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| Saturday, May 17th, 2008 | | 9:13 pm |
Chuck Eddy writes about Bittersweet World Ashlee, Trashlee, We All Fall Down...my favorite non-single is probably "Boys" (produced, like much of the album, by Kenna and the Neptunes' Chad Hugo) for its Chic bassline, for the way Ashlee switches between light and tough vocal modes, for the way she splits the title into four syllables, and for the punchline "use your head but not that one."Also, for those of you who missed this late post by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) petronia on the poptimists' Bittersweet World thread, I'm reprinting it here: Looking up week-old thread to say that I heard "Outta My Head" in the HMV the other day and thought "You know, all the indie peeps would love this song to pieces if they thought it was by Santogold," and then... I found out it was written by Santogold. HUZZAH FOR ME?? Current Music: Ashlee Simpson "Boys" | | Friday, May 16th, 2008 | | 12:56 pm |
So, is there a distinctively American bosh? So, is there a distinctively American equivalent to bosh? Seems to me that snap and bubblecrunk and Houston's screwed 'n' chopped thing and whatever it is they call the stuff from Memphis all have potential but are probably too not-completely unearnest underneath and just not hysterically boshin' enough. The closest to a bosh equivalent might be juke. Or maybe if you sped up Miami bass. But bosh is more embracing than I think juke is. Current Music: Dude N Nem "Watch My Feet" | | 9:04 am |
Bosh Jams On A Fast Break The question is what is the genre. skyecaptain says that, while no one in Internet history has thought up an adequate generic category for whatever the hell it is that Scooter does so very well, the answer is clearly "bosh jams." I think Scooter'd officially be called Happy Hardcore, though I'd not be the one to hold an informed opinion on the subject. Google reveals "Toronto's Chris Bosh jams on a fast break." But it seems to me that if it's a true jam it should be a slow break, so that there can be slow bosh jams. But that doesn't seem to be the Scooter style. I suppose a slow jam can have a fast break, if they're willing to change tempo. Current Music: Scooter "The Question Is What Is The Question" | | Thursday, May 15th, 2008 | | 12:27 pm |
| | Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | | 11:19 am |
I Cross The Line
Conversation on Saturday afternoon:
Me: The Rolling Stones' Got Live If You Want It is way way better than Get Your Ya-Yas Out.
Derek Krissoff (UGA Press editor whom I was now meeting in person for the first time): This morning I vowed to myself not to get into an argument with you about music, but you have NOW GONE TOO FAR!
Current Music: Rolling Stones "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? (live)" | | Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | | 12:24 pm |
I carved my name into his legacy
From the files of the Dept. of Misapprehension:
A lot of the time when I'm listening to Carrie Underwood sing, "I carved my name into his leather seat," I hear it as, "I carved my name into his legacy." I can't shake this; when I'm half paying attention, these and not the correct words are what I hear.
Current Music: Carrie Underwood "Before He Cheats" | | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | | 1:21 am |
Kogan, Morley lead blowout UGA booksale! In an exciting and innovative sales strategy, the University Of Georgia Press is conducting a CREATIVE NONFICTION SALE, to create room in the warehouse, no doubt. Titles include: --Frank Kogan, Real Punks Don't Wear Black, sale price $6.24 --Paul Morley, Words And Music: A History Of Pop In The Shape Of A City, sale price $6.24 Sale ends 12 noon EST (I think they mean EDT, actually), August 1, 2008. Of course, you might want to act sooner in case supplies run out, though my book will not run out, as it does not have legs. Real Punks Don't Wear Black will make an excellent stocking stuffer, turkey stuffer, and wedding present. Current Music: The Orioles "It's Too Soon To Know" | | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | | 11:19 pm |
As a praise word, "punk" was far deadlier than "poetry" was Just posted this on an old blogger thread that I found via Google: Bug said: I've read it over thirty times now and am still no closer to understanding what the penman actually meant by this.
"through the process of our appreciating them[, we] turn them into nothing."
What does this mean?
Seriously. It's not a rhetorical question.Wish you [rmd] had made more of an effort to answer this, as it is an excellent question that I quite sympathize with. In fact, it's what I was trying to understand way back then, and still am. Anyway, if you're still in touch with Bug (whoever you are, whoever he/she is), I'll try to give a rudimentary answer, just with an example: ( You will never in a million years guess which current pop singer I use in my example ) Current Music: Ashlee Simpson "Coming Back For More" | | Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | | 10:39 am |
Idol Idyll Continues An Idol fan enthuses: "I suppose that was viable!" "bearable, I guess!" "competent!" But never twice for the same performer. ( Commentary ) Current Music: Neil Diamond "Solitary Man" | | Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | | 11:41 pm |
Love Goes To Building On Fire My latest muxtape, a treasury of current country music, Love Goes To Building On Fire, all except the first track being from this decade. Just click on a song, and the tape will play forward from there. ( liner notes ) Current Music: Travis Tritt "Too Far To Turn Around" | | 11:17 pm |
So, this means that for the last ten years I've been legally drunk
Sleeping only four hours a night for five nights, on average, or five hours a night for a week can impair you as much as being awake for 24 hours - or being legally drunk, according to Dr. Charles Czeisler, a well-known sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School.
--University of California, Berkeley, Wellness Letter
Current Music: Slaughter "Up All Night" | | Friday, April 25th, 2008 | | 8:49 am |
Ashlee utilizes deliberate cognitive dissonance "Little Miss Obsessive" (Track Five on Bittersweet World): It's like a fairy tale without a happy ending
But then again maybe we are just pretending
Why does it have to be so unfair?
