It’s My Two Cents: Yule, Iris, Long, Blogger, Cooper, Hitler, Vocoder
[admin / February 5th, 2010 / Young Bright Things ]
If you get the name of the person singing wrong in a song–Doug Yule, say, instead of Lou Reed–you do not get to write a poem about that song…An ex-friend just wrote a hate email to me, after I used a song we recorded at his house for the first version of my book trailer. Â In this email, he accuses me of stealing office supplies to point out how awful I am…If you want to see what the early 90s punk-hip hip-metalhead band scene looked like in Philadelphia, go to Dan Long’s Flickr page and watch the flannel fly…If you want to see a chick who can play guitar, look no further than Orianthi taking on Steve Vai in their “Highly Strung” duet…If the book title Introducing Empiricism strikes you as funny, then we have something in common…If you are upset that Blogger is discontinuing its FTP services, then we have another thing in common…
If you wonder why Alice Cooper isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Patty Smith is, then you should follow Bob Lefsetz…Why isn’t Nicky Katt working more, has leading man roles?  One of the best actors of our times, underused…I once prayed to God that “Radio Ga Ga” would crack the American top 20…There are three Hitler Downfall iPad mashups at the time of this writing… For the record, my favorite Hitler Downfall mashup lately is the one about the Phish Halloween cover album…No one will respond if you tweet at  McNally Jackson. So just do what I do and direct message them intimate secrets…
Unstable literary males who are online all the time are a particular breed. Of what, I have yet to determine…I want to go to Pittsburgh to see Donnie Iris live…He’s the guy who did “Ah Leah,” by the way…Here’s an orchestral version of that song, in case you needed to hear what that sounds like…And as an amuse bouche, let’s listen to King’s X…Does anyone really know what Harry Allen is fucking saying?…Friendster must have underwent a redesign…On my to-buy list: Dave Tompkins’ How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from Stalin to Frampton to Bambaataa. The title sounds out the phrase “how to recognize speech,” in case you were a bit slow, as your faithful columnist is…The Faster Times continues to impress me…
There’s Christine Hill, and then there are the other conceptual artists. Â Simple as that…A few months ago, I came to the minor revelation that Troy is a much hipper town than fellow New York State towns Albany and even Hudson; what with The Sanctuary for Independent Media and the Troy Waterfront Market, I just might up and move there…
Daniel Nester‘s latest book is How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of mostly humorous nonfiction. He teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Photo by Joe Putrock.
Are you thinking WHO LOVES THE SUN? from LOADED? I made the Yule-Reed error for a long time, there. And never wrote about it. I did write a song called REUNITE ON ICE, though, après BERLIN. And no, Reunite is not skating.
Yeah, I think I mentioned that because I made the same error for a long time. When I am in my Larry King character above, I make STATEMENTS. I love Reunite on Ice. That’s nice.