Ask Anthony Miccio

I adore "Mr. Brightside," currently in my Top Ten Singles Of 2005. Dunno about Kate Bosworth (dunno who that is) but Eric Roberts is in it and I think Scarlett Johannsen appears for two secons dressed like Oscar Wilde. I've got a rant about how amazing the Sophie Muller-directed video on the Killers thread. Nu-Wave is gonna blow the hell up in 2005. The song's already a pop hit! I'd say more but I don't want to repeat my countless posts on that Killers thread too much.

I didn't know that Tina Turner was back in the spotlight. What for? I haven't heard anything about her since she did that tour that came to town to support a pantyhose brand. I'm faily indifferent unless I hear some great new single. I don't really find her particularly sexy. I'm not a gams man. I should buy Private Dancer if I see it in a used vinyl rack for cheap.

You're a cool dude, Scott. Hope this clears things up.

Anthony

Was it hard to re-adjust to life after that lobotomy?

Sincerley,
The Management

Can it not be argued that Linkin Park succeeds more than Limp Bizkit in terms of capturing angst?

Ned

I think of you every time I hear "1985." I doubt I'm the only one.

Anthony

Linkin Park definitely has done a better job of capturing different varities of angst (ninety shades of blue). I also giving them credit for writing songs about how people don't really want to be angsty any more, though I'm kind of waiting for them to write about something else (I'm hoping their Violator comes sooner than Depeche's did). Limp Bizkit is simply about the angst of one individual, one beautifully bonkers individual.

See I, i got room to talk, kid
I been layin' this track since north cackilack
And the very first day that you fell out the sack
I was in some fat laces, spinnin' on my back
Let me think, let me roll, let me ride
Let me put some funk in the trunk, triple 5
And a memory that can easy your pain
Like a melody from kurt cobain

Anthony

The mere fact that you even pay attention when you hear Bowling for Soup says more about you than it does about me.

I thank you for your considered answer to my previous question. I now wish to switch gears slightly. If you found yourself between two teams of overweight ex-jocks that were respectively shouting "tastes great" and "less filling" to each other, would you join either team, mock them both, or leave quietly?

Ned

I've only heard "I Want Candy." If I could check more of their stuff out without paying money, I might. Maybe. I do love Kings Of The Wild Frontier.

Anthony

I will never find myself between two teams of ex-jocks. I am very tall and my ability to walk briskly away from unpleasant situations is something I'm grateful for. That said, I tend to be a quantity-over-quality guy when it comes to food & drink. At least until I start making more $$$.

P.S. isn't it funny how if you take every type of adolescent dude music over the last twenty years and throw it in a blender you get Linkin Park? No wonder they're so popular. If it wasn't for the angst I bet critics would be licking they ass. Sometimes I worry that all artistic/commercial breakthroughs in rock will be whine-based. I blame Robert Smith.

Anthony

For mentioning Robert Smith in the same paragraph as Linkin Park, I've dispatched a squad of flying incontinent monkeys to come and smite you. Hope you're not wearing your favorite Good Charlotte t-shirt.

Sincerely,
the Management.

How do you handle passive-agressive 3rd-grade-level man-crushes?

Sincerely,
Dr. Joyce Brothers

Is it a compliment for Robert Smith mentioning him in the same sentence with Linkin Park?

I'm still undecided if that mash-up single - I haven't heard the record with Jay-Z is utterly sublime or just horrendous.

Nathalie

I am going assume these monkeys flew out your butt.

http://www2.filmweb.no/multimedia/archive/00026/Mike_Myers_i_Wayne_s_26692a.jpg

Anthony

Surely Robert Smith is not to be blamed for such a fine development in music. However, I realize there will be differences of opinion in this regard.

My next question is: if the dude from Electric Six guest-starred on a major hip-hop artist's next single, who would the artist be, and who would the producer be, if the artist and producer were separate entities?

Ned

No, it's a fuckin' insult. Linkin Park is utter, indefensible trash.

Mike Myers did not invent flying monkeys, Anthony (again, your youth!!) SHE did!

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/E-Cass/1998-ME/Avery/witch.jpg

I humor these fellows for a while, but if they start annoying me my responses get more and more terse until finally I just ignore them.

Anthony

Who would win in a fight, Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Stroke) or Emmanuel Lewis (Webster)? Keep in mind that Gary Coleman worked as a security guard for a brief time and that Emmanuel Lewis has laser vision.

Your friend,
Bobcat Goldthwait

cheers,
gay geoff

Why am I such an American hero?

