Fiancée.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
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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.
I saw a wedding picture of them in Twitter somewhere. She was in bridal gear, but also made up as a statue, and they were on courthouse-like steps, with what looked like an officiant.
Still, I don't know if that means they're actually married yet or were just doing a cool photo.
She was in bridal gear, but also made up as a statue
Well before Dresden Dolls, she used to do the living statue thing in Harvard Square.
They're not married yet.
I have a serious problem with a national magazine paying a writer to talk about how awesome his girlfriend's band is.
Gee, I wish I still cared about journalistic standards in the music press. But that's a bit quixotic for me at this stage. I mean, there's barely any professional music press which isn't primarily cocksuckery. You have to go to the enthusiastic amateurs to get opinions and critique which are UnSpun.
Fuck, even Rolling Stone in its heydey killed innumerable bad reviews because Jan Wenner wouldn't have it.
I have a serious problem with a national magazine paying a writer to talk about how awesome his girlfriend's band is.
Enh. When I read the article I figured it was published because (a) Gaiman writes pretty and (b) it's an insider/outsider look at the Dresden Dolls. I didn't take it as a review of the show or the band. (And I say this as someone who has only read *some* of Gaiman's work and has only a glancing familiarity with Palmer as a solo artist and next-to-no familiarity with the Dresden Dolls).
As long as there's full disclosure MSNBC shouldn't spank him too hard.
It's not a matter of journalistic ethics, which mean very little to nothing in rock writing. It's that the very concept is boring. Is Gaiman going to apply anything approaching a critical eye to his fiance's band? The answer utterly fails to surprise me. This is the sort of thing that should appear on his personal blog, not in national media.
Opinion pieces and personal essays appear in national media all the time. He's not pretending to write this with an unbiased eye -- it's a personal piece from the get-go.
The Eleven Best Second Albums of All Time
Some good choices:
8. My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
6. Reckoning - R.E.M.
5. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
3. Led Zeppelin II
Also, I think I've heard of this one:
1. Nevermind - Nirvana
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.