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Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

The lights are all blinking red.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

No one could have predicted…

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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  1. 1.

    Ash

    Wicked Games is the only Chris Isaak song I actually know. MTV probably played the shit out of it cause it’s one of the sexiest music videos ever made in the history of music videos.

  3. 3.

    Ben

    Maybe this is part of the joke, we all know why this video or the video for “Bad Bad Thing” was played all the time, but your embedded video does not have the actual singing. I’m not sure if that is Chris Isaak, but normally it isn’t awful and near to breaking.
    Also, this song is ordinarily ok, but I much prefer “Bad Bad Thing,” which is a bit more rocking. This song is Isaak trying to be Roy Orbison, which is not something that is going to turn out well.

  4. 4.

    Will

    “Eh. He has an appeal to a certain demographic. Not mine.”

    You do realize that’s not actually Chris Isaak? This is.

    Apparently, Youtube has allowed the record label to disable the sound while leaving the video. The Internet swarm has responded accordingly.

  5. 5.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Will: I didn’t even listen to the video. I just don’t care for Chris Isaak–thus, the “not mine” comment.

  6. 6.

    Jess

    I saw him quite a bit in SF in his early days as he was developing his act–a friend of mine was dating his bass player–and while his recordings always seemed a bit too bland to me, his live shows were always great. Much more campy and theatrical, and just a lot of fun.

  8. 8.

    Nylund

    For a second there I was thinking, “were the vocals really this bad? Was I really that much in the throes of puberty to have watched this video so many times?”

    But, I actually like Chris. He played a Federal Agent in Twin Peaks (albeit, Fire Walk with Me), so that gets him points in my book.

  9. 9.

    Jess

    He played a Federal Agent in Twin Peaks

    And a clown assassin in “Married to the Mob”!

  10. 10.

    AhabTRuler

    And a clown assassin in “Married to the Mob”!

    Now I hate and fear clowns as much as the next guy (my orthodontist loved ’em, how do you think that worked out?), but I question that there are enough clown assassinations to keep a specᶖậlist in business.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good. I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.

    Har-de-har-har. It is a time-honored tradition in rock music to pepper your videos with hot models. Practically a requirement, actually.

    And, c’mon, the entire history of rock music is practically a monument to one-hit wonders. Which is why you can find at least one good song from almost anybody, even someone you hate..

    Speaking of which, I can almost hear the Bakersfield sound from here.

    Yeah, I can hear Bakersfield.

  12. 12.

    Colette

    I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.

    I assume this is an ironic statement, but just in case: because he’s HOTT.

    And thank G-d, on the internet, no one can see you drool.

  14. 14.

    Will

    I remember Isaak being really funny in interviews. I wonder what he is doing nowadays?

  15. 15.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Re: “I assume this is an ironic statement, but just in case: because he’s HOTT.”

    MTV gave Chris Isaac time because he told the women what they wanted to hear, in the medium and image in which they wanted to experience it. Girls just want to have fun, you know. They then bought soap, and telephone services, and feminine hygiene products from MTV.

    This would not be allowed in Islamic societies, which is probably a positive. There music is forbidden. But if the Muslim decision-makers did allow exceptions for music behind closed doors, it would probably be umpah bands, which I like. Chris Isaac sucks.

  16. 16.

    wasabi gasp

    It is a time-honored tradition in rock music to pepper your videos with hot models. Practically a requirement, actually.

    No shit.

  17. 17.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Steeplejack

    Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good. I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.
    Har-de-har-har. It is a time-honored tradition in rock music to pepper your videos with hot models. Practically a requirement, actually.

    Wait, are you saying that the women in the Addicted to Love video were just eye-candy and weren’t actually Robert Palmer’s backup band?

  19. 19.

    Old Gringo

    According to Wiki

    “Isaak is also an amateur boxer, a former Golden Gloves champion and an avid surfer. He is a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Extra.

    The Biography Channel will air The Chris Isaak Hour, a music interview and performance show. The series premiere will feature Trisha Yearwood, and will include the first ever performance of “Breaking Apart”, a duet from Isaak’s new album, Mr. Lucky. Additional guests include Stevie Nicks, Smashing Pumpkins, Chicago, Glen Campbell, Michael Buble, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), and Jewel.”

