TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel

Greetings from Laurel Canyon!

Dare to squeeze the dead-ringer / Red dinger / On the wall for all times / Predicted to the icing on the cake

And the worms collect the ground / For the seeds to grow / But you never can know the speed / Is it 33 or 45? / Your fastidious clad broker / Stacks the black wax suits / Of the decked out man / But the plan is still in shrink / For the boys and off you go / Does it take the price to know? / That she is sold to the dream / To be the only one?

Thank God for a sunny day in the canyon. I started the week inspired by Tim Warren from Crypt Records. He DJ’d at my nightclub in NYC in the ’80s. Tim also put out a fair share of compilation albums and often DJ’d at Cramps shows. I would easily say Tim and Lux were record collector buddies.

So my goal was to do a set of nutty, trashy, and lyrically ironic ’50s and ’60s records and mix them with some of newer “ironic” records.

Turned out to be a mad and slippery slope. Such is life.