PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: from SKL, on Mel Harris’s WEST WING appearance: “Nobody in the U.S. Senate has hair like that…”


DEPT. OF EX-SQUEEZE ME?

I don’t know when defending Albert Goldman became critical “chic,” but it doesn’t wash. His pop journalism is not “criminally underrated,” it’s idiotic on any level you care to go at it. While this quote about talent-free celebs sounds prescient in regards to figures like Paris Hilton, Goldman also felt Lennon, Presley, and many other rock stars were also talent free because they were untrained. It’s the worst sort of class discrimination, of the very type rock so successfully upended. Just because it was TOO successful, and is now WIDELY misunderstood, doesn’t mean it was wrong to begin with.


SPONGEBOB’s BIG MOMENT, Part XII

Listened to Smile again this morning. There’s this song from thhe Spongebob soundtrack, “Best Day Ever,” hilarious tribute to the master, that nobody’s written about yet. Walks the tricky line between comic salute and effervescent original. “Spent the last two hours just tying my shoe.” The boys have taken to singing the second, better half of “Bohemian Rhapsody” since they saw it in Wayne’s World. Also, “YMCA,” which beats all for cultural conundrums.