Just listened to the new Siouxsie solo album.
Oh, I am SO jealous. I can't wait to get it.
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
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.
Atropa - Oct 06, 2007 12:02:35 pm PDT #6593 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2007 5:25:59 am PDT #6594 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I saw Joy Division at the Underground -- it was indeed in Allston, on Harvard Ave, I think. It was pretty much an unadorned basement, with the band up on a foot-tall platform at the back of the room. I remember looking aroudn and wondering what would happen if a fire broke out, since I could see only the one door.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2007 7:26:00 am PDT #6595 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I saw Joy Division at the Underground
In your dreams, maybe! They were supposed to play the Underground, but the US tour was cancelled when Ian hanged himself. Unless I'm wrong.
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2007 7:28:17 am PDT #6596 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Er, excuse me -- I meant New Order? I think the fact that the article referenced the other band confuzzled me. Or it was the drugs.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 9:02:23 am PDT #6597 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Trailer for Todd Haynes I'm Not There.
And a clip with David Cross as Allen Ginsberg, Cate Blanchett as Dylan.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2007 9:25:33 am PDT #6598 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
There's a long and interesting article about the film in the NY Times Magazine today. [link]
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 11:00:29 am PDT #6599 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fascinating piece, Jon. Particularly for me since a lot of the ideas which occupied me while writing my book are central to Haynes approach to Dylan:
“I will open my mouth in parables,” Haynes copied down from the Gospel of Matthew. “I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.” He copied down pages and pages of quotes from social commentaries, from folk songs, from Dylan songs. In one of his notebooks, under the heading “governing concepts/themes,” he wrote: “America obsessed with authenticity/authenticity the perfect costume/America the land of masks, costumes, self-transformation, creativity is artificial, America’s about false authenticity and creativity.”
This is something that comes up in Warren Zanes 33 1/3 book about Dusty Springfield too, and I think almost anytime you write about a popular artist you have to confront these notions of persona and authenticity. In America, authenticity is the great beast. Maybe because it allows so much freedom to reinvent yourself.
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2007 4:03:54 pm PDT #6600 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.
Yet another article about the decline of the music industry blah blah downloads blah blah industry panic blah blah blah. Except, this one's British: [link]
BigDuluth - Oct 07, 2007 6:11:55 pm PDT #6601 of 10003
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
A few days late but "Hey Corwood!"
DavidS - Oct 07, 2007 6:14:15 pm PDT #6602 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would just like to posit that the death of the music industry is not necessarily a bad thing.
We're obviously not experiencing the death of music, as iPod sales attest.
It's easier and cheaper than ever to both record and distribute your music.
The fact that six companies aren't controlling ninety percent of it and signing bands to ruinous deals isn't that awful.