Lou Reed opened WTC 7 yesterday, playing "Perfect Day" and "Sweet Jane." He also had this to say: "Have you seen John McCain's speech at the New School? He'll never get elected by anybody over sixth-grade education!" In other words, he'll win in a landslide.- Led Zeppelin were honored by the King of Sweden as "great pioneers" of rock music. I wonder if he and Prince Charles ever get into arguments about who is better, Zeppelin or Leonard Cohen.
- Before he died, John Peel was working on a collection of 78s. It's out now, and it's called John Peel and Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s.
- They Might Be Giants have ringtones, including the very funny "Call Connected Thru the NSA."
- Willie Nelson wants to tour with the Rolling Stones. I wonder if that's just the weed talking.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Lou Reed Spanks McCain, plus Zeppelin's Swede Soul Music, John Peel 78s, They Might Be Giants Take on NSA With Ringtone, Willie Nelson and the Stones?
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Oh, I kind of have a problem with Lou's foray into political judgements. I don't think his political evocations are anything more than a cursory dissmisive of the current neocon admininistration, without any backing of who or what he believes in. A criticism of his New York album years ago by a few writers was that he pointed out a lot of problems with the Big City/Social Issues, but never gave an indication of how to fix it. Rage at the machine, tear it down, and then what?
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