In eternal love,
Billy Zane

Sincerely
KL

Despite being an obvious kneejerk answer, Dick Valentine's presence on a Lil Jon single would be kind of redundant. Rather than suggest a rapper for him to collaborate with, I'll simply dream of a world where every he re-records the vocal on every Ja Rule track ever, making the world an infinitely superior place. So I guess my answer is Ashanti (produced by Irv Gotti or whoever).

Those lips! Those EYE-HI-HIES

Anthony

If ILM was a company in an office building with cubicles, offices with doors, and meeting rooms, would Linkin Park be the IT staff? What would the cafeteria serve?

With love,
mh

Will Creed sound better in hindsight, due to semi-ironic cheese appreciation that has helped Journey so much, and eventually be championed by a sizable number of "serious" music fans?

Another valuable piece of information when considering Coleman vs. Lewis is that Emmanuel is tight with Lil' Jon. My friend Ned K (I may be the only person on Friendster with two Neds in his friends list) actually guessed that Webster would appear ten seconds before he did when I showed him the video for "I Don't Give A Fuck." E-Lew gets crunk. That said I don't want to think about them fighting. I wish them well. I give it to Coleman though. He seems like he has more frustration to work out.

Anthony

Your suggestion of the Ja Rule replacement fills me with much merriment and soothes my troubled soul. If this Ashanti collaboration took place, would Irv Gotti produce it from jail? What would the video look like?

Ned

How are you celebrating Groundhog Day? I don't know whether to be excited for it, or whether it's no big deal. You're a Pennsylvania fellow, clue me in!!!

Muddled in Madison

P.S. Do you ever get tired of people trying to bait you into a Patrin-style meltdown/smackdown by mocking some of your favorite groups? Do you wish they'd move on? Or do you think it's all funny, just a part of the game, westside, etc.?

not like that, sorry. Photos of Josh Homme, John Reis and that saucy Bill Gates shot that was going around made me wonder, but I have no desire to see what lies behind the bulge. I think that's key. I merely wouldn't mind being Homme, Reis, or a saucy young Gates.

Anthony

In death will Rodney Dangerfield find the respect he sought to relentlessly in life, or will he burn forever in the unforgiving bowels of hell?

Completely without sarcasm,
David

In "Bust a Move," Young MC claims that "your best friend Harry has a brother Larry; in five days from now he's gonna marry / He's hoping you can make it there if you can, 'cause in that (???) you'll be the best man." Why didn't Larry ask his own brother to be the best man at his wedding?

Wondering in the West Village

I have no clue. You are Australian or a Kiwi or something, right? Maybe that pic was around the time you did that Abbie Hoffman movie. You were great in Dead Calm. Haven't seen The Phantom but I hear you slammed evil.

Anthony

Do you ever get tired of people trying to bait you into a Patrin-style meltdown/smackdown by mocking some of your favorite groups?

Much like Alex with his KJ fascination, he knows those fools will soon change their minds and worship said groups. ;-)

iSyncerely yours
Stevie

I don't remember the context but I know that ?uestlove's less-than-enthusiastic countenance represented my feelings towards whatever thread that was quite well. Sometimes it's just better to say nothing. Repeatedly.

Anthony

I have no desire to think of ILM as an office. And Linkin Park has better things to do. If I had my way the cafeteria would be exactly like Simmons Cafeteria at PSU, which I miss like crazy.

Anthony

Creed will get no more critical re-appreciation than whatever Grand Funk gets, which can't be that much. That said, I think "With Arms Wide Open" is a fine song (I hope your kid isn't like you either, Scott). "My Sacrifice" is pretty fun too. The video is a trip and I like how he opens the first single following the big hit album with "hello my friends, we meet again!"

P.S. U2 fans need to realize that Scott Stapp is all their fault. See Rattle & Hum. This is where psuedo-spiritual arena-rock hogwash leads to. Nobody should go there.

Anthony

Serious question: is there any music out there that you actively don't like and/or actively disgust? If so, may I politely ask you to cite some names.

Cheers,

Alex in New York City

PS: OTM re: Creed/U2 connection.

the video would simply be every Ja Rule video with Dick Valentine in his place. Valentine re-creating Grease and then leading a bizarre protest march where black people hold up signs with the names of dead rappers and MURDER INC. Valentine and J. Lo just chillin'. Valentine hanging around in some villa off the south of France with Kells, concurring that life is now a pussy buffet.

Anthony

Bunnybrains+Linkin Park=A New Direction For Rap-Metal?

