Fitz! Chelsea!

If I had money, I’d be driving to Providence RI tomorrow to see The Bags, probably the best rock band Boston ever produced. if you can go, go.

Next week, I get free Fleshtones. Yum, free fleshtones.

As for Spinal Tap, I got your full-on band breakup melt-down right here (and dammit, I’m proud of the blogwhoring).

What’s wrong with being sexy?

Hiya Donita- great to see you and how was your Vegas getaway?

I should also mention that the drummer for the Upper Crust is also the drummer for the aforementioned Bags. Both are part of this whole family of bands that stretches back to at least 1985 with The Flies.

angie @ 5

Hiya Donita- great to see you and how was your Vegas getaway?

I’m up 300 clams!

I’ve been luvin’ rock ‘n roll since the 50’s. What and who exactly defines “rock and roll”?

Ooh yeah, tell about driving to Vegas. What music did you play along the way?

I’m still trying to teach myself guitar. I gotta find a book or an online thing so I know how to make chords. Also 2 strings are missing, so that’s challenging…or maybe it’s easier, because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
I did figure out how to do the guitar riff for “Dirty Water.” That is so much FUN to go in my boys’ bedroom, turn that amp UP and play!
My 15 year-old is still doing “Smoke on the water.” Zzzzzzz.

Donita-
“Have Good Times-All The Time” lol

ps-would love to hear more about your “mall” adventure. rofl

Tap is right on the money. I’d also add Almost Famous as very much like my road experience.

The peeper…. Joe stumpy Pepys! Great look, good drummer.

All Hail Austen for the technical end this week. Sadly, Finifinitooz mom is very very ill and he was unavailable this week. Positive vibes out to Fini and his mom everyone.

Also, the Upper Crust originally had 3 guitar players: one of them, Ted Widmer left to become a speechwriter for Bill Clinton.

In the early days of the Crust, they had a side project called The Clamdiggers. they were the same band, different costumes, wearing hip waders, short, and carrying clam rakes, they sang about girls, rock-n-roll, Satan, and clambakes. the Upper Crust would pretend to be embarrassed by them in interviews, calling them their cousins.

Sorry for all the updates.

OMG, A Mighty Wind!

My partner and I are always saying, “Whu happened?!!”

HOw are you this week, Donita?

Hey, I know James Hall!! Please tell him that the lead singer of the Go Figures says hello.

Margot @ 8

Ooh yeah, tell about driving to Vegas. What music did you play along the way?

I’m still trying to teach myself guitar. I gotta find a book or an online thing so I know how to make chords. Also 2 strings are missing, so that’s challenging…or maybe it’s easier, because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
I did figure out how to do the guitar riff for “Dirty Water.” That is so much FUN to go in my boys’ bedroom, turn that amp UP and play!
My 15 year-old is still doing “Smoke on the water.” Zzzzzzz.

You seem to have a “Water” theme going. How about “Jailer Bring Me Water” ?

brendan @ 13

Also, the Upper Crust originally had 3 guitar players: one of them, Ted Widmer left to become a speechwriter for Bill Clinton.

In the early days of the Crust, they had a side project called The Clamdiggers. they were the same band, different costumes, wearing hip waders, short, and carrying clam rakes, they sang about girls, rock-n-roll, Satan, and clambakes. the Upper Crust would pretend to be embarrassed by them in interviews, calling them their cousins.

Sorry for all the updates.

Lord Rockingham I believe. One of my faves.

OT Ford plans to cut a third of its salaried work force and who knows how many hourly jobs.

Ford “laid out a new series of cost-cutting goals, including cutting 14,000 white-collar jobs, slashing manufacturing output 26% by 2008 and suspending its stock dividend.
The aim is to cut operating costs by $5 billion by 2008 and return to full-year North American profitability in 2009

I have had little respect for US automakers for a long time. They have been behind the curve by 3 to 5 years since the 1960s. Whether it was quality, safety, or fuel efficiency standards they have had to be dragged kicking and screaming, eventually acquiescing not because they began listening to consumers but because they feared the expanding market share of the Japanese and then the Koreans. SUVs which they got into late were like manna to them, a return to the good old days of monster cars and planned obsolescence but as usual they couldn’t read the tea leaves of the inevitable rise in energy costs or be bothered with a Plan B. How lame is this:

“Frankly, our ranking doesn’t matter,” Chairman Ford said. “I think you’ve seen over the years companies chase market share with sometimes disastrous results.”

