Then I will check the email!
It should be filled with important information about BR as well as pertinent spam about "Hott Rectal Action!!1!"
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
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.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2006 1:29:26 pm PST #4631 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Daisy Jane - Dec 20, 2006 1:37:09 pm PST #4632 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
So...not the one where I send y'all $5,000 and then you deposit $1,000,000 into my account is it?
DavidS - Dec 20, 2006 1:47:17 pm PST #4633 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pffft. What would you do with a million dollars? Your life's already perfect.
Interesting tidbit from the Slate music year-end roundup. Jody Rosen confirms my opinion that modern Nashville country is really just power pop in disguise.
I spent lots of time listening to country in '06 (the Nashville kind, not alt-), and the unkindest cut on my albums list was Dierks Bentley's Long Trip Alone, nipped at the finish line by Willie Nelson and his gravitas. Long Trip Alone is a great big slab o' hokum—Dierks spins a lot of grizzled talk about the open road and compares himself to a "worn-out pair of boots"—but it has everything that I love about current Nashville country, which, in case you haven't noticed, is really old-fashioned melodic pop-rock with better words. If you like loud guitars that crash between minor chords, sing-along choruses, smart narrative lyric-writing, and have a higher-than-average tolerance for the purple stuff, CMT is heaven.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2006 2:16:41 pm PST #4634 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Responding to another section of Jody's year-end review:
But I think I'll leave you with a surprising revelation: The worst song the year was not, I repeat not, "You're Beautiful," by the rabidly loathed James Blunt. (I'll bet you can guess his cockney rhyming nickname.)
I need to note that when I can't avoid this song on the radio or in a store I subconsciouisly replace the word "beautiful" with "newticle" (which is, of course, a prosthetic testicle). This changes the song from "You're Beautiful" to "Your Newticle" - which is infinitely more intriguing.
DXMachina - Dec 20, 2006 2:24:54 pm PST #4635 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
This is where I give thanks that the only radio I listen to is sports talk, because I've never heard of James Blunt, or his song.
(I'll bet you can guess his cockney rhyming nickname.)
Wasn't this a Monty Python sketch?
DavidS - Dec 20, 2006 2:36:51 pm PST #4636 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This is where I give thanks that the only radio I listen to is sports talk, because I've never heard of James Blunt, or his song.
It is the most tedious strum dude song ever. His wussitude is so great he makes Dan Fogelberg look like James Hetfield. Overcooked pasta is less limp. It's the kind of music that would make Angel misty-eyed.
Glamcookie - Dec 20, 2006 2:47:17 pm PST #4637 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Bwah!!! Best description ever.
Jon B. - Dec 20, 2006 4:02:14 pm PST #4638 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
With 20 hours to go in Round Two of that VU acetate auction, bidding is at a far more reasonable $25,100. [link]
Fiona - Dec 21, 2006 1:41:15 am PST #4639 of 10003
(I'll bet you can guess his cockney rhyming nickname.)
I believe this is a reference to the wonderful Dead Ringers send-up of Mr. Blunt, "It's Bloody Cold", from earlier this year. It's so good that it's funny even if you don't know the original. Here it is on YouTube.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2006 4:22:00 am PST #4640 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
With 20 hours to go in Round Two of that VU acetate auction, bidding is at a far more reasonable $25,100.
Hmmm.... I wonder if the 'prankster' bidder was a shill?