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A Magazine profile of Jon Brion, musical genius and pathological perfectionist. I think this article spends less time on "Jon Brion can play anything in any style" stories than any other I've seen, which is a big plus.

An awestruck fan interviews Steve Perry and the other guys from Journey. I'd put the Dave Eggers excerpt here, but I gave my copy to another Dave.

"Can the New Napster Survive?" Who cares? But I thought it took some nerve for someone from BuyMusic.com, the iTunes ripoff for Windows, to say "We're the first to interact with consumers on a digital platform".

A great article about Philadelphia's new Constitution museum.

And a feel-good piece on how nice New York was during the blackout, especially compared with the one in 1977. More historical context but less awesomeness than rollerboogie's story. (Also, a companion article notes that it wasn't nice for everyone.)

Comments

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Augh, earworm!

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Augh, earworm!

[rollerboogie.livejournal.com]

The most hilarious part of that first Times story about Nice New York is how they quote the line from Avenue Q to prove that even neighborhooods like the Lower East Side are considered nice now--except that in AQ, that's a JOKE. The joke is that the couple is moving from an outer-borough neighborhood to a real nice place--the LES! HAH HAH HAH.

Granted, the LES is choked full of more hipsters than Bedford, but honestly.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

See, this is the kind of subtlety we out-of-towners just can't get. Maybe that whole Times article about the blackout was written from a studio apartment in Santa Clara.

Although I was pretty suspicious of the use of "Avenue Q" to demonstrate any serious point about New York.

journey

[chrismwage.livejournal.com]

I am a proud owner of the Journey box set.

And, Steve Augeri sounds eerily like Steve Perry. It's like they cloned him from Perry's saliva or something. I saw them and Foreigner play at a kitschy double billing at a huge ampitheatre here. It was pretty awesome, despite what you might think. I left the show convinced that Augeri was actually Steve Perry. (At this point Augeri's replacement of Perry was news to me, and considered dubious at that.) His performance left no doubt. That WAS Steve Perry. Yet, it wasn't. I'll be damned.

I would love to see Perry back with Journey. It seems like such a depressing, sour note to end a relationship/band that was generally so overwhelmingly positive.

Re: journey

[jfb.livejournal.com]

The desire to quote more Journey led me to this site (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden/lyrics/), on which the author provides lyrics to songs that are important to him, followed by commentary explaining their relevance to his life. For Sting's "Be Still My Beating Heart" (which I love), he begins: "My almost continuous intellectualization of my feelings has done me a fair bit of good, I'll have to admit."

I've never thoroughly investigated Journey, but I always enjoy singing along with them (or with Steve Perry) when I'm listening to classic rock radio.

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

I miss dave.