been listening to alice all weekend. I am coming to the conclusion it's his masterpiece - it combines the songwriting of the early years with the carny madness of the later work perfectly.
Yeah, I'd love to see it staged. I'll have to content myself with the upcoming
The Black Rider
in San Francisco with Marianne Faithful.
I went out and got the Fiery Furnaces new cd yesterday -- I love it!
And I'm so embarrassed that I hadn't heard of them since they're from Oak Park.
I have so far failed in my attempts to buy the Fiery Furnaces CD--I think I'lll walk to downtown Evanston on my lunchbreak to try to find it.
Now Playing: "I'm Straight" by the Modern Lovers (Jonathan Richman's band). Best anti-drug song evah!
"See, he's stoned--hippy Johnny. Now get this: I'm straight, and I want to take his place."
Hey, I like him, too. I like... Hippy Johnny.
Did we ever get the CD mix in motion again?
Did anyone contact Plei about re-sending the CDs to Angus?
Surprising Video Sighting On VH-1 Classic This Morning:
"Waiting for Mary" by Pere Ubu.
A Pere Ubu video. Huh.
Went and saw TMBG Sat night. They did songs from their newest album and of course some older stuff- loved the songs from the new one. Plus they did one off the kids' cd. Has anyone else heard the new one?
I'd forgotten how astoundingly great (and weird) the Fall were.
"All up in your area, 'causing mass hysteria, the beat will bury ya, so get your shots for the malaria, lose a role to Hank Azaria, Mark E. Smith is still scary-uh." -- Sasha Frere-Jones
(BTW, does everyone who reads SFJ know that his brother Tobias designed the font used in the 9/11 cornerstone? The story is way cool, and tres apt.)
Best anti-drug song evah!
I have to respectfully disagree, the best anti-drug song is "Dope Pusher" from the 1973 record Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs. (Principal lyric: "I don't need no bad drugs!")