I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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.


tommyrot - Dec 06, 2007 4:46:26 pm PST #6865 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.

Country Music and Suicide

Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link between country music and suicide. Our model explains 51% of the variance in urban white suicide rates."


Sue - Dec 06, 2007 4:58:16 pm PST #6866 of 10003
hip deep in pie

I knew that was X doing Shoot Out the Lights.


tommyrot - Dec 06, 2007 5:08:31 pm PST #6867 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.

Philip Glass video made for Sesame Street in 1977: [link]

A blog sez:

According to the Muppet Wiki, "these works very closely resemble the "Dance" numbers written during the same time period as (Glass's) Einstein on the Beach opera."

I'd agree with that. Also, the person who made the video must have studied geometry....


JZ - Dec 06, 2007 5:20:05 pm PST #6868 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Jon, Matthew Ryan's version of "Little Drummer Boy" on this album is very eerie and ghostly and haunting. And Vince Guaraldi's "My Little Drum" from A Charlie Brown Christmas is the exact opposite, a totally joyful variant.

This is possibly the most obvious and pedestrian suggestion anyone could possibly make, yet my Guaraldi love compels me to hit "Post" anyway.


Jon B. - Dec 06, 2007 5:22:45 pm PST #6869 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

No, those are both great suggestions -- thanks!


tommyrot - Dec 06, 2007 5:23:10 pm PST #6870 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.

You know, someone could do a cover using a cheap Casio keyboard and a voice synthesizer à la MC Hawking....


Atropa - Dec 06, 2007 6:11:41 pm PST #6871 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Thank you, Jon! I'll point my friend there.

BTW, Jilli? Have you gotten the Siouxisie solo album yet? Because it's good. Really, REALLY good.

Of COURSE I have it. I think it's fabulous, and I am filled with despair that she's not coming to Seattle on tour.


Glamcookie - Dec 06, 2007 6:13:56 pm PST #6872 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

We are going to the LA Siouxsie show. Woot!


Atropa - Dec 06, 2007 6:17:06 pm PST #6873 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

SO envious.


Frankenbuddha - Dec 06, 2007 6:17:39 pm PST #6874 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

checks tour dates Damn, only New York on the east coast? Frelling Big Apple. That's a microscopic tour, though. Sheesh.