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My Status

wondering why anyone cares about my status.

Member Since

over 2 years ago

Total Posts

72

Total Comments

353

My First Album Was

First Song I Loved

  • "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" by Jonathan King

Desert Island Discs

  • Abbey Road
  • Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
  • Country Life
  • Fear of Music
  • OK Computer
  • Stay Away from My Mother
  • The Pod
  • Wish You Were Here
  • Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
  • Let Them Eat Rock

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    October 11, 2007

  • Age

    43

  • Johnny Ramone, asked by an interviewer "Is the brevity of your songs meant to be satirical?"

    "The what of the song was what?"

  • A clearly-stung Alex Chilton, asked by an interviewer why he'd stopped trying to write pop hits

    "All my songs sound like hits to me."

  • Walter Kerr's entire review of John Van Druten's play "I Am a Camera"

    "Me no Leica."

  • Bill "Spaceman" Lee, asked by an interviewer what pressure he felt while pitching

    "14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level."

  • Psalm 35:6, King James Edition

    Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

  • Johnny Rotten, on being told that Elvis Presley had just died

    "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

  • Edward Moxon, asked by his publisher about the difficulties of writing

    "It is the curse of authors that their wives cannot be made to understand that when they're gazing out the window for hours -- they're working."

  • Thom Yorke, in an interview shortly after the release of "OK Computer"

    "We just get together and try to imitate Pink Floyd. Honestly. And it comes out like that."

  • Calvin Coolidge, told by Dorothy Parker that she had made a $50 bet that she could elicit three words from him

    "You lose."

  • Dorothy Parker, on the news of Calvin Coolidge's death

    "How can they tell?"

  • Danny Fields, approached by an excited fan at a party and asked what Iggy Pop was like in person

    "He's an asshole. All musicians are assholes."

  • Convicted murderer William Palmer, being led to the scaffold

    "Are you sure this damn thing's safe?"

  • Jim Murray on Stu Miller's pitching

    "Three pitch speeds: slow, slower, and reverse."

Posts

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Eric Lewis Live at the Rock'n'Roll Testing Facilities, 6/3/09
4 months ago

I don't know if the name Eric Lewis rings many bells hereabouts, but I first heard of him a few months ago from a friend who'd seen him play somewhere became a proselytizer. He's a pianist who has just recently played at the White House, accompanied Wynton Marsalis for a time, and won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. I remember these facts because when I invited him t...

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Song Stuck in My Head; 5/25/09
5 months ago

Today I find myself looking back fondly on the paisley underground of the 80's, and one of the movement's very earliest exemplars, Sacramento's own--Game Theory.I love the tranquil calm a thickly distorted electric guitar can create if you let it, and the kernel of bitter rage you can find within that calm if you look. This song is the perfect illustration. Notice also the two intertwined voc...

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Why Does Film Accompaniment So Often Bring out the Best in Songwriters?
5 months ago
  • Artist:
    101 Strings
  • Album:
    Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
  • Track:
    Re-Entry to Mog

The BeeGees, Randy Newman, Paul Williams, Danny Elfman, Harry Nilsson, Prince, Jon Brion, Elliott Smith, Vince Guaraldi and Aimee Mann all spring to mind as examples of musicians who rose, very successfully, to the challenge of adapting their musical styles to film. There are also acts whose brushes with the screen yielded some of their weakest material (The Ramones, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Th...

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