I'm so sad about Poly Styrene. I just heard that she had breast cancer yesterday. I'm sitting at my desk crying. fucking cancer.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
lisah - Apr 26, 2011 4:50:00 am PDT #4425 of 6436
Punishingly Intricate
DavidS - Apr 26, 2011 6:33:55 am PDT #4426 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh cancer, up yours.
The idea that punk could be for everybody was never better encapsulated than in her teenaged self in braces fronting a major punk band.
It's cool that she had a new album coming out, though.
Jon B. - Apr 26, 2011 6:51:34 am PDT #4427 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I wish I liked the new album more. I gave it a good listen last week and it didn't do much for me. I can listen to the X-Ray Spex LP non-stop, though. So good!
smonster - Apr 27, 2011 12:14:47 pm PDT #4428 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
It's an odd experience having Katherine Whalen as your lunch waitress.
DavidS - Apr 27, 2011 2:40:07 pm PDT #4429 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's an odd experience having Katherine Whalen as your lunch waitress.
Wow, no kidding. I feel like I should send her a ten dollar bill or something.
smonster - Apr 27, 2011 5:00:07 pm PDT #4430 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
She's still playing music locally, in a couple of bands. My friend's bf is in one of them. And they play around a lot, but it's nothing compared to the heyday of SNZ. Which may be a kind of blessing, who knows. Actually, the friend I was eating with also knows her, they were chatting. Big times in a small town.
She was very pleasant and competant, btw.
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2011 4:43:52 am PDT #4431 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's an odd experience having Katherine Whalen as your lunch waitress.
As weird as having Aimee Mann as your cleaning lady? t /Portlandia
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2011 4:45:23 am PDT #4432 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Actually, I *have* been waited on by Thalia Zedek. That was a little weird.
Liese S. - Apr 28, 2011 7:55:23 am PDT #4433 of 6436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The message from all this, people, is that even though you think music pays well, it doesn't.
DavidS - Apr 28, 2011 8:16:15 am PDT #4434 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The message from all this, people, is that even though you think music pays well, it doesn't.
Shut up! Brittney Spears and Mick Jagger are rich!
There are these sort of rueful articles which pop up in Mojo periodically where they track down some relatively big musician from the 70s who's off in the country somewhere, scraping by, playing at local pubs.
Then there's the drummer from Iron Butterfly who made enough money from "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda" that he bought a house in suburbia and retired. Or Nick Lowe who made more money from one song being on The Bodyguard soundtrack than he did from all his other music combined. Or Tom Waits who made more money from suing Frito-Lay than he did with his music. Or John Doe, of X, who was only able to buy a house because people kept casting him as an actor in movies.