Cramps founder Lux Interior dies at 60

Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band the Cramps, died Wednesday. He was 60.
Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died at Glendale Memorial Hospital of a previously-existing heart condition.
The band became a staple of the late ’70s Manhattan punk scene emerging from clubs such as Max’s Kansas City and CBGB, and was one of the first acts to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle.
Often dressed in macabre, gender-bending costumes onstage, Interior evoked a lanky, proto-goth Elvis Presley, and his band quickly became notorious for volatile and decadent live performances.
obit HERE

H2Obama

Whitley Market on the corner of Highland and Franklin in Hollywood, California has seemingly jumped on the ‘put-Obama’s-face-on-anything-and-it-will-sell’ band wagon . So, if you visit, look beyond the over-priced breath mints and there across from the Marilyn Monroe wine and the Elvis lighters you will discover Obama Water.
more HERE

Happy Birthday Elvis

Elvis Presley, who was born Jan. 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, would have been 74 today. He died at Graceland – the Memphis mansion that has become a shrine – on Aug. 16, 1977.

If ya feel like eating like THE KING on this special day go HERE, for recipes…

This Week in History…

• Dec. 19, 1967: Luxor headliner Criss Angel was born as Christopher Sarantakos in East Meadow, N.Y.
• Dec. 19, 1946: Robert Urich, who starred as detective Dan Tanna in “Vega$” for three seasons, would have been 62. He died April 16, 2002.
• Dec. 20, 1957: Elvis Presley receives his draft notice from the U.S. Army while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, the rock ‘n’ roll star’s newly purchased Tennessee mansion.
• Dec. 22, 1949: Robin Gibb of the singer/songwriting trio The Bee Gees was born with twin brother, Maurice.
• Dec. 23, 1979: Holly Madison was born in Astoria, Ore. She was a roller-skating waitress at Hooters in Santa Monica, Calif., before spending eight years in the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner.

Painting on Velvet with Cheetos