Tell me that you care"Ragdoll" (Track Six on Bittersweet World): I've been thrown
Round once or twice
Beneath it all
Was born to fight
I hear your voice in my head
And it's killin' me
I've never been a fan of
Happy endings( Further lyric observations )Ashlee doing her impression of a bird flying with one wing Current Music: Ashlee Simpson "Little Miss Obsessive" | | Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | | 12:30 pm |
Pale-and-washed-away-and-left-for-dead Week on Idol Finally watched this week's Idol clips. Was this the worst Idol week ever? Last week's was almost as bad, and I recall Beatles 2 being lousy, but this was as disengaged as I've ever felt. Brooke White: Unfortunately took Andrew's advice and overacted the dying-swan effect, but was bearable. David Cook: Completely a fish out of water, would not even have been good enough for a third-rate dinner theater in Petaluma. (Nothing against Petaluma, mind you, where I've never been.) This was just wrong, totally wrong. Jason Castro: Weak. Terribly weak. Pale and washed-away and left for dead weak. Should've accompanied himself on the ukulele and maybe his puniness would have muscled its way through. Have there ever been such bad performances as this and David C's this late in the tournament? This is only the second year I've paid much attention, so I don't know. I remember Sanjaya's final couple of performances last year actually being pretty reasonable. Carly Smithson: OK. She's at home, rocks it and stomps it, but home is still average bar-band soul. Syesha Mercado: Is right with the rhythm but she has zilch personality to give it, despite her alleged "animation" this evening. I always feel like I'm hearing a simulation. David Archuleta: Sweet, nice, ok...zzz...zzz. ( some more yawping ) Current Music: The Band "Stage Fright" | | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 5:23 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | | 4:47 pm |
Have Tracer, Mark, and Alan not heard Margaret Berger? In relation to Episode Three of the Resonance FM series A Bite Of Stars, A Slug Of Time, And Thou: (1) Results 1 - 10 of about 1,940 for "margaret berger" "robot song". (0.04 seconds)(2) How would you compare Mark's and Alan's accents as to class, geography, and personality? (3) Mark mentioned that the field of science fiction has been and to some extent still is anxious about its quality in relation to supposed real literature. (Frank: And well it should be.) Two questions: (3a) Does this anxiety manifest itself in an attempt to raise the genre (say by infusing more literary or social elements) or just to do it better? (The field of mystery stories probably suffers from a similar anxiety, but back in its great days there were some writers - G.K. Chesterton and Raymond Chandler and Rex Stout come to mind - whom I'd put into the "do it better" category in that they had writers chops but didn't think they had to monkey with the conventions they were given, so they didn't come across as adding "superior" elements [except maybe when Chandler got to The Long Goodbye, which is his most overrated novel anyway].) (3b) Does popular and semipopular music (incl. indie and alternative and noise) feel a similar anxiety, and if so, how does it act out the anxiety? I think it's shot through with anxiety, but unlike science fiction, it doesn't have an established "real music" that's equivalent to "real literature" to compare itself to, given the abandonment by so much of the intelligentsia of "classical" and "serious" music as the measure of quality. So pop and rock can be obsessive about their search for the real, but the real always remains provisional, because you don't know where to locate it. Current Music: Donna Summer "I Feel Love" | | Friday, April 11th, 2008 | | 5:56 pm |
Our Legally Blind Golfers Are Better Than YOUR Legally Blind Golfers Proof that I am a poptimist after all: I clicked on "Keys Talks About Her Conspiracy Theories" but did not click on "Legally Blind 85-Year-Old American Golfer Makes Hole In One." (What difference does it make that he's American? I will not countenance such chauvinism.) Current Music: Del Shannon "Runaway" | | 10:39 am |
| | 8:14 am |
What is this "economics"?
At Barnes & Noble last night:
ME: Could you tell me where you keep the economics books?
FRESHFACED YOUNG FEMALE EMPLOYEE WITH A RING IN HER LIP: Do you mean history? Current Events? Politics?
ME: Um, I mean, like, money.
FRESHFACED YOUNG FEMALE EMPLOYEE WITH A RING IN HER LIP: Oh, for that you would want to look in our business section downstairs towards the front.
Current Music: Tiny Grimes "Romance Without Finance" | | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | | 11:43 pm |
Fill in the blank
I don't have a poll function, but if I did, these would be the choices:
1) If Heidi Montag's singing didn't sound like she was forcing salt water out through her nose, "No More" would be one of the best singles of the year.
2) Despite her sounding like she's forcing salt water out through her nose, Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year.
3) Heidi Montag's "No More" is one of the best singles of the year, and one of the reasons for this is that she sounds like she's forcing salt water out through her nose.
(I am wavering between choices 1 and 2. If I were ever to shift to choice 3, this would probably mean that I have entered a new psychosocial life stage, such as _______.)
Current Music: Heidi Montag "No More" | | 9:57 pm |
We Were Using It To Prop Up Tables, But We Finally Bought Tables With Legs Frank:
We're doing a creative nonfiction special sale on our website offering 50-75% off about 25 titles, including a few music titles. We'll be including REAL PUNKS in that sale at 75% off. I wanted to alert you know so that you could help spread the word and also to let you know that now is a good time to stock up on your own book if you need copies. We cannot offer a further author discount on top of the 75% off price. The sale will likely be up for a few months and should be active with a prominent link off our home page in the next couple of weeks. Please feel free to drive your friends and colleagues there.
If you want to place an order for yourself before the sale is active please just give me a call and I will take you order personally.
Hope you've been well.
Jxxx Mxxxx
Marketing and Sales Director
University of Georgia Press, 330 Research Drive, Athens, GA 30602
http://www.ugapress.uga.edu Current Music: Travis Tritt "Should've Listened" |
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