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December 8, 2007 • 5:45 am 2
Dave’s favorite youtube video ever.
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December 6, 2007 • 1:59 am 1
Irvine Welsh on Prague Writers´ Festival
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November 30, 2007 • 4:43 am 0
dead. Bang your head…
Kevin DuBrow, the lead singer of Quiet Riot, who died Sunday at age 52, will be remembered as a guy who was in the right place at the right time, with the right song. The place was the Sunset Strip; the time was late summer, 1983; the song was “Cum On Feel the Noize,” a raucous party tune originally recorded by British glam-rockers Slade, which Quiet Riot inflated into the anthem that first took pop-metal to the top of the Billboard charts. Quiet Riot distilled the pop-metal formula, toning down the darkness and nihilism of progenitors like Black Sabbath while preserving the decibel levels, adding poodle hair, spandex, gratuitous guitar histrionics, lots of salaciousness, and, above all, melody. Other, better bands—Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi—would ride the tide to superstardom, but Quiet Riot got there first, when “Cum On Feel” propelled the band’s third album, Metal Health, to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200, for one week exactly, in November of ‘83.
[read the whole sordid tale: here.]
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November 24, 2007 • 2:38 am 0
Dee Dee Ramone Hops Around…
In his time away from the Ramones, Dee Dee was a quintessential bohemian-artist; his writing, music and paintings flowered through a number of smaller presses, labels and galleries. His working style seems to have been quite fitting for his role as a godfather of punk. Probably, it will be many years — if ever — before we know of the true range of his creativity.
(Dee Dee Ramone with his band Spikey Tops appeared on Local Live Licks with Uncle Floyd in April of 1991.)
(Of course, when you’re a musical genius you are bound to have a few missteps.)
Of course, the style of punk rock that he helped invent was his mainstay; ’till the end he maintained that characteristic pop-iness and humor that made the bruthas so lovable in the first place.
(Ramones rehearse Judy Is A Punk at Arturo’s loft in 1975.)
Throughout his life, it was no secret that Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction. But he was always up front about it, a fact that gave his struggle a heroic quality.
From Wikipedia:
Under the name Dee Dee Ramone, Colvin wrote two books: Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones (aka Lobotomy) and Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001. Both were released as “non-fiction” autobiographies, despite the fact that “Legend of A Rock Star” features a sequence in which Dee Dee murders a border guard.
Dee Dee also penned a novel, titled Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City’s famous Chelsea Hotel and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. In the book, Dee Dee is visited by Sid, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan.
Dee Dee’s last days were spent in LA with his wife Barbara:
(Of course, when you move to LA, there is always the danger that you might end up in a movie with Corey Feldman and Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf.)
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November 13, 2007 • 11:59 am 0
I’m moving back to Erie, and I’m gonna get my cut.
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities into his downtown office for one-on-one meetings to personally deliver the news. Nearby, on a small table, sat a box of tissues.
And then he proceeded: A donor had given a staggering $100 million to the Erie Community Foundation, and all of the charities would receive a share.
That was when the tears began to flow — and the mystery began — in this struggling old industrial city of 102,000 on Lake Erie, where the donor is known only as “Anonymous Friend.”
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Each of the charities will get about $1 million to $2 million. The recipients include a food bank, a women’s center, a group for the blind and three universities.
The city — and the entire county of 280,000 — could clearly use the money.
Erie was once a bustling iron and steel town, and later also made machinery, plastics, paper and furniture. But many factories eventually closed or moved overseas. The paper mill, which employed more than 2,000 people in the 1950s, shut down in 2002 after more than 100 years in business.
The city has a growing service industry and has tried to remake itself as a tourist destination with a new slots casino. But its poverty rate is about 19 percent, or twice the national average, median household income is $31,196, versus $48,451 nationally, and as of 2006, it had an estimated 400 homeless people.
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November 2, 2007 • 5:29 pm 0
Jimmy Cliff, eat yer heart out…
oh. my. god.
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November 1, 2007 • 11:01 pm 1
Masturbation: Public Enemy #1…
This page is dedicated to exposing the REAL Number One Public Health Problem in America today: Masturbation.
Myth: There are bigger problems than Masturbation, like drugs and AIDS.
Reality: Experts estimate that there are at least 150,000 Americans masturbating RIGHT NOW! Masturbation costs American businesses at least $3.14 billion in lost productivity every month!
Myth: Masturbation is a “Victimless Crime.”
Reality: Theological experts on Masturbation have come to the conclusion that Masturbation is what is known as a “gateway” sin. This means that Masturbation leads to more serious offenses. In fact, practically all rapists, Sodomites, child molesters and pornography addicts started out as Masturbators.
Myth: But everyone’s doing it!
Reality: Surveys have repeatedly shown that up to 5% of Americans don’t Masturbate.
…from TrueChristian.com
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