Thursday, January 19, 2012

An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special "We're in the Money!" Edition

Hey -- I got quoted in this year's Village Voice Critics Poll yesterday!

You realize, of course, what this means. It means that a) I'm still culturally relevant, even at my advanced age, and b) I will be receiving a check momentarily, and thus will have earned at the very least a stunning fifteen dollars!!! for freelance writing in 2012!

Here's what I wrote...
Not a very good year for pop music, again, but even worse -- not a very good year for jokes about pop music, although I still await the (theoretically feasible) Goo Goo Dolls/Lady Gaga Tour (which, for sheer glorious marquee value would surpass even the fabled Madonna/Supertramp excursion of yesteryear) for obvious reasons. Still, in that regard, I'm now really kind of embarrassed over the just-how-fucked-up-is-Amy-Winehouse? joke I made in the 2009 Pazz & Jop; that sort of thing really stopped being remotely funny after Winehouse proved incapable of showing up in the studio to record the opening credit music for Quantum of Solace. I mean, this was a woman who for all intents had been genetically bred to sing the theme to a James Bond movie, and when she blew the opportunity we shouldn't have been laughing...
As you can see if you already clicked the link, the Voice editors only ran the second half of the above, but what the hey -- in this economy, fifteen dollars is fifteen dollars. Seriously -- if you know you're getting a check for that amount every January, you can plan around it.

In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the quote's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Best/worst James Bond theme music?

ROTP(lumber)

Gummo said...

Crassest sellout move by a rock/pop icon?

steves said...

Great double bills we'd like to see?

:idk:

Gummo said...

Ooh, steves, I like that one.

Though we'd be hard pressed to top steve's Goo Goo/GaGa bill.

tommy quest said...

the best would-have-done-this great-if-they'd-gotten-it-together

steve simels said...

No, no and no.

You're welcome.
:-)

Noam Sane said...

Songs championed by alt-weeklies that have fired pretty much all of the columnists that made it worth buying in the first place, except for Chuck Eddy, a true idiot for whom Kix was apparently The Apotheosis of Rock and Roll, good riddance to him.

Also, too, Silvia Plachy's Unguided Tour.

Shriner said...

Songs about magazines ("cover of the rolling stone" being #1, of course...)

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

best/ worst songs for which the artist got fifteen dollars.

TMink said...

Best movie theme songs.

Best movie theme songs that never were.

Trey

steve simels said...

Best movie theme songs that never were -- god, I'm gonna find a way to steal that for something.

Thanks, dude!!!
:-)

TMink said...

You cannot steal what is freely given! I am perfectly happy to be your go to guy for convoluted cognition!

Trey

FD13NYC said...

What's wrong with Thunderball?? I think it's a fine Bond theme song. Tom Jones nails it perfectly. C'mon.