week 2:
for love of mixtapes; god is a dj (and his name is fred); wyclef returns; A-HA RETURNS (!); the twenty greatest songs ever scientifically determined by a three man panel consisting of me, myself and i; oh, and, boobs.

week 3:
get drawn to the magnetic fields; three movies that are grossly overrated; some of the greatest movies...ever; xtc murders love...again; james brown breaks out in a "cold sweat"; morrissey and springsteen...separated at birth?; i bare my soul...again; and MORE!

week 4:
gladiator slays me, eminem and xtc reviews, a new look!, i poke fun at my own writing, the inmates take over the asylum, and MORE!

other blogs i like:
(because they're out there, you know)
nylpm
blue lines
josh's blog
westernhomes
log.nu
skykicking
pearls that are his eyes
catherine's pita
public blog
i drank WHAT?
cultural artifacts of the moment
frytopia

WILLIAM SHATNER - "MR. TAMBOURINE MAN"

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inspired by josh's listening to captain kirk's version of "lucy in the sky," i decided to search for mr. shatner's version of "hey mr. tambourine man." i'd heard it once before and thought that the production was nearly good and that shatner's performance was compelling (and it is, in a ridiculous way).

well, i stumbled across the song and i was right, the production is actually better than i remembered. unlike most, i don't think it's too difficult to figure out whether or not shatner is being serious. having seen him being interviewed on a number of occasions, it's obvious that shatner is a very self-aware individual, and i'm nearly certain that he knew that he had a particular hammy acting style, which was used to devastating effect on "mr. tambourine man." his delivery sounds as if he was delivering shakespeare (which he did in fact do on the same album, the transformed man). and if anyone needed another clue, listen to the scream of "mr. tambourine man" that closes out the song.

upon listening to this song, and his version of "lucy in the sky," it occurs to me that on the transformed man, shatner is the ersatz richard harris. that's right, the ERSATZ RICHARD HARRIS, with "mr. tambourine man" as his "macarthur park." which means he's pretty damned bizarre given that harris himself was fairly out there and jimmy webb, who wrote both harris' late 60s album, was even more spacey, though the combo of the two was undeniably brilliant. i'm only left lamenting the fact that shatner and webb never got together -- the very concept is mind-boggling, and one can only lament that it wasn't to be.