it wouldn't be (post) Halloween without a little Alice!a.From first listen, I always "knew" that "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" from Alice Goes to Hell was a cover of a ver old song. But, in these days of immediate historical access, I can tell you that the 1917 penned Joseph McCarthy lyrics were set adapted to a Chopin melody (Fantaisie-Impromptu) by Harry Carroll, and first utilized on Broadwa...
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With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to try and focus in on dementia, insanity, and all those creepy things that wake you up in the middle of the night, just knowing there is *something* in that corner paralyzing you with fear. What does it take to push one over the edge? How would you know until you get there, and would you realize it - even then?The neccessity of straight-jacket ...
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How and why The Alice Cooper band chose "Sun Arise" by Rolf Harris to cap off the unnerving insanity of their Love It To Death lp is quite enigmatic. I just realized after typing it, that I don't really know what that word means - but it sounds right. "Sun Arise", by the author of the cuddly "Tie Me Kangaroo Down", is an inspirational anthem to our source of heat and light and the power the old...
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Well, it's time to start the countdown clock and look forward to the coming of the new year. Despite all the insane happenings of the last year (economic collapse, violence, war, politics, etc.,etc.) I feel like people are, in general, pretty hopeful for 2009. We human beings are amazingly flexible critters and, even if we know things are going to get worse, if we can see a flickering light som...
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Man, I morphed into a 19-year-old on May 13. I stumbled into it with a crazy weekend, that's for sure. But I'm not really 19... I'll be 18 forever. Young at heart, always. What's the fun in being an old, boring hag?Anyway, one reason I hate being 19 is that there are no songs about being 19. (Well, none off the top of my head.) 17 was cool with "Seventeen" by Winger and some country song that g...
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I shed a tear when I saw this:Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible DeclineTwo French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on filmPhotographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. And the photos NOT sold to Time but part of this shoot, can be found on their official site here.
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Here's a non-typical Alice tune I thought would be fun to share. I always liked Alice's story songs and this one is set to a kind of New Orleans Jazz vibe. Give it a listen.
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I thought it would be healthy to reflect on what I've learned in the past four months, much of it music-related.American Constitutional Law: "Antonin Scalia's motto is lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be!":http://mog.com/Smooth_Hegemon/blog_post/30126American Journalism: Good news for people who love bad newsIntro to Ballet: I am capable of being a slacker.Seminar on the History of East
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Total cool weather here, since yesterday, first time this year so really not a day to stay glued to the box... i duck myself outta here !!CU soon ye all Mög-sters...Here's a teaser, pic shot yesterday, with the kind help from Daffy Duck...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA ;-))
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Here's what i came into afteri popped up my eye-lids :All resized 1760x1320 - > 320x240No filter, no edit, no crop !!!No filth., no diet, no crap 8-)Thes pictures in full size i'll publishon my new pages at multiplyUniversalis Electric Bar§A clearing skies pattern after a few daysthat saw heavy winds, with snow and hazeof very severe weather phaenomenas, hoping you are thru now you all fellas....
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I was listening to a cover of this tune the other day and was reminded of how great it is...
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. . . . . . .1760x1320 reduced to 320x240No filter no crop, edited using the _copy left side paste it then flip and fit in place_old technique i also used for severalother 'eyes' things i posted earlier.More images at Universalis Electric Bar
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(Review by David Jeffries) Throughout his long career, Alice Cooper has taken full advantage of how concept albums allow for more ambitious songwriting and memorable, layered characters that get more than one song to tell their story. It's always a tortured story with social outcasts rebelling against turbulent childhoods or other traumatic whatnot, but this time the stakes are much higher. Alo...
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Yes, I know that Monster Mash is probably the favorite of most, but I'm talking REAL songs here....not novelties. When I first thought of this question Alice Cooper immediately came to mind, and although I tried to think of someone less obvious, I ended up back at the Coop. You could probably pick a few dozen of his tunes as great Halloween songs...Dead Babies, Ballad Of Dwight Frye, Steven, We...
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This is a double dedication to the new President and the people of America (maybe even people of earth)! Now is no time to sit on our laurels and take it easy:We've Come So Far to Be Here Today (thank you Radio Birdman), however we still gotta Long Way To Go (thank you Alice Cooper).*I don't have either of these songs in digital form, so you'll have to go hunt them down yourselves.
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