    What wiki doesn’t tell you is that he is often surfing off Ocean Beach in SF.

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack

    Jesus, I just clicked the video link at the top. Dude, that is some seriously suckolicious audio.

    I have already defended Chris Isaak. Now I must retaliate with Radney Foster.

    If you want dorkish country vocals and crunchy guitars, I will bury you! That is all. I even like the stuff.

  21. 21.

    Old Gringo

    It is a time-honored tradition in rock music to pepper your videos with hot models. Practically a requirement, actually.

    Wile E. Quixote, I hate to be the one to tell you there is no Santa Claus, but if they can play instruments, well, then I’m Miss USA (with brains).

    Addicted to Love:

    VH1’s Pop-up Video trivia about the video include the fact that a musician was hired to teach the models basic guitar fingering techniques, but “gave up after about an hour and left”. The episode also pointed out several choreographical errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no backbeat, such as the second chorus.

  23. 23.

    tammanycall

    Depending on the year we’re talking about MTV might not have had that many videos to put into rotation. Plus use your eyes, dude, he’s mad hot. That, the models in the vid, and the Twin Peaks connection is more than enough justification.

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    Wait, are you saying that the women in the Addicted to Love video were just eye-candy and weren’t actually Robert Palmer’s backup band?

    I already link to Kim every time the whitey tapes are mentioned, now I have to continue to spread the word of Ciccone Youth here:
    youtube.com/watch?v=zLQmCLpm_RE

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    Wait, are you saying that the women in the “Addicted to Love” video were just eye-candy and weren’t actually Robert Palmer’s backup band?

    No, those girls are totally playing those instruments! You can see by watching their hands. Watch their hands! Watch their hands!

  26. 26.

    tammanycall

    Oh, and Stormy Daniels’ exploratory committee has a website:
    teamstormy.com/
    It is possible to join the Team Stormy email list. I wonder if Vitter’s on it…

  27. 27.

    asiangrrlMN

    Chris Isaak is not hot. This is hot.

    Ok, no, he’s not, but this video cracks me up every time I see it because it’s so damn cheesy.

  29. 29.

    Mr Furious

    Gotta disagree, Tim. Isaak’s actually very good. “Heart-Shaped World” “San Francisco Days” and “Forever Blue” are three excellent albums. He puts on a great live show (saw him in Central Park several years ago), and he IS a pretty funny guy.

    He also played a guard riding the elevator with Hannibal Lector in “Silence of the Lambs”.

    Good-looking, talented musician and songwriter with acting chops and a sense of humor? If his albums didn’t deliver the goods, he’s the kind of guy I’d be itching to hate.

  30. 30.

    wasabi gasp

    @MikeJ: Kim Gordon looks like Martha Stewart’s bad sister. Or, different kind of bad sister. Not federal prison bad.

  31. 31.

    kid bitzer

    so i just read bobo brooks’ new op-ed.

    he disagrees with cheney: obama is keeping us safe, and making us safer.

    but, brooks explains to us, (because he is a republican shill to the depths of his penny-loafered toes), this is really due to the fact that obama is doing exactly what bush was doing.

    after bush got rid of cheney’s evil influence, see. around 2004.

    after that, it was a kinder, gentler gitmo, from 2004 on. and that’s all obama is doing now.

    so you see? bush good! cheney bad! obama okay.

    i feel like puking after i read his columns. he is just as dishonest as cheney is–every sentence is a lie.

    still, he is also a reliable weathercock for a certain kind of d.c. conventional wisdom. so it’s interesting to see him siding with obama against cheney.

    and it will be interesting to see what the corner has to say about him tomorrow.

  32. 32.

    xyzzy

    Jesus!

    So John posts this:

    This is where a dozen of you armchair Eberts jam the comments with remarks that I have no taste, that so and so was a much better show and that it was first done in an obscure series that no one but someone really cool like you remembers, and that Southland really sucks.

    …to which Tim responds by preempting any armchair Eberts by pre-hating Chris Isaak.

