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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

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[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.