Saturday 24 August 2002

I am outraged. I just saw a commercial for What’s New Scooby Doo? I noted how the animation seemed to be fairly on model. but. then. I saw it. Fred’s ascot was gone! He was wearing a rugby shirt or whatever they call them. Polo shirt? Outraged, I tell you. 8:40:53 PM    comment [] Edward just told me that “Losing My Religion” was REM’s beginning-of-the-end song. I think so as well. More than a decade ago I picked up Indigo Girls on the strength of a housemate’s assertion that they were a female REM. This is not true today, nor would that it be an inducement to pick it up. After the success of “Losing” the soaring vocal harmonies that characterized this band sort of gave way to a sort of cult of personality; afterwards Stipe seemed to always be the only singer, and I never picked up an album of theirs after Out of Time. A story without much point: Stipe is a strict vegan, and apparently cannot abide the smell of people who have eaten meat, so he needs his own bus or tour van so he won’t be surrounded by the rancid stink. I have this from a former tour-mate of theirs, but I think he was drunk or high or both at the time. 3:21:37 PM    comment []

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