I totally forgot it was Groundhog Day. That's really a Punxsatawney thing. I'm not much for big public shindigs anyhow. I've never been to a PSU football game and I only went to State College's First Night (a News Years Celebration) for the first time this year. The heat made all the ice sculptures melt. It looked like the horses and swans were crying.

P.S. Yes, I get tired of it. Yes, I wish they'd move on. But I'm not going to have a Patrin-style breakdown for a number of reasons (all of which I'm grateful for).

Anthony

This is a fine vision. The U2/Creed observation is also noteworthy in that the first small interview I ever read from Stapp when the first album came out was nothing but him talking about how U2 changed his fundamentalist life. I had fears from that moment forward.

If you had a chance to direct a horror movie, who would you cast?

Ned

I don't believe in Hell. I refuse to believe that an omniscient force that can actually conceive eternity would bother with one. It would be like spending a month doing nothing but torturing an ant. When we die we either just STOP - big sleep - or its all gumdrops and orgasms. So you know Dangerfield is just fine and indifferent to issues like respect.

Anthony

Bothering to ponder this would be liking hanging myself with a celibate rope.

Anthony

What is your favorite album of all time? You said on your weblog the other day that it was by AC/DC, but your actual countdown had that as only #35, and Let It Be at #1. What the fuck?

The Obligatory Sourpuss.

some artists who may have some good songs, but I haven't heard them yet: Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Simple Plan, uhh... Ok, I know there are some acts that infuriate and annoy with disturbing consistency but I really can't think of many off the top of my head. Pious folk is the only thing that comes immediately to mind. Joan Baez, ick. My ex-gf got mad at me once when I was bitching about some Simon & Garfunkel track she was listening to where they told off a preacher.

Anthony

What is with all the heavy breathing and wheezing at the end of Depeche Mode's "Blashpemous Rumours"? Does Martin Gore have athsma?

Barry

It would depend on the material. While I would rather they had never re-made The Haunting (the original is one of my favorite movies ever), I would like to take the cast of the atrocious Jan De Bont version and put them in a film that actually attempts to stay faithful to the spirit of the original film (no CGI). Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lily Tomlin and Owen Wilson were perfectly cast, just given a shitacular script and a braindead director.

Anthony

My favorite album of all time is still the Mats' Let It Be by a country mile or three. That Album Could Be My Life. Bon-era AC/DC is my favorite band of all time (with respect to the Velvets and the Pixies - sure helps to not be around long) and Powerage is simply my favorite album of theirs, not of everyone's. Sorry about the confusion.

Anthony

I have no idea. Is that stuff still on the Catching Up With Depeche Mode edit? I don't remember it. Anyhow, that's easily one of my top 5 favorite Depeche songs. I love songs that are both cathartic and amusing.

Anthony

Have you expressed blood-boiling rage at the lack of a proper CD issue of the Human League's Fascination! mini-LP in any form? If so, why? If not, why not? And if it does exist and I'm missing it, where can I get it? (And this question is open to anyone in this thread as well, if I may be so bold.)

Donut Christ

my friend Will got the cassette of that from a Goodwill a couple years ago and it sounded pretty lame aside from the title track. I'm quite happy with Dare and a few songs I taped from the Hits album (particularly "The Lebanon," which has one my favorite guitar parts ever).

Anthony

Dear Anothony,

I am a 19-year-old young man who is writing you from a jail cell. None of my crimes were violent. They mainly consisted of theft and drugs. I've had a bad drug problem ever since my best friend overdosed in my hotel room. I did drugs before then, but not as much as afterward.

One thing led to another, and soon I found myself behind the wheel of other people's cars and using other people's credit cards.

I have been locked up for three months now, and looking back, I can't believe the life I was living. Is there still a chance I can turn my life into a success when I'm released? And what do you recommend I do to stay sober and lead a happy life? -- TOUGH LUCK IN CHATTANOOGA

Dear TLIC,

My Aim Is True = "woah, this guy is pretty smart for an angry young snot. if only his band wasn't so generic."

This Years Model = "oh, man he's found a great band! he's totally captured the whole frustrated young guy thing."

Armed Forces = "oh, ok he has nothing to say other than Don't Be A Nazi To Me, Just Give Sex When Needed but he's gonna keep getting more pretentious and self-congratulatory with every album"

It's harsh (I like Brutal Youth actually), but if there was a moment where in hindsight he revealed what his bag was, it was then.

-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), January 18th, 2005.

I am listening to the Sultans, one of John Reis's many fine bands and projects. They are quite rock. As many reading this thread might not have heard the Hot Snakes in particular, which album or song would you recommend to them?

