'Shindig'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Pfft. Kids today.
Heh.
I should mention that I've always loved Elvis (thanks largely to an uncle who owns every single Elvis record ever). I even remember where I was when I head he'd died....
These days, I suppose the rockist in me has me leaning more towards his Sun Studio stuff. His version of "Blue Moon" is one of the most amazing songs ever....
Oh, yeah. I very rarely have patience for post-Sun Elvis.
His version of "Blue Moon" is one of the most amazing songs ever....
It's lovely. In fact, it's probably why I sing "Blue Moon" to Emmett as a lullaby.
Stuff:
David Bowie is organizing a big music/arts festival for NY for 2007. [link]
In the meantime he's being a big old slacker:
"I've been fed up for quite some time. I'm taking a year off — no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row."
An interesting development in downloading in Canada is that a coalition of artists have come out against the recording industry's strong stance against downloading. They're basically saying that suing downloaders hurt musicians by souring the fans. This has lead to the sight of one of the members of Broken Social Scene on Report on Business Television, which is basically a 24-hour lets discuss the stock market channel.
What's interesting is that the Copyright Act in Canada doesn't yet address digital downloading (amendments to the Act keep dying on the order table), so this split between creators and industry might be a real glitch in the groups lobbying for a stronger creator's (and publisher's) rights in the Copyright Act. From what I understand, the last amendments to the Act were heavily weighted in favour of creators rights, and a lot of groups including libraries and educators were not happy. (The way the bill was set up, it meant that schools would have to potentially pay a license to surf the internet.)
As it stands now, downloading is not illegal in Canada, but uploading is.
Carl Wilson has been weighing in on the Stephen Merritt kerfluffle: [link]
Steve Mason, formerly of the Beta Band has gone missing.
The real reason FEMA failed in New Orleans is that they were pouring their resources into producing this.
Oh wait...
I don't know whether to laugh or cry....
An oldie, but a goodie.
joe boucher "Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach" Sep 13, 2005 3:54:56 pm PDT
Whoops! A tip-o-the-hat to the Boucher!
Great live performance of Hocus Pocus by Focus (introduced by Gladys Knight!) [link]