That No Good Dirty Liar or We've Been Overtaken!

Well, long time...

So, Phonogram #1 hit the stores today, and it is excellent. Sadly, the author did not use my email for the letter page as he promised. I'm trying not to show I'm disappointed. Honestly, not sure what he wanted of mine, anyway. I think it was the following :

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You'd be amazed at how undominate Oasis was, probably at how quiet the Britpop movement was overall. (Sorry, I had to respond to this) I remember there being a big buzz about Oasis when they firt came out, and talk about an impending war betweeen Blur and Oasis for world domination. However, in the states, it didn't really happen that way. I get a lot of what is going on over there across the pond from imported music magazines (mostly Q and Mojo and Uncut.) When Oasis started there was this fantastic show on MTV called 120 minutes. It aired at midnight on Sunday, and really showcased the music that wasn't getting popular play. At the time they gushed about Oasis and how big they were. I went out and bought that first album, and didn't quite see why they were so big. I liked it enough, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Supersonic, Live Forever all great songs, but there was a lot of other stuff going on that us kids were listening to (a little group called Nirvana.)

I still have a lot of friends who would barely know Oasis. Now, they did become successful over here, mind you... Live Forever was what got them noticed, then Wonderwall really made them stars... but they were an enourmous entity in England way before that (or so I'm told.) Blur had Song 2, which got them mainstream airplay over here, but their earlier stuff was largely ignored.

The biggest crime is that the album "Different Class" by Pulp remains one of the better albums of the last 10 or so years, and not one of the songs ever got national play in the USA. We had to wait a year for their "We Love Life" album. England's pop and USA's pop is so amazingly different sometimes. Sadly, there are thousands and thousands of us who are into alternative/indie/whatever thelatest buzzword is, and we'd all benifit immensely from a good portal into Britain's pop music.

I always find it rather sad that the good ole' USA was pretty much the birthplace of rock and roll - the gritty R&B from the south becoming popularized by Chuck Berry and BB King and the likes - and yet, Britain took that sound and has held the rights, and world dominance, since. Not sure how that happened, how we lost it (though the Beatles had everything to do with it.) A favorite "late night and shit-faced" activity is to sit around and whine about how of the greatest rock bands of all time, none are from over here (Zep, Beatles, Stones, U2, Floyd, etc). When we try to find the ultimate USA rock band, the best we usually come up with is Aerosmith. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth.


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Typical whine-whine of how USA really didn't keep the rock n' roll thing too well. just a matter of opinion I suppose.

so, anyway, no print for me. I suppose the only thing left to do is get something published and crush these people beneath my god's paw.

Oh, and I am really and truly slacking right now. I recently interviewed a comic writer on Saturday, and have yet to type the thing up. The fact that I am out of my house 15+ hrs per day has a little to do with it honestly. I need to get to it, and soon.

I just noticed I can now use a google account to log into blogger. So blogger has been picked up by "The Man." Not sre if I'm supposed to be angry or not. I think... I don't really care. I did notice a higher number of comment spam, so that may be a sign of things to come. You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have... the facts of life.

Oh, Beth has mentioned that that share-a-story idea has fallen to the wayside. she blames me. she is accurate. I still want to finish the damn thing, and she's going to, so I guess we're going to submit our own conclusions. I feel like i'm in English class. Maybe I can stretch the due date by going on a school approved field trip. it used to work.

Going to CA the first half (at least) of September. The condition red state of air travel does have me freaked a little. If they ban PSP/DSes (gameboys for the non-hip crowd), I may have to cancel the flight. The terrorists would have won.

Anyway, that's about it for now. Thanks for playing along at home. I'll check in with you guys later.