I attempted to watch Rock Star: InXS tonight. I found extremely watch from the hall. In fact, I called a friend who was also finding it watch from the hall and we were able to support each other through the 30 minute elimination episode.

This might be the best thread to mention this -- guess who gets a visit from Liese S. and her hubby??? (If it's not me, this is a really lame post.)

But it is me! They're in Kentucky right now -- they've been travelling this summer with their program -- and are headed to Indiana tomorrow, and are driving through Cincy. I told them that if they'd like to stop and take a break, I'd love to fill them full of Graeter's to beat the heat.

They'll also be back in Cincy on Thursday, for longer than just taking a break -- the whole afternoon/evening. As of right now, it's looking like we'll hook up on Thursday -- Liese e-mailed me a little while ago and said that tomorrow looks busy for them, though there's an outside possibility that they may stop on their way through.

In any case, YAY! Liese and hubby!!!

This might be the best thread to mention this -- guess who gets a visit from Liese S. and her hubby??? (If it's not me, this is a really lame post.)

Lucky you! I'm very jealous. (Also - take pictures.)

Are you still up? Can you hop on IM for a second?

Lucky you! I'm very jealous.

As well you should be.

(Also - take pictures.)

But of course! It's some kind of law -- all Buffista meetups must be photographed for proof and posterity.

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now for the hivemind question . In the 70's there were at least 2 different fake interviews with popular figures and all the answers to the questions were popular song lyrics. for example: Nixon was interviewed and when asked how he was feeling - the answer to the question was " on top of the world"( carpenters) and when Mr. Jaws was interviewd one of the answers was " why can't we be friends , why can't we be friends" ( war) . anyone got anymore info and even where they might be found?

That was Dickie Goodman, the king of the novelty hit. [link]

Mr Jaws actually sang, "Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend?"

"Mr. Jaws! Wait! That's not the way this record is supposed to end! Help! Help! Blblblblblblbl! Blblblblblbl!"

thanks

The annotated Mr. Jaws, and more about Dickie Goodman than you probably want to know. I had the album when I was a kid; maybe it's still at Mom & Dad's. Could hear Melissa Manchester clearly but couldn't remember her/the song w/o looking it up. I'm certain "Midnight Blue" was on one of the K-Tel or Ronco year end compilations we had, but it's not listed on this one from 1975, which has a bunch of the Mr. Jaws clips & which I definitely owned. (I really want to hear "Black Superman": "sing Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee".)

In other news, I can't believe I recommended Nilsson Sings Newman the other day but didn't recommend Newman's 12 Songs, which is not only great but the album on which his New Orleans influence is strongest. Clips available at AMG & Amazon. Christgau loved it, giving it an A+ & putting it at no. 6 on his personal best of the seventies list. Greil Marcus discusses it at length in Mystery Train. Beyond the NOLA-influenced rock Betsy was looking for, I think the lyrics will really appeal to her. Pick hit (from "Suzanne"): "I saw your name, babe/In a telephone book/It told all about you, mama/Oh, I hope it was the truth!"

Hey Tina, I found my Illinoise and it's gorgeous. Reminds me in places of Elliot Smith and Yoshimi, but also Elephant 6 stuff.

But I like it quite a bit more than Michigan, I think.