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...Shorter column this week, to allow us to talk about NEMO (see box on right). Who hasn't seen those SonicNet.com commercials where various music stars sing "me"? They're intriguing, they feature big stars (Springsteen doing endorsements?) and yet it still does nothing to induce me to visit the website. It just seems the Net-marketing strategies get crazier and crazier. ChickClick.com is running a contest to find an online DJ (or "chick-jockey" as they call it), and they promise one year's free rent in Los Angeles and "all the coolest parties" to the woman who sends...
...crowd, proudly sporting matching No Doubt T-shirt and tight black pant outfits. At this moment, a horrible thought crossed my mind. What if No Doubt doesn't play instruments anymore? What if they just sit on stools, wear matching costumes (adorned with some individualizing accessory, of course) and sing love medleys? I was afraid this cotton candy crowd would scream the entire in a deafening tone, as though being stabbed...
...only thing missing from Get Happy is a serious discussion of Garland's musicianship. "I never heard anybody sing...just the way you do," an amazed James Mason tells her in A Star Is Born. Truer words were never scripted. Dumpy and unglamorous, she acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable...
Some questioned his politics. Others just wanted him to sing again...
...experience was a bliss of tolerance and wonder. "You'd never get this in the States!" I said gleefully at a Spanish restaurant, munching on a part of the bull that even his mother is embarrassed to mention. "Why are the waiters laughing at me?" Here in Spain, people sing together at bus stops. At first, I didn't think that was weird. Then, long about the third day, I hit Stage...