Yes, actually being successful is such a losing strategy, isn’t it?

So Ford like GM before it will restructure. Of course, there will be some dislocations. I have always been amazed how economists hide behind euphemisms for shattered lives and dreams. I have often wished they could be so “dislocated” so they knew how it felt. Even so, I have the feeling that the corporate strategists who steered Ford into this mess are not going to be among those who will feel its consequences. As a result, I predict Ford and the US auto industry will remain behind the curve and their dwindling number of workers will continue to pay the price.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....htm?csp=24

Elliptically, auto executives have lamented their high labor costs, especially healthcare premiums for their workers and cited this for their lack of competitiveness. While I have never believed this was never anywhere near the whole story, I have always wondered why the auto industry has not been a loud and vociferous voice for universal healthcare in this country. But then forward thinking was never their strong suit.

Pachacutec @ 14

OMG, A Mighty Wind!

My partner and I are always saying, “Whu happened?!!”

HOw are you this week, Donita?

Greetings Pachacutec! I’m great. Busy as hell. You?
Looking forward to the next Christopher Guest movie.

TRex @ 15

Hey, I know James Hall!! Please tell him that the lead singer of the Go Figures says hello.

Hi TRex! I will indeed. I’m excited about the show. It’ll be a good one.

o/t but colin mcenroe, radio host and columnist at the hartford courant has a nice recap of an interview with lanny davis. http://blogs.courant.com/colin_mcenroe_to_wit/

really nice smack down…

Donita Sparks @ 20

TRex @ 15

Hey, I know James Hall!! Please tell him that the lead singer of the Go Figures says hello.

Hi TRex! I will indeed. I’m excited about the show. It’ll be a good one.

One of the single most embarrassing moments of my life was the gig where we opened for James at the Colorbox in Athens. Our guitarist seemed to have disconnected all of his pedals except the one that made the Giant Sucking Sound. It was a terrible set and I called it after six songs. “Thanks, good night.”

Afterward there was a huge fight in the parking lot that culminated with our guitarist kicking a hole in a snare drum and squealing, “I QUIT!!” and stomping off. James and his band were standing there looking sooooooo uncomfortable and embarrassed for us.

Yeesh. Just thinking about that night has made me all squirrelly again. Oof. Being in a rock band was SO MUCH FUN!! I can’t imagine why EVERYBODY doesn’t do it.

Not.

I’m busy as hell, too. Fun, interesting projects, and still have Roots Project in the cooker (man, am I excited about where that’s headed!). But all this means I’m writing less and doing more of my political activity through phone calls and emails.

Let me know if you get to DC area at some point. Let’s eat something.

OT - Obama

Has Obama been hanging out with Adam Nagourney or something?

I just read an article in the Chicago Sun times that quotes his new book as follows:

—–
He uses strong tough-love rhetoric in attacking Democrats — not to be confused with a rant — not surprising to anyone who has followed his speeches and comments for the past two years.

“We Democrats are just, well, confused,” Obama writes. He goes on. “Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill-conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action.
——-
http://www.suntimes.com/output.....eet15.html

nicelyput2000 @ 9

Donita-
“Have Good Times-All The Time” lol

ps-would love to hear more about your “mall” adventure. rofl

It was so awful I can’t even tell you, but they wanted us to lipsync. We ended up handing out unlit cigarettes to children from the stage. As I said, nightmare

I’m really digging the new Mars Volta music. They’ll be playing Milwaukee next month.

Otherwise, catching Soul Asylum at the end of September. See how the reunion is faring.

Friday random musical at the Empire: http://empireofthesenseless.bl.....molly.html Extra doses of Mekons and the Mould, which is always a good thing.

Jeebus Fucking Cripes Obama is an asshole, if those quotes hold up.

TRex @ 22

Donita Sparks @ 20

TRex @ 15

Hi TRex! I will indeed. I’m excited about the show. It’ll be a good one.

One of the single most embarrassing moments of my life was the gig where we opened for James at the Colorbox in Athens. Our guitarist seemed to have disconnected all of his pedals except the one that made the Giant Sucking Sound. It was a terrible set and I called it after six songs. “Thanks, good night.”

