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Chewing Wax:

(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:06:19 pm)
theo:
Soft Boys Move Next DoorAlt-rock pioneers plot returnThe Soft Boys will release Nextdoorland, the twenty-two years in the making follow-up to Underwater Moonlight (the band's influential second LP), on September 24th. "It's a rock-guitar-bass-drum-harmony record -- another variant on the Beatles, really," singer, Robyn Hitchcock told Rolling Stone. "Whenever I make records with a band it's always some kind of Beatles record."The Soft Boys have worked on the record on and off over the last several months, a process Hitchcock finds more rewarding than working straight through. "Whenever I've worked on an album like that I've regretted it," he said. "This has been done with gaps and working in bursts of two or three days, so real life has flowed through this record like nothing else, really."With more than two decades between Underwater Moonlight -- an album both the Replacements and R.E.M. cited as a major influence -- and Nextdoorland, Hitchcock admits to feeling some pressure over the new album's reception. "There's bound to be a certain amount of nervousness," he said. "[The fans] will be initially pleased to hear it, and then they'll say it's not as good as Underwater Moonlight and then about five years down the line they'll probably get to like it on it's own merit."But Nextdoorland is not an attempt to rehash the band's past work. "It's not like Underwater Moonlight," Hitchcock said. "The atmosphere is very different, because we're not receiving the same emotional nutrients. As a songwriter, I'm not feeling anything like I was when I wrote those songs, and as a group we're all twenty years older, but I think it works nonetheless. Every so often I hear bits of it and I think, 'God, that sounds like the Soft Boys.'"CHRISTINA SARACENO(July 10, 2002)
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:07:41 pm)
bela:
I guess not. They gave me the number of the animal medical center in Manhattan which I heard is a huge ripoff. ONe of our friends brought a kitten in there he found, it had fleas so he gave it a flea bath and it got sick so he brought it there. They took it in back and told him it would be $1000 because the cat had to stay overnight, it was really sick and could not be moved. He said "one thing is going to happen and thats either you are giving me that cat back or I'm going back there to get it. " They gave him the kitten and he brought it to his vet the next day and they said it needed some liquids and it would be fine.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:07:58 pm)
Chewing Wax:
cool
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:08:12 pm)
theo:
Soft Boys Resurface 'Nextdoor'Reformed new wave pioneers Soft Boys have set a Sept. 24 release date for a newalbum, their first in 22 years, on Matador Records. The set, titled"Nextdoorland," will be the first Soft Boys full-length since 1980's watershed"Underwater Moonlight" (Armageddon). The new album will be available on CD andlimited-edition LP, the latter packaged with a bonus 7" single.The current lineup of Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman, andMorris Windsor -- the same quartet that made "Underwater Moonlight" -- isplanning to tour North America in October in support of "Nextdoorland,"according to Matador's official Web site. Frontman Hitchcock's official Website already lists an Oct. 17 Soft Boys date at London's Mean Fiddler.The group, which had parted ways in 1981 after two albums and assorted EPreleases, regrouped in spring of 2001 to tour behind Matador's double-discreissue of "Underwater Moonlight," a renowned underground touchstone thatinspired such groups as R.E.M., Camper Van Beethoven, and the Replacements.In related news, Hitchcock's latest solo release, "Robyn Sings" (Editions PAF),is a double-disc set of Bob Dylan covers and is available via his Web site. Rewreleased his second solo disc, "Great Central Revisited" on Bongo Beat Recordslast week.-- Troy Carpenter, N.Y.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:08:29 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Vets are scammers.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:09:02 pm)
Heruka:
I like Seamus' vet. He's nice man. I think he's gay. He gave us free meds for his leg.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:10:23 pm)
bela:
My vet is ok, I don't think shes a scammer, but I really think a lot are. Shes a vet at the shelter. Tom says she looks like Falling James.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:12:23 pm)
Myk Murphy:
Have i missed much? Any more births today?
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:14:20 pm)
Chewing Wax:
I'm sure some aren't like that. You just can't let them take advantage and load up the bill with a bunch of tests and surgery you don't need.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:14:48 pm)
Decoy:
I like our dogs' vet, too. That would be cool if she were gay. She's pretty cute.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:32:58 pm)
Decoy:
Vets need to make payroll, too. You should change to a vet with better cash flow.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:34:35 pm)
Decoy:
I was thinking about the gay WNBA athletes today. There's a big difference when you refer to the reality of almost all of those players being gay, all soapy and wet showering together helping each other with the towells, and a major league baseball team. You know what I mean?
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:37:05 pm)
Detlef Sping:
Have you all gone bum biting mad?
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:37:11 pm)
Chewing Wax:

(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:37:37 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Okay okay. I'll stop.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:38:54 pm)
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(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:40:12 pm)
Decoy:
That's a great picture of Blue. She's so black.
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:40:50 pm)
Decoy:
You mean bum diving mad?
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:43:00 pm)
Chewing Wax:
He's on a roll
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:43:57 pm)
Chewing Wax:
I'm gone
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 4:58:27 pm)
This just in ...:
 Tasteful funeral

Ted Williams' heirs may be feuding over what to do with his body now that the legendary slugger has passed on to that field of dreams in the sky, but Larry Hagman, of dimly remembered "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeannie" fame, is spelling out his last requests in no uncertain terms.

"When I die, I want my friends to eat me," Hagman told celebrity researcher Baird Jones the other day. "I want to be fed through a wood chipper, be spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for all my pals to munch on."

Don't think he hasn't contemplated the alternatives.

"Cremation's fine, but it uses an awful lot of energy," Hagman says. "Burying someone in a steel casket doesn't do any good. I want to return to the earth as soon as possible."

Thus, the cake plan.

"I want the cake to be made of half marijuana, which makes people so much less violent than booze, and people should learn to eat pot rather than smoke it because it damages the heart and lungs less that way," Hagman opines.

Shocked at the aging actor's drug endorsement? Hagman contends you shouldn't be, bleating, "It's high time someone my age talked this way."

High being the operative word.


(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 5:07:20 pm)
Decoy:
Have a happy weekend all!
(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 5:07:41 pm)
Queenie:
A glimpse into my weekend!

(Fri Jul 12, 2002 - 5:15:55 pm)
Detlef Sping:
Well doc, the last thing I remember is I started to swerve...
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 12:59:32 am)
Detlef Sping:
And I saw that Jag slide into the curve..
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 1:53:10 am)
Heruka:
A glimpse into my weekend!


(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 2:43:04 am)

Mrs Dr GB:
What lovely bunting. And ta for all the congrats. She was 7 lb 1 and a half ounces. She looks forward to her baby bucket hat, very much. And you wouldn't want to disappoint someone who's only 3 days old.
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 3:58:28 am)
Queenie:
Oh, the baby was born? Yay!!!!! The Good and Mrs. Doctor must be thrilled!
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 5:18:52 am)
Queenie:
Seven hours until my directorial debut. Send me happy thoughts! Starting off easy -- a nice, no audio warm up, then straight into the musical numbers which no one has taken the time to learn. But I'll worry about that tomorrow, as Scarlet O'Hara used to say.
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 5:25:51 am)
Myk Murphy:
Good luck, queenie my dear. I saw altman's gosford park last night, and i know you would enjoy the q&a session on the dvd.
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 9:40:26 am)
Myk Murphy:
Ok, i'll get gb junior a bucket hat, but cushca needs to provide address details. I don't have her new email, come to think of it. It's no rush... I'm still in bed.
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 9:46:38 am)
Decoy:
Myk used the words "Queenie" and "Altman" in adjacent sentences.
(Sat Jul 13, 2002 - 2:02:38 pm)