Ned

If I may jump in here, it's a RESPIRATOR! Listen to the lyrics. Hit by a car/ended up on a life support machine. Do the math.

Somebody from my local newspaper called me today because they wanted to ask me some questions about the heroin addict that tried to rob my house. They were put in jail for 3 years today. Should I have kept my anonymity, or told them to slap my name on the front page for being an incredible crime stopper hero guy? I also would have liked to have added in some criminal style tips (puffy jackets mark you out as a theif, guy! Thats why the cops got you!). However, will this information come back to haunt me in a possible fight to the death?

Suede the hero of the world

What are you wearing?

Love,
David

All three Hot Snakes albums are wonderful. Pop-Jehu. Wipers with better lyrics. They've never written a song that I flat-out dislike, which made seeing them live wonderful - I feared nothing. Automatic Midnight is my favorite album, "Salton City" is arguably my favorite track. Pick tracks include "If Credit Matters I'll Take Credit," "Plenty For All," "10th Planet," "I Hate The Kids," "LAX," "Braintrust," "Think About Carbs," gah...so many great ones. But really, if you like one you'll probably like the rest.

Anthony

I would prefer anonymity.

Anthony

I am wearing clothes. Button-down shirt (blue and white stripes - GO PSU), jeans, old rock t-shirt (GBV), same shoes I'm wearing in that pic on ILE.

Anthony

Haha, I know, but not every question on this thread warranted a serious answer.

Apparently, this ending was cut on "Catching Up With DM" (which I don't own), so I ended up learning something after all.

Oh... oh yeah. That's how papa likes it.

I bet your hair smells wonderful. Like apples or cherry blossoms. Am I right?

Love,
David

"Sweet Home Alabama," though my knowledge of Skynyrd is woefully small. I mean to dig deeper once I find a bunch in a cheap vinyl rack someday.

Anthony

My hair smells like Head & Shoulders.

Anthony

Do you think Bono has anything to do with the Pope's failing health? Will he lead a takeover of the Vatican like an Omega Code stylee villain?

respectfully,

Leon

Do you still think the Go-Betweens are poncey (yeah, yeah, I know you love "Right Here")? Specifically, are you ready to give Robert Forster mad love?

Would you consider yourself a "cuddler"?

LOVE,
David

The pope's failing health has more to do with the fact that he's 243. I'm guessing there will be at least one pope between our current one before Bono takes over. He still has to end (or at least be seen standing next to the people who end) world debt and hunger, just like in the Omega Code. Then he will create the Nu-Catholic church, which will include all rockists ever.

Anthony

I like the Go-Betweens alright, thanks in part to the CD-R you gave me. I still find them kind of poncey and think McLennan kicks Forster's ass (I'll never like "Man'O'Child Girl'O'Sea"). Horsebreaker Star, yo.

Anthony

LL Cuddlin' A.

Anthony

What's the best song about Jesus?

If Nickelback do end up having the last ever rock US #1 Single, can I -- as a Canadian -- take ANY pride in this achievement? Or should I lie about my citizenship from now on when conversing in musical circles?

BB

Carman, "Jesus Christ." Basically the chorus of "Stayin' Alive" with new lyrics.

Anthony

Nickelback will not have the last #1 rock single. That will be the Killers' theme to a Bond movie in 2008 until Bono's "I Would Die 4 U" in 2020.

Anthony

What kind of a kisses do you like most? Pecks on the cheek or passionate, sloppy puppy kisses?

Love,
David

Did you catch the SNL with Ludacris and Simple Plan? Totally slipped my mind.

Well no, that's a lie.

It has been claimed elsewhere that Conor Oberst is sexually attractive if one is sexually attracted to anime characters. Do you find this a valid argument, or has it been phrased poorly?

Ned

Punctuated Equilibrium or classic, tried-and-true gradualism?

or, alternately:

Do you believe that there are angels among us? Sent down to us from somewhere up above?

I missed the Luda-Sum41 thing but I bet its better than Jay-Z/Linkin (better rapper, band less antithetical moodwise). I want to say Luda would never work with Simple Plan but he big-upped 3 Doors Down in his Blender Q&A so god knows what else is on that man's ipod.

Anthony

I wouldn't know myself, but it wouldn't surprise me. They're similarly exaggerated.

Anthony

I think it'd have to be pretty exceptional to top Jay-LP. I agree that the two artists are far more compatible, however.

Hopefully there are mp3s of this out there.

Will the upcoming Muppets/hip-hop version of The Wizard Of Oz be the year's cultural event?

