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.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
Michele T. - Sep 18, 2004 8:43:40 am PDT #5024 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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.
Polter-Cow - Sep 20, 2004 6:03:13 pm PDT #5028 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey, tommyrot: Of Montreal is coming to Schubas Monday. (And hey, Butterfly Boucher is coming there Friday! You should see her too.)
Hayden - Sep 21, 2004 6:06:14 am PDT #5029 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I posted this in natter, too, but here's my wrap-up on the Austin City Limits Festival this past weekend.
tommyrot - Sep 21, 2004 6:08:22 am PDT #5030 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.
Hey, tommyrot: Of Montreal is coming to Schubas Monday. (And hey, Butterfly Boucher is coming there Friday! You should see her too.)
Cool. Thanks P-C. I'll have to see if I can round up some folks to go with me. I go to movies and restaurants alone all the time, but it just seems a litttle weird to go to a concert alone. But maybe I'll do it anyway.
Polter-Cow - Sep 21, 2004 9:09:02 am PDT #5031 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I go to movies and restaurants alone all the time, but it just seems a litttle weird to go to a concert alone.
I've done it. It works.
Mr. Broom - Sep 21, 2004 9:16:16 am PDT #5032 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
It really does. I've seen a couple really fantastic shows solo, shows I would've regretted missing if I hadn't gone just because I couldn't find a companion.
Steph L. - Sep 21, 2004 9:17:21 am PDT #5033 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was planning to go to the Ari Hest concert last night by myself, before the germs that have taken over my DNA informed me that no, I'd be lying on the couch sucking down orange juice and sneezing.