I knew this! She’s from my hometown (St. Louis). She also sang on a few tracks for The Clash, and Mick Jones wrote “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” about his relationship with her.

Lucky you. Despite being a fan since the mid-90s, I still have to see the Chemicals live, but they either only play at festivals with no other interesting acts, far away from me or 2 years ago, when I was too broke to even buy a bus ticket to the concert. 

“It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.” — Tom Lehrer

Waking up in ICU with amnesia.

If they ever cancel Wiki Wormhole for being the least-pop-culture-related thing on a pop culture web site, I’m just going to bring it back as “why the fuck isn’t THIS a movie?” and pare it down to these kinds of stories. I feel like Jodie Comer from Killing Eve would kill it, literally and figuratively, as d’Aubigny.

Sir! d’Aubigny have been an arsonist, a duelist, and a philanderer, but... er, well, yes, I suppose she might have murdered a nun.

I’m curious to see how it will sound without Rostam. After hearing his solo album and his album with Hamilton Leithauser it became clear how important he was to the sound of MVOTC.

“The Scottish Parliament, your drunk relatives...”

Sorry to Bother You is a really surprising and funny satire, one which manages to take on big targets (pretty much all of modern capitalism) without becoming too messy. I mean, it’s pretty chaotic and the comic timing is sometimes off, but as absurdist world-building goes they do it right. (Didn’t hurt that the night…

This week was all Pasolini for me, I watched Hawks & Sparrows and Teorema. Teorema is I think Italian for “Terence Stamp’s crotch.” Hawks & Sparrows is engaging enough and funny here and there, but it is so forcefully Marxist that it keeps escaping my wheelhouse no matter how hard I try to hang onto it.

Teorema I…

Are these Morrissey lyrics?

And it’s pronounced “Sesevenen”.

I’ve avoided Portugal. The Man because their name has a period in the middle of it. I’m probably missing out on music I’d like, but dammit, you shouldn’t do that with punctuation.

Mick and Joe are Lennon and McCartney.

I’d have liked this article a lot more if the title was “Trent Reznor says Kanye West ripped off his arms”

Bowie took on the German synth sound first and created the actual blueprint for how to utilize it for an entire generation of acts who came up in the 80s.

I will say that when I saw NIN on Broken/Downward Spiral, they did a LOT of things I had never seen before as far as staging and lighting, and yeah, they were in front of everybody as far as computers coordinating the lighting to split-second cues.

Mind you, a lot of that was because nobody was really running their…

“Kanye West stole his whole persona from me.” - Roseanne Barr

Reznor also claims that West stole his idea of charging people to see the concert and selling “tickets” and having “ushers” direct people to their seats.

It’s like the Sex Pistols’ “reunion” when Johnny Rotten said - “We found a common interest - your money!”