Apr 202014
What you’re about to see , beginning at the 46-second mark, may blow your mind. See if you can return the favor in this week’s All-Star Jam!
What you’re about to see , beginning at the 46-second mark, may blow your mind. See if you can return the favor in this week’s All-Star Jam!
I went down to the Record Exchange in the Witch City to celebrate Record Store Day this past Saturday. The place was packed w/people & it had a few RSD goodies. I was tiold that 10-15 people were waiting for it to open after geeting the news via Facebook, which wasn;t even a dream when I first started going there about 36 yrs. ago. I picked up an Australian Byrds CD compliation & a UK box set of Motown stuff, which included the Northern Soul single that sold for $50K.
Also, I picked up the Rock Snob’s Directory at a library book sale last weekend for $1. It was worth every penny 😉
The Hold Steady continue to annoy the crap out of me:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/10-rock-albums-every-man-should-own?dom=rls&src=syn&mag=esq
Why does this annoy you? (Besides Oasis – eughh – and the Grateful Dead, I guess.)
The list could have been named Tales of Captain Obvious. That band’s whole schtick hits at a weird lowest common denominator that I both admire and despise. I don’t doubt their sincerity, for what that’s worth, but a major magazine gives you the platform to list 10 essential albums and you spit out the 10 most obvious albums that any mildly hip dude might list? I’m a man of the people. I’m all for the man of the people, but something’s not right with that use of media space. It’s like a Desert Island Discs list from whatever glossy music mag ran those things in 1996. Some barely recognizable TV actor on the CW could have picked a more interesting 10 essential albums in the back pages of Entertainment Weekly. I hope this makes some sense.
I need to carve out some time to finally watch this movie I’ve long heard about:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/sony-barbie-movie-todd-haynes-superstar
His collaborator on this movie works in the office directly below me. I’ve been bugging her for a copy but she has yet to cough one up.
Cool. I’m still trying to get a copy of the aborted Lou Reed interview on Fresh Air, which he walked out on and refused to allow air. Not a year passes that I don’t ask a friend connected to that show to leak the incident to RTH.
Maybe next show, he’ll ride a motorcycle onto stage?
“KID SMASHES BASS DURING SCHOOL TALENT SHOW; STUNS AUDIENCE”
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/kid_smashes_bass_during_talent_show_stuns_audience?onswipe_redirect=no
WOW, LISTEN TO ANDRE 3000 DO JIMI DEPT.: http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/new-image-of-andre-3000-in-jimi-hendrix-biopic-surface
Dude has the speech patterns, inflection, all that shit *down*. Seriously!