We've got a longer message from Gerard. [link]
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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.
Trudy Booth - Mar 24, 2013 4:17:38 pm PDT #5576 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Atropa - Mar 24, 2013 8:14:32 pm PDT #5577 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well THAT just made me cry. Oh boys.
Trudy Booth - Mar 24, 2013 8:55:46 pm PDT #5578 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah.
This is the song in my head for the past few days. Between the meteorite and the announcement... it just feels right. And then the letter? Oy.
They'll do other gorgeous things.
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2013 5:33:41 am PDT #5579 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We rarely (ever?) talk about opera here, but I thought Buffistas might appreciate this: Nico Muhly has written an opera, to be performed at the Met this fall, about sockpuppets. [link]
tommyrot - Mar 25, 2013 11:27:39 am PDT #5580 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
10 Things You Didn't Know About Robyn Hitchcock
My faves:
He is available for weddings.
“I’m a minister of the Universal Life Church of Arizona: I can marry people in the States, although I’m not sure I can do it in Britain. I married Colin Meloy of The Decemberists and his wife [artist] Carson Ellis five years ago. I haven’t done a marriage recently, though.”
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He suspects cats may one day rule the Earth.
“The dinosaurs ruled for something like 100 million years and we’ve been here 30,000 years. I don’t know if we’re going to outdo the run of the dinosaurs. Will a feline dynasty in 5 million years be looking back at us, the super-cyber cats who survived the next apocalypse? Have you seen those Bengal cats with silver skins? I can imagine them walking around museums that have our iPhones in, looking in wonder.”
billytea - Mar 25, 2013 8:17:30 pm PDT #5581 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hey a couple of music questions for those in the know.
1. How would you explain New Wave to someone?
2. Say I was interested in exploring a bit of progressive rock. (Because I am.) Current exposure is basically Pink Floyd. Where should I start?
DavidS - Mar 25, 2013 8:34:44 pm PDT #5582 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
1. How would you explain New Wave to someone?
Well, "New Wave" was a marketing ploy to find a more palatable name for Punk. But really it was a splitting off of one part of early punk - the part interested in pop hooks and dance beats and wacky imagery. Bands like Devo, Rezillos, B-52s were all kitschy and catchy.
As a genre it's more keyboard driven, and - as I put it in the Bubblegum book - the refuge for gays, geeks and girls as punk turned into hardcore (white, suburban, skater boys).
In a way it encompassed the bands that owed the most to Bowie and Roxy Music, the artier end of glam rock. And less to the Stooges/NY Dolls.
So Gary Numan, Devo, the Cars, B-52s, Lene Lovich...
Tom Scola - Mar 26, 2013 1:19:49 am PDT #5583 of 6436
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Slate did a series on the history of prog last year: [link]
Check out this 60-minute concert (5 songs) of Genesis with Peter Gabriel from 1973: [link]
billytea - Mar 26, 2013 7:54:15 pm PDT #5584 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
As a genre it's more keyboard driven, and - as I put it in the Bubblegum book - the refuge for gays, geeks and girls as punk turned into hardcore (white, suburban, skater boys).
I like this. I think this is pretty much what I was looking for.
So Gary Numan, Devo, the Cars, B-52s, Lene Lovich...
This is interesting, with the exception of Devo, none of those acts come first to mind when I think of New Wave. (For me New Wave mostly means UK, so Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Ultravox, Adam and the Ants etc.)
DavidS - Mar 26, 2013 7:56:28 pm PDT #5585 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(For me New Wave mostly means UK, so Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Ultravox, Adam and the Ants etc.)
Those are all New Romantics which is yet a later wave. (Though New Romantics are properly a sub-genre of New Wave.)