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[bryant]

If you are a mad Aimee Mann fan like myself, you will want to know two things: first, that she has made a concept album and it is available for pre-order beginning March 9th for delivery beginning May 3rd. March 9th is tomorrow, not today, no matter how often I check the date on my computer. Second, the first three songs on the album are available for streaming on her website.

"Dear John" is much like an Aimee Mann song, but it has more aggressive rock tendencies than most of her recent output. "King of the Jailhouse" is slower, near to lugubrious, very orchestrated. "Goodbye Caroline" is driven by a fairly meaty rhythm section, with drugs -- and the guitar has a bit of fuzz to it, which is nice. I'm cautiously optimistic for the entire album, which is I suppose the intention of such a preview. I think she's been in a bit of a rut lately, and I miss the sparse distortion of I'm With Stupid. The Forgotten Arm isn't a return to that, but it's also not placid. Is it May 3rd yet?

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[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

By way of nothing related to this post, I completely dug The Rocketeer - both the comic and the movie. Haven't seen or read them in years mind, but at the time they pushed all my buttons. I seem to recall it being said that The Rocketeer was to be the first of a series of films to fill the gap left by the Indiana Jones movies. A shame it didn't pan out.

Man, I haven't even seen a copy of the vid on a shelf pretty much ever. Wonder if it's even still available...?

[bryant]

It was a fun little movie. It's out on DVD over here; I dunno about Australia.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Do you read Entertainment Weekly? There was a great article a few weeks ago where they gor Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Lisa Loeb, David Cross, and a few other people together in a room to watch the Grammys and snark upon it, then printed a (partial) transcript. Funny as hell!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It's available online to subscribers: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1028962_4_0_,00.html

There was a great picture of U2 with their dads in last week's issue, but it's not in the online version. Bastards.