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I'm all for the Donnas. They may not be all that polished, but they're fun, and they can say like a guy band that they just want to get laid without having to Lil' Kim pimp-and-whore themselves over it.

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The thing about The Donnas is that their style has changed quite a bit since the early teen days. Good, bad, or indifferent, it's a matter of taste. Their first album is total chick Ramones style. Nowdays, while the lyrics are still in the same vein, musically they seem much more attuned to Joan Jett post-Runaways, or maybe Poison-lite without the masturbatory solos....just not my bag anymore.

Sahara Hotnights, on the other hand.....boy howdy.

But hey, it's all rock and roll, right?
:band:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

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Did anybody ever actually like the Spin Doctors? Though I was never a great fan of Phish, Blues Traveler, et al., I never understood how Spin Doctors were regularly mentioned in the same articles with those bands circa '92. I knew/know people who were into Blues Traveler, Phish, dmb, etc. Never known anybody to be a Spin Doctors fan.

Schadenfreudapalooza
 

I think you are my SP too. I don't know why people like that movie. There was one good scene in the whole movie. the whole movie. The monologue about the banana and "your cock in her cornflakes" was funny, but nothing else was funny or insightful. He thinks he can write dialogue--like Tarrantino, but without the blood. But he is horrible. His second movie, with Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Anniston, sucked too. It confirmed what I knew all along: The Brothers McMullen did not suck b/c it was low budget, it sucked b/c the writing, acting, and directing sucked. Way to go, Burns.

Coachella
 

Maybe it's because G. Love and Special Sauce (and all those other bands) are playing at the Coachella Arts & Music Festival this weekend, and Spin Doctors are not. So I'll be unable to provide my useless insights about those Pocket-Full-Of-Kryptonite Assjacks.

I am no man's SP, Atticus, but I did get a bang out of reading the mostly bearish reviews of Brothers Mac. on IMDB.com. Some Swedish guy has a hard-on for the movie but everyone else seems to agree with us. Die Ed Burns Die.

And upon the news that there's a New Pornographers' Album coming out, my immediate reaction was the Elaine-Benes "GET OUT!" I am so freaking excited by this, you have no idea.

str8.

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I liked their early stuff, too.

I have been listening to some Texas indy stuff, and I am surprised by the extent of hip-hop influence in idiom and motif.

Is it the same in other indy markets?

Even(everything is hip-hop)Odds

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A friend of mine was/is a Spin Doctors fan. He also married a Miss [enter name of southern state here], if that means anything.

My sister had an obsessive hatred of the Spin Doctors. I remember Labatts was sponsoring a contest to go on a cruise (with 500 of your closest friends) and the Spin Doctors. She entered a million times because she wanted to win and go on the cruise in order to kill the Spin Doctors. (she actually does humanitarian work in developing countries now, so her free-floating aggression has abated somewhat).

That's, well, odd...
 

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/wireless_n...4S025709030425

(Spree: Tina Yothers, aka Jennifer Keaton from Family Ties, to star as Linda Lovelace in a musical with music written by a couple of Go-Gos).

Ollie (can she sing and deepthroat at the same time?) Ramone

Now that's talent!
 

OK, I'm bored today, so I google uvula. As one would expect, weird stuff in teh results. But I was shocked to discover that people actually pierce them!!! It's too gross to post a picture, but here's a link:

http://www.bme.freeq.com/pierce/11-surface/uvula1.html

So. Cal. Sports Report
 

This was my random rambling e-mail to a friend last night. By the way, anyone who disses Darcy Tucker for flopping should put Robert Horry on their aluminum bat list too. That was disgusting.

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Everyone's talking about how impossible T-Mac is to
guard. Well how about The Big Ticket, Kevin
Garnett. Maybe this is a blindingly obvious statement
bt watching tonight's game (Minnesota
up by 5with 20 seconds left) this guy is unstoppable.
Fox, Bryant, Horry and everyone else have looked
totally useless against him. I wonder what Flip does
during timeouts.

"Ok, Troy, take the inbounds pass from KG, give the
ball back to him posting up on the wing by lobbing the
ball 12 feet into the air and letting him go up for
it. Then, KG, you spin baseline, fake to the middle,
step back, and sink the unblockable 16 footer."

How tough is that? I could be a coach.

Whoops, Kobe just hit a 4 pointer. What kind of foul call is that? Crap. This is quite a game.

Another thing about KG is that he makes the T-Wolves
IMPOSSIBLE to press. Any time they pressure the ball,
the ballhandler can just lob something high in the air
in his direction knowing he'll come down with it.

They keep showing McHale in the stands. He looks like
he wants to puke. This is highly amusing. Anyways, win or lose, this game and this series, I think KG is a mensch. But if they lose, I think T-Wolves fans will be saying "Wha' Happened?"

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WHo is this happenin rocker chick slash lawyer who lives in my backyard? Who is good in DC this weekend?

Speaking of Flops
 

Did you see GP's flop (on which J Kidd picked up an offensive foul) that was not in the direction of the hit? Say what you will, but the Glove is one heck on an actor.

The Lakers game brought the OM to bed waaaaaaay too late. I cannot imagine how people on the East Coast could watch that or the 5 OT hockey game.

Even(sleep-deprived)Odds

90210 reunion
 

That Billy is so smug.

Andrew Shue is THE worst actor I have ever seen. This includes pornos and junior high school plays. What a maroon.

I always thought Jane was so damn hot on that show. Jane is her name, right? Short blonde hair?

And we can't forget scar lady. She totally ruined her career because every time I see her in anything else, I think she's going to take off her hair to reveal that frickin' scar. Damn that was a good episode.

And what can I say about Heather Locklear that everyone doesn't already know?

They need a new evening soap.

Thurgreed(they got rid of the only black girl on that show after like 3 episodes -- fuckers)Marshall

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I can remember being in a bar on Stratton Mtn, apres ski, - the one that was in the basement of that quasi Applebees, TGIF place right by the place where you buy the tix, and the Spin Doctors were ALWAYSA on the jukeobx. During that week I went from hating them to liking them to hating them.

At some point during this period, I can recall seeing them at Willow Street (not Capital Theater where I caught Phish- how cool was I in the early nineties?) in Port Chester (oh those were thedays). My sister LOVED them (I am so going to remind her of this embarrassment) so I havfe to think she dragged me. I remember her thinking the "rubber band guy" was hot.

Melrose petition
 

What?!? Brooke died? (She's the one who is Charlotte on Sex and the City, right?) Wow. I must have stopped watching that show earlier on than I thought..

In related paigow commentary, here's a funny line from the review of "Confidence":

"The problems with "Confidence," which opens today nationwide, are summed up by Mr. Burns's performance, which is difficult to distinguish from any of his other performances, except that his hair is shorter."

Now, I happen to think Mr. Burns is cute -- but I guess I won't be spending my hard-earned $$ to see this particular opus.

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And here, a reminder of just how superior my would-be avatar is to that of the pretender to the throne's (aka plf.)



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