Molly Lambert

3 mixes by DJ Fuck Yall (me)

I was gonna make one three hour long New Year’s chiller mix but I decided to split them it up into three mixes you can play in whatever order you like. I was thinking of when Shania Twain and Mutt Lange put out three simultaneous versions of Up! where each CD was a different color and production style, and the styles were country (green), pop (red), and Bollywood (blue). Shortly thereafter their marriage imploded when Mutt cheated on Shania with some friend of theirs, and then after they split up Shania ended up with the cucked husband of the woman she’d been cheated on with. Some real Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice stuff. Isn’t life funny? Anyway these mixes have different tracklists and themes but they’re spiritual triplets. They’re also inspired by my brother recently posting a lot of little video game environment GIFs lately with captions specifying a city and year. He also made GIFs that I screencapped in this post because I have no idea how to use tumblr anymore. This is also in the spirit of the Glass Bricks mixes he and I made together, which were about our nostalgia for our late 80s/early 90s Los Angeles childhood, probably subconsciously as a mental escape from how horrible 2016 is. And very inspired by “San Junipero” which made me think about what mind-clubs I like to go to. All the first dance clubs I went to were 80s nights, so this is a loving tribute to 80s Night at Club Hell in Providence (RIP) and the 80s room at Club Bang, especially late in the game when Bang stopped being hip and was all Valley bridge and tunnel kids like me dancing to Yazoo. Los Angeles 1983 is inspired by that weird cusp of the end of the 70s turning into the 80s. London 1985 is inspired by the Batcave club and all the goth nights it launched. Tokyo 1988 is the Sophistipop mix I’ve wanted to make forever but finally did, in honor of New Year’s being the most sophistipop holiday. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in my Echo Beach of the mind.

(Disclaimer: the songs in each mix aren’t all from the year listed, and might spill over. Also some of them are fuzzily ripped but just consider it part of the vibe.)

Los Angeles 1983 (70s Rock & West Coast Jazz)

“I Feel Like Dying” - Larry Norman

“Sentimental Lady” - Bob Welch

“Indiana Wants Me” - R. Dean Taylor

“Heartbreaker” - Nantucket

“Blue Lady” - Elliot Lurie

“Prime Time” - The Tubes

“Van Nuys Blvd.” - TKTK

“Dr. Jesus” - Michael and Stormie Omartian

“Eye In The Sky” - The Alan Parsons Project

“Long Distance Runner” - De Garmo & Key Band

“No One There” - Eric Tagg

“Let’s Get On With It” - Barry Manilow

“Open Up” - James Felix

“Never Turnin’ Back” - Bruce Hibbard

“Who’ll Be The Fool Tonight” - Larsen/Feiten Band

“Is It You?” Lee Ritenour ft. Eric Tagg

“(Baby) This Love That We’ve Found” - Heat

London 1985 (Darkwave & Synthpop)

“Pale Shelter” - Tears For Fears

“Passion” - The Flirts

“Echo Beach” - Martha And The Muffins

“Sexbeat” - Sexbeat

“Another Time Another Place” - U2

“Metal” - Gary Numan

“State Farm” - Yazoo

“Safety Dance” - Men Without Hats

“Let’s All Make A Bomb” - Heaven 17

“I Could Be Happy” - Altered Images

“I Love You Too Much” - The Human League

“Cities In Dust” - Siouxsie And The Banshees

“Frozen Faces” - Propaganda

“State Of The Nation” - Industry

“Faces” - Clio

“Music That You Can Dance To” - Sparks

“Uncertain Smile” - The The

Tokyo 1988 (Sophistipop & New Wave)

“Windswept” - Bryan Ferry

“Hand To Mouth” - George Michael

“Eyes Of A Stranger” - The Payolas

“Wishful Thinking” - China Crisis”

“Message To My Girl” - Split Enz

“Steppin Out” - Joe Jackson

“Tinseltown In The Rain” - The Blue Nile

“Something About You” - Level 42

“Wood Beez (Party Like Aretha Franklin)” - Scritti Politti

“Things Can Only Get Better” - Howard Jones

“Hey Little Girl” - Icehouse

“The Worst Year Of My Life” - The Wild Swans

“Everything She Wants” - Wham!

