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a top 5 list from KEXP's morning DJ--Jon. I know I've told you about KEXP but seriously listen. For Yourself and for the world around us. Together we can make the world a better place. Let's start with Music. Thanks. Anyway here is the list:
The Top 5 Signs That Maybe the World Isn't Ending Soon
1.Michael Jackson is reported to possibly lose both the Beatles and his own music catalog. Not only would some of the greatest songs ever written be protected from any Jacko harm but someone could also get the rights to everything from Thriller as well. Hopefully Paul McCartney but most likely it'll be some smary company that will end up mashing up the two and we'll get Let It Be Beat It or something, thus sending us back towards the end of the world
2.The 2nd Season of Chappelle's Show is out soon on DVD AND the third season is half way through production. However, he's now clashing with the network and suffering from exhaustion....which if you look on the bright side of things will probably make him even more pissed and do an even better show. Although if you're making 50 million dollars how pissed can you be? Clickity Clack! Clickity Clack!
3.A man in West Virginia who goes by the name "Jesus Christ" is in a legal battle over his name. It seems he can't get a driver's licence with that name....which is smart thinking, 2nd coming of Christ...the rapture...all being held off by the West Virginia DMV. Nice work fellas! If anyone by the name of Beezlebub comes by make sure to hold him off as well.
4.Alarmed by the retreat of its Alpine glacier, a Swiss ski resort on Tuesday wrapped part of the shrinking ice-cap in a giant blanket in a bid to reduce the summer melt. See, I was worried about global warming but really we just need some blankets to toss on the ice caps. Some would call this a quick fix and not a solution to the problem. Those people would be right actually. Crap.
5.Sonics stars are injured, go down a game to the Spurs and the M's blow this year. If any of the major Seattle teams win something, the end is near. 1979, remember that year? Life wasn't worth living.
I got this on tinymixtapes.
Kill Me Now: Damon Albarn threatens to assist ValKilmer on record
Why why why why why??! Why do film stars try theirhands at releasing albums and touring? Can't they just make a demo on their home 24-track and keep it tothemselves? So you're famous, perhaps attractive, andcan sing or play guitar. Maybe it's just a vanity project and you're really vain; we get it. But nobodycares! Ever hear of overexposure?! Do you really wantto be the next Dogstar or Thirty Odd Foot of Grunt?!Is your memory so short that you've forgotten David Cassidy, Don Johnson, and Bruce Willis??!! The onlyremotely successful forays seem to be when the star inquestions gives up on it really early before itbecomes parody (see Jason Schwartzman), or when thestar embraces their own ineptitude with a sense of kitsch and irony (see Pat Boone or William Shatner).So what the fuck gives!?
The latest celeb to make a bid for this dubious kindof infamy is Val Kilmer. That's right. The Icemancometh. And he's asked Damon Albarn for help with therecord. Albarn's generally got his plate full withGorillaz and Blur, but after meeting at a party,Kilmer reportedly told him "I feel I've got an album in me based on my life, and you're the only man on this planet who can make it happen for me." GivenKilmer's reputation, we hope Albarn has an abundanceof patience. Yeah, we know you sang a lot of thetracks rather than using overdubs in The Doors. Maybeyou're just trying to make us forget Batman Forever.Maybe you think you're the next Vanilla Iceman.Actually, if that's the case, go ahead and entertain us. We can't wait to be rocked To The Extreme.
Brian Wilson Records Holiday Album
It's not even Memorial Day yet, but Brian Wilson isalready dreaming of a white Christmas.
After recording a handful of Christmas songs with TheBeach Boys, Brian Wilson has laid down the tracks forhis first solo holiday album. The album, What I ReallyWant for Christmas is scheduled for an Oct. 18release, so you’ll be able to treat trick-or-treatersto some new Wilson tunes.
A pair of originals, the title track and“Christmasey,” appear on the album, as well as a pairof classic Beach Boys holiday hits, “The Man with Allthe Toys” and “Little Saint Nick.” Wilson devotes thebulk of What I Really Want, however, to traditionalyuletide tunes.
What I Really Want for Christmas’s track listing is:
What I Really Want for Christmas
Christmasey
Little Saint Nick
The Man With All the Toys
The First Noel
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Oh Holy Night
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Auld Lang Syne
Deck The Halls
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
http://www.aversion.com
Flaming Lips to Appear on Queen Compilation
Nick Patch reports:
It appears that the Flaming Lips are either super-duper enigmatic or cash-grubbing whores. Heck,maybe it's both! Fresh off an uninspired appearance onthe Spongebob soundtrack, the Lips have opted to cover"American Idol" killer "Bohemian Rhapsody" for an upcoming Queen tribute record. Finding a solid tracklist or release date for the record has proved difficult, and Hollywood Records didn't return our phonecalls (it's still mad because we took its sexy-girlfriend out after they broke up), but various news releases from the past six months have indicated Nickelback, the Used, and Sum 41 are all recording Queen covers; whether those bands will be sharing liner-note space with the Flaming Lips remains to be seen.
The band has a résumé full of well-executed covers(Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" comes to mind), so singer Wayne Coyne is confident. "No one wanted to do 'Bohemian Rhapsody'," Coyne told NME.com."At first we didn't either...We took it to task,knowing that when people think of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'they think of this huge overblown thing with the weird vocal swirls and backwards bits going on. I think we nailed it and made it a little more sad. We put a big operatic flourish in the middle just to make it alittle more Flaming Lips-ish."
Coyne also told NME that the new Lips album, At WarWith the Mystics should be released in January 2006.In the interim, Bradley Beesley's documentary about the band, The Fearless Freaks, is playing in a few theatres scattered across the United States. The movie will be released on DVD on May 18, complete with an extra disc of outtakes, deleted scenes, bonus livefootage, and some pictures.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com
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