He recommended "He Loved Him Madly". IJS.
Stopped clock.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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 12:41:50 pm PDT #4098 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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?
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 4:44:48 am PDT #4106 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.
Newsweek article & interview with They Might Be Giants.
DavidS - Jul 16, 2004 10:10:56 am PDT #4107 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ta da! And building services rescues Blueberry Boat from office furniture purgatory.
Mostly, I am loading Tom Waits onto my computer today. The Frank Trilogy and Alice. I am now seeing Alice as a natural bookend to the Frank Trilogy, with One From The Heart one the other side.