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DORK TOWER, Thursday, July 2, 2009 - When I’m 1d64 [ 02/07/2009|07:51 pm]
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Why Glam Matters (To Me) [ 30/06/2009|09:26 pm]
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Just in case anyone’s interested, here’s my iTunes Glam playlist. It’s been getting me through the last couple of days’ worth of work.

Most of the tracks are from a double CD I picked up in London, “The Best Glam Rock Album In The World…Ever.” It was pretty solid, but I added some extra Bowie, T-Rex, Slade and Sweet to the mix.

A few of the bands are crap. Mud, for instance. Even at the age of 12, I realized this was pretty fake stuff. But I left them in the mix as the entirety of this represents a very specific time and place in my life.

Glam is possibly why I always kept my taste for pop, even after Punk hit and blew me away. In a sense, it’s the music that defined me: some of these bands are the first groups that I ever realized MATTERED - that their music was BETTER, for some reason I couldn’t really define. This was IMPORTANT in a vague, palpable way that twelve-year-old me couldn’t put into words at the time.

When Punk hit, I was a bit older, and knew why it mattered. Years afterwards, I considered Punk the prime musical influence of my life. But it took “The Best Glam Rock Album In The World…Ever” to remind me of what had shaped my musical tastes a few years before.

Ending the mix, neither “Boston tea Party,” “Sound and Vision” nor “Blinded By The Light” are - technically - Glam, but I included them as bookends of a movement that in some parts evolved and in others faded surprisingly quickly. In the same mindset, I could have just as easily have thrown the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy In The UK” as the ending track, with its blazing chords a direct descendant of the heavy guitars of glam (physically, if not philosophically). England had moved from Cockney Rebel to Cockney Rejects, but roots were shared.

Like finding forgotten photos of a first girlfriend, “The Best Glam Rock Album In The World…Ever” helped me to realize that my first musical love was was a LOT hotter than I remembered.

And every now and then, it still gets me through the days.

Come on. Feel the noise.

THE RADIO MUSKRAT GLAM PLAYLIST

Killer Queen - Queen
Blockbuster - Sweet
All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
John, I’m Only Dancing - David Bowie
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Children Of The Revolution - T.Rex
Elected - Alice Cooper
Mama Weer All Crazy Now - Slade
This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks
Let’s Stick Together - Bryan Ferry
Radar Love - Golden Earring
The Man Who Sold The World - Lulu
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra
Ball Park Incident - Roy Wood’s Wizzard
Rock On - David Essex
I’m the Leader of the Gang - Gary Glitter
Little Willy - Sweet
See My Baby Jive - Roy Wood’s Wizzard
All The Way From Memphis - Mott The Hoople
20th Century Boy - T.Rex
The Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Tiger Feet - Mud
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Devilgate Drive - Suzi Quatro
All Because Of You - Geordie
Gudbuy T’Jane - Slade
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
Do The Strand - Roxy Music
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson
Cum On Feel The Noize - Slade
Motor Bikin’ - Chris Spedding
Seven Deadly Finns - Brian Eno
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Solid Gold Easy Action - T.Rex
Standing In The Road - Blackfoot Sue
Dyna-Mite - Mud
Angel Face - The Glitter Band
Starman David Bowie
Dance With The Devil Cozy Powell
Skweeze Me Pleeze Me Slade
New York Groove Hello
I Love Rock And Roll - The Arrows
Can The Can - Suzi Quatro
Do You Want to Touch Me - Gary Glitter
Boston Tea Party - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Fox On The Run - Sweet
Sound And Vision - David Bowie
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

****

The Dork Tower scheduled for Today will go up tomorrow instead, I fear. technical problems. But I’m told in a couple of weeks DorkTower.com’s being moved to a new server, and things should be lightning fast. Fingers crossed…

John

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HEEEEEEEEEEERE’S an Obit Cartoon! [ 23/06/2009|06:19 pm]
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With the death of Ed McMahon, a few - A FEW - editorial cartoonists across the country are already sharpening their pencils, ready essentially for a day off.

As we all know from such cartoonists, All Celebrities Go To Heaven. So, hey, why even come up with a PUNCHLINE? Here are four ready-to-use Obit ideas that took a whole of five minutes to come up with!

FIRST: The obvious idea.

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SECOND: The sentimental idea. Feel free to use your character crying in the bottom right-hand corner, should you use one.

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THIRD: The SLIGHTLY less obvious idea, but still a possibility, if you don’t wanna seem like TOO much of a hack:

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LASTLY: An idea that would probably only either be done by the Onion’s brilliant KELLY, as a joke, or Colorado Springs’ Chuck Assay, completely seriously…

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But why stop at these four? See if YOU can predict tomorrow’s editorial cartoons today with the Easy-To-Use Obit Cartoon Lame-O-Matic Template!

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DORK TOWER, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - Six Of One [ 23/06/2009|05:18 pm]
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