Ned

I don't believe in angels because dead people are either dead or off having buffets and orgies in heaven. Visiting earth would be like hanging around an abbatoir for kicks. I don't understand the first question.

Anthony

For some reason I think the next Black Eyed Peas album, if it doesn't suck, will be the biggest cultural event of 2005. I think they're primed for an awesome Thriller-type (in style if not size) release full of moving ballads, liberal political thought and fun party tracks. The singles from Elephunk were such a giant evolutionary step for those guys that one more leap and they're dynamite. Yeah they look silly but MJ wore a single diamond-studded glove.

Anthony

Anthony

This is a bold claim but I am also intrigued by it, and therefore would like to hear more. If no guest collaborators have yet been announced, who would you expect/like to see on such an album?

Ned

I have no expectations, really. This is just a liberal pipe dream based on the fact that I seriously underrated "Where Is The Love?" and I tend to think these things come from unexpected places - I never would have guessed how great and popular Young & The Hopeless would be judging from GC's first album singles. I'd love a fun uptempo track with Big & Rich. Fuck new Dylan, I'm looking for new Motown.

Anthony

Do you ever do heavy manual labor? If so, do you work up a sweat? Do your clothes get all sticky, and before you go to bed you have to peel them off?

Love,
David

Anthony

-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), February 2nd, 2005.

ANGELS ARENT DEAD PEOPLE THEY ARE BEINGS SPECIALLY CREATED BY GOD ALMIGHTY TO SERVE HIM. But true, dead people are stupid if they wanna hang around. Ghosts are such morons.

The first question is an evolutionary biology-related question.

why did you stop posting to this thread: This Is The Thread Where We Post Random R. Kelly Song Lyrics And Pictures

it was just getting going, you know.

ok's
-mp

I totally forgot about it! May revisit it later when I have more time.

Anthony

i know you liked "party up" by dmx - did you ever buy "and then there was x...", the full-length album it came from? it is one of the greatest albums ever, and i feel you must! if u haven't, i cahnge my question to: will you please by "and then there was x..." by dmx.

respect,
weasel diesel

I own no DMX, as I actually never really enjoyed anything I heard before "Party Up," which I didn't even know was his until a few months ago. I've been meaning to reassess his singles via Launch and will definitely consider buying "and then there was x" on the cheap if I like the other videos from it.

Anthony

There's this girl I like, but I just can't bring myself to tell her.
What should I do?

Yours,

Pondering in Punta Gorda

I think 3 years ago you told me that the Bloodhound Gang were going to put out a danceable synth-pop album.
Is that still happening? When?

Tell her! Honesty is the best policy and cool girls won't be bothered by someone reaffirming that she's likeable. Just try to be kind and honest. "I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. If she bolts, it wasn't meant to be."

Anthony

Sincerely,
Vexed in the Village

yeah, where is that! I was so excited (see this article from 2002, which may have been where I got the scoop) and nothing! Though the "newsflash" page of their site hasn't been updated since aug 2003, lead singer Jimmy Pop's "Diary Of A Madman" section goes up to aug 2004. Looks like they were supposedly to finally release the album this year but it doesn't look like they've done it. They're still Big In Germany! Hope springs eternal, cuz we could use more songs like "The Bad Touch" (which I haven't thought about in ages, so thanks!).

Anthony

yeah I was a little surprised by that too. I think the album has just as many decent songs as his previous works. Xgau's never been a big fan, I'm guessing that Smith's consistent pathology and eventual fate wouldn't do anything to change that.

This line from his review of Jeff Buckley's Grace reaffirms that this just isn't his type of guy: "Sensitivity isn't being wimpy," [Buckley] avers. "It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom." So let us pray the force of hype blows him all the way to Uranus.

Anthony

Which of these bands will the archeologists wonder the most about in 4.000 years?

Alien Ant Farm
Sum 41
Bl!nk 1eighty2

Guidance & protection,

If the only Sloan albums I've heard are One Chord To Another and Smeared (and I only really like One Chord), which should I get next?

Al

sure thing! Will do.

Anthony

Blink. They're still be trying to figure out why DeLonge refers to his "yed" on the chorus of "I'll Miss You."

Anthony

Twice Removed is far and away my favorite. You might also enjoy Between The Bridges.

Anthony

obviously it's Blink, I shoulda thought so. Another thing: how many years before the key/wallet chain becomes a subculturally credible item again? And why didn't 1980ies leather ties come back as we thought they would?

Sincerely,

explain in haiku form why "get low" is so awesome.
-david

What is your favorite song on Twice Removed? Also, do you wear or would you consider wearing yellow aviator sunglasses?

