This is one of those films that you know kind of sucks but you still have to see. I usually hate spoilers, but I just have to say it: Frankie Avalon gets stabbed through his dick in this movie! There is a crotch stabbing, and the Big Kahuna gets it! And you also get to [...]
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The Haunted House of Horror
Posted in Albums, Bands, Celebrities, David Bowie, Ghosts, Movies on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gary Glitter will be released from prison tomorrow
Posted in Celebrities, David Bowie, Gary Glitter, Glam Rock, Performers on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gary Glitter’s finally getting out of jail for molesting an 11 and 12 year old girl.
The disgraced 1970s pop star, 64, is due to be released from a prison in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, and is expected to be deported to Britain.
I wish I could feel that Glitter had learned his lesson, but all signs point to [...]
Van Dyke Parks
Posted in Albums, Bands, Celebrities, David Bowie, Folk, Performers, Personal Shit, Religion, Songwriters, The Beach Boys, The Beatles on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been commissioned to write a review of Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, and I’m pretty stoked. This dude worked on Smile, which is one of my favorite albums of all time (and I own thousands). Most people put Pet Sounds in that category, but in my opinion, while Pet Sounds was a pioneering [...]
David Sanborn Marked For Death
Posted in Albums, David Bowie, Performers on January 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was listening to the David Bowie album David Live this morning, released in ‘74 during the Diamond Dogs/Thin White Duke era. While it’s interesting to hear Bowie in a live post-Spiders setting, singing with a soulful voice clearly ravaged by cocaine yet somehow earthy and even hopeful, I’m noticing that there is a hot, [...]
The Origin of Bowie’s Eye Patch?
Posted in David Bowie on January 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was reading more of these amazing Mirabelle magazine diaries of Bowie’s from the early-mid Seventies, and found what I thought was an amazing bit of Bowie trivia about the whys and wherefores of his famous eyepatch:
Well, I promised you last week that I would tell you about my recent trip to Amsterdam where I [...]
Little Drummer Boy
Posted in Celebrities, Christmas, David Bowie, Songwriters on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was getting a sandwich from the deli section of Whole Foods (literally standing behind the “making copies” guy, which was weird) when I realized that they were playing this Christmas ditty over the speakers:
I don’t know why this particular Bing Crosby/David Bowie song caught the public imagination so strongly (you [...]
