“As I went out one morning to breathe the air around Tom Paine’s,
I spied the fairest damsel that ever did walk in a new unlined demi with lace…” The times they are a-changin’, ’cause apparently Bob Dylan is now hawking Victoria’s Secret. Ah well, as the guy notes in this article, I’d rather have Dylan selling lingerie than the new BMW or something. In fact, this may even be a step up for the big fella after Masked and Anonymous.
Category: Music
Where my K-9s at?
So, I don’t know what’s stranger…the claim that P. Diddy, Snoop, and Jay-Z are allegedly donning rubber masks for the new Dr. Who revival on BBC, or the assertion that Diddy’s got a full-size gold-plated Dalek of bling. Puff Davros? Diddy Digs Daleks? I think somebody’s having me on. (By way of Triptych Cryptic.)
What’s taters, precious?
Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew…
The Gift of Music.
Want to send a singing telegram? Let them sing it for you, via Absolute Piffle. Mother, I regret I’m unable to come to your parrrrty…
The Towers are for Playas.
Smeagol and Gollum try their handseses on hip-hop. Can a collaboration with Pharrell be far behind? (Via Quiddity.)
Watercolor on Vinyl.
By way of Scrubbles, the Greatest Album Covers that never were, including Kurt Vonnegut’s Phish cover.
Endnotes.
TORN.net get the full version of Annie Lennox’s “Into the West,” soon to close a splendid fantasy trilogy at a theater near you. Those of you who found the Soundtrack.net excerpt to be a tad shrill will be happy to discover that that 30 seconds was the loudest part of the song. Also, in LotR news, I missed out on the TTT:EE Grand Central extravangaza yesterday, although it may have been just as well given some of the complaints coming in.
A Lament for the Third Age.
Eat your heart out, Glenn Yarbrough. Soundtrack.Net posts their review of the Return of the King score, complete with 30 second clips from each song. For the third time in a row, it sounds like Howard Shore hit it out of the park…I don’t think you can overestimate how much he’s improved these films with his work, particularly after you consider the pedestrian and distracting score of the new Matrix movies. If you’ve never read the trilogy and don’t know how it all ends, I wouldn’t click through. But if you have…some of these snippets are really beautiful and tantalizing (“Hope and Memory” and “Twilight and Shadow,” for example), and none more so than “The End of all Things” and “The Grey Havens.” The Annie Lennox song that closes the film isn’t exactly what I was expecting, to be honest, but I can see it growing on me.
Ages of You.
With the greatest hits tour coming to a close, the Times checks in with REM again. They must be getting sick of the “Over the Hill?” angle of all these stories by now.
Lyrics Carry.
By way of Cheesedip and Do You Feel Loved?, test your knowledge of 80’s lyrics. As a child of the Eighties, I got a 97.