“Oblivious” - Aztec Camera

“Cherry Pie” - Sade

“Last Time Forever” - Squeeze

The Almost Complete ML Mad Men Recaps

S1E1 "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

S2E5 "The New Girl"

S2E6 "Maidenform"

S2E13 "Meditations In An Emergency"

S3E3 "My Old Kentucky Home"

S3E7 "Seven Twenty Three"

S3E11 "The Gypsy and the Hobo"

S3E12 "The Grown-Ups"

S3E13 "Shut the Door. Have a Seat."

S4E2 "Christmas Comes But Once A Year"

S4E3 "The Good News"

S4E4 "The Rejected"

S4E5 "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"

S4E6 "Waldorf Stories"

S4E7 "The Suitcase"

S4E8 "The Summer Man"

S4E9 "The Beautiful Girls"

S4E10 "Hands and Knees"

S4E11 "Chinese Wall"

S4E12 "Blowing Smoke"

S4E13 "Tomorrowland"

S5E1/2 "A Little Kiss"

S5E3 "Tea Leaves"

S5E4 "Mystery Date"

S5E5 "Signal 30"

S5E6 "Far Away Places"

S5E7 "At The Codfish Ball"

S5E8 "Lady Lazarus"

S5E9 "Dark Shadows"

S5E10 "Christmas Waltz"

S5E11 "The Other Woman"

S5E12 "Commissions and Fees"

S5E13 "The Phantom"

S6E1/2 "The Doorway"

S6E3 “Collaborators”

S6E4 “To Have And To Hold”

S6E5 “The Flood”

S6E06 “For Immediate Release”

S6E07 “Man With A Plan”

S6E08 “The Crash”

S6E09 “The Better Half”

S6E10 “A Tale Of Two Cities”

S6E11 “Favors”

S6E12 “The Quality Of Mercy”

S6E13 “In Care Of”

S7E1 “Time Zones”

S7E2 “A Day’s Work”

S7E3 “Field Trip”

S7E4 “The Monolith”

S7E5 “The Runaways”

S7E6 “The Strategy”

S7E7 “Waterloo”

S7E8 “Severance”

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Mad Melrose Place

on Joan in Grantland’s Sterling Cooparound

In 1934, you were Gretel Bergmann, a German Jew living safely in the U.K. Why did you go back to Germany?

I went back to Germany because my father came to [see me in] England–he could not use the telephone or write because the Nazis checked everything. He told me that I had to come back because the Nazis needed me for the 1936 Olympic team. They needed to show that Jews were not excluded, and I was the only Jewish person that had a chance. My family still lived in Germany. Had I not gone back, the Nazis would have killed them immediately.

Was it very different from the Germany you’d left?

Oh, yes. You had to get used to a whole new deal. I was a member of the Olympic team, but I was not fully accepted because I was Jewish. The other girls were quite nice, but there were some that didn’t talk to me, and I said, “To hell with you,” if you will pardon the expression. Then at the end, the [German officials] kicked me out.

What reason did they give?

They told me I wasn’t good enough, even though I had equaled the German record with a 5-ft., 3-in. (1.6 m) [high] jump the week before. They expunged that. They said in a letter, “You must have known yourself that you were not good enough.” They gave me a standing-room ticket to watch [the Berlin Games], which I did not accept.

Did you know the athlete who replaced you, Dora Ratjen?

She was my roommate [at training camp]. We got along O.K. But she was … well … a little odd. We had a huge shower room, and when we were finished training, everybody stripped and went in the shower room and cleaned up. Not Dora. Dora sneaked into a little bathroom which we were not supposed to use. Later on I found out why. She was not exactly a lady.

