Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Cowboys and Pretendians
South Dakota Vice Principal Subdues Student, 16, Who Shot School Principal
Prince Harry: 'Not Ready to Settle Down'
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Kaley Cuoco Ended Marriage to Ryan Sweeting 'Because He Was Addicted to Painkillers After Back Surgery'
'Mommie' Issues
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Smooth Operator
Bi-Curious Dilemma
Apparently Bisexual Visibility Week came and went again without so much as a threeway. Just what are we to make of those people?
It’s a common enough story that we’re all familiar with the beats: You hook up with a guy who tells you he’s bi and after a few weeks of “dating,” when you try to take things to the next level, he breaks it to you that he doesn’t see a relationship with another man for himself. The immediate assumption is that you’ve been led on and that this self-proclaimed bisexual is probably just a gay guy too chicken s–t to own up to being gay. That incorrect assumption, I argued, is where a lot of the hostility from within the gay and lesbian community toward bisexual people actually comes from. While same-sex sexual encounters may come naturally for some men, romantic interactions between those same men and other guys may not be nearly as instinctive.Read HERE.
Song of the Day: 'Catch Me I'm Falling' by Pretty Poison
Summer 2015 has been nothing short of AMAZING . Highlighted by appearances in Denver, San Jose, San Antonio & El Paso. "Better and Better" has been my highest charting single on the Billboard Dance Airplay chart since "Catch Me I'm Falling"! I've met a lot of amazing people and am hard at work on the next release. I love all of my fans and want to make you proud of my resurgence. This would never be possible without your support. Sincerely, Jade xoxo
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XES Lounge Being Forced Out by New Landlord
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chelsea,
gay bars,
Neighborhood Watch,
neighborhoods,
New York City,
XES Lounge
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Morning Wood
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hairy chests,
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treasure trail
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Page 1 Roundup (09/30)
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newspapers,
Page 1,
Planned Parenthood
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
When Bobby Met Patti
One surreal encounter that Ms. Smith describes—and has discussed publicly—is an all-night meeting with the chess prodigy [Bobby Fischer] in Reykjavik. After some initial awkwardness the two found common ground by singing the songs of Buddy Holly and others from the golden age of rock ’n’ roll. At one point, Ms. Smith recalls, Fischer’s bodyguard burst in on the meeting, alarmed by hearing “something strange.” It turned out to be the chess champ singing the falsetto chorus from “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”Order HERE.
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Underoos Never Looked So Sexy
If this counts as rookie hazing for the Mets, then call me a frat boy!
Form l. to r.: Savannah Sand Gnats manager Jose Leger in The Flash, Sean Gilmartin in Skeletor, Steven Matz in Sueprman, Erik Goeddel in Boba Fett, Michael Conforto in Ewoks, Kevin Plawecki in Captain America, Dilson Herrera in Shazam, Logan Verrett in Batman, Hansel Robles in Darth Vader and Noah Syndergaard in He-Man.
Now if only SEXY David Wright would show up as Aquaman!
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baseball,
mets,
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When a Cover Song Isn't Really a 'Cover'
Great piece about cover songs by Ben Zimmer in The Wall Street Journal, inspired by indie rocker Ryan Adams' full remake of Taylor Swift’s “1989,” consisting of cover versions of all the songs from her top-selling album. He writes that while Mr. Adams takes a musical homage to extreme lengths, the “cover” has been a basic bit of music-industry lingo for nearly 70 years.
Zimmer explains the entire history of the practice -- labels wanting to cash in on popular songs by having their own artists re-record the hits of the day -- but what I found most interesting is that he touched on something I've wondered all along:
If you never heard the original, is it really a true "cover" as the term was coined by Billboard back in the day? (He cites Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" as a prime example.)
I can think of a dozen songs off the top of my head that I didn't know weren't originals:
"Bette Davis Eyes" (Jackie DeShannon/Kim Carnes)
"{There's) Always Something There to Reminds Me" (Lou Johnson/Naked Eyes)
"Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones/Soft Cell)
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" (Arrows/Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
"Come Back and Stay" (Jack Lee/Paul Young), etc.
Billboard defined a "cover" as a song you know that's been recorded by another artist. I guess the thinking is songs like the ones I've listen above are more akin to what people like Barbra, Liza and Whitney do -- record material written by others, which doesn't necessarily make them true "covers."
(This, of course, is not the same thing as being musically ignorant, like a cashier who was shocked to find out "This Woman's Work" wasn't a Maxwell original or a 40-year-old bar patron who thought Bananarama penned "Venus.")
I know it's strictly semantics, but I kinda like this stricter definition -- which means“Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia isn't a cover (even though it was originally by Ednaswap) and Sheryl Crow's "The First Cut Is the Deepest" is.
P.S. Speaking of gender-flipped covers, I'm obsessed with them ... as I wrote HERE.
Kaley Cuoco Files for Divorce From Tennis Pro Ryan Sweeting
"Prior to announcing their split, the highest paid TV actress hinted at their breakup by deleting nearly all photos of Sweeting from her Instagram account." (Us Weekly)
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Song of the Day: 'Shattered Dreams' by Johnny Hates Jazz
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Morning Wood
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Page 1 Roundup (09/29)
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newspapers,
Page 1,
Russia,
Vladimir Putin
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