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Jess was listening to "Price Yeah!" from Westing (By Musket and Sextant) by Pavement on Gilmore Girls. Nice. He was wearing a Punk Planet t-shirt, and gave Rory a copy of The Shaggs' 'Philosophy of the World', which is pretty damn cool too. I'm rooting for ya, Jess. Rory will be yours eventually...
In other news: As I type this, Tom Scharpling is talking to the guy who was in charge of that Glutton Bowl thing that was on Fox. He's discussing the merits of 'competitive eating' as a sport. So, so ridiculous.
Wow, kids still have foodfights? Poor choice of locale, though...
Are girls meaner than boys?
Stephin Merritt has the best press agent in music, I am sure of this.
I am very underwhelmed by the new Primal Scream track, "Miss Lucifer". Which is a bit of a letdown, because "Bomb The Pentagon" and "Doors" are so great sounding. "Miss Lucifer" (which to be fair, the version linked here is an alternate version) is just kinda mediocre techno rock... nothing nearly as good as anything off of XTRMNTR.
Bad news about Primal Scream, by the way:
It seems they have neither a record label here in Britain, nor in America. According to Alan, everyone is scared to sign them and even Sony (who the band are contracted to release albums through for the next couple of albums) are scared of our Bobby and have to pass bad news on through Alan. Apparently, Astralwerks - who the primals were signed to in America for the release of 'XTRMNTR' - dropped the band 3 or 4 months ago. This was, Alan said, not due to the fact they have a song titled "Bomb The Pentagon", but because 'XTRMNTR' only sold 25,000 copies in the states, which was not enough of an impact for Astralwerks to continue with. When Bobby was told of this he was said to have started laughing and then said (to quote Alan) "ah, I don't want to deal with there anyway, I hate the place, I don't ever wanna go back".
No! I can deal with them not having a US label (I bought XTRMNTR on import loooooooooooong before it was out in the US), but the prospect of them never returning to the US to perform is heartbreaking for me, the show they played in NYC supporting XTRMNTR was one of the most amazingly intense sets I've ever seen. Aw, man.
Mm. Nice Michael Stipe interview transcript from CNN on Murmurs... I particularly like this bit:
I was looking for someone to start a band with, and Peter was the only person in Athens that would talk to me. I mean, I was very, very shy. He worked in a record store. He sat there all day with this kind of sneer on his face, kind of strumming on a guitar, and we struck up a conversation, and at one point talked about starting a band. I called him Richard for the first three months that we knew each other, and he never once corrected me. He never said "my name is not Richard, it's Peter."
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