The Talking Heads invented the modern rock band. They found that if you’re honest and sincere, it’s possible people with similar feelings will discover you. They were the first band to have a girl play in the band without being the centerpiece or an Ikette. The Talking Heads discovered that a good, plain look can be the best look of all. The Talking Heads image was no image. They looked suspiciously regular. They dressed like students.
Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview,
This article originally appeared in the November 1985 issue of SPIN. Tom Waits has a voice that could guide ships through dense fog. He sings songs that are poetic, hilarious, scary, touching, hallucinatory, and fine. Maybe he’s like John Lee Hooker, Mose Allison, Neville Brand, Francois Villon, Soren Kierkegaard, Lenny Bruce, and Wallace Beery rolled into one. Sometimes his band sounds like a Salvation Army combo covering a Stones tune. But nothing really sounds like Waits. Or writes like.
10 Best Books on Personal Style and Fashion
Everyone has their own style; for most of us, that style is a constantly evolving thing, inspired by the sights around us, the things we love, and the way we feel. With that in mind, there’s something deeply rewarding about reading about the personal styles of others, whether you’re looking for inspiration in your own sartorial life or you’re simply curious about the chosen looks of others.
This is the New York skyline circa 1980
Forget the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the twin towers. These faces are the real monuments of the evanescent time, the wonders of our world and the glories of our landscape. These were the stars in our local firmament, the glittering bodies that twinkled in the night, whose mysterious movements predicted our fates and our fortunes, and whose double-ended candle flicker illuminated our imaginations and ignited our desires. You never saw most of them? You missed something special.
Rest In Peace, Ziggy
In 1971, David Bowie was having his Greta Garbo moment. On the cover of Hunky Dory, he looked a bit like her and sang a song called “Oh! You Pretty Things.” That was his vibe when he came to visit Andy Warhol at the Factory, on September 14, 1971. He was with his manager, Tony DeFries. They were in town to sign with a new record company, RCA, and Bowie wanted to pay homage to Warhol.
The Changing Landscape Of American Style
America is the greatest country on Earth. If you don't believe it, just ask an American. We love it so much that about 96 per cent of us never go anywhere else. Hey, we have the Grand Canyon, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Disneyworld, Mall of America, the Freedom Tower and Ground Zero. What is there to find in Europe? Old things. In Africa? Tropical diseases. In Asia? Teeming masses and sweatshops. Why would anyone want to go anywhere else if you've been to America?
Amazon.co.jp： How To Be a Man: A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman: Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Philippe Delhomme: 洋書
I've been a big fan of Glenn O'Brien's tone and perspective for a long time. As GQ's style guy and a further contributor to the magazine and its now-defunct podcast, it would be easy and perhaps predictable for him to take a dismissive or snobby stance while dealing out the dos and don'ts of taste, the way that other style and advice tsars seem to traffic in snarkiness while resenting their readers (thinking of Esquire's sex columnist here).
Glenn O'Brien on 1981: “New York/New Wave”
1981: “New York/New Wave”Glenn O'BrienTHE “’80S” LITERALLY BEGAN WITH “The Real Estate Show,” an “insurrectionary” occupation of a vacant city-owned building at 123 Delancey Street. Literally, because the thirty-five-artist installation dealing primarily with real-estate issues in New York, was “open” for one day: January 1, 1980. It was padlocked by the police on January 2 and “came down” on the 11th when …
Glenn O’Brien: The Art of Advertising
Working in advertising gave me the resources to do what I thought was art—with a logo. From the cover of Like Art. Art school is the place you go to learn how to be a creative director, even if you don’t know that yet.
New Again: Cyndi Lauper
In New Again, we highlight a piece from Interview's past that resonates with the present. Since she exploded in the early '80s with her first hit, the aptly titled "She's So Unusual," Cyndi Lauper has never really lost her mojo. These days, Lauper is as relevant as ever—not as a pop-rock sensation, an LGBT activist, or The Celebrity Apprentice contestant, but as a Broadway boss.
