Ok. For all you people who wonder whether that new William Shatner album is any good, I've got a little treat for you. Check out the song below and immediately go out and buy the album. Right-click-save-as this link to enjoy Shatner's "Has Been."...
I first discovered the joys of Brian Dewan during the week of the election, when I kept seeing this strange show on Manhattan public access. It featured a musician in a red K-Mart jacket singing old political songs while alternating playing the music on the accordion and a zither (?). That I didn't even know what instrument he was playing intrigued me. And then there were these nutty watercolor backgrounds superimposed behind him. And always a stone-face, even when he sang a song about electing Alfred E. Newman for president. Eventually I got out a VHS and recorded half the...
To the strains of Maurice Jarre's spiraling carnival-waltz score, Alida Valli drives through the French countryside just outside of Paris. In the back seat is a figure slumped over, face obscured by a hat. Valli pulls over to the side of the road and drags the body out of the car. Dressed in a man's raincoat and nothing else, the corpse's legs become just a little too visible for comfort as Valli, her own black vinyl raincoat glistening in the moonlight, rolls the dead girl into the Seine....