Afterward there was a huge fight in the parking lot that culminated with our guitarist kicking a hole in a snare drum and squealing, “I QUIT!!” and stomping off. James and his band were standing there looking sooooooo uncomfortable and embarrassed for us.

Yeesh. Just thinking about that night has made me all squirrelly again. Oof. Being in a rock band was SO MUCH FUN!! I can’t imagine why EVERYBODY doesn’t do it.

Not.

That is hilarious. Have you seen Dig? Tons of drama, great Rock documentary.

Pach - Click through the link provided above. Although I warn you that you will not like the title of the article either…

Pachacutec @ 23

I’m busy as hell, too. Fun, interesting projects, and still have Roots Project in the cooker (man, am I excited about where that’s headed!). But all this means I’m writing less and doing more of my political activity through phone calls and emails.

Let me know if you get to DC area at some point. Let’s eat something.

Let’s eat cake!

Loved the Spinal Tap movie hehe.

True story-when the movie came out and they were playing songs from the soundtrack on the radio a lot, someone called into the local station and kept asking for “other tracks” from the Sniff the Glove album…she must have been bitching at the dj for 5 minutes about how they only ever played the same old track, and she wanted to hear the whole album!

Speaking of rock movies, what Donita, you didn’t just adore Xanadu? /giggle

Mmmm. . . cake. I’ll take you to Cake Love on U Street.

xyz: I’ve read the article and have already passed it along to some people with hat tip and link to your comment.

I think much of the inspiration for This is Spinal Tap was all those “worship me” rock concert documentaries of the ’60s and ’70s. The ones that the Rolling Stones produced were particularly awful. If you haven’t seen any of these, be thankful. That’s certainly why I laughed so hard at TIST.

“Big Bottom” is my favorite Spinal Tap song.

Kurt @ 31

Loved the Spinal Tap movie hehe.

True story-when the movie came out and they were playing songs from the soundtrack on the radio a lot, someone called into the local station and kept asking for “other tracks” from the Sniff the Glove album…she must have been bitching at the dj for 5 minutes about how they only ever played the same old track, and she wanted to hear the whole album!

Speaking of rock movies, what Donita, you didn’t just adore Xanadu? /giggle

Sadly I haven’t seen Xanadu but I hear it’s a doozy. Gene Kelly on disco roller skates. I do like the song though.
I also really like that Spinal Tap album. The lyrics are of course hilarious, but the music is really good. L7 rocked that tape in our van all the time. “Heavy, heavy, Duty duty, Heavy Duty Rock N Roll”

Donita — thanks so much for the reminder on Spinal Tap. I haven’t seen that in ages, and it makes me laugh out loud in so many places. I need to get that in the Netflix queue. *g*

OT - just saw a MoveOn.org ad on CNN. Points out the 9/11 and Iraq lies.

here’s the youtube

I still can’t believe my wife was born after Destroyer came out…

Okay, on to it: HELLO CLEVELAND! you caught me in a rock-heavy/heavy-rock week. Here’s a six-pack that floated to the top:

The spin I’m In - Rock and Roll Over edition
1. T-Rex - “Jeepster” … this shit is D-I-R-T-Y.
2. Iggy Pop - “Penetration” … seriously, this is where Raw Power starts to freak me out — it’s so SLOW.
3. Touched by an Uncle - “Just got laid” … best. band. name. ever.
4. Daisy Chainsaw - “Love your money” … crazy people make music. This song still has it.
5. Kiss - Deuce … drop needle, then say it with me “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD, KISSSSSSSSSSS”
6. PJ Harvey - Dry … the whole album. all of it.

Pach at 32 -

Thanks. To give credit where credit is due, I should mention that I stumbled upon the article via a mention in RawStory.com

I haven’t seen Dig, although I have to confess that my tolerance for rock movies is vurrry low. I tried to watch that Metallica movie where they go to therapy and had to turn it off about halfway through their first big fight. I was getting flashbacks.

Funny. Everybody always thinks it’s lead singers who cause all the drama in a band. I’m always the calmest and most cooperative band member. It’s guitarists who are the screeching prima donnas. Really!

TC @ 27

I’m really digging the new Mars Volta music. They’ll be playing Milwaukee next month.