    “I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.”

    Give the guy a break! I would submit that the cover you linked to is crap: the singer is trying to pretend to be Isaak, while the band is just putting a fluffy “modern” rhythms over the singer. Overall, it falls pretty far short of an improvement over the original. No matter what you think of Chris Isaak now, his debut was pretty impressive at the time — unlike this fairly crappy cover now.

  33. 33.

    MTiffany

    “I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.”

    Prominently featured half-naked model with big boobs and big pouty d*ck-suckin’ lips.

  34. 34.

    Ash

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t remember exactly when that video came out, but it’s hilarious/horrifying to think of that juxtaposed with all the 9/11 stuff that used “Hero” as a background song.

    Ahhh, such a long time ago. Jennifer Love Hewitt was actually semi-relevant!

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    @MTiffany:

    If you could, uh, reword that slightly, I think Camille Paglia has a slot for you in her next essay anthology.

  36. 36.

    tammanycall

    @kid bitzer:

    I don’t read Brooks, but from what you just said it sounds like what he’s doing is siding w/ Bush, and attempting to separate Bush from Cheney in the public’s mind.

  38. 38.

    kid bitzer

    #35–

    yup, i think that’s about right. unlike the cornerites, he thinks that cheney’s reputation is toast, permanently.

    but he thinks that the bush family crime syndicate will continue to have some clout for the foreseeable future, so he’s sucking up to them.

    plus, he figures he worked hard enough lying for bush for eight years that his own reputation is involved in propping up bush’s reputation.

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    @xyzzy: Before you give yourself a heart attack, I am pretty sure Tim F. was deadpan joking about the whole thing.

    Ash, so that WAS Jennifer Love Hewitt. Thought so.

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Jesus, you’re still up?! Even I’m going to bed, and I’m the king of the night owls and the baddest of the bad late-night thread-killers. Plus I have to be at work at 8:30 a.m. Ngrr!

  41. 41.

    Colette

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Hottt models:
    youtube.com/watch?v=7AY88BQZWos

    * *dies and is dead *

    Andy Bell. So, so hot. Isaak makes me drool, but Bell makes me melt. Proof, if any more were needed, that lust has no logic.

    And having seen Isaak either perform or surf live a number of times, I can second all the comments that he’s funny and talented and real live and in person.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Yeah. I took a nap. Now I can’t sleep. Good luck with the early, early shift!

    Colette, no kidding on the Andy Bell front. I have a thing for gay men. Ask my fake hubby, Tattoosydney. Sigh.

  47. 47.

    Evans

    As I remember when he first came on the scene it was rumored that all the band mates met in prison. There was a mystique about his good looks and criminal past. And also there was a time where the song “Don’t Make Me Dream About You” was the most requested song across the US,, or something to that effect.
    As so often the artists first releases were an accumulation of life experiences reflected in song, but then disappears in a money pit of pop.

  49. 49.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @asiangrrlMN

    @Wile E. Quixote: I left you a comment on the faceless bureaucracy thread.

    I saw that, thank you.

    Wile E. Quixote, I hate to be the one to tell you there is no Santa Claus, but if they can play instruments, well, then I’m Miss USA (with brains).

    WHAT?! You’re not Miss USA? Wait, does this mean then that Tattoosydney isn’t really Hugh Jackman?

  51. 51.

    Michael D.

    I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play

    I’ve only been in the US for 10 years, so I have to ask…

    MTV once played music?

  52. 52.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Michael D.

    I’ve only been in the US for 10 years, so I have to ask…
    MTV once played music?

    Yeah, they did once, but if you ask them about it now they get all evasive and say that they were just experimenting and that it was just a phase that they were going through.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    @Michael D.:

    Tis true. In fact, MTV was primarily responsible for unleashing Duran Duran to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world.

  58. 58.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    Wait, does this mean then that Tattoosydney isn’t really Hugh Jackman?

    @Tattoosydney

    Hah! I wish.

    Oh yeah. How do we know you’re not Hugh Jackman? I’ve never seen the two of you together in the same place at the same time. I think that you need to show us your certificate of live birth to prove that you are in fact not Hugh Jackman and put these doubts to rest.

