Long, good article on the Pixies reunion: [link]
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 22, 2005 6:26:07 am PDT #9820 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Polter-Cow - Aug 22, 2005 6:27:36 am PDT #9821 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
In other news, my brother played me some Sufjan Stevens
I'm listening to Sufjan Stevens right now !
tina f. - Aug 22, 2005 7:05:34 am PDT #9822 of 10003
That Pixies article is really great. And they all refer to Frank Black as "Charles" - which is odd to read and very funny.
but the three Pixies began a tentative rerun of their back catalogue. "Monkey Gone To Heaven, Bone Machine, Isla de Encanta ... and it sounded pretty good," says Deal.
::chills::
"It was definitely not your standard stuff," says Santiago. "I think it might have been Levitate Me that I heard first - he came up with this riffy thing.
I had no idea "Levitate Me" was the first song Black wrote. Holy crap. It's one of my absolute favorites.
"I remember I wrote the lyric to this song called Break My Body a few hours before, on the steps outside a pizza place in Harvard Square.
Again, I say holy crap.
Frank Black on his "new attitude" toward Kim Deal:
The thing is, what I didn't understand at the time was how charismatic Kim Deal is. And how attracted to her people are. On stage, when she's just standing there smoking a cigarette, she's not even playing, and people are going bananas. At the time that just played into the whole everything-rubbing-me-up-the-wrong-way thing. Now I recognise what an asset it is. I'm older and I'm, like, OK, I get it. There's some sort of star quality thing going on over there."
Oh, Frank, no f-ing shit, dude. Thank god you kind of grew up.
Deal has also been credited as "producer" on a number of records, from Guided By Voices to Brainiac, though she is quick to dismiss her involvement with most of these. "One time," she says, "I came to buy pot and the band credited me with production."
Heh.
On the drummer (who became a magician, was an opening act for the Breeders and broke at the time of the reunion):
when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it."
Awww!!
DavidS - Aug 22, 2005 8:14:10 am PDT #9823 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sad news about Dr. Moog.
Hec, any chance of trading, oh, a kidney, for a copy of that Soul box?
Oh, I think it'll make a dandy belated wedding present for you and the Mrs. Jim. I need to reload on blank CDs and get JZ to work designing some covers, but I'll get it out to you. Send me a mailing address to my profile addy email.
DavidS - Aug 22, 2005 8:27:37 am PDT #9824 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love this:
Black's distinctive singing style was already established: legend holds that, while working in a flower shop, his employer's cousin, a minor Thai rock star, imparted the wisdom, "Scream it like you hate that bitch", which Black took to heart.
Fay - Aug 22, 2005 10:03:32 am PDT #9825 of 10003
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
bouncebouncebounce skipskipskip
Hello! Just wanted to squee at how unexpectedly adorable Rufus Wainwright seems to be on the DVD of him live at Fillmore. Bless. Bless on toast.
What's Martha like? I've heard good things about her too, albeit in quite a different style. Any girl who writes a song to her dad entitled Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole deserves a certain respect, I think. Should I pick up a Martha CD tomorrow?
Gandalfe - Aug 22, 2005 3:37:17 pm PDT #9826 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Jon B. - Aug 22, 2005 5:14:12 pm PDT #9827 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
t trying hard to hold my tongue
I'd rather support Moog's company or the soon-to-be-established foundation in Moog's memory than some dude looking to cash in on Moog's death.
t /trying hard to hold my tongue
t edit To clarify, I find the content a bit tasteless as well, but there have been many deaths for which I've passed on a tasteless joke, so I can't criticize. What I object to is the profiteering.
Michele T. - Aug 22, 2005 5:36:40 pm PDT #9828 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
After having heard Rhett Miller tell the story of Black Francis hearing and liking Satellite Rides, I think of him as Charles now. As in "It's sort of like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, you know? I mean, Kurt Cobain is dead. And even if he wasn't, he'd defer to Charles, because he was in the fuckin' Pixies!"
Martha Wainwright's stuff is good if folkier than Rufus's. (And yes, he is quite the showman.) She's better live than on record so far, I think: I haven't been crazy about the production on her CDs.
Jim - Aug 22, 2005 10:32:57 pm PDT #9829 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Insent and thanks, Hec - as Sugar Shock is about the only tape I own that MrsJim genuinely loves, that'll be a present fot both of us. When I remember and am at home, I'll send the Chris Morris Pixies parody to Buffistarawk.
Ah-ha-ha, Ah-ha-ha, muy Madre es un Whora/Ah-ha-ha, Ah-ha-ha Muy Espanol es muy Pora.