We were just talking about Camper Van the other day. They played Take the Skinheads Bowling on JackFM.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Laga - Jul 27, 2007 11:01:06 am PDT #6073 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 6:13:14 pm PDT #6074 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Conversations You Can Have in San Francisco Bars
::walk into the Gold Cane tonight on Haight Street. Get happy hour margarita and put the Dusty Springfield 33 1/3rd book on the counter. Bartender bends over to take a look and I flip it for his review::
Bartender: That's a cool series. I just read the Daydream Nation one, and really liked it.
Me: Actually, I'm writing a book in the series.
Bartender: Really?
Me: Yeah, on Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones.
Bartender: That's one of my favorite records! Well, actually I like Rain Dogs best. Then Swordfishtrombones and Bone Machine.
Me: Rain Dogs is probably his most perfectly realized album. But Swordfishtrombones is where he reinvented himself and his style.
Bartender: So that's on Continuum? They do a lot of academic books. I just read [some philosophy book involving the word "dialectial"]
Me: Huh. Do you study philosophy?
Bartender: Some. I just got my MFA in poetry.
Me: Here's a line of inquiry I've been pursing recently. I've been thinking about Tom's work compared to Frank O'Hara's.
Bartender: That's an interesting take. Definitely something in the conversational style. You know who you might want to read? Ted Berrigan.
Me: Brother Ted!
Bartender: Yeah. Berrigan was a huge O'Hara fan. Tried to write like him. But I think he's even closer to Waits' style.
Me: I will definitely check him out.
Bartender: Shit. You're writing about Tom Waits. That's the best job ever.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 6:40:52 pm PDT #6075 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2007 6:42:25 pm PDT #6076 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I must say I do like "An Interview with John Cage" by Ted Berrigan.
I was half-expecting this to just be an empty page....
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 6:54:10 pm PDT #6077 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was half-expecting this to just be an empty page....
And when is anything about John Cage going to meet your expectations, I ask.
Kate P. - Jul 27, 2007 7:06:20 pm PDT #6078 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Bartender: Shit. You're writing about Tom Waits. That's the best job ever.
Truth!
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 7:07:49 pm PDT #6079 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Truth!
Heh. It was a good perspective to have because it doesn't feel like the best job ever right at this particular instant.
But it was good to bounce stuff off a thoughtful Waits fan who hasn't devoured all the research I've done. Because even devout Waits fans haven't read all the shit I've read and spent a solid year on one record.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2007 8:31:33 pm PDT #6080 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pure pop bliss. Neil Finn, Graham Gouldman and Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) doing Weather With You.
Liese S. - Jul 29, 2007 3:04:10 pm PDT #6081 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So! In Tracy Chapman's "Give me one reason" can someone with madder Google skilz than I tell me what the lyrics are for the background vocals?
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 8:29:03 am PDT #6082 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Greg Kot bloggs Clapton's Crossroads tour show in the Chicago Suburbs.