  64. 64.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: Yup, really. He seems like a nice chap, and I wouldn’t mind being friends with him (or hooking up. He does have a nice body), but he’s not my type.

    Um, Hugh is not gay as far as I know. So, you wouldn’t be with your hubby, now would you, if you were Hugh?

  65. 65.

    Michael D.

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I never would have guessed that you had a thing for gay men!

    I never would have guessed that there’d be as many pathetic people like me up at 3-4am commenting on Balloon-Juice!

  70. 70.

    Shalimar

    Chris Isaak writes sex music. Slow, sensuous, puts most women in the mood and keeps them there for a long, long time. You have to listen to San Francisco Days or Forever Blue in their entirety to get the full effect. Being forced to listen to the same 3 minutes over and over again like MTV did to Wicked Game would make any song suck.

  73. 73.

    asiangrrlMN

    And, I bet you can’t guess who is hottest.

    Tattoosydney, have I gobsmacked you with my lack of love for Hugh Jackman?
    Damn. Stupid. Moderation.

  74. 74.

    Michael D.

    Off topic – but a couple days ago, I made reservations on Priceline for a trip to Hawaii for my partner and me. Today, he realized I made the outbound trip for June 19th, when I was SUPPOSED to make it for the 20th. So I called Priceline, and they completely refunded the trip and told me to go back in and re-do it.

    Nothing to it.

    I remember a few years ago you could fuck up on Priceline and they would charge you out the wazoo for a change to your itinerary.

    Good customer service today. Just thought I would pass that along.

    And, while we’re on Country Music, @Steeplejack. Dwight Yoakam.

    Anything by him is good. Although he always looks stoned out of his head.

    Bad live version of “Inside the Pocket of a Clown” But best I could find.

  75. 75.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Michael D.: That’s cool of them. I think it’s because of the recession and the realization that people are pretty damn sick and tired of rude service. Is Hawaii a business trip or for fun?

    I don’t do clowns. They scare the crap out of me.

    Awright. It’s truly bedtime for me. Night, all! Don’t trash the joint in my absence.

  76. 76.

    Michael D.

    @asiangrrlMN: I just checked the moderation queue, and there are no comments from you in it.

    BTW, we should totally “gay up” Balloon Juice and hijack every thread with hot guys. Where to begin….

    We can start with a plain old Google search for “Hot Guys”

    Or…

  77. 77.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    Oh yeah. How do we know you’re not Hugh Jackman?

    @Tattoosydney

    Because if I was then every single post of mine would be prefaced by the words “OH. MY. GOD. I’m Hugh Jackman.”
    No scratch that. If I were Hugh Jackman I would be spending way too much time in my bedroom to be bothered posting on here.

    So if you were Hugh Jackman you’d feel about yourself the way that John Oliver feels about Hugh Jackman.

  81. 81.

    sheiler

    “Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good.”….

    I totally beg to differ. Chris Isaak has mad vocal chops. I love his singing.

    Don’t hate him because he’s beautiful.

  82. 82.

    Digital Amish

    Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good. I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.

    Don’t know alot of Isaak’s work. But the first time I heard ‘Wicked Game’ I thought he was Roy Orbison reborn. Anyone that can sound like Roy has at least one marketable skill in my book.

    BTW, whoever it was that recommended “Honk” a couple of months ago, thanks. Finally arrived from Amazon yesterday. After first listen I can tell it will go into regular rotation on the ‘pod.

  84. 84.

    Krista

    Mmm…Hugh Jackman. Thank you for linking those pics, Tattoosydney. That made my morning — Jackman is infinitely lickable.

  85. 85.

    geg6

    Chris Isaak is awesome. Gorgeous, funny, and one of the best live acts evah. Mmmmmmm, Chris Isaak. As for Hugh Jackman? Barf. That is all.

  86. 86.

    R-Jud

    @Tattoosydney:

    I was sensing a pattern until I got to Alan Rickman.

    You’re not implying that there’s something… wrong with Alan Rickman, are you? Other than perhaps his recent taste in film projects?

    asiangrrlMN, I will fight you for him.

