Dude.
I have been thinking about that show like nobody's business this week.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2011 8:29:19 am PDT #4734 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Sep 23, 2011 8:31:46 am PDT #4735 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have been thinking about that show like nobody's business this week.
That show is a constant in this house because it's JZ's All-Time Number One. She even participated in the campaign to save it when it was canceled. The lunchbox that came with the first DVD set looks down on us beneficently from a high shelf over the TV.
Jon B. - Sep 23, 2011 9:19:45 am PDT #4736 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
FAQWife has never seen MSCL. I need to correct that.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2011 9:25:58 am PDT #4737 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yes. It might still be on Netflix.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2011 7:29:39 am PDT #4738 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sly Stone is homeless. Sad.
JZ - Sep 26, 2011 8:30:22 am PDT #4739 of 6436
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Complete music-journalism novice/idiot question for the actually knowing masses:
For a blog tour project for our small press, I'm supposed to be making a list of the best, smartest and most-loved music blogs or journals or anything similar out there who have a particular soft spot for discussions and histories of any and all things Beatles/Who/Lennon.
I absolutely shouldn't have offered to dig up such a list, because, as much as I love all of the above, my knowledge of the whole vast field of critical/appreciative/analytical/smart fannish writing about them, or any music really, begins and ends with "Uh, there's a book series called 33 1/3, and also Hec and Hayden are terrifyingly smart and Jon B has a kickass radio show.
Which is, it turns out, not enough to generate a possible blog tour list. I'm shocked at the depths of my ignorance, and terrified at the prospect of failing a friend and semi-boss, and begging for help. If someone with more knowledge than me wanted to ping thoughtful bloggers about discussing/reviewing/highlighting a biography of a practically unknown but excellent studio musician who had played on probably half the best-known tracks of all the above folks, especially with all the musical milestone anniversaries coming up in the next few months, whom should that person be talking to?
Any guidance would be hugely, tearfully appreciated, because right now I feel like a badly flailing moron.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2011 11:39:43 am PDT #4740 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Insent to my wife...
DavidS - Sep 26, 2011 11:46:59 am PDT #4741 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Liese S. - Sep 26, 2011 12:22:01 pm PDT #4742 of 6436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't know the answer to that question either, JZ, but you also might ask DXM and Victor, neither of whom are here any more, but who have interests along those lines. DXM I know loved Nicky's playing. (Am I allowed to say his name?)
JZ - Sep 26, 2011 12:45:46 pm PDT #4743 of 6436
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
(Am I allowed to say his name?)
I don't see why not (don't forget to ask your local library to order a copy!).
Hec just sent me an awesomely comprehensive list; now I just need to pick through it and hunt down all the "Contact Us" info for each.