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2fs - 2005-11-03 16:50:43
I could swear Bush attempted hip-hop, sorta, on The Red Shoes. (Uh, Kate - not W.) There is nothing worse than folks who like (but have nothing really to do with) hip-hop attempting to do so...esp. by hiring guest rappers. It's the '90s/'00s version of all those British punky/new-wave acts in the '80s suddenly going all soul - sorry, folks, but if it wasn't there from the start, it isn't happening now. You're pasty, pale, and British: play to your strengths.
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Bob - 2005-11-04 00:47:37
I like the recently departed Biscuit of the Big Boy's scoff at a bogus orgy charge filed against a punk show in Austin, which was something to the effect of 'I mean, c'mon... We're a bunch of oysters'.
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2fs - 2005-11-04 08:36:40
Bob: uh, is that in response to anything in particular? Were the Everly Brothers and Kate Bush accused of being involved in an orgy? I mean, hey, if you're just chattin' and randomly blathering info - I can definitely relate. But I'd hate to be caught so far out the zeitgeist, if there is any connection...
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Bob - 2005-11-05 02:04:26
Oysters are pasty & pale, and that ol' Texas one was denying that sex orgies were one of their strengths, but I just thought it was a fun p & p synonym to pass on... especially given the latest, even-more-often-plump wave of male punks. But my rash capitalizing of the "We're" D.O.A.'ed any bit of flow.
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Blob - 2005-11-05 14:46:48
So now I guess I should appologetically make a pretense towards pertinence by digressing from one of Paula's subjects, the Everly Brothers. (I'm tryin to compromise;; Paula's the subjectmaster, but my "strengths" is digression.) Anyhow, when I think Everly Brothers, I think of the most [the only?] evocative bit in George Plimpton's biography of Edie Sedgewick, about her cantering her horse across a field as a teen, with a friend or sister, while singing out the Everly's "Dream". Which coulda seemed icky rich instead of charming, had I not first seen what became of her in "Ciao Manhattan", before I read (okay, mostly looked at the captions of) Plimpton's hype-y biography. But kudos not only to the Everly's "Dream", for an evocative moment amidst the hype, but also to "Ciao Manhattan", for its lack of hype. A lack which another set-in-an-empty-swimming-pool-in-California semi-documentary, "Dogtown and Z-Boys", could have used. But I guess "Ciao Manhattan" could be said to have been hyping Edie in a way by de-glamorizing her, (which the Z-Boys didn't feel was an option for themselves), but I say, and this may even be germaine, whater works. (And it's not like being true to one's self or one's strengths guarantees something will work.)
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Excuse me: - 2005-11-09 22:40:15
whatever
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