  87. 87.

    R-Jud

    @Krista: So I was stressing over my work planner the other day, thinking how post-pregnancy work is much worse even than pre-pregnancy work, and I thought, “I wonder how that lady Krista is doing with her maternity leave pile-on?” (Sorry for the double post, couldn’t edit the above).

  89. 89.

    Tattoosydney

    @R-Jud:

    You’re not implying that there’s something… wrong with Alan Rickman, are you?

    By no means. Even (especially?) as Snape he’s sexy.

    It was more that it went:
    1. Cool black action man.
    2. Beefy dark action man.
    3. Beefy dark, Samoan footballer.
    4. Alan Rickman.

  93. 93.

    Tattoosydney

    My god. I’ve just looked properly at the Pamela Anderson ad that everyone is complaining about – where the hell does that extra arm come from? or worse, go to?

  94. 94.

    MikeJ

    My god. I’ve just looked properly at the Pamela Anderson ad that everyone is complaining about

    I’ve gone out of my way to load the site in browsers that don’t block javascript and still have never seen it. I just get ads for processing credit cards.

  95. 95.

    geg6

    Our new president is too cool for school. As John mentioned yesterday, the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers were welcomed to the White House to celebrate their most awesome Super Bowl win. Instead of the usual photo op, the Commie-in-Chief put them to work packing care packages for the troops. They packed over 3000 boxes for our people in Afghanistan. He also welcomed local injured soldiers and 3 cops who were herioc during the Richard Povlowski rampage. All chipped in to pack boxes, too. Even Dan Rooney was packing away. All were laughing and working and happy to have been put to work instead of snapping posed pics and getting pats on the head. Now that’s some change I can believe in.

  96. 96.

    Tattoosydney

    @MikeJ:

    I’ve gone out of my way to load the site in browsers that don’t block javascript and still have never seen it. I just get ads for processing credit cards.

    I don’t mind the ads, and frankly if John can make money out of Pam getting her bits out on his site, then she can do it all she wants. It’s just that the photo makes me thing of Escher, rather than sex.

  97. 97.

    Krista

    @Krista: So I was stressing over my work planner the other day, thinking how post-pregnancy work is much worse even than pre-pregnancy work, and I thought, “I wonder how that lady Krista is doing with her maternity leave pile-on?” (Sorry for the double post, couldn’t edit the above).

    Some days are good, some days are bad. Now that we’re starting to get into conference mode, it’s actually good, because it makes me more focused, and I have two or three big tasks to deal with, instead of 20-30 bullshit little tasks that all have to be done yesterday.

    But that could all change. I think now that I’m really showing a lot more, the bosses are starting to accept reality.

  98. 98.

    Old Gringo

    Isaak Schmisaak. I know a gal who was in a rather torrid affair with him – until he dumped her. She used to call him Baby Huey because she thought he looked like Baby Huey.

    Gentleman, (and ladies), start your engines.

    And yes, that is the voice of Robin Leach at the beginning.

  99. 99.

    r€nato

    This guy has my vote:

    WESTERLY, R.I. – A Rhode Island Democratic lawmaker says he’ll donate $100 to charity for every second former President George W. Bush withstands waterboarding.

    State Rep. Rod Driver also included former Vice President Dick Cheney and ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in his offer. He sent letters to all three.

    Bush’s administration allowed the interrogation technique, which simulates drowning, to be used on terror suspects. Driver says that, if Bush is so confident it isn’t torture, he should try it for himself. His offer was first reported Thursday in The Westerly Sun.

  100. 100.

    r€nato

    @geg6:

    So what was the deal with that Steeler whose name I shall never mention because he’s the douche who ran back the fumble 100 yards at the end of the 1st half, costing the Cardinals their Cinderella happy ending?

    He refused to attend because Obama was “only” having the Steelers there because they won the Super Bowl, and if the Cardinals had won then he would have had them instead.

    Really. That was his reasoning. Is he just a massive tool or was there another ‘real’ reason?

  102. 102.