Thanks,
Youn

I am the last person to ask about subcultural credibility, as I am not a fan of such things. Same with leather ties.

Anthony

its like a strip club
with more self-awareness and
no really old guys.

Anthony

It's really hard to pick just one, but if I have to pick I'd go with "I Can Feel It" (respect to "Bells On," "Deeper Than Beauty" and "Snowsuit Sound").

I wear yellow aviator glasses on Halloween.
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It's really hard to pick just one, but if I have to pick I'd go with "I Can Feel It" (respect to "Bells On," "Deeper Than Beauty" and "Snowsuit Sound").

I wear yellow aviator glasses on Halloween.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/TheManthony/manthonyinapt.jpg

Anthony

You'll know by early Friday afternoon, if not later tonight.

Anthony

thanks!

yr 5th biggest fan,
david

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Anthony

What is the reason you wake up in the morning?

Why can I have my own thread like this?

Love,

MTS

I wake up in the morning because I am done sleeping and should probably check my e-mail. When I was younger I used to do it because my alarm clock was going off and I had to go to school, but I never work before 1 so I don't have to set it that often. I also love life.

You probably don't have a thread like this because you don't post lots of unpredictable yet not entirely incoherent stuff. You should be more open with your opinions and share lots of random information like Limp Bizkit song lyrics and compare respected artists to ones that lack credibility with most music-lovers. You must be varied in your tastes, quick with the quip and a total fucking stud.

Anthony

are Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and 'Rape Me' actually the same song, but with different words?

Lobotomisingly,

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" has a little more swing. I prefer it.

Anthony

Swedishly,

I haven't heard Timberlake's full track. Somebody send me the mp3.

Anthony

I also am not aware of the discography of Dr. Alban (though I'd be curious to hear "No Coke"). The limits of my knowledge are being tested by these new questions.

Anthony

I was not aware and the concept makes me want to vomit. I can't find any sound samples anywhere. Amazon only has some "Garage-punk" tribute that I hope, for their sake, was recorded by 12-year-olds.

Anthony

What are your thoughts regarding Joe Paterno?

always,
-m.

WHO DA MAN?

HUH?

WHO DA MAN?

Hoo boy.

Yours,

How do you say, cheese?

I want Joe Pa (conservative reactionary fuck who gives lots of money to the libraries - argh, dilemma) to hang around and keep having losing seasons until they actually debate firing him. Maybe the town will have to find something else to get excited about.

Anthony

some examples of da man

http://www.winworld.co.uk/burton.jpg
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-08-29/music_livereviews-1.jpg
http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/may1996/images/around7.gif
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/ticket_line/images/snaps/dick_valentine.jpg

Anthony

ihttp://www.upress.state.ms.us/img/books/spring2001/john_huston_interviews.jpg

Who ate all the pies?

sincerely,
jimmy

Wiley ate all the pies. He also made my third favorite rap album of 2004 (behind Ghostface and Bumblebeez 81).

Anthony

youn, glad you like it.

http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0M5N7KMASFS6R1EKF2GXZKW4KC

does he call the girl a dime?

Regards,
Dan

Have you heard the JC Chasez album, & if so, what are yr five favourite songs? Also, would you like to hear some chart-topping NZ hip-hop/pop-punk/&c?

&c,
Stevie Kaye

The five sterling examples of Da Man shown (from top to bottom), are Richard Burton, John Reis, Robert Christgau, Dick Valentine and John Huston.

Favorite moments of Burton's filmography (of what I've seen): Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, The Spy who Came In From The Cold, Cleopatra, Hamlet (DVD of the stage performance). Still need to watch Don't Look Back In Anger. The journal excerpts in his biography are further evidence of his Da Manhood.

Anthony

that would rule! I have a similar compilation of Australian hits that Kit Brash made and its amazing. Love to hear more from the area. I really only know Flying Nun, OMC, International Telepaths and stuff by guys named Finn. Inform!

Anthony

where the fuck are my glasses!?! i am getting headaches from wearing contact lenses 24/7.

mark p.

I have no idea but I feel your pain. Contact lenses suck. Glasses protect your eyes and never slide up inside your head. Last time I couldn't find my glasses for a long period of time it was because I left them at a party I went to the night before. Last thing I remembered was miming to "Maps" while people slow danced and the next thing I knew I was laying on my bed with a gash on my head. Thankfully the person who threw the party noticed the extra pair lying around. I never crack open the vodka after drinking beer for hours. Only leads to trouble!

Keep looking and good luck.

Anthony

As both yourself and Alex In NYC currently have threads dedicated to the pickings of your respective minds, what similarities do you seen between yourself and the fire defender?

