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Much Orbison arrived today
Jun. 8th, 2010 09:07 pmThe Wells-Fargo wagon brought most of my mad Orbison extravagance and I am wallowing in it. I just watched the adulatory documentary, In Dreams,* and am now ripping the multi-disk compilation, Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll. I am trying to read Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity at the same time, but it's difficult to take the guy's goings-on about Orbison's "masochistic sexual aesthetic" while listening to a young Roy Orbison singing "Tutti Frutti."
Yeah, he wore black all the time. So do I. It may mean nothing more than a decision to quit paying attention to fashion (which is what it meant for me), after being nattily clad for his early/mid 60s English tours, during which he looked remarkably like a Beatle with a pompadour. And if I'm a masochist, then I'm also the Queen of Romania.
*Much of the commentary from this documentary is available elsewhere on YouTube. There's some footage that I hadn't seen before, but I may just not have looked.
Yeah, he wore black all the time. So do I. It may mean nothing more than a decision to quit paying attention to fashion (which is what it meant for me), after being nattily clad for his early/mid 60s English tours, during which he looked remarkably like a Beatle with a pompadour. And if I'm a masochist, then I'm also the Queen of Romania.
*Much of the commentary from this documentary is available elsewhere on YouTube. There's some footage that I hadn't seen before, but I may just not have looked.
