Three things that describe my afternoon: apple pie (another culinary experiment), pumpkin carving (the finished result you see before you), and Ani Difranco (not exactly housewife music, but I like it).
Category: Music
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Three things
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Springer
Jerry Springer in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’??? The apocalypse is upon us.
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Robbie does Sinatra
Robbie does Sinatra. Is it wrong to get so excited about this? I think the album will be fantastic.
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Whither S Club 7?!
Steve found an article called “No Backstreet Girls Allowed” about the lack of coed pop groups. I think the author needed to do some more research though. There are PLENTY of coed groups abroad. The British “Popstars” band, Hear’Say, consists of three girls and two boys, and they had the fastest selling single here EVER last month. And what about S Club 7 or Steps? Or even the Venga Boys? They’re all hugely successful in Europe. This guy should’ve made some mention of the fact that only Americans seem to fixate on all-girl or all-guy groups.
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Madge
If I were Madonna, I’d be weirded out. Some of these fans sound psychotic. “The other week I got video camera footage of Madonna and Guy shopping. I got it all on tape and I’ve watched it over and over again – it’s fantastic.” !?!?
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(Pointless) R.E.M. News
Yeah, there’s a lot of it floating around these days. I guess the Athens publicity machine is revving up for the new album. Anyhoo, the Nevada Assembly passed a resolution last week praising R.E.M. for the anti-suicide message of “Everybody Hurts”. Yes, they thanked the band for a song that came out in 1992. I guess things take a long time to filter down to Nevada.
Edited 27/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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Ring tones
Good grief. Some UK “internet monitoring” company says that musical mobile phone ring tones could be considered to be in breach of copyright law. This could be costing the record company up to $1 million a day. Yeah, right. This is getting ridiculous. Are you telling me that a five-second midi version of “The Girl from Ipanema” is damaging the integrity of the song and costing the songwriter profits? What about if I record my own voice humming the song – am I still breaking copyright? What if I *gasp* sing a few bars while walking through the park? Should I pay royalties for giving a “public performance”? Money-grubbing bastards.
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Farewell, Joey
Oh no! The lead singer of the Ramones died yesterday. Nobody ever accomplished more with only four chords.
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Tons O’ REM News
A few days ago Ironminds featured a review of probably my all-time favorite REM album, “Out of Time.” If you’re a fan, the author does a fantastic job dissecting both the brilliance and the confusion of the album. (KRS-1? “Shiny Happy People”?) I’m definitely getting excited for the new album “Reveal”, which is supposed to be released on May 15. (Shhh! I got a postcard from the Official Fan Club the other day telling me that streaming tracks will be available at remreveal.com this weekend. It’s a secret!) And how fantastic is this? REM will be playing at the South Africa’s Freedom Day Concert in London on April 29! I’m going to call tonight and try to score tickets…