Our names start with the letter "A." We are both obsessed with music and fond of VH1 Classic. Our posts are rich with color and personality. We both have nothing better to do at work than post here.

Anthony

I hEar doqwn where yur Pee-pee is U are all Smooth@ like a GI Joe

TrU?

DannY Aged 12

I don't know who's getting their jollies by discussing my groin with prepubescent boys, but I strongly suggest you tell your parents about this person. They are clearly delusional and filled with malicious intent. Watch your back, kid, and don't talk to strangers.

Anthony

I Lub UUUU

but You dinint Answer Qwest#uoiN

DannY, Aged 12

As implied by my response, I don't get my jollies discussing my groin with prepubescent boys. Go play.

Anthony

Why does everyone on ILM* hate the Libertines except me?

Yrs,
Nate

*everyone on ILM that isn't a troll

Is your last name pronounced like "Missyo"

or it it...

"Mickey, yo!"

Just curious,
Alex in NYC

First off, I gotta say that its poor form for someone who gets paid to publicly dismiss bands to get pissy on an excelsior thread over a little joke (and it was a good one, btw). If you can't take the heat stop selling chili.

I don't hate the Libertines. Heard snippets of the first album at random places and it didn't grab me. I can remember the chorus of the "Can't Stop Me Now" song but I haven't heard anything else from the follow-up. Will dig deeper eventually. Not sure why people hate the Libertines because I haven't really dug through Libertines threads. Probably the mix of repulsive hype and an indifference to a relatively anonymous sound.

Anthony

I pronounce it "mitchy-o" though "meechy-o" is probably more correct. A quick look at my record collection will reaffirm I'm quite Americanized.

What was your first concert, and how was it?

Stop listening to Limp Charlotte and Good Bizkit,
Alex in NYC

A quick look at my record collection will reaffirm I'm quite Americanized.

Why have you sold out your race? Did you learn nothing from Meadow Soprano's attempts to integrate into American society?

Yours truly,

Domenico Francesco Passantino

REM, Monster tour. Starlake Ampitheatre outside Pittsburgh. 15, went with my dad. By sheer coincidence I wound up on the lawn right by one of my better friends in school and his dad. He was a crazed Stipe fan and I was a crazed Buck fan. After opening act Luscious Jackson (whatever) this humongous storm came and (as Stipe put it in his banter, later) "pissed old-testament rain" down on everybody. It cleared up right before they started. I enjoyed it a lot and really liked all the new songs that they later put on Hi-Fi. Everybody sang along with "Losing My Religion" and screamed "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!" during "End Of The World."

Still have and wear the shirt, though only if I'm wearing something over it.

Anthony

I'm only a quarter Italian (paternal grandfather, obv) and me and my sis were the only of his grandkids not raised in NY. Never seen the Sopranos.

I love pizza.

Anthony

Might you ever again write cute romantic dialogues between yourself and Kelly Osbourne, like you used to? I liked that a whole lot.

Greg

Are you from Pittsburgh, then?

always,
-m.

I'm sure inspiration will strike again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39540000/jpg/_39540215_kelly200.jpg

Anthony

born on an army base in Germany, lived in North Carolina, Colorado and Indiana. Been in State College, PA for about ten years. Moving to Philly in August.

i found my glasses. they were in a free laptop bag that i got from a client for christmas that i didn't need so i stuffed inside a big cardboard box and punted down into the basement. do you like fabolous?

mark p.

glad you found your glasses!

I think Fab is pretty boring. I want to say there was one hit I kinda enjoyed but I can't remember what it was or if it really even exists.

Anthony

Did you see the TRL awards yesterday? After winning the award for "the best band that actually plays instruments" (yes, that's an actual award), Good Charlotte performed "I Just Wanna Live" with Lil Jon. He came and and did a little call and response part before the 2nd verse, and then ad libbed through the rest of the song. It was great. Also, I thought you'd like to know that I saw a couple black girls singing "I Just Wanna Live" on my campus last week.

- Al

I didn't see the awards or even know about them. I don't watch TV. I am hunting a clip of this down right this fucking second. Jesus H Christ I want to hear this. Thanks for the scoop!

Anthony

Should I get Ryan Cabrera's haircut? (Not the color)

1) Should I really see The Omega Code?
1.5) Why particularly?
2) If casting the hip-hop version of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (a la The Wiz) who would you cast as Willie Wonka and Charlie? (obviously Da Brat will portray Veruca Salt, and Bushwick Bill: all of the Oompa Loompas).

