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Bad Cover Versions: Flea and Nick Cave – Wichita Lineman
Oh… dear. I’m beginning to wonder if Nick Cave should give up music altogether, given the mediocre last album and this teaming up with Flea. Yup, actual Flea of RHCP. Together at last, nuts n gum. This cover of the Glen Campbell song is truly insipid. It’s a tremulous dirge, but not in a good…
John Waters at The No Kings Protest
As if I couldn’t love The Pope of Trash, John Waters, enough, he turned up at the No Kings Protest in Provincetown, on March 28th with this witty sign: “Trump ruined bad taste” You’ve gotta love him. I do. Long may he subvert the mainstream.
Overlooked Classic: Young Adult (2011)
“She wears denim wherever she goes/Says she’s gonna get some records by The Status Quo/Oh, yeah”… You’ve got to love a film which begins with Teenage Fanclub’s ‘The Concept’ blasting out on an old car tape deck. So begins Diablo Cody’s masterful Young Adult, starring Charlize Thereon as the particularly vituperative Mavis Gray, a (barely)…
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