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Your Son is Student of the Month? My Son is on American Idol!
I remember in 8th grade, my friend was in a band that did a song from The Idol Maker...it went something like: You got that head turning walk/just talking about it/Makes me want you again/But I'm watching my step/I know my reputation/So you tell me when. I never saw the movie, though. Well, I have to think Adam will be able to parlay a career out of this. Because, it seems like some of them can. I don't watch the show, but I know Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, and that dude with all the gray hair, Taylor Hicks, all had successful careers. A few others had successful debut albums (Rueben Studdard), but then quickly fell off the radar. It blows me away that karaoke on TV became so huge.— May 15, 2009 9:26 a.m.
Cell Phones (in cars, trains, buses, movie theatres, press conferences...)
Well, I'm sure you're right about that. But as any of my friends can tell you...with electronic devices, I'm like an old lady. I can't figure them out to save my life. And, there's talk of those being banned, too. So I figure I'll just do it the old way, until I get a few tickets.— May 15, 2009 1:16 a.m.
Cell Phones (in cars, trains, buses, movie theatres, press conferences...)
mike, I have a stick as well. That's why when I'm on my cell phone on the road, I often say to the person, "Can you hang on a second?" I then set the phone in the seat next to me, switch gears or make a U-turn...whatever move required my other hand, and then resume the conversations. The problem most people had with the cell phone thing is...they felt it was rude to have the other person on the line "hang on" while you pulled into a parking space, or whatever. Or, they were bad drivers to begin with, and now their mind is distracted by something else.— May 14, 2009 11:39 p.m.
New York Dolls
Mookie also had this to say on the Dolls: I guess the only knock there ever was on Buster Poindexter, eh, David Johansen is that he just may have emulated Mick Jagger a little too much. Nonetheless, the Dolls were punk before anyone ever coined the term punk. They were glam before glam. The Dolls are a true Rock n’ Roll Story, losing band members along the way, most notably the original drummer Billy Murcia. The New York Dolls even had a bit of resurgence a few years back, complete with a reunion and some new tunes. I feel fortunate to have been able to see the Dolls at San Diego’s Street Scene back in 2006. I’d say a must see movie for any rock n roll enthusiast or Dolls fan has to be the film New York Doll. The flick more or less documents the waning days of the Dolls, focusing on long time bass player and devout Mormon, Arthur “Killer” Kane. For something more uplifting and less tragic, just listen to how rocking the New York Dolls were. Pick up a CD or better yet, go get some old school vinyl. The New York Dolls are an American original, a treasure of Rock n Roll past— May 14, 2009 11:37 p.m.
New York Dolls
Didn't Buster also have a part in the underrated Richard Dreyfuss movie "Let it Ride"? Surf...did you see the Dolls last time they played the Belly Up? It was an amazing show. I almost got into a fight with a guy in a wheelchair that didn't want me to help him up when he fell out of it trying to go up a ramp! On a side note: I've always felt they blew the Ramones away. The novelty of the Ramones just wore off on me rather quickly.— May 14, 2009 11:34 p.m.
From Parlor to Parking Lot
For any hardcore banjo fans out there, a few more segments of the interview that were cut for space: Did your parents want to scream, when you went to Harvard, UCLA, and then went to pursue music? Well ... Let’s just say there was a profound silence at the other end of the phone line after I told them. Being a parent myself, I can’t blame them for their concern. Back then there were even fewer role models for folk-based instrumentalists, especially that had achieved much recognition on a national level. But when my first solo album received a Grammy nomination, both of my parents came with me to Radio City Music Hall for the Grammys and that was a big turning point. You won a Grammy, which has got to be one of the coolest things for a musician (I don't think the Beatles even won one). Where do you keep it? Yes, it is one of the coolest things. I keep it on the mantle in the den; it’s a quiet reminder to me of the importance of following your heart. How did you and your husbands work with Compass Records come about? Garry and I started the company on the kitchen table in 1993. We really believed that there was a place for an artist-run independent label and, drawing from the experiences we’d had recording for other indies, we started Compass. Since then the label has grown to nearly 600 releases across the Compass Records, Green Linnet and Mulligan labels. We have a great staff and an historic office/studio on Music Row in Nashville (the building itself was home to the Glaser Brothers and the birthplace of the Outlaw movement in country music) and Garry and I are both very hands on in the day to day workings of the label.— May 14, 2009 11:31 p.m.
Cell Phones (in cars, trains, buses, movie theatres, press conferences...)
I've wondered that as well, magics. zzyzx...When I've complained to managers, they always offer me free movie tickets, which I often decline. I tell them I just want them to come in and tell the person to stop, or ask them to leave the theatre. They never want to do that, though. And, my logic is always this...once I leave the theatre to get a "manager"...not only will they hang up by that time, but I've now missed more of the movie than had I just sat there and listened to their idiotic conversation for 30 seconds! It's a no win. So, I feel like shaming and insulting people into stopping. It's my new thing.— May 14, 2009 3:36 p.m.
Paying Housewives
Yeah, that would be a good question. I wonder if most guys would be like Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty, and just make womens dresses fly up as they walked by!— May 14, 2009 9:44 a.m.
Cell Phones (in cars, trains, buses, movie theatres, press conferences...)
Well lallaw, there are two things YOU CAN'T get in the habit of doing. One, is become a slave to your cell phone. If you are, then you have nobody to blame but yourself. This reminds me of when we talked my grandmother into getting an answering machine. Who knows what year this was...maybe 1984, I don't remember. Well, I remember calling her and she was out of breath and angry it was "only me" on the phone, and not something important. She had run from the bath to the phone. Well...me calling doesn't mean drop whatever you're doing, ESPECIALLY if you have an answering machine. And that same rule applies to the cell phone. My parents often get mad at my stepbrother, because he rarely answers his. They'll say "Why does he have a cell phone if he never answers it?" Well...sometimes he's watching a baseball game and doesn't want to be disturbed. Other times he's at a restaurant. Yet, if he's waiting for an important call, he can see who is calling and make that decision. I have another friend, she's in her 70s, and she hates when people talk on their cell phones in restaurants, even if they aren't yelling. I think she just wants to get mad at us cell phone users since she doesn't have one, and doesn't see why anyone would need one.— May 14, 2009 9:42 a.m.
Paying Housewives
The problem with this debate is on your last few lines of your above post. You say "...which is simply by promoting awareness that it still exists." It exists on a level that is so small, it's a non-issue. If God came down tomorrow (if there is a God), and he (or she) told me that 100 things would be changed tomorrow. All things I could pick....and I'm standing there with him, looking at his long, white ZZ Top beard and thinking about those 100 things. And I'm doing my best answer, trying to not sound like a beauty pagaent contestant as I say "End world hunger" and "give all the homeless people homes," "Stop global warming"...I'm guessing the gender pay gap wouldn't make the top 100, or even top 1,000 on things I'd have fixed! Because there simply isn't something there to worry about fixing.— May 14, 2009 1:25 a.m.