GOP front runner or Buffy villain? You decide. – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Last one for the week, I think. Found on Whedonesque:

GOP front runner or Buffy villain? You decide. – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Pornostalgia – Gawker

Thank you, Gawker … just when I thought I’d finally banished the memory of sneaking into the basement for the vintage Playboy stash … Grrr–argh.

Pornostalgia – Gawker

We were recently discussing the wide array of porn that modern technology makes available to feckless youth, who are generally unappreciative of the struggles their predecessors endured in order to obtain a simple glimpse of breast or tuft of triangle. “In our day,” moaned a friend, “you had to sneak down after midnight and turn on HBO very quietly. These kids have it so easy!” Now we’ve come across a website that operates as a time capsule for those who remember having to shoplift a copy of Oui if they wanted to explore themselves.

JASON ISBELL WEEK, POST 4: THE COVERS « Berkeley Place

My new favorite music weblog, Berkeley Place, is putting together some great *.mp3 posts. If you dig the Drive By Truckers (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?), you really need to snatch these up and give them a listen.

My favorite so far?

DBT’s cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak.”

Here’s the post.

JASON ISBELL WEEK, POST 4: THE COVERS « Berkeley Place

Warren Zevon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What would Warren Zevon say about winning Grammy awards only after he died?

My guess?

“Go figure.”
Warren Zevon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In interviews, Zevon described a lifelong phobia of doctors and said he seldom received medical assessment. In 2002, after a long period of untreated illness and pain, Zevon was encouraged by his dentist to see a physician; when he did so he was diagnosed with inoperable mesothelioma (a form of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos, and also the same cancer that killed Steve McQueen). Refusing treatments he believed might incapacitate him, Zevon instead began recording his final album. The album, The Wind, has guest appearances from close friends including Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, David Lindley, Billy Bob Thornton, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty and others. At the request of the music television channel VH1, documentarian Nick Read was given access to the sessions; his cameras documented a man who retained his mordant sense of humor, even as his health was deteriorating over time.

Zevon previously stated that his illness was expected to be terminal within months after the diagnosis in the fall of 2002; however, he lived to see the birth of twin grandsons in June 2003 and the release of The Wind on August 28, 2003. Owing in part to the first VH1 broadcasts of Nick Read’s documentary Warren Zevon: Keep Me In Your Heart (which brought fresh attention to Zevon’s illness), the album entered the national record charts at number 16, Zevon’s highest placement since Excitable Boy. When his diagnosis became public, Zevon told the media that he just hoped to live long enough to see the next James Bond movie, Die Another Day, a goal he also accomplished.

Warren Zevon died September 7, 2003, age 56, at his home in Los Angeles, California. The Wind was certified gold by the RIAA in December of 2003 and Zevon received five posthumous Grammy nominations, including Song Of The Year for the ballad “Keep Me In Your Heart”. The Wind won two Grammys, with the album itself receiving the award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, while “Disorder in the House,” Zevon’s duet with Bruce Springsteen, was awarded Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal. These posthumous awards were the first Grammys of Zevon’s more than 30-year career.