okay since carolyn was my muse first and i'm adding all the stuff i have by her onto my ipod and haven't listened to the pros and cons of collaboration in forever--i apologize to her for forgetting about how much i worship that record and her...and i agree it is a crime that her latest isn't available here...perhaps a trip to canada is in order to pick it up and all the ads i've seen lately for wonderful montreal indicate it is cheap and they have casinos which is great but i can't afford to gamble so i just enjoy watching other people waste money altho they believe they speak french so i'm not sure--i've heard nova scotia or halifax or whichever isn't its own country and is part of canada (maybe they both are i don't know) are beautiful so i've decided carolyn is worth it...especially since i lost party girl. and she thanks catherine irwin who rules in freakwater but alludes me solo...but i worship anyway...
and anthony should you check in today--i'm having email problems so i wanted to thank you for the sleater-kinney and for songs for cassavetes--it was interesting and i know where they got the quote it is in ray carney's the films of john cassavetes i think the second chapter but i'm not sure. and i'm not sure it was the best quote of his to build a film around but i still liked it. and if i don't get a massive headache by the evening or fall asleep i'll call you tonight.
that was nice and dull but i agreed to play tennis with my mother so this may be my last post yesterday she hit me in the nose right where i have a huge scar from the stitches i needed when i planted my face in the asphalt of the port authority...so bye bye...
Okay, I just got the new Carolyn Mark album in the mail. It's called "Just Married: An Album of Duets" - you have to look closely at the front to see that it's a Carolyn Mark album although her names marked clearly on the side but the thing is... I've never heard of ANY of these people she's dueting with. NONE. So to me it's a Carolyn Mark album with a lot of stranger's extra voices. But I do *want* to know who some of them are - Amy Honey and Ford Pier especially. How the heck does she get all this support from Mint Records? In a miniscule period of time, she's recorded three great solo albums plus the Nashville thing and the Corn Sisters and now this. I was listening to Party Girl before and thinking how perfect it was and also how amazingly cheap it sounds - as if half the songs were performed in clubs or on the go - I mean for god's sake, there's a typewriter imitating tap dancing on Other Woman. She's just a genius in making people like me happy on an annual basis. I think it helps that she doesn't take herself seriously and never leaves Vancouver except to stay at friends' houses in the states and write songs about them. But anyway, the album is available at Allegro Music's web site and at a reasonable price I must add. But Franny should not buy it for reasons yet to be disclosed. Also... it's on iTunes with credit given on the iTunes song tags to the collaborative artists, but unhelpfully no other info such as songwriting credits. It does come out cheaper on iTunes. Once again, Franny shouldn't download it. For reasons that hopefully will be revealed in 7-9 days. Get well, Franny. Hopefully someone got you a gift. Don't buy the Carolyn Mark album. (I know you were hoping for Lucky Jeans...)
Posted by: anthony | June 20, 2005 at 11:20 PM