Slate is wrong about Wilco? Why, that's almost as crazy as the very idea of Salon running a tone-deaf musically-unadventurous guy writing about music every single Wednesday! Or The Onion's AV Club running an article on the new Fiery Furnaces album that doggedly misses the point!
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Hayden - Jul 15, 2004 12:18:30 pm PDT #4096 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
joe boucher - Jul 15, 2004 12:36:23 pm PDT #4097 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Why, that's almost as crazy as the very idea of Salon running a tone-deaf musically-unadventurous guy writing about music every single Wednesday!
He recommended "He Loved Him Madly". IJS.
Which reminds me... happy belated 100th -- it was yesterday -- to I.B. Singer. (IJS/IBS being the memory switch.) One of the guys at the Paris Review event yesterday is co-owner of a bar called K.G.B. where they were having a celebration of the centenary. K.G.B.? "Yeah, Singer probably woulda got a kick out of that."
Hayden - Jul 15, 2004 12:41:50 pm PDT #4098 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
He recommended "He Loved Him Madly". IJS.
Stopped clock.
DavidS - Jul 15, 2004 12:58:17 pm PDT #4099 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Which reminds me... happy belated 100th -- it was yesterday -- to I.B. Singer. (IJS/IBS being the memory switch.) One of the guys at the Paris Review event yesterday is co-owner of a bar called K.G.B. where they were having a celebration of the centenary. K.G.B.? "Yeah, Singer probably woulda got a kick out of that."
I love I.B. Singer. "Taibele's Demon" - genius. "Gimpel the Fool" - genius. "Spinoza of Market Street" - genius. Funny and heartbreaking too. I read his short stories in tandem with Flannery O'Connor's when I first moved to San Francisco in the mid eighties.
sumi - Jul 15, 2004 1:58:01 pm PDT #4100 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Huh. Apparently, Arthur Kane didn't even know he had leukemia. He went to the doctor with "flu-like symptoms" and that's when they diagnosed him. (This is also from Yahoo.)
DavidS - Jul 15, 2004 2:50:04 pm PDT #4101 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Feh. Not liking the new All-Music Guide. It's freakin' 2 pt. type. If I wanted that I'd go to Pitchfork.
In other annoying news, I bought the new Fiery Furnaces record. Brought to work to listen to it. It fell between my desk and my wall. The desk is not moveable - it's bolted in. It's gone, and yet it is inches from my foot. Bother.
DXMachina - Jul 15, 2004 2:55:41 pm PDT #4102 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hec, can you get a yardstick in there? Or a long piece of cardstock?
DavidS - Jul 15, 2004 3:15:14 pm PDT #4103 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, can you get a yardstick in there? Or a long piece of cardstock?
Apparently somebody with building services has just such a special stick since a few lawyers have lost their briefs down there (so to speak) in that nether realm.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2004 5:47:56 pm PDT #4104 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Apparently somebody with building services has just such a special stick since a few lawyers have lost their briefs down there (so to speak) in that nether realm.
And here I thought briefs were supposed to cover the nether realms, not lose them.
BLACK HOLE BRIEFS & BOXERS
sumi - Jul 15, 2004 5:50:13 pm PDT #4105 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Is bolting the desk in a security thing? Or an earthquake thing?