A great many things.....

I got a new high tech tape recorder last weekend and so I will have my Johnny Lloyd Rollins interview up soon as well as an interview with Orion from the Orion Experience. And if all you music fans in New York City are looking for something to do tomorrow night friday 3/7, check out the Orion Experience at the Luna Lounge in good old Williamsburg Brooklyn. The Orion Experience goes on at 10:30pm and there is an eight dollar cover charge. Also tomorrow night March 7th is Orion's birthday so when you see him buy him a birthday diet coke!

Well in light of yesterdays sad and shocking news about Patrick Swayze, I figured someone would have to have had posted that classic SNL skit of Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley as Chippendale dancers on Youtube. But instead I found this gem of a trailer for a film Patrick Swayze did back in the late 70's called "Skatetown USA". The film seems to be about rival roller disco gangs and Patrick's co stars in this film are Scott Baio and Maureen McCormack (aka Marsha Brady), Ruth Buzzi and Flip Wilson.
God Bless Patrick Swayze...he still looked like a total sexy bad ass when he was roller discoing, rocking a mullet and dirty dancing! And only in a late 70's could you have Ruth Buzzi, Dave Mason, Patrick Swayze, Billy Bardy as a roller discoing midget, Maureen McCormack, Flip Wilson and Scott Baio all staring in one film were the main plot line revolves around roller disco!



Something that has got me thinking.....have you ever really hated a band or an artist that critics and the masses have loved!? I ask that question because I was just reading that the Counting Crows are releasing an album fairly soon. And I know people just love that band and think Adam Duritz is a poetic genius.. two of my dearest friends feel that way about the Counting Crows. But me I absolutely HATE the Counting Crows, I hate Adam Duritz's voice and lyrics and I really don't like Adam Duritz, he strikes me as being a smug asshole! Duritz strikes me as the kind of guy who wants everyone to think he's this deep, sensitive and intellectual lyricist. He's a blatantly obvious Dylan clone and not a good one at that! The music combined with Duritz's nauseating deep lyrics reminds me of really bad music for soccer moms, drunk frat boys and helicopter parents who live in Park Slope Brooklyn and the West Village. It's the same melody in every song and Duritz's voice never seems to change tone and is so lackluster much like his lyrics. And why did Townshend and Dylan give the okay for this shitty band to open for them?? If the goal was to get the young folks to the shows there are far better choices then Counting Crows for opening acts. That should have been it for them after "Mr. Jones" and I always thought that song sucked.. it never was even on my guilty pleasure song list! Slightly before the Moldy Peaches, the Pineapple aka Adam Duritz totally brings out the hater in me! And I'm not a hateful person but every time I read an interview or see an interview with Adam Duritz on TV, it just so makes me want to kick him really hard in the nads!
I don't know I just don't get it!