((( in stereo )))
Bobby

1.5. Because its a loopy portrayal of The End Of Days with Michael York as an seemingly saving the world but secretly set on imperial goals and self-deification. Easily seen as a glimpse into Bono's middle age. Michael Ironside plays his toady sidekick (an aged The Edge?) and Casper Van Diem plays the young p.r. dude who must realize what's really happening before its too late. It's a laugh and a half.

2. Slick Rick and Lil Romeo

I'm at a coffee shop and this woman across from me is giggling to herself, clapping her hands, and writing in notebooks obviously inspired by the John Doe notebooks from the movie Seven. How do I approach her re: asking her out?

love
Gear

you a freak magnet. just give her a stare and a smile and she'll ask for your number and hat size in minutes.

Anthony

failure. I smiled at her and asked her if I could "plug my power cord into the outlet" next to her. She smiled and showed me a picture she had drawn of a smiling cat, then took the cord and plugged it in, then resumed scribbling. Never said a word. possibly a mute? she is now face down on the table, laughing, pounding her hand onto the surface, still writing. Next move?

Gear

confess your curiosity as to her amusement and further attempt to engage in conversation. If it fails, unzip and giggle. If that fails, give up.

Anthony

Ken L

it's really dramatic and desparate. He sounds like he's going bananas by the end. Sort of a middle ground between Nick Cave and Alice Cooper. I'm pretty sure I read that it had little connection aside from the name.

Anthony

(btw, I'm leaving work, nothing else will get answered before sometime tomorrow - caveat emptor, gracias)

Peru

Pretty much everybody born on Oct. 4th is really obnoxious: Susan Sarandon, Afrika Bambataa AND Charlton Heston. How about that?

* 1207 - Henry III of England (d. 1272)
* 1471 - Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
* 1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
* 1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
* 1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
* 1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
* 1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
* 1691 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
* 1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
* 1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
* 1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
* 1881 - William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
* 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
* 1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
* 1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
* 1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, (d. 1951)
* 1896 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
* 1900 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
* 1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1989)
* 1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
* 1909 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
* 1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
* 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
* 1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1921 - James Whitmore, American actor
* 1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
* 1924 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
* 1925 - Bob Boyd, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
* 1927 - Tom Bosley, American actor
* 1928 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
* 1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1930 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
* 1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
* 1932 - Albert Collins, blues guitarist (d.1993)
* 1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
* 1936 - Stella Stevens, American actress
* 1939 - George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
* 1945 - Rod Carew, Panamanian baseball player
* 1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* 1947 - Stephen Collins, American actor
* 1948 - Cub Koda, American singer (d. 2000)
* 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
* 1950 - Randy Quaid, American actor
* 1954 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
* 1962 - Esai Morales, American actor
* 1963 - Mark McGwire, baseball player
* 1964 - Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
* 1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
* 1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
* 1985 - Dizzee Rascal, British musician

* 1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
* 1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
* 1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
* 1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
* 1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
* 1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
* 1570 - Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
* 1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)
* 1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
* 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
* 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
* 1858 - Michael Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer and author (d. 1935)
* 1861 - Frederic Remington, painter (d. 1909)
* 1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
* 1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
* 1880 - Damon Runyon, writer (d. 1946)
* 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
* 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
* 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian, actor (d. 1966)
* 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
* 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer (d. 1946)
* 1904 - Jimmy Ritz, American actor, one of the Ritz Brothers (d. 1985)
* 1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
* 1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1917 - Jan Murray, American comedian and actor
* 1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
* 1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
* 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author
* 1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
* 1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
* 1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
* 1941 - Lori Saunders, American actress
* 1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator
* 1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
* 1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager (St. Louis Cardinals)
* 1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
* 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
* 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
* 1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
* 1951 - Charles McMillan, US Air Force officer, killed in the Desert One rescue mission (d. 1980)
* 1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-born actor
* 1959 - Chris Lowe, British singer (Pet Shop Boys)
* 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
* 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
* 1961 - Jon Secada, Cuban-born singer
* 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and artist
* 1963 - A.C. Green, American basketball player
* 1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
* 1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
* 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
* 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
* 1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American track and field sprint athlete
* 1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
* 1984 - Lena, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)

obviously, Anthony must hook this up

x-post!

did u just walk past the carroll gardens met y/n

depends are you a fan or a hater

croup,

i haven't looked at your spotify playlists in a while, any particularly good ones lately?

lol

they're all good ones but i don't think i've published any new ones super-recently

Ha, I can't believe I repped for a Simple Plan song I don't even remember on this thread.