OR: LEGLESS STORY INHALES THE COSMOS For Cee Lo, this ranks right up there with Gloria Estafan's bus crash as a career move. No more lines at rehab. Related articles Cee Lo Green Changes 'Imagine' Lyrics, Stokes Religious Controversy (huffingtonpost.com) Cee Lo Causes Controversy By Changing … [Read more...]
Press “1” for English!
Antiquated technology for a loser act shilling phony nostalgia: Calling Oats emergency hotline: 719-266-2837 Related articles [VIDEO] We Got Married - Christmas Special 2011 (English Sub) (koreanchingu.wordpress.com) Pocohontas Needs English Lessons (adroedgirls.com) Great article, … [Read more...]
Velvet Godfather II Underground: Festa sequence
BEST OF 2011 LIST
pj harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant) St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (4AD) Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now (Thrill Jockey) Nick Lowe: The Old Magic (Yep Roc) Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear) Black Keys: El Camino (Nonesuch) Chris Thile … [Read more...]
MORE SNAKE-THE-GRASS ACTING TURNS
Ever since Viola Davis stole Doubt from Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, there have been several looming instances where character actors ingest whole scripts. When moments like this hit, when it's hard to distinguish acting from writing, the effects can dazzle (even if Clive … [Read more...]
BAT CHAIN PULLER: BEEFHEART RISING
Obscurantists, shrug with elation: Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)'s lost moosterpiece, Bat Chain Puller, will finally come out in early 2012 according to the Wire. Related articles An Official Release for Captain Beefheart's 'Bat Chain Puller' (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com) Lost … [Read more...]
INFOGRAPHIC SWALLOWS ONLINE MUSIC
Click graphic for larger version, via grovo.com … [Read more...]
Top 10 Untrue Facts About Robert Johnson: Greil Marcus
10. Like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale listening to Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" as they drew up the charter for the Black Panthers, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen were listening to "Hell Hound on My Trail" when in 1941 they wrote "Blues in the Night." "I want him on the session," Bing Crosby, a … [Read more...]
PATRICK MEIGHAN: FAMILY GUY WRITER’S ARREST
Image by Getty Images via @daylife REPRINTED FROM MARK CRISPIN MILLER'S News from Underground: http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occupy-la-arrest-by-p... *My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan* My name is Patrick Meighan, and I�m a husband, a father, a writer on … [Read more...]
PROG SLUT
[photo: Jim Snyder, Summerfest, Milwaukee, 2011] A friend writes: Was Rundgren good? Hadn't seen him since college, long, long ago.... TR: I didn't realize until I got down there that it was a total UTOPIA gig (tour details, reviews here). Great show if you love prog-rock. Todd dressed in … [Read more...]
1.5B EMI/UNIVERSAL DEAL APPROACHES CLOSE
Universal Music is close to sealing a $1.5 bn-plus deal to buy EMI Music, home to acts including the Beatles and Coldplay, with owner Citigrouppushing for negotiations to be … [Read more...]
HAMBURG LENNON LETTER TO HARRISON FAMILY
This letter appears on page 48 of the new Olivia Harrison book Living in the Material World, a better version of last week's HBO special (see Wyman's Slate review, from below). There are rumors about scads of letters in Lennon's hand from this period, which Hunter Davies will collect for publication … [Read more...]
ON POINT, TOM ASHBROOK, LENNON’S BIRTHDAY
Aired October 4, 2011, anticipating Lennon's October 9 birthday. Tim Riley discusses his new Lennon biography. See his author page for upcoming appearances in NYC, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. … [Read more...]
BILL WYMAN ON SCHLOCKUMENTARIES: SCORCESE’S HARRISON
Image via WikipediaFinally, the film really never investigates the real mystery of Harrison: What was he so morose about? Now, Ringo Starr is one who appreciates the cosmic joke life played on him. He has a cheerful acceptance of life's whimsy, hiding what no doubt has been his daily prayers since … [Read more...]
JULIA STANLEY LENNON, ALLERTON CEMETERY
When I last visited in 2008, this gravestone was still missing. My guess is that her daughter Julia Dykins Baird Lennon had it placed there after being unmarked for many years. Still a very moving place: imagine the young Lennon visiting his mother's ghost. … [Read more...]