Get lean while flaunting your superior musical taste to all who catch a glimpse of your iPod (NEVER a Zune!). Starts off slow, ends fast, 20 minutes on a treadmill or elliptical never went by so quickly:
Ministry's funky, New Wave 1983 debut, With Sympathy, out of print for years and openly derided by leader Alain Jourgensen as a record company sell-out/concession, is being re-released August 12th.
I imagine it's been remastered, since it now includes three bonus tracks, "I Wanted To Tell Her (Extended Mix)," "Revenge (Remix)," and the impossible to find b-side "A Walk In The Park."
But will the Extended Version of "I Wanted To Tell Her" be the one featuring the female answer rap? Hmmm...
I'm in homo geek heaven, thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio this month - they've dedicated Channel 3 entirely to ABBA for the entire month, in order to promote the movie version of "Mamma Mia." The playlist is excellent, with plenty of obscure album and b-side tracks making the cut, but you do have to occasionally suffer through a "Mamma Mia" soundtrack cut - who wants to hear Meryl Streep warbling "The Winner Takes It All" when you could hear the sublime original?
The playlist is obviously automated, since this morning I got to hear:
"Eagle (Live)" "Head Over Heels" "The Winner Takes It All (Streep version)" "Eagle (Studio Version)"
But hey, who doesn't want to hear "Eagle" over and over again?
Chut and I decided to do the unthinkable for the Fourth of July weekend. Fly to *gulp* Cleveland and visit my family!
It had been more than 2 1/2 years since I last visited Ohio, so it was interesting to see how cleaned up everything was. That is, except for the roads. Nice to see some things never change, i.e. orange road construction cones being a 24/7/365 thing on the North Coast. It took us an extra 30 minutes to finally figure out how to get to our hotel in Playhouse Square, thanks to Euclid Avenue being a torn-up, one-way mess.
Chut had never seen the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum. I lost my shit over the new Bowie costumes display. No cameras allowed inside, dammit.
Gwen & Moby.
The original line-up reunited for a special one-off performance.
"We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition. I remember Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all their own stuff. I think that hit the nail on the head."
