"Hey Nineteen"

"Hey Nineteen" is a song by American jazz rock band Steely Dan, written by members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and released on their 1980 album Gaucho.


According to one reviewer's interpretation, the song "was about a middle-aged man's disappointment with a young lover ("Hey Nineteen, that's 'Retha Franklin / She don't remember the Queen of Soul / It's hard times befallen the sole survivors / She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old")." Other reviews felt that the song struck a nerve with the aging baby boomer generation transition from the freewheeling 60's and 70's to the conservative 1980's. (source)


Becker and Fagen

"Walk Between the Raindrops"

Someone made a pretty cool video to go with "Walk Between the Raindrops," off of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly (1982).

"Century's End"

I just Netflixed what was at one time a favorite movie of mine, Bright Lights, Big City, but is in hindsight probably a better book. While the appeal of the movie has considerably faded for me, the soundtrack has sort of held up. In addition to a couple of what were no doubt NYC club scene mainstays around the time (mid-80s) the events of the film take place, "Pump Up The Volume" and "True Faith," there is a rather obscure Prince tune from his "mysterious" Crystal Ball album and Bryan Ferry's "Kiss and Tell." But for me, the real stand out is Donald Fagen's "Century's End." Sounding like an outtake from one of my favorite albums of all time, his 1982 masterpiece, The Nightfly, hearing "Century's End" is like seeing an old friend again.

"New Frontier"

"New Frontier" by Donald Fagen
from
The Nightfly (1982)

Levittown, 1951

Three Musicians (1921) by Pablo Picasso

Tuesday Weld (1963)

Nikita Khrushchev, United Nations in November 1960

Ambush perfume ad (1955)

Time Out (1959), Dave Brubeck

the limbo

Idealized American fallout shelter around 1957