THE NENA/KIM WILDE PROJECT, PART 3: YOU DON’T SPEAK MY DIALECT

You remember Nena and Kim Wilde, don’t you?

They did a song together once, you know. Because you can do that when you were big in the 80s in Europe.

Together again,

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Smoked, sauced and cooked,

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LISTEN TO IT #9: AT THE PENTAGRAM THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE

Some of you know my affinity for Roky Erickson, whose backstory is the stuff of rock’n’roll legend. He’s also an admittedly acquired taste for most people, given his obsessions with the occult and horror movies, though there was always more to him than that.

Anyway, his mental condition has limited his output, but he has a new album out now, with Okkervil River as his back-up band. It’s his first studio album since 1995. And while it may not win over a lot of new fans, I think his existing fan base will dig it.

At least I do. It might depend on whether you prefer Roky in acoustic/reflective mode or demon-obsessed rock mode. I confess to preferring the latter, but what really makes this album work is Okkervil River’s musical style, which blends feedback and soundbites from Roky’s home videos to create probably the closest thing we’ll ever hear to what the music in Roky’s head must sound like before it comes out. So even the quieter songs sound as though they’re being transmitted from another dimension.

Listen.

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It says a lot that you kind of have to listen to the whole album to get the full impact of what they’ve done here. Listening to just one track doesn’t cut it.

It’s that good.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Shout-out to bedsitter23  for hipping me to this.

Relaxing souls on the dotted lines,

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LET ME COVER YOU IN OIL

ITEM: A computer modeling study released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) estimates that oil from the BP Gulf Oil Disaster could extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer.

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The study comes with plenty of caveats:

Peacock and her colleagues stress that the simulations are not a forecast because it is impossible to accurately predict the precise location of the oil weeks or months from now. Instead, the simulations provide an envelope of possible scenarios for the oil dispersal. The timing and course of the oil slick will be affected by regional weather conditions and the ever-changing state of the Gulf’s Loop Current—neither of which can be predicted more than a few days in advance. The dilution of the oil relative to the source will also be impacted by details such as bacterial degradation, which are not included in the simulations.

Still, no wonder Tony Hayward is trying to reassure his shareholders that BP has things under control.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has a message for the environmentalists out there:



Because if you’d have let oil companies drill as much as they want wherever they want, this never would have happened in places where it’s too hard to fix.

So thanks a lot, hippies. Yr radical Muslim green fascism just killed the Gulf of Mexico and the entire Atlantic seaboard. Hope yr happy.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Photo from The Big Caption.

Fill ‘er up,

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