DVD Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Blu-Ray News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of Vanishing Point on 24th February 2009 priced at $34.99 SRP. Director Richard Sarafian's car chase classic sees ex-marine, ex-race car driver Kowalski (Barry Newman) take to the road...
Crazy Aunt Purl (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Well, I'm not dead, just croaky. I haven't been this sick in a long time. Yesterday I thought the teabags were undulating, so apparently it's affecting my vision as well. I do have that sexy throaty voice thing going, where you think you sound like Kim Carnes singing "Bette Davis Eyes" but really you kind of sound like an eighty-nine-year-old male smoker. Tomato, tomahto. I managed to soldier through...
Startled Bunny (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
It Raised Me Up So I Can Stand On Mountains? As If! Had A Bad Week, So I Need Cheering Up, And Producing This Helped. Divide And Kreate - Until It Talks Starfucker - Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second (iTunes) The Chap - Proper Rock (mTraks) Asobi Seksu - Thursday (iTunes) Dawn Landes - Bodyguard (iTunes) Buena Vista Social Club - De [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
1985: The love affair between fans and the Phillies that had begun in the glory years of the mid 1970s was officially ruptured during the course of a miserable 75-87 season.
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
More buskery goodness from Smelly Cat (earlier I showed you them singing Nik Kershaw’s The Riddle in a bathtub), singing Bette Davies Eyes in a living room. Here’s the Kim Carnes original, with most excellently obvious lip-synching and cheesy 80s dancing: Half Man Half Biscuit did a song called “Dickie Davies Eyes” after Dickie Davies, moustachioed presenter [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
(I don’t have much of an intro for this week’s CHART ATTACK! — only that today’s writer, Rob Smith, made me laugh so hard it woke up my wife in the next room. It’s only fitting that Rob, who goes by “EightE1″ on the blogs, tackles this specific year. You’re going to love [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or played by David Foster. A deal with the devil? He keeps wondering. “I have a style, but it’s very subtle.” David Foster, March 1985 “What About [...]
O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
With Volume 120, No. 38, the venerable music industry bible Billboard celebrates its 50th year of quantifying and qualifying the music industry. Their special “50th Anniversary Special Issue” is a must-have addition to any musicophile or chart student’s library. It’s a wealth of trivia, information and nostalgia. Over the next few weeks, I’ll share [...]
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
They just don't make 'em like they used to! The original diva, Bette Davis, is being honored starting Thursday with a 42-cent commemorative stamp. The stamp features the actress as she appeared in the 1950 film All About Eve. In the classic movie, she portrays an aging stage actress defending her career from a pushy young [...]
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
When I saw that Leighton Meester was covering Bette Davis Eyes I was prepared for it to suck, but it actually isn’t that bad. I just wish it wasn’t so synthesized. I wonder what Kim Carnes would think of the Gossip Girl’s version of her hit song that you can hear below! addthis_url [...]
Lefsetz Letter (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Music is supposed to make you feel good. It's supposed to wrap you in a blanket, make you feel everything's going to be all right.I heard this Whiskeytown track on XM, "I Still Miss Someone". Being country ignorant, I didn't know it was written by Johnny Cash. I needed to hear it again, to experience [...]
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Leighton Meester, also known as Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf, was born in 1986. But that doesn't stop her from covering Kim Carnes' No. 1 hit from 1981: "Bette Davis Eyes." (Didn't you hear? She's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Word Around the Net (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
"Come on baby, lets do the twist!" -Chubby Checker Billboard Magazine has been keeping track of the most popular songs in the United States for fifty years now. Starting in 1958, the magazine began its "hot 100" list, relying on surveys of disk jockeys and record stores until the late 1980s when the survey became based on hard data: actual play lists and especially UPC scans from stores (the
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Leighton Meester attends the Zac Posen Spring 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Tent, Bryant Park on September 11, 2008 in New York City. The 22-year-old Gossip Girl star sat next to actress/model Joy Bryant and celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, who has a new reality TV show, The Rachel Zoe Project, [...]
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
YouTube via anacolangelo. SCI Prophet-5 at 2:27. Via AH. Never realized they had the New Romantic thing going. "Bette Davis Eyes Video Kim Carnes"
