And you BETTER get your ass to Chic.
Really? If I do, will you have lunch with me? Because to be honest, that's one of the most compelling reasons I've got for going to Chicago.
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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 - Sep 17, 2004 7:16:20 am PDT #5018 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
msbelle - Sep 17, 2004 8:06:53 am PDT #5019 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Angus insent.
DavidS - Sep 17, 2004 3:00:44 pm PDT #5020 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jon, your bio is safely in the book, and Kim will update the website.
Jon B. - Sep 17, 2004 6:22:41 pm PDT #5021 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The web site update isn't necessary -- I was more worried about the book. Thanks though!
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2004 7:17:28 am PDT #5022 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.
In the current Entertainment Weekly, they declare The Clash's London Calling to be the "best album ever." Interesting article (the online version of EW is only available to subscribers or folks who buy the magazine, so I can't link to it).
I think it's pointless to declare an album "best album ever," but they could have picked worse. I'm tired of Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band being declared best ever, and I don't think Never Mind the Bollocks deserves the title either.
London Calling was my introduction to Punk. I have fond memories of opening all the windows of my parents' Mercury Marquis and cranking the stereo when the title track came on the radio.
It's also the 25 anniversary of London Calling, prompting a re-issue with extra stuff. 25 years? That means the AOR station I used to listen to was playing the title track four years after the album's release.
Mr. Broom - Sep 18, 2004 7:56:02 am PDT #5023 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Because there's no way in hell you can ever reach anything approaching a majority agreement, most magazines don't even try, so declarations like that are always a little controversial and clearly based on maybe three people's opinions at most. Kind of like when Blender declared the Doors one of their top ten worst bands ever. I mean, they gave ICP the top spot, so they're not entirely wrong.
Michele T. - Sep 18, 2004 8:43:40 am PDT #5024 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
There is an NYC event for the book at Housing Works, so I will try to bring my coworkers over to it! Hayden, I would love to see you perform.
DavidS - Sep 18, 2004 8:53:04 am PDT #5025 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In the current Entertainment Weekly, they declare The Clash's London Calling to be the "best album ever." Interesting article (the online version of EW is only available to subscribers or folks who buy the magazine, so I can't link to it).
It's a better choice than Sgt. Pepper at least. (Probably my second to least favorite Beatles record.) I think it's a legitimate contender anyway. To me, it's a perfect concept record about British rock and roll. It takes all of the elements that were floating around and distinctively British from Brit-abilly ("Brand New Cadillac") to lover's rock to dub to Kinksian songwriting and absorbed them all into The Clash. Not unlike what The Beatles did with American rock and pop circa 1963 (rockabilly, Motown, Girl Groups, Everlys...)
Hayden - Sep 19, 2004 6:20:50 pm PDT #5026 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden, I would love to see you perform.
Oh, yeah! I'd love to do that, too. But NYC is too, too far on this babydaddy's budget.
DavidS - Sep 20, 2004 11:52:57 am PDT #5027 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet Donna Gaines tribute to Johnny Ramone in the Voice:
Sometimes Johnny played his guitar till his fingers bled out, till the white instrument turned red. On Sunday, September 12, 2004, the remaining Ramones and their friends put on a 30th anniversary tribute concert in L.A. Johnny had been sick for a long time. Three days later, he died—his work was finished. Every Ramones fan has his or her own personal Ramone—sort of like a personal savior: Dee Dee's the outcast's outcast, a home for the displaced psyche. Joey's the patron saint of lonely kids even now; some say he's their only friend. Johnny's Army is all the angry fatherless boys, disposable heroes who work hard, fight wars, and never get anything. Johnny's their Captain; he'll never leave a soldier for dead, never betray the trust. He's the father Ramone.
Three Ramones killed-by-death in just over three years' time. First Joey from lymphoma, then Dee Dee from an overdose. Now Johnny from prostate cancer. The Ramones gave their fans hope; now our love will give them immortality.