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Cool
Album Covers
I
came across an amazing website dedicated to the
wonderful world of album cover art. Not the boring,
excellently designed covers, mind you. I'm talking
all out weirdness, albums that go beyond the realm
of "shouldn't have been made" into the
new dimension of "should never have given
it to my grandson to design the cover."
Show
and Tell Music is a self-proclaimed "orphanage
for thrift store music and album cover art."
In some cases there are even mp3s added to fully
round off your experience.
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| :: Wednesday, February
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FallsVUE?
I
guess I should welcome the folks over at the Fallsvue
group.
I've had an incredible increase in the amount
of visiters to my site and when I checked the
stats, well, they're all from there. I have a
feeling it has something to do with the banner
I created at the bottom of the homepage. For those
who don't know, all the banner ads that are on
my site proper (i.e. not the Geocities ads) are
created by me. I hope someone of the Fallsvue
group will drop an email
my way
so I can find out if the general response is good
or bad. So, if any of you who happen by...send
word.
For those of you who don't know of Peter
Greenaway's work I suggest you check out his
books, and movies.
Pepys
Blog
I'm
really enjoying the Samual Pepys blog that has
appeared lately on the web. I've always wanted
to read the book and haven't been able to find
a copy I'm happy with and along comes a web log
version. At one time I would have been a bit unsure
of a blog version of the Pepys diary but the layout
and references are really amazing. I suggest you
check
it out.
Yup
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| :: Monday, February 17,
2003 :: |
Who's
Bad?
For a couple of days there Michael Jackson was the
victim of a brutal hatchet job the likes of which
has not been seen since the discovery of the bodies
of Andrew and Abby Borden. I've never been a Jackson
fan, never owned a record, and would have been happy
to have been picked to yank tight the buckles on
the freak's straight-jacket before the "men
in white coats" took him away, but even I wasn't
sold by Bashir's public access quality interview.
The viewer-bating
voice-overs, the repeated incriminating
shots. It was so over-done that it had the reverse
effect that Bashir wanted, it turned Michael into
the victim. Thankfully Dateline NBC came forward
with Michael
Jackson Unmasked today and put him back, if
not on the FBI's top 10 offenders list, then back
to the level of say, "little old woman who
lives in a ginger-bread house" -- children
beware. Although the show had the look of a project
thrown together the night before, they did bring
forward interesting guests like Dr. Wallace Goodstein
(a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who shared a practice
with Jackson's primary plastic surgeon. Goodstein
believes Jackson has had well over 50 cosmetic surgeries
on his face and may have permanently damaged it),
retired LAPD detective Bill Dworin (a police detective
who personally investigated the sex abuse allegations
against Jackson and who gives details of what police
found in Jackson's home during the sex abuse investigation--
profiling stuff, but stuff that makes you
go hmm),as well as longtime friends Donald Trump
and Uri Geller (who bent no spoons during the telecast).
I
await Thursday for Michael's rebuttal to the Bashir
interview Michael
Jackson Take 2: The Interview They Wouldn't Show
You, which was shot by gay porn director F.
Marc Shaffel, who is a close friend of Jackson's.
Yes.
Oh, by the way on Joe
Millionaire, Evan chose Zora, she didn't care
that he was poor and as I predicted during the first
episode, they gave the couple one million dollars.
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| :: Sunday, February 16,
2003 :: |
Michael
the Freak?
I'm holding off commenting on the Bashir/Wacko Jacko
interview until Monday when they will be showing
hours more of footage of the Jackson "traffic
accident." When watching Living With Michael,
or whatever it was called, L and I had a lot of
problems with the way Bashir handled the editing
and voice-overs. And being that we are not fans
of the freak child that Jackson is, this says something.
The editing was so poorly handled as to make not
just us but many of the general public to wonder
what Bashir was trying to do. Oh Well.