Just got the new Mars Volta album this week. Loving it, possibly more than Frances the Mute. If anyone gets a chance to see them, I highly recommend it - they put on a show unlike any I’ve seen any contemporary band put on. Truly incredible.

TC @ 26

I’m really digging the new Mars Volta music. They’ll be playing Milwaukee next month.

They have a new album about to drop… I hear it’s less of a concept album and that dude has grown as a singer… could be very very good…

OT - Man Accused of Fraud Blames Karl Rove

Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is “absurd.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Siegal urged U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Monday to reject arguments that Rove caused the criminal investigation that led to charges against Robert McAllister.

Siegal said lawyers for McAllister made the “patently absurd argument that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District is a shill for Karl Rove and has arrested and indicted their client in some sort of vindictive retaliation.”

McAllister’s lawyer Gerald L. Shargel said Monday he plans to try to call Rove as a witness, if the court allows it…

-via huffpo

You can quote spinal tap in any rock club in the world, chances are the local techies and bands can go line for line with you
“I envy us”
“Jazz Odyssey”
We once got lost on the way to the stage as well. We’re currently residing in the “where are they now?”
category, or maybe “who the fuck are they, anyway?” category.

“Hollywood doesn’t make good rock movies. “

You gotta see Almost Famous. It’s great.

snoop @ 44

“Hollywood doesn’t make good rock movies. “

You gotta see Almost Famous. It’s great.

I’ve seen it.

crackpot @ 43

You can quote spinal tap in any rock club in the world, chances are the local techies and bands can go line for line with you
“I envy us”
“Jazz Odyssey”
We once got lost on the way to the stage as well. We’re currently residing in the “where are they now?”
category, or maybe “who the fuck are they, anyway?” category.

Saucey Jack

Hugh @
18

OT Ford plans to cut a third of its salaried work force and who knows how many hourly jobs.

Ford “laid out a new series of cost-cutting goals, including cutting 14,000 white-collar jobs, slashing manufacturing output 26% by 2008 and suspending its stock dividend.
The aim is to cut operating costs by $5 billion by 2008 and return to full-year North American profitability in 2009

I have had little respect for US automakers for a long time. They have been behind the curve by 3 to 5 years since the 1960s. Whether it was quality, safety, or fuel efficiency standards they have had to be dragged kicking and screaming, eventually acquiescing not because they began listening to consumers but because they feared the expanding market share of the Japanese and then the Koreans. SUVs which they got into late were like manna to them, a return to the good old days of monster cars and planned obsolescence but as usual they couldn’t read the tea leaves of the inevitable rise in energy costs or be bothered with a Plan B. How lame is this:

“Frankly, our ranking doesn’t matter,” Chairman Ford said. “I think you’ve seen over the years companies chase market share with sometimes disastrous results.”

Yes, actually being successful is such a losing strategy, isn’t it?

So Ford like GM before it will restructure. Of course, there will be some dislocations. I have always been amazed how economists hide behind euphemisms for shattered lives and dreams. I have often wished they could be so “dislocated” so they knew how it felt. Even so, I have the feeling that the corporate strategists who steered Ford into this mess are not going to be among those who will feel its consequences. As a result, I predict Ford and the US auto industry will remain behind the curve and their dwindling number of workers will continue to pay the price.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....htm?csp=24

Elliptically, auto executives have lamented their high labor costs, especially healthcare premiums for their workers and cited this for their lack of competitiveness. While I have never believed this was never anywhere near the whole story, I have always wondered why the auto industry has not been a loud and vociferous voice for universal healthcare in this country. But then forward thinking was never their strong suit.

What about Poland? It’s a really good location, especially since they got rid of that trade union guy.

TRex @
22

Donita Sparks @ 20

TRex @ 15

Hi TRex! I will indeed. I’m excited about the show. It’ll be a good one.

One of the single most embarrassing moments of my life was the gig where we opened for James at the Colorbox in Athens. Our guitarist seemed to have disconnected all of his pedals except the one that made the Giant Sucking Sound. It was a terrible set and I called it after six songs. “Thanks, good night.”

Afterward there was a huge fight in the parking lot that culminated with our guitarist kicking a hole in a snare drum and squealing, “I QUIT!!” and stomping off. James and his band were standing there looking sooooooo uncomfortable and embarrassed for us.

