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

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.