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oracknows | April 19, 2006I already know what the biggest musical flop of the year 2007 will be. Don't worry; it's not a difficult prediction. I just learned that Michael Jackson is back in the studio recording an album:
LONDON Apr 19, 2006 (AP)-- Michael Jackson has returned to the studio and plans to release a new album next year for a record label owned by the son of Bahrain's king.
2 Seas Records, which is owned by Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, said Tuesday it had signed an exclusive recording agreement with Jackson, and the new album was tentatively scheduled for release in late 2007.
Jackson, 47, moved to…
oracknows | April 15, 2006Out of Finland, comes a video so mind-bogglingly, surrealistically bad that it's oddly entertaining. I couldn't help but watch it with utter fascination at the amount of effort that must have gone into something so strange.
Enjoy...I think.
oracknows | April 7, 2006One last photo from my afternoon at Venice Beach a couple of weeks ago.
All I want to ask is this:
Is this Alice Cooper's daughter?
Dark eyeliner like Dad's?
Check.
Huge snake like Dad's?
Check.
It could be.
Or is this her below?
oracknows | April 2, 2006I'm apparently a punk wannabe...
I am 30% Punk Rock.
Well, I may know what punk is, but... Okay maybe some people think I am punk, but is that enough? Nope.
Take the
Punk Rock Test
@ FualiDotCom
oracknows | March 30, 2006
Why? Because I feel like it. So here goes...
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
And now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my Mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man!…
oracknows | March 24, 2006Speaking of Holocaust denial, opening sentence of a review of a new CD by Be Your Own Pet:
Aside from the deaf or those in a level of denial up there with David Irving's idiot pronouncements on the Holocaust, everyone's aware that we live in great times for music.
Heh.
I'm not sure this sort of reference in the popular media is a good thing or not. On the one hand, it suggests a widespead knowledge that David Irving is a Holocaust denier, otherwise most readers wouldn't understand the reviewer's reference to David Irving. On the other hand, it implies that David Irving is far more well known…
oracknows | March 13, 2006
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you Big Brother
Song: Big Brother. Album: Diamond Dogs (1974)
Why this song?
Given what's going in over the last few years, you have to ask?
oracknows | March 11, 2006Need more cowbell?
Not if you're this guy.
Bummer.
Next we'll hear about miraculous "cowbell cures" from alties.
oracknows | March 4, 2006The Friday Random Ten is a bit of a blog tradition that many bloggers periodically indulge in, including fellow ScienceBloggers PZ, Chad, and John. However, Orac, ever the contrarian, likes to indulge in this practice on Saturdays (when he does it at all). So, without further ado, take a plunge into a very small sampling (0.08776%) of Orac's music collection that happened to come up randomly on a shuffle play set for my entire iTunes library:
The Harbinger Complex, I Think I'm Down (from: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era).
Suede (I refuse to call them "The London…
oracknows | February 24, 2006Those who've been regulars here for a while know that on Fridays and the weekends, I often (although not always) like to take a lighter approach with my posts and links. In that vein, I bring you a vision of what's become of Michael Jackson...