New book and CD in the works, due out this spring (I think).
Possible titles: Back Porch Blues (book), Tropical Depression (cd).
Stay tuna for more updates...
Feeling a little detatched from the Iraqi conflict this holiday? Put a human face on the stories here:
A Baghdad girl's diary
Thanks to habibi for the link.
Hail To The Thief, indeed....
Radiohead Frontman Protests Bush Visit To London
(LAUNCH, 11/20/2003 5:00:00PM)
Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke is at the forefront of protests surrounding President George Bush's visit to London this week, with Yorke calling Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair "liars," according to NME.com. The singer emailed NME after learning that London police were planning to create a three-mile "exclusion zone" to keep protesters away from Bush, because of concerns over alleged threats of terror attacks against the American leader.
When asked why he chose to speak out, Yorke said, "To make Blair squirm over his decision to take us into a illegitimate war (in Iraq) and follow this religious lunatic (Bush) toward a dangerous future for the whole planet...both of these men are liars. We have the right to call them such, they are putting our children's future in jeopardy. They are not controlling the terrorist threat, they are escalating it.."
Yorke said he was enraged that authorities were using "the threat of terrorism to suppress whatever they choose, intimidate and arrest whoever they wish."
Yorke concluded by suggesting that members of the British Royal Family protest Bush's visit as well, saying that "now is a good time to remind Blair that he's on very very very very very very very very thin ice."
Members of other British bands, such as Blur and Travis, have also spoken out against the President's visit to London and both leaders' stance on the occupation of Iraq. A protest march is scheduled for today (November 20) in London.
Wife takes razor to man's genitals
Posted Thu, 06 Nov 2003
A Cambodian woman who suspected her husband was having affairs attempted to cut off his genitals with a razor blade in a jealous rage, a newspaper report said on Thursday.
The couple from downtown Phnom Penh — Mar Len (29) and her husband Kan Bunhou (26) — began arguing on Tuesday evening but neighbours stepped in to cool the dispute, the Kampuchea Thmei (New Cambodia) daily said.
Kan Bunthou told police that the pair then went to bed but he awoke when his wife began attacking him with a razor blade.
He managed to fend her off before she completed the job and fled, he said, adding that family members took him to hospital where he had received 12 stitches to repair the damage.
The newspaper said police were searching for Mar Len, who would be charged with attempted murder.
During the row she had accused Kan Bunthou, a cameraman who filmed karaoke DVDs, of infidelity with the actresses and singers he worked with, it said.
Word on the street has it the Sex Pistols are planning a concert in the middle of bombed-out Baghdad...
"The Sex Pistols suck, we’re more punk than they ever were."
Billy Joe Armstrong, Green Day
"I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation."
Avril Lavigne (Seventeen Magazine, 2002)
"People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?"
Avril Lavigne (Entertainment Weekly, 2002)
‘Britney Spears is as punk as that silly Lavigne bird. I never, ever cared for Green Day, with their ice cream van and huge video productions. As far as I’m concerned, anything that’s MTV-led I worry about. MTV is like a headless chicken.’
Johnny Rotten (MSNBC, 2003)
More quotes from Mr. Rotten:
Courtney Love — Now there’s a peice of work--trying to be Nancy Spungen, except
she should have taken a note from her since she’s dead.
Britney Spears — Her parents should be whipped. What’s going to happen when she
grows up?
Kurt Cobain — Is he still alive? That shows you how much thought I put into
that!
Arnold Schwarzenegger — He is excercising the
wrong muscle.
Madonna — A very nice lady.
Sadaam Hussein — He’s probably hiding with his “weapons of mass destruction.”
Joe Strummer — Very sad. It seems to be that when the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame
nominates people it creates death. It’s to our benefit that they’ve ignored us.
Joey Ramone — Sad. These are nice people. It’s not true “the good die young”
‘cause I’m the living proof that that’s not the case.
Johnny Cash: 1932-2003
Favorite songs-
Ring Of Fire
Cocaine Blues
Folsom Prison Blues
I Walk The Line
The Wanderer (from "Zooropa" by U2, 1993)
I Walk The Line Revisited (Rodney Crowell w/ Johnny Cash, 2000 (?))
Girl From The North Country (duet w/ Bob Dylan from "Nashville Skyline", 1969)
Tennessee Stud ("Jackie Brown" movie soundtrack, 1997)
Favorite albums:
Cash (American Recordings I, 1994)
Live At Folsom Prison
Live At San Quentin
Favorite Cash moments:
watching his TV special on video at Museum Of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, esp. episodes with guest Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash's liner notes for Dylan's "Nashville Skyline"
he will be missed
