Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
RIP, Madam Marie
DB shared some bad news with me today: Madam Marie, the fortune teller made famous by Bruce Springteen on his Album “Greetings From Asbury Park” has died.
ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock ’n’ roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s.
Sally Castello tells the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Bruce Springsteen, deaths, music by ME
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Calculating Musical Sellouts
The story goes that Groucho Marx once asked a woman if she would spend the night with him for $1 million.
Her reply was, “Oh, Groucho… you know I would”. He then asked if she would do it for $10.
When she answered, “Oh course not… what kind of woman do you think I am?” [...]
26 Comments » - Posted in advertising, music by ME
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Barack the Vote ‘Mon
My guess is that Coco Tea doesn’t vote in Kentucky.
h/t: gino
2 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, music, politics, raggae by ME
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Frank Zappa on Music
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa
No Comments » - Posted in music, quotations by ME
Friday, April 18th, 2008
RIP Danny Federici (1950-2008)
I just learned tonight that Danny Federici died yesterday after a three-year battle with melanoma.
Federici was Bruce Springsteen’s organist and keyboard player and was an original member of the E-Street band.
I guess I’ve been listening to Danny Federici for as long as I’ve been listening to Springsteen. He was a backbone of Springsteen’s [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in deaths, music by ME
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Reason #4,231 Why the Secular World Thinks Christians are Nuts
Carmen: Satan Bites the Dust.
h/t: tj
7 Comments » - Posted in Christians, music, religion by ME
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Contest Winner
I think we had around fifty entries in the “Most Politically Subversive Song in American History Contest”.
Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry and your comments. Personally, I think the best thing about this contest has been the addition of several new songs to my iTunes music catalog.
I asked six judges to look [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in contests, music by ME
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Most Subversive Song Contest
Just a reminder that the ballot box will be closing at 5:00 CST today in my “Most Subversive Song in American History” contest.
The winning entry, selected by a panel of judges, gets a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Magic from ME.
I’ll announce the winner tomorrow morning as well as my own personal top-ten. I’ve already [...]
16 Comments » - Posted in Bruce Springsteen, contests, music by ME
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The Boss v. Clear Channel
You may have heard that Clear Channel Communications has found a new threat to the Republic: Bruce Springsteen.
In a effort to save American from listening to Springsteen’s songs and lyrics, Clear Channel Stations are refusing to play songs from the Boss’s new album, Magic.
Stations can still spin the oldies but new songs like Last to [...]
65 Comments » - Posted in Bruce Springsteen, contests, music by ME
Monday, October 8th, 2007
I Signed What? (Update)
It looks like the folks at foracceppella.org cleaned up their site over the weekend and early this morning.
Because of the abuse of a loophole in the system they were using to collect signatures for the statement in support of a cappella music in the Churches of Christ, they are no long taking new names and [...]