    Tom

    I like Chris Isaak. His best album, IMHO, is San Francisco Days. His Showtime show was pretty great too.

  103. 103.

    Krista

    This is the mostest perfectest p0rn name EVAH.

    Now, how did I know you’d be the first one to pick up on that? ;)

  106. 106.

    burnspbesq

    @Digital Amish:

    Actually, Raul Malo is Roy Orbison reborn. Listen to “I Should Have Been True” from the Mavericks’ “Oh What a Thrill” album. Uncanny.

  107. 107.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    I’m with the Isaak fans. I much preferred the performance video for that song rather than the beach video, though… and of course the one at the top of the thread has had the audio replaced by some rank amateur on youtoob.

    I’m a guitarist, like to work that vein (and other more rock and roll sorts of things… play locally in the SE Ontario market: myspace.com/wetheones) and the guitar in that song is killllller. Love It.

  108. 108.

    kid bitzer

    what’s all this ‘roy orbison reborn’ crap?

    you guys talk as though roy orbison could die. this is blasphemy.

  109. 109.

    burnspbesq

    Even if everything else he ever did was crap (which it isn’t), Chris Isaak would be going to heaven for “Pretty Girls Don’t Cry” and “Can’t Do a Thing.”

  110. 110.

    Dennis-SGMM

    @Punchy:
    In my machinist days our shop was visited by a tool salesman named Rod Glidewell. That is the most perfectest pornstar name.

  111. 111.

    gbear

    Actually, Raul Malo is Roy Orbison reborn.

    Raul has a great crooner voice, but he doesn’t quite go to the desperately paranoid extremes that made some of Orbison’s songs so memorable.

    I love the Mavericks. I saw them play on one of the free stages at the MN state fair right as ‘Oh What A Cryin’s Shame’ was breaking bigtime. They played three great shows over the course of the day and every one was completely different (a lot of acts just repeat their sets without any variation) and they were playful enough that they could find a way to slip Lennon’s ‘Give Peace A Chance’ into a medley.

  112. 112.

    The Other Steve

    I’m a Chris Isaack fan. His music rocks.

    But I must say even though I have 3 to 4 of his albums I do not have San Francisco Days and this makes me sad and must be corrected.

  113. 113.

    Adrienne

    In my machinist days our shop was visited by a tool salesman named Rod Glidewell.

    The best part about that is that he sells TOOLS. Tee hee hee. {insert school girls giggles here}

  114. 114.

    OriGuy

    Discworld plot point.

    I question that there are enough clown assassinations to keep a specᶖậlist in business.

    Discworld plot point.
    Whitface Bozokiller of the Assassins’ Guild.

  115. 115.

    The Other Steve

    Tim F. really shouldn’t comment on music. He still thinks being Rick Rolled is a good thing.

  116. 116.

    geg6

    Renato: Word is that big, bad James Harrison is a WATB when it comes to flying. So he uses these kinds of insane excuses when he’s not required to attend. He’s not copping to it, but that’s seems to be the consensus of the sports insiders around here.

  117. 117.

    Digital Amish

    Actually, Raul Malo is Roy Orbison reborn. Listen to “I Should Have Been True” from the Mavericks’ “Oh What a Thrill” album. Uncanny.

    You guys are killing me. I’m d/l ing “I Should have Been True” from itunes right now, I’m stopping at the book store to pick up a Terry Pratchett book on the way to my Memorial Day beach weekend as I listen to Honk on the drive out.

    Damn you Juicers and your cursed reccomendations!
    /Jon Stewart impersonation

  120. 120.

    Stooleo

    Ha! that is so awesome. Its like saying the band KISS sucks and then putting up this as your proof. Full of win!

  121. 121.

    Laura W

    @Digital Amish:

    as I listen to Honk on the drive out.

    This Honk?

    I ordered it on March 12 and it came this week. It was the soundtrack to my final year at UCSB. I have not heard those songs for nearly 30 years. I put it in as I began a 35 min drive up a gorgeous, windy mountain road, opened the sunroof, and I swear to God, I smiled the whole way up the hill. I felt like such a goofy maroon, but what fun. Listened to it all again coming back down. What a sensation, to know lyrics and melodies on such a visceral level without exposure to them for so long. Like catching a whiff of a fragrance that reminds you of Grandma’s lingerie drawer when you were very young.