Yeesh. Just thinking about that night has made me all squirrelly again. Oof. Being in a rock band was SO MUCH FUN!! I can’t imagine why EVERYBODY doesn’t do it.

Not.

Sounds like a Spinal Tap moment.

Best Rock and Roll Movies:
The Rutles - best comedy
Sid and Nancy- best mind fuck

See ya tomorrow Donita.

Donita is another Chris Guest fan, I see!

Christy Hardin Smith @ 35

Donita — thanks so much for the reminder on Spinal Tap. I haven’t seen that in ages, and it makes me laugh out loud in so many places. I need to get that in the Netflix queue. *g*

One of the great comedies. Just watched Duck Soup again through Netflix. So excellent. Oh Freedonia!

Donita Sparks @ 45

snoop @ 44

“Hollywood doesn’t make good rock movies. “

You gotta see Almost Famous. It’s great.

I’ve seen it.

Actually, I really liked that movie. The scene where the t-shirts come and sparks a huge fight is almost painfully real. Other parts, eh, well…

The absolute best way to watch Spinal Tap is to watch “The Song Remains the Same” first (or as much of it as you can stand) and then watch “This is Spinal Tap”.

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

Geez, what a week. :(

My Size - John Entwistle

Babylon Makes The Rules - Steel Pulse

Meal Ticket - Elton John

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix

Livin’ On The Fault Line - Doobie Brothers

Fight The Power - Public Enemy

One Of These Days (Pow!) - Jackie Gleason

‘Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.’

Mark @ News Corpse @ 47

TRex @
22

Donita Sparks @ 20

One of the single most embarrassing moments of my life was the gig where we opened for James at the Colorbox in Athens. Our guitarist seemed to have disconnected all of his pedals except the one that made the Giant Sucking Sound. It was a terrible set and I called it after six songs. “Thanks, good night.”

Afterward there was a huge fight in the parking lot that culminated with our guitarist kicking a hole in a snare drum and squealing, “I QUIT!!” and stomping off. James and his band were standing there looking sooooooo uncomfortable and embarrassed for us.

Yeesh. Just thinking about that night has made me all squirrelly again. Oof. Being in a rock band was SO MUCH FUN!! I can’t imagine why EVERYBODY doesn’t do it.

Not.

Sounds like a Spinal Tap moment.

Best Rock and Roll Movies:
The Rutles - best comedy
Sid and Nancy- best mind fuck

See ya tomorrow Donita.

Oh I love the Rutles. They would’ve been great in The Spin this week.

TRex @ 50

Donita Sparks @ 45

snoop @ 44

I’ve seen it.

Actually, I really liked that movie. The scene where the t-shirts come and sparks a huge fight is almost painfully real. Other parts, eh, well…

The absolute best way to watch Spinal Tap is to watch “The Song Remains the Same” first (or as much of it as you can stand) and then watch “This is Spinal Tap”.

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

Bad News Tour is also excellent. The scene of them shooting a video is priceless. I think the song title for the video is “Burning Looting Raping Shooting”

I read the comments after posting mine…does Chris Guest have a new movie on the way?? That would give me something to eagerly anticipate! (Unlike, say, another Dumbfuck presser.)

Donita Sparks @ 53

TRex @ 50

Donita Sparks @ 45

Actually, I really liked that movie. The scene where the t-shirts come and sparks a huge fight is almost painfully real. Other parts, eh, well…

The absolute best way to watch Spinal Tap is to watch “The Song Remains the Same” first (or as much of it as you can stand) and then watch “This is Spinal Tap”.

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

Bad News Tour is also excellent. The scene of them shooting a video is priceless. I think the song title for the video is “Burning Looting Raping Shooting”

HEAVY METAL! HEAVY METAL! I’M NOT GETTIN’ BACK IN THE VAN TIL HE SAYS WE’RE HEAVY FUCKING METAL!!

What was the name of the Sexy Girl Journalist? Sally something?

TRex @ 50

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

More Bad News came out way after, in 1987…It’s the NWOBHM version of ST.

An aside…In ‘83, they were shooting ‘live concert’ footage for ST in Westwood Village (club name escapes me) for some pickups right before they went into post…My friends who went said it was done straight, no letting anyone in on the gag for the best result. The crowd was stunned by the pageant of mediocrity.

