I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

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.


DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 7:55:51 pm PDT #3742 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I feel like I did, but I can't recall it, so I probably didn't.

She stood in front of the crowd and between songs asked, "Everybody out there who's a bottom, raise your hand." A few hands went up. Then the crowd roared when she put her own hand in the air.


Steph L. - Jul 03, 2004 8:00:08 pm PDT #3743 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh -- I *did* hear that! Good for her. She sure doesn't seem like one, though.


tommyrot - Jul 03, 2004 8:00:56 pm PDT #3744 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Be sure to include Soft Boys songs like: "I Want to Destroy You" and "Insanely Jealous" and "Kingdom Of Love." (Not a very loving song, incidentally. Especially after the eggs hatch.)

Oh, of course.

Speaking of Hitchcock, I finally found a cheap copy of Invisible Hitchcock, which is outtakes and what-not. Some very weird stuff on that one. (I had a tape of it years ago, but needed a CD.)

P-C, I can throw together a regular music mix CD for you.


DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 8:10:02 pm PDT #3745 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

She sure doesn't seem like one, though.

I'm going to presume you don't have her album The Velvet Rope.

Where janet., Ms. Jackson's third blockbuster album, implied sexuality with its teasing cover and seductive grooves, its sequel, The Velvet Rope, is sexually explicit, offering tales of bondage, body piercing, and bisexuality.


Steph L. - Jul 03, 2004 8:12:49 pm PDT #3746 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I am, alas, Janet-less.


DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 8:13:43 pm PDT #3747 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On the same topic, I'll pimp Joan Jett's Fetish:

By 1999, riot grrrl pioneer Joan Jett was all but reduced to being a nostalgia act. The unfortunate thing was, she still had plenty of good songs left in her, even if her days of hitting the charts were long gone. In fact, she had more aggressiveness in her than ever, as Fetish proves. Placed on the compilation album of the same name, "Fetish" features Jett screaming lyrics that — for the first time in her recorded career — truly touch on the obscene. "You look good in latex, get it off, we're having rough sex," Jett rasps, increasingly bordering on dominatrix imagery with such come-ons as "relax while I pound your ass" and "restrain while I f*ck your head."


DavidS - Jul 03, 2004 8:43:15 pm PDT #3748 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Mmmm, my randomized iTunes glam playlist has hit a nice streak:

Teenage Rampage - Sweet
Babylon - NY Dolls
Gimme Danger - Iggy
Soul Love - Bowie


Lyra Jane - Jul 04, 2004 3:28:06 am PDT #3749 of 10003
Up with the sun

is the Interpol CD good?

It actually doesn't do much for me. I put it on and it's fine, but individual songs from it have never jumped up and said LOVEMELOVEMELOVEME to me. YInterpolLoveMV.

"You look good in latex, get it off, we're having rough sex," Jett rasps, increasingly bordering on dominatrix imagery with such come-ons as "relax while I pound your ass" and "restrain while I f*ck your head."

See, to me that just sounds sad. Like she knows no one buys her CDs anymore except a few Kathleen Hanna fans, so she's trying to turn into Peaches. It makes me feel sorry for her.

(And I am definitely turning into my mother.)


Angus G - Jul 04, 2004 3:40:38 am PDT #3750 of 10003
Roguish Laird

Hey Angus! I actually just saw that album on some best-of list within the past week, but I'm waaaay too lazy to see if it was on Pitchfork's.

Oops...I just checked the Pitchfork list and it is indeed there! Only no 88, but still, I stand corrected. In fact, the whole sequence 86-90 is pretty good company to be in: Joni Mitchell, Roxy, Giorgio, Devo and Fela Kuti!

Misha, the cover is indeed an absolute classic.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 04, 2004 7:43:20 am PDT #3751 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

My point is that they have A LOT of time to fill and so they play loose with the definition of "cheese".

That became apparent a bit after I posted. Definitely fun stuff, but it eventually got wearying.