I now have four, count 'em FOUR Hecubot mix CDs in my hot little hands.

This is a good way to start the day.

I now have four, count 'em FOUR Hecubot mix CDs in my hot little hands.

Right on, Priority Mail!

Aaaaaaaah, Countdown. An institution for Aussie kids throughout the 70s and 80s. Unfortunately, it was only the rare occasion that a band got to play live.

Ironically, last Friday I just missed an interview with Dave Evans on TripleJ. Dave was the original singer with AC/DC.

Pitchfork says that Arthur magazine is ceasing publication. That bites! It was free and had interesting stuff! I've got a cool photo spread on Tav Falco in the 80s that I saved. Alan Moore interviews, Byron Coley reviews and all the freak folk you can shake your freak flag at.

Hatto's husband is now admitting that he faked his wife's recordings:

In the letter, Mr Barrington-Coupe said that as the compact disc superseded the cassette, he tried to transfer his wife's recordings on to the new format, without success. So the couple made the decision to re-record her work.

But Hatto was suffering from the late stages of cancer, and the recording sessions were marred with her involuntary grunts of pain.

Inspired by the story of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf covering the high notes for Kirsten Flagstad in the famous EMI recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Mr Barrington-Coupe found a solution that would enable his wife to keep working. He started by inserting small patches of recordings to cover his wife's grunts of pain, but then began using longer sections of borrowed music, sourcing recordings that had similarities with his wife's style of playing.

Oh. My. Gawd.

Patti Smith singing "You Light Up My Life" on "Kids Are People Too"

This ad ran during the Oscars: [link] (click on "morning ritual")

The song is the Pogues, "Sunny Side of the Street" and the lyrics (broadcast, albeit incomprehensibly) are:

So I saw that train
And I got on it
With a heart full of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I'm walking on
On the sunny side of the street

The song is the Pogues, "Sunny Side of the Street"

hah! Yes. We were boggling at that at my little Oscar party.

So. Huh. Is it supposed to be ironic or is it like when Reagon chose Born in the USA as his campaign song?

My guess? The ad folks figured that anyone who knows the song will be hip enough to find it funny, and anyone who doesn\'t know the song will be incapable of deciphering Shane\'s mumbling drawl.