OK, so I got to see The Spy Next Door this weekend with my now seven year old boy.  It was a fun movie in a cute childish way.  Definitely made for kids.  This is standard Jackie Chan kid stuff here.  It was fun, definitely a thumbs up, but still kid stuff.  Except for one [...]

Ever since I’ve been blogging here, I’ve lamented the fact that The Stooges were not in the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.  The Rolling Stones were the original bad boys of rock.  But, they did it in a typical PR kinda way.  It seemed contrived.  Then, along came Iggy and the Stooges.  They were bad.  Real [...]

About a week or so ago, I had a discussion with my teenage step-daughter.  She’s hip.  She keeps one eye covered with hair at all times so the world can’t see her face.  She’s not emo tho.  Be sure to understand that.  During some strange dinner time conversation, she questioned the fact that I seemed [...]

Every year a few diehard rockers that actually can go back 25 years start thunping for The Stooges to make it into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.  That’s Iggy Pop for the others.  We do that for one very simple reason:

They invented punk. The Rolling Stones and others ran around snarling and acting bad. [...]

I picked Bowie to do a blog on not so much specifically because of the music, or the person.  I picked Bowie because he seemed to encapsulate about every aspect of life you could dream up, and then some.  Today’s Bowie post is about science.  Peter Jaeger discovered a yellow, hairy, spider living in Malaysia.  [...]

I got an email alert about a guy, David Lister, who went to a show by The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain. They did a joke segment they called “plagiarism”. It’s pretty clever. Here it is:
Only thing is, there is no joke. And, as with every other form of entertainment, parody is not plagiarism.

It all [...]

I was strumming through my newfeeds and stumbled on someone’s tribute to Marianne Faithful as a Forgotten Beauty.  They briefly mention she collaborated with David Bowie.  Not much of a mention, but what a collaboration it was.  Now, the story of Marianne up to this point was rather depressing.  She got off to a fairly messed [...]

I’m kinda stumped here.  I stumbled upon this video of Space Oddity as performed by a band called Cat Power:

Now, it’s only thirty seconds long.
What’s that you say?  It’s a COMMERCIAL?
Sung by a girl band?
For a car?
That’s so tacky.  So cheap.  So, commercial.
I’d like to hear the full version tho.  They actually accentuate my favorite [...]

A little while back I mentioned that Bowie had decided to give Scarlett Johansson a little help with her new album. Well, it’s out now. Here’s Falling Down from it:

Quite frankly, I’m extremely impressed.  This is not at all what I expected!

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