Arts and Entertainment
Song of the Day 7/11: Suzanne Vega, “Luka”
The literary world was shaken this week when Andrea Skinner, youngest daughter of Canadian author Alice Munro, revealed to the Toronto Star that her stepfather, Munro’s second husband, molested her when she was 9 years old – and that when Munro learned of it 15 years later, she refused to leave him. The shocking disclosure […]
Song of the Day 7/9: Keane, “I’m Not Leaving”
Any hope of removing Joe Biden from the Democratic ticket depends on him going willingly. Instead he’s given every indication he’ll put up a fight. It’s been 20 years since Keane’s “Hopes and Fears” LP, which contained their biggest hit, “Somewhere Only We Know,” which turns up on TV a lot, on both soundtracks and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The media’s feeding frenzy for forcing Biden out of the race continues but seems to be slackening a bit because the public isn’t climbing on board. Like a pug on your leg, WaPo and all the political sites are still humping away at it, but the broader Democratic public doesn’t seem to see the big […]
Song of the Day 7/7: Mötley Crüe, “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”
The punditry consensus says Joe Must Go, but if you check the comments at liberal web sites it seems a lot of their readers aren’t sold on the idea. You can’t expect someone in mental decline to recognize the severity of their own condition, and Joe has turned characteristically combative in response to the calls […]
Song of the Day 7/6: Ella Fitzgerald, “Too Darn Hot”
Just walking to the mailbox the past couple of days brought to mind this little rhyme I think I first heard in junior high school: When the weather’s hot and sticky That’s no time for dunkin’ dickie When the frost is on the pumpkin That’s the time for dickie dunkin’ I always liked that bit […]
Song of the Day 7/5: The Ramones, “The Job That Ate My Brain”
Joe Biden’s fight for survival wasn’t helped by telling his staff he needs an early bedtime, and he’s clearly made an enemy of the New York Times. So we’ve got three old guys running for president. To paraphrase Billy Martin, one’s got brain worms and the other two are senile. Trump and RFK Jr. have […]
Song of the Day 7/4: Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah!”
The South Park team’s marionette movie, “Team America: World Police,” was released 20 years ago, during the Iraq War, when patriotism was running high and Hollywood action movies pandered to it. Trey Parker and Matt Stone mocked both America’s imperialism and Hollywood’s outspoken liberal contingent, but the list of American cultural exports – McDonald’s! Disney […]
Song of the Day 7/3: Neil Sedaka, “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do”
A song for Joe Biden, sung by a guy who’s even older than he is. Sedaka was an established star as both a performer and songwriter with several Top 10 hits under his belt before “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do” hit No. 1 in 1962. His career was among the notable casualties of the […]
Song of the Day 7/2: The Human League, “Don’t You Want Me”
They can play this one at the Democratic National Convention, no matter who the nominee turns out to be. I like to bust on record executives who don’t recognize a hit when they hear one, but this is an example of the artist himself lacking a clue. The Human League formed in the late ’70s, […]
Song of the Day 7/1: Tom Lehrer, “I Wanna Go Back to Dixie”
First Kinky Friedman, then Martin Mull. It could be one of Friedman’s mysteries, about someone bumping off the musical satirists of the ’70s. In that scenario we should maybe worry about the greatest musical satirist of the ’60s, Tom Lehrer, who’s still with us at age 96. He wrote this one in 1960, when the […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: June 2024
Best month o’ tunes so far this year. By far. I also think I’m gonna nail Nathan Arizona’s fave this time! Let’s get ready to get down: Alisa Amador: I would have loved this band back in the early seventies. Which is one reason why I love them now. Both nostalgic and new. My fave […]
Song of the Day 6/30: Martin Mull, “Ukelele Blues”
Martin Mull, who died last week at age 80, is mostly remembered for his long career as a comic actor, which began in 1976 when producer Norman Lear tapped him for a role as a comic villain on his spoof of soap operas, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” But he only landed the gig because Lear […]
Song of the Day 6/28: Kinky Friedman, “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore”
They ain’t makin’ Jews like Kinky Friedman anymore, either. In the ’70s he was the singing-songwriting leader of the satirical Texas Jewboys, a Western swing forerunner of raucous acts like Mojo Nixon. After the band broke up at the end of the decade he became an author of offbeat detective novels and, in 2006, an […]
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