"
Heirheads": Why the
nouveau riche are the focus of our television attention.
Who knew they even still MADE
Rubik's Cubes??
To quote Dr. Perry from
Scrubs "If they took porn off the internet there would be only one website left and it would be called "Bring Back The Porn"."
Yahoo! brings back the porn.
Listen up Ladies!!
"Queer Eye" Team Take on Women Next. [via Gawker]
FOX has bought the rights to "School of Rock" for TV use.
Paris Hilton
analysis in Gothamist.
Music Notes
The Cure will release a
box set in January!
Review of the new
Britney album in the NYTimes.
A Ryan Adams tangent
Recent articles:
CNN interview;
PageSix;
Canadian Press;
Reuters.
Reviews:
Pop Matters;
Rolling Stone;
Spin;
Pitchfork Media.
I would just like to say that while I support recording artists exploring new directions, this record does not feel like an evolution. In fact, a number of the songs feel like a parody of "rock". Allison Stewart's review in the Post
Ryan Adams: So Much Music, So Little to Say points out the just because you are prolific, does not mean you are brilliant. Some artists can get away with such things--Beck comes to mind, but Beck has retained control over the music he makes, releasing records on other labels that fit his needs. Maybe Adams should have jumped the Lost Highway ship instead of being forced to make a record he wasn't ready to make (see Reuters article above). Despite many reports saying Adams was forced to make this record for his label, there is no evidence to this in the recent interviews he is giving. Reading the MTV article,
Ryan Adams Becomes 'Plaque On The Teeth Of Alt-Country' With Rock N Roll we are told that Adams "got tired of parading all my thoughts and feelings around for other people's amusement" and made this record in a drunken haze with some friends and then submitted it to the label. The record was made in two weeks, and I think in this case that shows (in contrast, Beck's
Odelay was also made in two weeks, but you would never know that by listening to it). The stuff he recorded before
Rock N Roll is being released on two EP's which Adams is apparently refusing to promote at all. Hmmm. Maybe Adams wants to change his tune, maybe he loves the Strokes so much he wants to join their band, or maybe he's really unhappy. (I'm going with the latter.) So just because the records label loves it, doesn't mean I have to and it sure as hell doesn't mean it is a good idea to charge studio time to your credit card, get drunk with your friends, and commit the crap you play to tape. Just my two cents.
And just to add to the Ryan Adams-fest: Did he and Parker Posey
have sex during their interview for
Interview magazine? [NY Daily News, via Gawker]
The nude journalism?
Is Parker Posey giving new meaning to the term, "probing interview" - maybe even launching a trend in celebrity journalism?
That's my guess after reading her dialogue with alt-country star Ryan Adams in the upcoming issue of Interview magazine. Toward the end of their Q&A, there appears to be some commotion involving the tape recorder - which stops at points - and lots of giggling.
"I'm a little hungry, and I need some stimulus," Adams tells Posey. "I've already done all the dirty things I could do today: I had some sex, then I smoked a couple of cigarettes, I had coffee and now I'm done. [Both laugh, fumbling with the tape recorder.] Don't rewind that! It's okay to say that people have sex in this world!"
So did interviewer and subject do just that in the middle of their conversation?
"I don't know," Interview editor Ingrid Sischy told me, "but I would guess that it happens at least once in every issue."
Oh, by the way, Adams is Posey's boyfriend.
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