Thom Jurek of AMG reviews the song "Jesse" off Scott Walker's album The Drift.

A snippet.

"Jesse" is inhabited by the ghost of Elvis Aaron Presley. His ghost is sitting in the backyard of Graceland, sitting out back under the moonlight, talking to his stillborn twin, Jesse Garon Presley, as he often did in life. He's speaking to him about the fall of the Twin Towers. He's talking like he's still Elvis instead of a rotting bag of bones under the earth. The creepiness factor is in place as the cut opens, slowly, ominously, with a baritone guitar droning quietly before precisely playing the intro to "Jailhouse Rock." It's deliberate and unmistakable, but it's a wreck, slow, detuned, octaves lower than the original. It feels almost inverted, stretched across the empty space behind it. At 13 seconds, Walker as Elvis whispers "pow, pow!" He repeats it three times while detuned basses and poltergeist keyboards enter the frame like afterthoughts before he begins singing:

"Nose holes caked in black cocaine/'Pow! pow!'/No one holds a match to your skin/No dupe/No chiming/A way off/Miles off/No needle through a glove."

Let me start by saying: Pixies! Superchunk! Versus! New Pornographers! Tegan and Sara!

Okay, now has anyone heard Paris Hilton's single (Stars Are Blind)? It's throwaway pop for sure, but it surprised me a bit. It's very Gwen Stefani (who I like alright but don't love). I'd have expected Hilary Duff/Ashlee Simpson/Avril from P-Hil.

Let me start by saying: Pixies! Superchunk! Versus! New Pornographers! Tegan and Sara!

These are good things to say.

::imagines music geeks with Tourettes wandering around Haight Street shouting things like this at the top of their lungs::

Okay, now has anyone heard Paris Hilton's single (Stars Are Blind)?

Tom's link above to the Kiss clip also included a clip for that song: [link]

To the P-Hil video, my response is, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The parts that are in color are KILLING me. She's trying to pole dance (with a palm tree, natch) and failing pretty miserably. I'd have thought that would be one thing she'd be damned good at, considering how much of her life is spent in clubs.

I have this memory of a KISS tv show where, at one point, they jump over a really tall fence into a city park.

That's it. Only the tall fence is into the amusement park where Kiss is going to fight some animatronic robots, for some unknown reason.

Only the tall fence is into the amusement park where Kiss is going to fight some animatronic robots, for some unknown reason.

Weren't they robots of Kiss (and why do I remember them getting Steve Austin noises when they jumped the fence)?

Yep, I saw it too.

KISS is coming out with his and hers fragrances. And a "premium denim line".

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Weren't they robots of Kiss

Those came later.

and why do I remember them getting Steve Austin noises when they jumped the fence)?

You remember correctly! Jumping a fence entails super bionic powers!

I need some help. I was trying to explain what a mash up is to my co worker, but I'm not doing a very good job. She wants to know how it's different from a remix but I'm not doing a good job of explaining it. Can someone help me out?