Friday Round-Up, Yo

Jun 29, 2007

Elvis Costello is doing a really cool podcast for iTunes where he talks about his first 10 years. It’s free and fun, Elvis fans!
AOL did a pretty funny look at iPhone mania featuring myself and my co-worker who sits in the cubicle behind him. There’s a lot of me in it which is likely what interests me.
I’m so in love with Google Reader that I stopped using My Fellow Jerks. However, for what it’s worth, My Fellow Jerks averages about 200 visits a day even without me obsessively checking it — not bad. Anyway, I now subscribe to about 50 blogs and I’m ready for more if anyone has any suggestions.
I watched The Girl Can’t Help It this week starring Jayne Mansfield. It is ungood. However, it features a lot of cameos of the hit rock n’ roll bands of the day performing their stuff. The movie came out in 1956 and they did a pretty good job of nailing a lot of big names: Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Gene Pitney. Apparently they tried to get Elvis Presley but his fee was too much already. Anyway, the performances are stilted in that 50s-way: they’re lit like they’re in a museum, the colors are overly saturated — but I really loved watching them anyway. They were young and good. It’s a pretty good time capsule. Wouldn’t it be fun to do that with whatever you kids consider to be the hip bands of today? Even if they’re all emo, shoe-gazing keyboard-ridden monstrosities? I think it would be fun.
Everyone together: Welcome Ray Allen back to New England basketball!

On my iTunes now:

Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"

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