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[kleenexwoman]

Sammi came back. The house is much louder and smells of smoke. The cats seem very happy.

The TV is back on. Seth and I mostly used the TV for Venture Brothers and the odd movie. I'm not used to having it constantly on anymore. :/ We were watching a VH1 special on Britney Spears. It reminded me of this poem:


Poem

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

--Frank O'Hara

Comments

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Are you old enough to even remember when VH1 used to be a music channel and not just a silly reality-show/celebrity/"I Love The . . ." network? Everyone always bitches about how MTV never shows videos anymore, and that's true, but they've always had some non-video content, and anyway there's always MTV2 for videos if you wanna pay for it. But once upon a time VH1 was almost nothing but videos. Not that I don't love "I Love The . . .", but it'd be nice to have some real music content once in awhile. They should just consolidate with E!. Call themselves "EH1!" and crossbreed their programming to make the ultimate crap network.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I actually like a lot of VH1's non-music programming--some of the reality shows are incredibly amusing (far more so than MTV's), and the pop culture retrospectives are gold. I could watch that shit all day. I'd love to see them become sort of a pop-culture version of the History Channel, cataloguing and analyzing moments of cultural ephemera from the past.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

It's Warhol's vision collasping in on itself. They used to have Moon Unit Zappa and Sheryl Crow and . . .

god love/bless/hate corporatemediaincest.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

but music videos are boring :(

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

But c'est la'vie. (http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season11/laughter2.mp3)

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

For a moment there I thought yr userpic was Page & Plant . . . weird brain, I heff . . .

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

That doesn't even look like them. It's Jean Baudrillard being a rock star.

I think Jean might be a smidgen cooler.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

It kinda does . . . or maybe Coverdale/Page. *shudder* Let them never be spoken of again. (You're lucky you weren't yet fully aware of rock 'n roll in all its implications in the dark year of 1993.)

The French cannot rock. Germans, maybe, and I don't just mean Krautrock. The former Eastern Bloc, definitely. And there's awesome cool stuff coming outta the Levant.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

The year before Kurt Cobain died! I believe that was also the year I received my first ever own grown-up CD (as a present from my dad), which was by Ace of Base and which I still listen to on occasion.

Roma rock is the best rock. drworm recently got me listening to Gogol Bordello again.

The only French artist I really know of is SoKo, and she does clever little folk songs about cats, not rock. But oh, the cutest accent!

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

And Kurt OD'ed in Rome a months before he pulled the trigger.

I got my first CD in 1993: a bootleg of the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. At the time my father was still pulling the strings economically and and I couldn't get a CD player until I was sixteen.

Jonathan Richman (he of Modern Lovers fame; if you know him, you know this; if you don't, you'll love him) has a surpsiringly good following in France. Dunno why. Maybe they like geeky black-haired Jews likes him and Jerry Lewis.

[inkhornsybarite.livejournal.com]

jesus christ but i love frank o'hara.

and that's a salient parallel you did done draw thurr.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten how much I love this poem! Apparently he wrote it while on a ferry with Robert Lowell to go to some poet's convention, and it only took him about five minutes to write, and he read it there and people really liked it, and the fact that everyone loved a poem that O'Hara wrote in just five minutes got Robert Lowell incredibly pissed off because he was a nutcase. :D