Spitball Army

Bette Davis, trapped behind a chalky white face of pancake makeup, gets about as much emotional mileage from her facial expressions as would a drunken mime.

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Oh, I forgot to mention that Ron played his own version of Nick Lowe’s “Where’s My Everything?” during his set. He said he’d asked Lowe if he would sing it, Nick told him it wasn’t on his list this tour, so Ron asked if he could sing it.

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This humorous bit of promotional “marketing” was uncovered over the past weekend inside an advance package containing the Bodies and Minds CD by Great Lake Swimmers.

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Joe Cocker sings for the clear-headed:

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Ed Harcourt will be performing on The Tonight Show (hosted by Taylor Hicks’ uncle, Jay Leno) this evening! Word from the NBC website states that Harcourt will be playing a song from his amazing ”new” album The Beautiful Lie, which actually was released in 2006…it just took the United States record industry two years to get it out here.

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As discussed somewhere on this blog recently, I am today submitting to you my favorite music of the year, so far. Anyone who has frequented this website over the past several months will not be surprised by any of these choices, but here they are anyway, committed to paper, if you will.

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Wild Sweet Orange, a band hailing from right here in Birmingham, Alabama, made their national television debut on “Late Night with David Letterman” last night. Their new album will be unleashed on the public on Tuesday, July 29th. Here’s the video clip:

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The chord progression sounds remarkably similar to The Eagles’ song “Hotel California.” I found myself humming “Hotel California” this evening while within earshot of the TV, then was startled when I heard the “Aquarius” chorus join me at the end of the ad.

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“not long ago, kenny g put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old louis armstrong record, the track “what a wonderful world”. with this single move, kenny g became one of the few people on earth i can say that i really can’t use at all – as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.”

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My post of January 21st, 2008 was admitedly weak, consisting of only a YouTube link to a video that Ryan Adams created while noodling in the studio. Sadly, someone decided to remove the video from YouTube, so that the video link on the post leads nowhere now.

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