FLASHBACK: Model Iconophilia by Glenn O'Brien - 10 Magazine
When I was a young man about town – a bit naive and possibly awkward, despite my location at glamour’s vortex, the Warhol Factory – fashion models seemed quite interesting to me. To the extent that I wanted one of my own. Or perhaps to collect the whole set. And I certainly made at least a token effort in that direction.
Glenn O'Brien: Let's Go Tribal - 10 Magazine
But that’s just the Judeo-Christian- This would explain the epidemic of Islamic slant. The gods of the Olympian pantheon were even more like us – even though immortal, they were apparently more fragile. Back when those gods still walked among us and spoke to (through) us, and Homer was inventing literature, thus creating historical time, the earth was home to about 1% of its present headcount. We communicated with those who lived within earshot.
Glenn O'Brien: What's In A Name - 10 Magazine
Immortality. We can’t seem to live without it. Life is never enough – we always seem to want more, even if the one we have hasn’t worked out all that well. This rage to live is responsible for some nutty ideas. When we die we go to heaven, especially if we worked hard, did what we were told to do and maybe gave our life for our country. Or maybe we go to hell instead, if we screwed up, screwed around, liked to party, or joined the revolution.
Zen and the Art of Hotel Living by Glenn O’Brien
Living in a hotel is perfect for a certain personality type. I guess I’m one of those types. I lived at the famed Chelsea Hotel for several months in 1977 and it was an adventure and an education. The Chelsea had certainly seen better days, but the glamor still remained. You could almost hear Bob Dylan typing or Leonard Cohen hitting on Janis Joplin.
Bret Easton Ellis
I pulled off of Sunset Strip heading for BRET EASTON ELLIS‘s home. I’d finished reading his much-anticipated new novel, Imperial Bedrooms, just moments before. His place seemed uncannily familiar — it felt just like the home of Clay, the novel’s narrator, a character the legendary writer introduced to readers in 1985’s Less Than Zero. Now Clay has become an adult, and is back for more with his cohorts Julian and Blair. Bret Easton Ellis is back, too — back to his home town of Los Angeles.
YouTube makes all of its videos viewable on Cardboard VR headset through its Android app, iOS support coming soon (Richard Nieva/CNET)
The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment. Mediagazer simplifies this task by organizing the key coverage in one place.
Five Visionaries and the Creative Circles That Inspire Them
Thom Browne and his band of unique brothers hold playfulness, proportion, and detail supreme. There is a story about Frank Lloyd Wright that he designed all of his houses and furniture to suit a person of his modest height. He did not build to the size of the client or of some idealized person. He suited them to himself. This story may or may not be true, but artists often cite it to confirm, by allegiance with Wright's genius, their self-based process of creation.
The Style Guy Solves Your Sartorial Conundrums
Pants: At Ease or at Attention?My tailor asked me if I wanted a "military hem" on some dress pants I recently brought in. Is it wise to have that kind of hem, which makes the back of the pant leg slightly longer than the front? Trousers with plain bottoms (no cuffs) often look better with the "military" or slanted hem, i.e., cut slightly longer over the heel—usually no more than a half inch or so.
The Style Guy Answers Your Sartorial Conundrums
Model CitizenI'm 21 years old, and all my friends think I'm very handsome. How do I become a male model? Thought you might have some insight.If you're a male, you're halfway to being a male model. All you need are some people who will pay for your picture. Just put on your handsomest clothes and handsomest smile and walk into a modeling agency. If they don't throw you out, you've got the job.
The Style Guy's Guide to Friendship, Schmoozing, and Social Advancement
You meet more people if you are on TV. Life is a euphemism for social climbing. There's no shame in deliberately scaling the social ladder. That's evolution. We are social animals, and we thrive in the company of others. Finding the best others we can is part of the natural-selection mechanism, and it's far safer than rock climbing. And getting to the top of society is like getting to the top of Mount Everest, except you can stay there, usually in comfort. It's an adventure. It's exciting, like sport.
Sex by Madonna, First Edition
Skip to main content Sort By Search preferences Skip to main search results Sex Published by Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, ISBN 10: 0446517321ISBN 13: 9780446517324 Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, U.S.A. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FINE copy with printed mylar sleeve (opened at top) CD in separate mylar envelope is present.
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