In the meantime check out this hilarious story
on Blanket. Thanks to James
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| :: Sunday, January 26,
2003 :: |
Ch
Ch Ch Changes
I decided not to use the Blogger program for my
Jaw Wag anymore. This after much thinking and discussion
with L and our U.K. correspondents BKM World. With
no need to post from afar it makes more sense for
me to do my own home-made version here on my own
computer. Not to mention the control I have over
the archiving, design, illustrations and my new
marginalia area (which is to the right). The only
difference will be the addition of a comment link
(below) which is really just email; anyone can just
send their comment that way (the subject area will
contain the day and title of the comment you're
posting for) and I'll upload it that evening.
Unrelated, but yesterday was Rabbie
Burns Day and I had a link on the home page to my
favourite Rabbie
Burns song entitled A Man's a Man for A'
That (from 1795). While out to lunch with our
wonderful friend Jayne, she said she was going to
have a look at it. I may have taken it down before
she had a chance to see it so I'm also putting the
link here
just in case.
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| :: Monday, December 23,
2002 :: |
Joe
Strummer (1952 - 2002)
I received the news early this morning, just after
arriving at work. Joe Strummer is dead. When some
musicians die they are missed, a rare few are mourned.
Joe Strummer will be mourned. I don't know if his
passing will affect the music industry, I don't
know if his grave will attract hoards of broken-hearted
fans, I don't even know if there will be benefits
held in his honour—but for it all, there should
be. I will not be wearing a black ribbon around
my arm as certain friends did after John Lennon's
murder. I will not join hysterically gibbering crowds
like Cobain's fans. Mine is an empty grey sadness,
a knowledge of future silence, and an awareness
that the distance between us all has grown a little
wider as someone has gone. In the late 1970's I
found a tape lying on the street. It was an album
from a band called the Clash. Sure, the sound quality
was shot but it didn't matter, you couldn't conceal
the power, the songs, or that voice. Joe Strummer's
voice always sounded on the verge of cracking; it
lingered there. It was his work with the Clash that
will be remembered most dearly. They blended punk,
reggae, ska, rockabilly, world-beat rhythms, they
even experimented with rap. My love of ska and reggae
music arose directly from their covers of songs
like Willie Williams' Armageddon Time, Toots &
The Maytals' Pressure Drop and Junior Murvin's Police
and Thieves. I became obsessed with the band and
when it dissolved and the members went their own
ways I followed them all, slowly losing interest
in all but Joe. His taste in music is close to mine,
the songs he performed were songs I wanted to hear.
There was a time when I became preoccupied with
Desmond Dekkers' The Isrealites, I found out later
the Clash had covered it in 1983. I don't know why
I was even surprised—I mean, of course they
did! If you follow that inspired golden thread from
the early days with his band the 101ers; through
the Clash; his solo work; with the Pogues and onto
his work with the Mescaleros; you find a progression
of memorable songs performed by a man with a passion
for music. It is a sad day and I mourn the death
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"You shall see them on a beautiful
quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through
a meadow of margin."
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Robert
Burns (1759-1796) was born on 25th January, 1759 at
Alloway in Ayrshire, to William Burnes and Agnes (Bourn)
Burnes. The 'e' was not dropped from the family name until
after the father's death.
Rabbie had eleven children from a few different women.
He died from rheumatic fever on 21 July, 1796 at Dumfries
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| Joe
Strummer b. 21 August 1952. Strummer, one of the key
figures on the UK punk scene in the mid-70s, was born
John Graham Mellor, the son of a British diplomat stationed
in Ankara, Turkey. After a period spent busking in London,
the newly named Joe Strummer joined pub rock outfit the
101ers
in 1974. He stayed with this band for two years before,
inspired by a Sex Pistols show, he left to form The
Clash with Mick Jones and Paul Simonon. One of the
original UK punk bands, the Clash soon progressed beyond
the genre's limited range, embracing rock and reggae and
enjoying a series of transatlantic hit singles in the
late 70s and early 80s. |
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