Comments on: Hey Jack Kerouac

By: julia

julia — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:11:40 +0000

the machines, formerly known as ‘the machines of loving grace,’ named after a richard brautigan poem. *not as good as the guy who legally changed his name to, or the couple who named their baby, ‘trout fishing in america,’ but . . .

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:26 +0000

Toronto Beth: You’re definitely not banned. I was able to fish you out of our over-zealous spam filter. Thanks for alerting me to the problem.

All: If you’ve commented here and your sure-to-win entry has not appeared, please contact me using the “contact us” form on the main page. Thanks.

By: Beth (The Toronto One)

Beth (The Toronto One) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:52:39 +0000

Third attempt at posting here. I’m beginning to think I’ve been banned from your site.

Mack the Knife – The Three Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht

White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane – Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Not my very, very favourites but I do like them.

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:09:02 +0000

Russ: I think Kate’s dance really “sells” the song. I keep waiting for Heathcliff to come over the more and give her nothing but his scorn.

Shaft: Bonus points for mentioning genesis. I assume that since you used lower case your were referring to the substandard incarnation of the band as helmed by Phil Collins.

By: Shaft

Shaft — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:59:16 +0000

Here goes. My favorite literary reference is the band Velocity Girl (whom I was friends with and whose show I saw at the 40 Watt in Athens one night in 1994 shortly before falling down an elevator shaft, hence the nickname above). They named themselves after a b-side from Primal Scream, who named themselves after a book by Dr. Arthur Janov, whose book also lent its name to an album by Maynard Ferguson and was the genesis of Tears for Fears’ name. Beat that.

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:30:13 +0000

kate. that video. my eyes. they burnses

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:42:24 +0000

Frank: It was the ’80s. It was a simpler time.

By: Herman Glimscher

Herman Glimscher — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:32:23 +0000

I’ll give an answer that works in several ways: Steppenwolf. References to Mozart and jazz abound, with Mozart actually appearing as a character, and, according to Hesse himself, the novel’s structure is based on the sonata form.

I think there was also a rock combo that used that name.

And if that doesn’t get your motor running, I don’t know what will.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:15:54 +0000

I gotta say, it takes a confluence of many errors of judgment — a perfect storm of bad ideas, if you will — to make someone as smokin’ hot and hugely talented as Kate Bush was back in the day look as silly as she does in that video. As in Ministry of Silly Walks levels of silly.

Band name: Veruca Salt, which of course is named after the brattiest little girl in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Not my favorite, but you said we’d be judged on inspiration, and that’s one people don’t think about much any more.

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:14:38 +0000

You can dispute the quality of King Dork, I’d mostly disagree with you though.

If/when YouTube ever returns, be sure to check out Kate bustin’ a move in the video above.