ROCK STAR opens today, so here are links to the discouragingly titled NY
TIMES review--
Celebrating the Love of Bad Rock in the 80's
By A. O. SCOTT
A loose, happy-go-lucky mélange of VH1 rockumentary and
rags-to-riches melodrama that tries to do for the mid-1980's what
Almost Famous did for the 1970's.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/movies/07ROCK.html?ex=1000864948&ei=1&en=0
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Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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--and the movie's flash website (it's even got karaoke!):
http://rockstarmovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/1024x768.html
The Quotable Keef site has been updated (http://members.tripod.com/~Blue
Lena/quote.html), but my favorite Keeferism is still "I never had a problem
with drugs, only with cops." Likewise the Beach Boys, featured this week in
the G-Files section of APBnews.com ("You have the right to know"):
http://www.apbonline.com/media/gfiles/beachboys/index.html
For rock of all ages (decades) from 1894 to the present, check out The Dead
Rock Stars Club ("Rock and roll may never die but rock stars do!"), the best
part of which may be its errata file ("it was erroneously reported here in
the Club that Barbara Alston of The Crystals had passed away..."):
http://users.efortress.com/doc-rock/deadrock.html
Which puts me in mind of a classic to be found at the Demented Lyrics
site--"Existential Blues" by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
(http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/LYRICS/exis.blues):
Some girl with psychic power, she said, "T-Bone, what's your sign?"
I blink and answer, "Neon!" I thought I'd blow her mind.
She's reading Moby Dick by some fruitcake named Herman,
She's chomping on a knockwurst, was the duchess really Herman?
You ask so many questions, what answers should I choose?
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
In reply to T-Bone, I can do no better than the immortal words of The
Deteriorata (http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/LYRICS/deteriorata):
You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Happy POETS Day, everybody!
Candice
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