Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Well, my beloved Bouncing Souls are on Warped Tour and their truck died. Then their merch got stolen... madness.
The cool thing about this video, however, is their singer Greg's unflappable zen. [link]
(And, no, he's not high. If it were the drummer he'd be high.)
West peeps (Portland, LA, SF, Denver, etc.) - Cory Branan is headed your way. [link]
I probably should have been pimping my column at Dog Canyon to y'all before now. This week, I'm writing on Laurie Anderson: [link]
Prior weeks have had the Louvin Brothers, the Fall, and the Go-Betweens.
This quote from Prince has been all over the place:
The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.
Crap - I have too many numbers in my head....
Oh, I read elsewhere that he's shut down his web site.
He's so reliably wacky. Points for consistency!
Hey everyone. I haven't popped my head in here in a long, long time. I'm doing so because this morning Amazon spammed me to buy David's Tom Waits book, and it reminded me that I still play the Sugar Shock tape in the car all the time for the kids, and I need to beg for a tracklisting so I can make a CD of it before it tape decks disappear forever...
The Prince thing is great - Tony Parsons is on the front of one of the UK papers saying it's a return to form and his best album in 23 years, but they always say that and it hasn't been true since - to be generous - Lovesexy
Jim! Good to hear from you, man!
Writers saying album X is a "return to form" is one of my big music crit pet peeves. You're right -- they always say that. And then the next album comes out and they say it again!
and I need to beg for a tracklisting so I can make a CD of it before it tape decks disappear forever...
Hey Jim! So good to see you again. Glad the kids are enjoying such quality bubblegum.
Why don't you email me at my profile address. I think I've got the original master tape here and I can give you the tracklisting.
And if I can get a mailing address I think I can send some CDs your way as well.
Jim! Nice to see you!
I was thinking about David at the (Christian music) festival because on day one I heard three (and it would have been four if my cheering had stood up) different Tom Waits covers.
Jim!
What Tom Waits made it in the Christian music festival?
It's not as curious as my coworker who said they sang Cohen's Hallelujah at a church service. I was like, "I don't think that Hallelujah means what you think it means."