News about new MCR music! Well, not new, but from the album they were working on before they switched to Danger Days: [link]

So beginning in October we will be releasing 2 songs a month for 5 months. 10 songs in total from the Conventional Weapons sessions we did back in 2009.

::jazz hands::

::but does not think I'm Batman::

Jilli, I saw that and thought of you! ::bounce bounce bounce:: Oh, Frank. Love.

I have been flailing all over Tumblr since I saw the news. NOW TOUR. PLEASE.

News about new MCR music! Well, not new, but from the album they were working on before they switched to Danger Days:

What. WHAT. I love Danger Days SO MUCH, do not get me wrong, but HANDSFLAIL:::: (Tell me about the drums. I miss the jazz drums.)

A photo in which it appears Lou Reed and David Bowie are about to kiss: [link]

That's at Max's Kansas City in the back room.

I don't doubt they kissed since both had plenty of bi-sex back in the day, though I don't think they were ever lovers.

That's at Max's Kansas City in the back room.

Yeah, I've seen other pictures of them (and Mick Jagger, and Iggy?) there, but I'd never seen this one before.

I don't think they were ever lovers.

Sad now.

Sad now.

Sorry. I've been reading Angela Bowie's tell-all bio and she didn't say anything about it, and she certainly would have.

My favorite bit wasn't about her finding Mick in bed with David, but rather when the Bowies came to NYC and she grabbed Billy Murcia (then the drummer with the Dolls) and he grabbed Cyrinda Foxe (at the time, David Johansson's girlfriend) and they shacked up in a Manhattan hotel suite for a week long debauch. Bowie later used Cyrinda in the "Jean Genie" video, shot partly in San Francisco.

Lou had a beautiful trans companion for a couple years there in the early seventies, and then had a brother/sister set of lovers at one point.

By the by, a lot of glam era movies and video have been making it to the market lately including a live concert of Lou in Paris from about '73 (so Live Animal era) doing hard rock versions of VU songs. Also the Ballad of Mott is supposed to be great, and Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies tour film came out on DVD.

I've got Marc Bolan's mid-seventies kids show (Marc) on VHS and you can get it bootlegged on DVD. There's a great compilation of Dolls video available and the Musikladen twofer of Roxy Music (w/ Eno) and T.Rex is fantastic.

Morrisey thought the Ramones were rubbish: [link]

Morrisey thought the Ramones were rubbish:

I thought he put the Ramones on one of those compilation CD thingies that musicians have been doing, so he might've had a rethink on the issue. His Dolls love is pure, though.