    Honk is playing at Dana Point on July 19. I hope NedR goes and reviews it. I’d die to be there.
    (Last time I brought Honk up here people thought I meant a play or something? I thought Iowa Housewife and I were the only people here who remembered Honk, but for some West Coast surfers for the 5 Summer Stories soundtrack.)

    I wanna do for you
    I wanna do for you!

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    Digital Amish

    Laura W

    Yeah that Honk. I’d never heard of them before (it now is established) you mentioned them in a thread a couple of weeks ago. It sounded like something I might like so I ordered it from Amazon. So after plunking down 30 bucks (what’s up with that!) and waiting three weeks for delivery it came yesterday. It was not a dissapointment. Thanks for bringing them up.

    In that vein, they remind me in a way of ‘Donna the Buffalo’ and ‘Big Leg Emma’. Two groups who have some good shows for free from archive.org/. Search their live music section. Good stuff.

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    Digital Amish

    @burnspbesq:

    re. Raul Malo. Good call. Isaak and Mala aside, something about Orbison’s voice on a plaintive love song brings a tear to my eye quicker that anyone else.

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    asiangrrlMN

    @Michael D.: The moderation wouldn’t let me post all my hot choices in one post. Too much hotness, I guess. If we are gonna post pics of hot guys, I’m gonna post pics of hot gals, too.

    @Tattoosydney: I have very prolific taste in hot people, but Alan Rickman is my ultimate obsession. His hotness comes from within. (Plus, I have a thing for Brits and Aussies). Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Dame Mirren, Margaret Cho, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, David Thewlis, Jason Isaacs (yes, I watch the Potter movies as porn), Susan Sarandon, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Lawless…just to name a few.

    @R-Jud: I don’t fight pregnant women. That would be just mean. I am willing to share–no, wait, I am not. You’ll have to pry him from my cold, dead fingers!

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    R-Jud

    @asiangrrlMN: I am not pregnant anymore. I also bet that I can outrun you. And even though I have a Brit of my very own (licensed and everything!) I am not giving up The Rickman.

    Meow, hiss, etc.

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    Krista

    Ah shit, does that mean we have a three-way fight for Alan Rickman? I’m sure we can arrange some sort of time-share. After all, a little bit of Alan Rickman is certainly better than a whole lot of most other men.

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    R-Jud

    @Krista:

    Ah shit, does that mean we have a three-way fight for Alan Rickman?

    Damn. Dunno about you, asiangrrlMN, but I couldn’t fight Krista, even if she weren’t currently a Sacred Vessel of New Life.

    Fortunately, I live closer to him than y’all, and have a big head start.

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    Krista

    Damn. Dunno about you, asiangrrlMN, but I couldn’t fight Krista, even if she weren’t currently a Sacred Vessel of New Life

    I’d be very willing to share. I’m generous that way.

    I wonder if Alan Rickman knows what a sex symbol he is? A friend of mine once had drinks with him down at a pub in Dublin, and said he was very unassuming and an all-round lovely gent. Better her than me — after one pint I would have been shamelessly groping him.

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    asiangrrlMN

    @R-Jud: I just came back because I remembered that you were not pregnant. Yes, you probably could outrun me, but he splits his time between England and CA, so I could get him here.

    @Krista: You’re pregnant. You cannot have him. My Alan Rickman, I make up the rules. And, holy shit! Your friend had a drink with him? I would have been a gibbering mess. I don’t usually mess around with taken people, but for him, I would definitely make an exception.

    I get the feeling that he’s quite bemused by his stardom, but that’s just me. Damn. Now I am thinking about him again.

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    Bubba

    Coming in late to this but….sorry Tim. Your cover sucks. Vocals poor, musicianship standard grunge like drone.
    Doesn’t even compare.
    Granted, I am an old guy, but Jez.
    I don’t have a problem with you dissing Chris Issac, but I believe the current response would be: “Don’t even bring that weak ass shit here”.

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