For an edifice designed to house and represent the seat of national and international power, it sure seems like the White House could have been diagrammed in crayon on college-ruled notebook paper during third period. We know there’s a bowling alley, of course—which Barack Obama is going to replace with a basketball court, as any modern eight-year-old would. There’s a private chef who can make you mac and cheese or pizza rolls, even after midnight!!! There’s a pool, a dog, a helicopter, spy equipment, secret rooms for ordering missile strikes, and lots of long hallways to skateboard down. There’s no moat (that we know of), but as it turns out, there is one more key feature: an awesome secret record collection!
If a studio chose to make a film from your novel, I’d imagine you’d be somewhat protective of the final product, down to the musical choices. Then again, if you’re a novelist who enjoys albums that came out before the Duffy record, your opinions about the soundtrack will probably be summarily ignored by the people financing the picture.
This weekend’s Summercase festival in Barcelona should have been what most festivals are: A celebrations of commerce intermixed with music you sort of enjoy. But John Lydon apparently couldn’t let people enjoy their three-euro water bottles and Bloc Party.
Here’s hoping that Activision has learned that staying on topic is not Johnny Rotten’s strong suit after witnessing his performance earlier this week at a press conference where the company asked him to help promote Guitar Hero III. In the following clip, “spokesman” Rotten spends about 45 seconds discussing the game before launching into one of his trademark semicoherent diatribes, using profanity nearly 100 times in the process. That’s a lot of quarters in the swear jar, John.
Displaying the acute cultural awareness that we’ve come to love the spiky little troll for, Johny Rotten recently went off on a trademark tear for MTV where he dissed the American Idiots for “bandwagon jumping” and confused the guy who played Two-Face in Batman Forever with the drummer for Methods of Mayhem, among other things:
Johnny Rotten thinks Sting is “”a soggy old dead carcass” and that “listening to ‘Stink’ try to squeak through ‘Roxanne’ one more time, it’s not fun. It’s like letting air out of a balloon.” A balloon with precious, precious reunion money flying out of it. More »
Johnny Rotten thinks Sting is “”a soggy old dead carcass” and that “listening to ‘Stink’ try to squeak through ‘Roxanne’ one more time, it’s not fun. It’s like letting air out of a balloon.” A balloon with precious, precious reunion money flying out of it. More »
Ed. note: Every two weeks, it seems, some magazine, TV network, or blog releases its “Top 100 so-and-so music things of all time” list. Often, these rankings simply recycle the same set-in-stone music-geek beliefs that were established years ago–Pet Sounds rules, as does London Calling, etc.–but because there are often shifts in the critical canon, we’ve asked alarmingly frequent Idolator commenter (and occasional guest editor) Chris “dennisobell” Molanphy to start keeping track of them for a column we’re calling “Canon Fodder.” In this column, he explores a 20-year battle over the greatest classic-punk album.
