My belief that Patrick Stump should sing everything always is not changed at ALL by him coverinng Jeff Buckley's Everybody Here Wants You. Just, you know, singing like he does and posting it. [link]
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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.
Cass - Oct 04, 2011 12:33:39 pm PDT #4753 of 6436
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Fiona - Oct 05, 2011 3:07:15 am PDT #4754 of 6436
Fuck.
Bert Jansch dead of cancer at the age of 67.
I am genuinely cut up about this. I saw Jansch live on a number of occasions: solo twice, with the "fake" Pentangle in the mid-1990s, and (thank goodness) with the reformed Pentangle proper a couple of years ago. A genuinely nice bloke and, of course, a genius guitar player. RIP.
ETA: full Guardian obituary here:
DavidS - Oct 05, 2011 4:45:12 am PDT #4755 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, so young still. Truly one of the giants in British folk and folk rock.
Here's Pentangle doing "Hunting Song" which is absolutely gorgeous and haunting.
Here they do "Light Flight" which shows off their jazzy chops.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2011 2:48:24 pm PDT #4756 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
John Waters on jazz and heroin:
Even when people took downers… I tried them and thought “God, sitting around itchin’ and scratchin’ ain’t my idea of fun.” You know, it’s good for jazz to take heroin, because jazz is the sound of heroin. You can’t really hear jazz unless you’re on heroin. I have listened to jazz on heroin and it does sound a lot better, but I only took heroin twice and I thought, “This isn’t worth it just to listen to Coltrane.”
Jon B. - Oct 12, 2011 6:08:04 am PDT #4757 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
So, so tempting: [link]
Tom Scola - Oct 14, 2011 4:17:38 pm PDT #4758 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Shit. Thurston and Kim are splitting: [link]
sumi - Oct 15, 2011 7:53:13 am PDT #4759 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
That's so sad. 27 years.
DavidS - Oct 15, 2011 9:06:14 am PDT #4760 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fooling around with 8-Track I put up the Horror of Disco Halloween mix.
Not sure I like this platform since the second time you play this mix they have to scramble the order. Dude! I spend a huge amount of time working out the sequencing!
Anyway, if you need some Halloween Disco, you can start there.
I'll see about putting up some of my other Halloween mixes.
sumi - Oct 18, 2011 8:35:49 am PDT #4761 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
Trailer for the 2-cd retrospective set from R.E.M. coming out on on my birthday!
Atropa - Oct 21, 2011 11:56:04 am PDT #4762 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
There are no good biography books on The Damned, are there? I'm stuck with websites to brush up on my info?