Comments on: Devo @ the Bank of America Pavillion 27-Jun-08

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:42:59 +0000

For what it’s worth, I also spell ‘grey’ with an ‘e’. If it didn’t look precious I would probably spell color as ‘colour’ and it took me a while to stop spelling ‘theater’ as ‘theatre’. At least I’ve learned to spell and pronounce ‘nuclear’ correctly.

Performing “You Sexy Thing” is unfortunate. Performing “You Sexy Thing” for your parents is just…wrong.

And with that, I’ll stop.

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:06:32 +0000

“You Sexy Thing” was very unfortunate, even if it was for Tina’s parents. Talking Heads used to do “Take Me to the River” as well.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:43:43 +0000

What the “Marco & Tim” sideshow is referrring to, is Marco’s non-standard (at least for us Yanks) spelling of the word “defence” (also known as defense to red-blooded Americans). Since the spelling Marco used is more commonly used in the British Commonwealth, I called him out on it and thus laid down my inquiriy about Texas being in bed with Canada. Marco, being Marco, took it and ran with it. Makes even more sense nowadays what with all that oil shale and crap.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:54:57 +0000

Oh, and I remembered over dinner that Tom Tom Club did a great version of “Take Me To The River” and I thought good on them for stealing back a Talking Heads song that was never really a Talking Heads song. But they also played “You Sexy Thing” which was a little unfortunate.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:28:21 +0000

What the hell are you two even talking about at this point?

By: villain

villain — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:17:59 +0000

re: selling out - I also think it matters what you DO with the money. e.g., Chumbawamba took a lot of money from some megacorp (I forget which one) and (at least issued press releases claiming that they) used the money to fund awareness campaigns about the evils of the megacorp.

the other thing I usually want to point out when this topic comes up: many, many record deals are written so that the artist would not have veto power over licensing the music for use in ads; it’s strictly the record company’s decision.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:39:54 +0000

Tim, Canada did NOT annex Texas. We’ve simply agreed to combine forces, thus surrounding the lower 48. In exchange Canada gets Hawaii as a winter vacation spot in and Texas gets to drill every last drop of oil out of Alaska. That and the occasional ski trip.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:59:50 +0000

Marco,

Defence? When the hell did Canada annex Texas?

By: Ezra

Ezra — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:11:44 +0000

One man’s hypocrisy is another man’s art project.

I think we have reached the point of vehement agreement, Marco; I agree that their “philosophy” is counter to their coziness with selling out if you take it at face value. They are too smart to not to have noticed, and the fact that they won’t give a straight answer to questions about this (or, like Warhol, to questions about whether or not the whole thing is a joke) means that they are deliberately keeping this ambiguous. It’s part of the project, and it always has been.

Anyway, I was very tempted to start yelling “RUUUUUGRAAAAAAATS! Play the Rugrats song!!!!!!!“

By: Terri

Terri — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:54:59 +0000

“Terri, there is no topic that Ezra and I can’t quibble over. That’s been a dynamic in our friendship as long as we’ve known each other.” Heh… yes, I’ve noticed.