;>)

Donita Sparks @ 53

Bad News Tour is also excellent. The scene of them shooting a video is priceless. I think the song title for the video is “Burning Looting Raping Shooting”

Warriors Of Genghis Khan.

;>)

Ah Spinal Tap.

“But these go to eleven”

“I think the band was downbecause there was a Stonehenge monument that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”

I just found the Bad News Website!!

If I were in L.A. I would go see you at the Viper Room. I think that place used to be called the Central.

If Obama is an a……, for his statement on war, the military and Democrat confusion about both, what then do we say of Hillary?

I would have to concur about Obama. Provided the quotes are in fact true. Naturally.

darkblack @ 56

TRex @ 50

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

More Bad News came out way after, in 1987…It’s the NWOBHM version of ST.

An aside…In ‘83, they were shooting ‘live concert’ footage for ST in Westwood Village (club name escapes me) for some pickups right before they went into post…My friends who went said it was done straight, no letting anyone in on the gag for the best result. The crowd was stunned by the pageant of mediocrity.

;>)

Donita Sparks @ 53

Bad News Tour is also excellent. The scene of them shooting a video is priceless. I think the song title for the video is “Burning Looting Raping Shooting”

Warriors Of Genghis Khan.

;>)

kudos

Donita, I did some Duck Soup Youtube stuff on Late Nite a few weeks back. I love that movie, though my partner does not quite share my enthusiasm, sadly.

Even better…Brian May of Queen produced the Young Ones’ Bad News Album, with a truly stunning version of Bohemian Rhapsody.

;>)

TRex @ 50

The absolute best way to watch Spinal Tap is to watch “The Song Remains the Same” first (or as much of it as you can stand) and then watch “This is Spinal Tap”.

Oh, also, the Young Ones had a movie where they were a rock band. It’s called “Bad News Tour”. Someone told me that it’s actually where Rob Reiner got the idea for “This is Spinal Tap”.

I became a Tap fan before I saw part of that Led Zeppelin movie on the teevee. I couldn’t help but think that Nigel does the whole violin bow thingie thing better. Nigel also looks better in Druid robes too.
Disclaimer: That could be extreme bias.

darkblack @ 63

Even better…Brian May of Queen produced the Young Ones’ Bad News Album, with a truly stunning version of Bohemian Rhapsody.

;>)

DB, is there anything you don’t know?

sticky @ 42

TC @ 26

I’m really digging the new Mars Volta music. They’ll be playing Milwaukee next month.

They have a new album about to drop… I hear it’s less of a concept album and that dude has grown as a singer… could be very very good…

It’s out. It rocks. Their second album, “De-Loused in the Comatorium,” remains my favorite though…

TRex @ 65

DB, is there anything you don’t know?

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

;>)

TRex @ 58

I just found the Bad News Website!!

yaaa! Wonder if they have it on Netflix

Matt Browner-Hamlin @ 66

sticky @ 42

TC @ 26

Yes, I just got back from the FDL Hall Monitor with my late pass.

They have a new album about to drop… I hear it’s less of a concept album and that dude has grown as a singer… could be very very good…

It’s out. It rocks. Their second album, “De-Loused in the Comatorium,” remains my favorite though…

This makes me happy.

darkblack @ 67

TRex @ 65

DB, is there anything you don’t know?

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

;>)

That and who wrote the book of love.

Oh, no, wait. That was me, wasn’t it?

I keep writing things and submitting and the comments don’t make it.

anyone else having this trouble?

mui @ 64

I couldn’t help but think that Nigel does the whole violin bow thingie thing better.

When I see that scene, I’m always reminded of the debacle at CalJam ‘74, the end of Deep Purple’s set…Wherein Richie Blackmore destroys 3 guitars and most of his backline in a fit of ‘pique’…A similar study in instrumental intercourse.

Nigel may look better in druid robes than him, as well.

;>)

Kind of a surreal experience. Reading these comments, watching this clip and listening to Terri Gross on the FBI harrasment of John Lennon. All at the same time.

Pachacutec @ 62

Donita, I did some Duck Soup Youtube stuff on Late Nite a few weeks back. I love that movie, though my partner does not quite share my enthusiasm, sadly.

