In reverse order, of course.
Ronn, who unlike me has an attention span longer than thirty seconds, continues to follow the Central Park 5 case (with a brief, but perfectly understandable, interruption; hope everyone is all right, and Movable Type has never given me any problems not caused by my own failure to Read the Friendly Manual, for what it's worth). Today's update covers infighting at the DA's office:
There are also reports that former ADA (and current crime novelist) Linda Fairstein is pushing for Morgenthau to fight to uphold the convictions. She is supported by many ADAs that played a part in the convictions of the five teens. That is to be expected. Another faction within the DA's office — again, from numerous news reports — believes Reyes to be the lone rapist and that all rape and assault charges related to the jogger should be expunged.
If you can call it infighting when some of the people involved no longer work there.
The music thing, which seems totally unimportant in comparison, involves rock bands featuring black women as lead vocalist. Noticed a Skunk Anansie cd and single among the piles of stuff getting packed, and wondered briefly why they were never very successful in the States.
I'd like to think it's the label throwing up their hands in confusion at marketing the group, and giving up. But I'm blanking on any other groups with a mixed-race, mixed-gender membership hitting the big time.
I really hate using the term "mixed" when writing about people, by the way. But the circumlocutions are even worse, so whatever.
Anyone got any examples?
what was the name of that awesome hardcore/metal band with the black female lead singer at the millenium celebration in the film "strange days"? i really wanted to, like, go out and buy a cd by them after i saw that, they absolutely raged (that's headbanger-speak for "they absolutely rocked").
f_j: This site seems to say that the band you saw in "Strange Days" was Skunk Anansie (doing "Selling Jesus").
According to IMDB:
Please tell me you did that on purpose. I am losing the will to live.
Ok, that was pretty fucking frightening. . .
"Feed" was the countdown song, it looks like.
Mixed-race, mixed-gender bands? There's always Sly and the Family Stone. Prince and the Revolution, too.
Mmm. Prince. Quoth my friend Alan: "I'd do him just to see if he really makes that 'Darling Nikki' cat-yowl noise..."
Color Me Badd...
stop looking at me like that.
well color me ign'ant! i guess i'm going to have to go pick up a coupla skunk anansie cds then. easy street's got to have them...
i suppose we're not going to get anywhere by bringing up groups like the selecter...
quoth f_j: ... i'm looking for a mixed gender, mixed race punk rock with reggae and funk influences band, who proclaim that they're into cetacean worship. and no, i'm not fucking talking about fucking no doubt. they're hosers, posers, and devoid of funk nosers.
where are bad brains when we need them?
wish i could blame my memory loss problems on drugs.
does anyone think it worthwhile to start a fan petition for a skunk anansie reunion?
Huh. My college band would have met fertile_jim's requirements, except for the problem of being really fucking no-talent awful. Nothing that killing ourselves wouldn't have fixed, though.
why kill yourselves when you can kill the audience? who else here saw richard prior's old-school saturday night live sketch as a kiss-style rock star known as "black death"? still one of their top 10.