Hey Joe,

I'm commiting those Iris Dement tracks to a burn.

Whispering Pines -Iris Dement, The Horse Whisperer
The Train Carring Jimmie Rodgers Home-Iris Dement, Going Driftless
Big City - Iris Dement, Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute To Merle Haggard Country

I'm throwing a bunch of other stuff on there too.

Also, I'll burn off a copy of the Jazz et Cinema collection too. Looks like this:

Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud: Generique Miles Davis
Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud: L'assassinat De Carala Miles Davis
Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud: Chez Le Photographe Du Motel Miles Davis
Des Femmes Disparaissent: Ne chuchotte Pas Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Des Femmes Disparaissent: Blues Pour Vava Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Des Femmes Disparaissent Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Subterraneans: Things Are Looking Down Gerry Mulligan
Un Temoin Dans Laville: Ambiance Pourpre Barney Wilen
Un Temoin Dans Laville: Complainte Du Chauffeur Barney Wilen
Un Temoin Dans Laville Barney Wilen
J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes: Theme De Liz Alain Goraguer
J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes: Blues De Memphis 1 Alain Goraguer
J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes: Theme D'amour Alain Goraguer
J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes: Blues De Memphis 2 Alain Goraguer
The Cool World: Duke's Awakening Dizzy Gilespie
The Cool World: Duke's Last Soliloquy Dizzy Gilespie
Les Loups Dans La Bergerie Alain Goraguer
Les Loups Dans La Bergerie: Generique Alain Goraguer
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Prelude in Blue Barney Wilen
Les Tricheurs: Clo's Blues Oscar Peterson
L'eau À La Bouche: Angoisse Alain Goraguer
L'eau À La Bouche: Black March Alain Goraguer

Jazz et Cinema collection

t big puppy-dog eyes

Please please please???

You can send it with the EC tape and whatever else you have in the Send to Teppy pile.

t /big puppy-dog eyes

Please please please???

It's really moody. Sure. I'm making an effort this month to make good on all my promised musical and CARE package mailings. Most of which are all-but-mailed. But that's where all my good intentions go. It's a kind of purgatory.

This is random, but I finally bought "American Idiot." (Which, incidentally, lives up to the hype, if you like this sort of thing at all.)

The funny thing is -- I had always assumed the lyric was "Maybe I am a fucking American," because it's bleeped on radio and starts with "f", right?

It's not. It's "faggot."

I did not know that was a word that needed to be censored.

Sure -- you say the word on the radio and next thing you know they want to marry each other!

Sure -- you say the word on the radio and next thing you know they want to marry each other!

Heh. I happened to read Jon's post right as I was thinking about the Scissors Sisters, and "Tits on the Radio" suddenly earwormed me. Things got even stranger from there.

Belated birthday happies to Jon - sorry I couldn't make it Sunday, but I really needed to spend the day getting the new digs into some state of order.

Good write-up for the book in the North Bay Bohemian

Also, a lovely review of X's The Unheard Music, which has finally been released on DVD. (It is, in my opinion, one of the greatest rock movie ever made. Definitely top five.)

The funny thing is -- I had always assumed the lyric was "Maybe I am a fucking American," because it's bleeped on radio and starts with "f", right?

It's not. It's "faggot."

I did not know that was a word that needed to be censored.

Same thing happened to me, Lyra. As far as censoring it, it's a derogatory term like "nigger," and we censor that, right?

My favorite censoring is a line from Dynamite Hack's cover of "Boyz in the Hood."

I reached back like a pimp and I slapped the ho

The stupidist censorship was MTV forcing the band James to change their lyrics - the line was "She only comes when she's on top" and they made them change "comes" to "sings".

Especially annoying, because MTV can show women in skimpy outfits in videos, and guys can sing about bitches and hos, but they can't sing about a woman having an orgasm?

As far as censoring it, it's a derogatory term like "nigger," and we censor that, right?

Sure. I'm not honestly surprised radio stations would bleep faggot (I think it's unnecessary editing, but suspect Michael Powell would disagree), it's just that it's not the f-word I suspect most people who hear the song on the radio or MTV expect.

That whole Dynamite Hacks song is hysterical.