Do you think she was a man pretending to be a woman or a person of indeterminate gender?

We really couldn’t make a judgment. She was very masculine, but so were a lot of the other girls.

How did you get out of Germany and into the States?

There was somebody in my town [Laupheim] who moved to the U.S. and became very rich. My father was a friend of his from school days. They arranged that he would give me the affidavit I needed. I won two high-jump championships here. And one shot put.

Have you been back to Germany?

I had sworn to myself I would never, never go back to Germany and I would never, never speak a word of German, which I haven’t done. For many years I couldn’t watch the Olympics. But then the German Olympic Committee invited me to the games in Atlanta, and they named a stadium after me in my hometown. So I went back.

There are actually two stadiums in Germany that have your name on them. You’re probably more famous now than if you had competed. Does that make up for what happened to you?

It can never make up for it. But I realized after a while that these younger people had nothing to do with this whole thing. They also had to do what they were told. Our best friend used to sneak into our house at 11 o’clock at night because he couldn’t come in and visit us officially. And when we saw each other in the street, we didn’t say hello to each other. And that’s the way it was. My friend from next door never looked at me again. They couldn’t afford to talk to me.

You were married to Bruno, another Jewish escapee from Germany, for 75 years. Do you have any secrets for how to have a long marriage?

No. Just be a nice person. And be married to a guy who looks like my husband, the best merchandise ever to come into the United States.

In April you turned 100. Are you living so long to take revenge on the Nazis?

I don’t even think about it that much. I get up in the morning–”Hey, I’m still here”–you know? I go to sleep at night thinking, O.K., I hope I wake up. We were supposed to have a birthday party, but during the night I fell out of bed and hurt myself, so we called the party off. Ha! Saved a lot of money!

TRU DETECTIVE a mix by DJ Lambert Siblings (aka Ben Lambert and Molly Lambert aka GSD aka DJ Lambo and DJ FUCK YALL)

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KP MIX #9 The All Eighties Soundtracks (Almost) Edition Tracklisting

"Best Man In The World" - Ann Wilson [The Golden Child,1986]

"Feel The Heat" - Jean Beauvoir [Cobra, 1986]

"In The Dark" - Billy Squier [Bad Boys, 1986]

"Number One" - Chas Jankel [Real Genius, 1985]

"Stroker Ace" - Charlie Daniels Band [Stroker Ace, 1983]

"Incommunicado" - Clif Magness [The Last Starfighter, 1984]

"Streets Of Siam" - Stan Bush [Kickboxer, 1989]

"Shakedown" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band [Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987]

"Just Imagine" - Beth Anderson & Joe Esposito [Thief of Hearts, 1984]

"I Still Believe" - Tim Capello [The Lost Boys, 1987]

"Bad Guys" - Harold Faltermeyer ft. Keith Forsey [Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987]

"To Live And Die In L.A." - Wang Chung [To Live And Die In L.A., 1985]

"Back To School" - Jude Cole [Back To School, 1986]

"One of the Living" - Tina Turner [Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985]

"Survive" - Deco [Fast Forward, 1985]

"Nightmare" - Tuesday Knight [A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, 1988]

"We Touch" - Loz Netto [And God Created Woman, 1988]

"Heaven In The Backseat" - Romeo's Daughter [A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, 1989]

"Oh What A Love, What A Life" - Gene Evaro [Mirror, Mirror, 1990]

"Donut City" - Edward Van Halen [The Wild Life, 1984]

"Invincible" - Pat Benetar [The Legend of Billie Jean, 1985]

"Tales Of Power" - Jim Capaldi [Best of the Best,1989]

"Can't Take The Hurt" - Mammoth [A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, 1989]

"Ingen Kan Älska Som Vi" - Grace [Ingen Kan Älska Som Vi, 1988]

"A Future To This Life" - Joe Walsh & Lita Ford [Robocop: The Series, 1994]

"Don't Walk Away" - Rick Springfield [Hard to Hold, 1984]