Groucho and MARGARET DUMONT! She was brilliant

TRex @ 71

That and who wrote the book of love.

Oh, no, wait. That was me, wasn’t it?

Ah, so you were in the Backstreet Boys…

;>)

Anyone know why the homepage is blank right now?

Hey, Donita!

This came highly-recommended to me the other day:

Jackie

darkblack @
68

TRex @ 65

DB, is there anything you don’t know?

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

;>)

LOL
Who wrote the Book of Love?

Oh crap, now I’m going to be trying to pick that out on my measly 4-string guitar. Thanks, Darkblack!

sticky @ 12:41 pm (#73)

I keep writing things and submitting and the comments don’t make it.

anyone else having this trouble?

No, but all of a sudden the page isn’t formatted correctly. Anyone else see that after reloading?

free mp3s:

Beatallica

Donita Sparks @ 78

Anyone know why the homepage is blank right now?

Something bad happened. No more borders for me.

Cujo yes, i see it. Empty space up top.

Yes Cujo.

I blame Dan Gerstein!

Donita Sparks @ 12:47 pm (#78)

Anyone know why the homepage is blank right now?

It’s not blank, at least on my browser. You have to scroll down quite a ways to get to the first article. I think someone’s messin’ with CSS again. But it could be any of a number of things.

Sounds like this would be a good time to bookmark the unofficial emergency backup joint, http://windcatpond.blogspot.com/

darkblack @ 76

TRex @ 71

That and who wrote the book of love.

Oh, no, wait. That was me, wasn’t it?

Ah, so you were in the Backstreet Boys…

;>)

Ah, no. That song was written and sung to me. I was AJ’s secret lovaaaaaah!!

Michael Winterbottom’s “24 Hour Party People”, starring Steve Coogan, is an excellent rock and roll movie. It’s a fictionalizd account of British music impresario Tony Wilson, and the rise and fall of his label, Factory Records. You don’t have to be into the bands featured (Sex Pistols, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, etc.) to get a huge kick out of it.

What I’m digging:

Wolf Like Me–TV on the Radio
La Monagamie–Malajube
Change–Joy Denelane w/Lupe Fiasco
Young Folks–Peter Bjorn & John
Yours To Keep–Teddybears
The Garden–Cut Chemist
Smile–Lily Allen
SOS–Earl Greyhound
Shine A Light–Wolf Parade

op99 @ 12:50 pm (#88)

Sounds like this would be a good time to bookmark the unofficial emergency backup joint, http://windcatpond.blogspot.com/

Comments still work at the moment, just badly.

Seeing you mention “A Mighty Wind” just blew me away! Always a fan of Guest, Levy, Shearer, McKean, O’Hara and that whole crew. But what got me was the group in the movie “The New Main Street Singers.” It was an obvious riff on the “New Christy Minstrels,” a group which my wife’s dad managed and helped put together with Randy Sparks. I think George still owns the name, in fact. The satire was dead on, as usual, and my wife, who grew up with these guys and even toured with them doing promos as a teenager was just rolling on the floor laughing.

somebody broke the table?

The Rude One is back:

The most frightening aspect of the press conference was not the sight of the ostensible leader of the “free” world screeching and jabbing like chicken that got into the meth stash. No, it was Bush’s insistence that captured American soldiers are just a “hypothetical.” Pressed by David Gregory on whether he could abide another country saying it was interpreting the Geneva Conventions however it wanted when it came to treatment of a hypothetical American, Bush simply said that it was okay by him if it was like what he wants: “I am saying that I would hope that they would adopt the same standards we adopt.” GI, get ready for your waterboarding.

[snip]

Thank God(dess) for the likes of twolf1, angie, Old Coastie, Busted and the Rude One, to mention only a few, for watching so we don’t have to!!

:-)

Who broke the lake?

twolf1 @
82

free mp3s:

Beatallica

YEAH!…One of those ‘fan arts’ is mine, from way back in cyber years. Great concept for a band.

Margaret Dumont was brilliant, a singular and underappreciated talent.

Sorry gang, we’re having a tech hiccup which will, hopefully, be fixed in a moment.

Looks like a problem with the CSS. All columns run after one another, instead of beside each other.

Why can’t the columns just get along!