Ever since King Kong, I’ve had a soft spot for Jack Black, and his work on the cartoon episodes of King Fu Panda have only improved my opinion of him. Now he’s back with Kyle Gass, and a new Tenacious D album,
I like it so far. A good mix of rock and comedy, quickly witted yet still full of authentic growling guitars.
Culian Jope – An all-Julian-Cope-covers band. I’ll need a drummer, guitarist, bass player, and a real keyboarder. My simplistic tinklings would never do for playing out, and hopefully I’ll be busy as lead singer, naked in a tortoise shell.
Ok, we’ll do at least one Eurythmics cover too. And a Rolf Harris.
This morning, I’m eagerly refreshing my browser every few seconds, waiting for tickets to see Weird Al Yankovic, at the Seattle Symphony Hall, to go on sale. I get an email, it’s from the theater group I just did the exact same wait-for-10am-sale-start, for the Sinead O’Connor show, announcing that she has canceled her tour =( An hour later, I get an automated phone-call letting me know the same thing.
The conveniences of modern living, multiple ways to find out about the same disappointment.
Hope she feels better soon.
First Joan Rivers, and now Weird Al? Has the Seattle Symphony always been this cool, and I’ve just been unaware, or is this a sign of economic hardship, that they are booking more ‘pop’ acts out of desperation?
I can’t tell if United States of Electronica’s Vamos A La Playa is ‘set’ in Seattle, or if it’s just wishful-familiarity. They sing about
Alki
Golden Gardens
Madison Park
and
Lighthouse Beach
Is there another city that has all four of those features?
I noticed flyers yesterday, for an Our Lady Peace concert, at the Crocodile. It is the first band I’ve seen playing there, since they re-opened, that I would actually want to see. But the price is $30, and that’s just not going to happen. I don’t like them that much, for one thing, but more importantly, I can’t imagine any show that could fit into the Crocodile, that is worth $30. Maybe they really have spiffed things up enough inside to make it worth that sort of investment, but since they didn’t magically add 4,000 sq ft, I don’t see how.
There’s a distorting influence, within the realm of last.fm, if you are just about the only person who listens to a selection of musicians. The system marks them as similar, because you alone listen to them, even though there’s radical differences in actual style between the actual artists. So it’s amusing to see it say that Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a similar artist to Capone. I suppose they are both European.
There are many songs that I sing along to, yet never really listen to the lyrics all that closely, and so eventually discover I had a completely incorrect interpretation of the song. My understanding of the lyrics led me to think of this song as being about a closeted gay guy and his crush on his best friend.
I’d like to blame some of my confusion on originally hearing these songs on old school cassette tapes and my cheap-o boom box. I’d like to. But, “it’s palm sunday over and over”…well, I have little excuse =p
I have more than once, in the last week alone, noticed kids that probably weren’t even born yet when the album came out, wearing ‘home-made’ jean-jacket and cut-out t-shirt ‘patch’ combos of the iconic Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction
I’m guessing they must be selling them at whatever hot-topic-alike the metal kids go to these days. The question is, do they actually like the music, or just the fashion?