guano girl

alternative takes by kevin zimmerman

“todays alternative is really the mainstream”

scanned article from cigar magazine

thats the seemingly paradoxical mantra most often heard at record companies today. the alternative attitude is everywhere: david bowies filling arenas only by touring with nine inch nails; former tv child star alanis morissette has topped the charts by over-ingesting her liz phair albums; lou reed and paul westerberg pop up on the friends soundtra\ck album; now young producers have even gotten the likes of johnny cash and tom jones alternative airplay.

the question “alternative to what?” has plagued the deep thinkers of the industry for years and was a reliable tranqulizer at countless editions of the late, unlamented newmusic seminar. the current wave of breast-beating can probably be traced back to 1988, when rem left indie irs records to join the warner bros machine. three years later nirvana’s nevermind album topped the pop charts and legitimized alternative… seemingly forever.

and alternative remains a wide enough net and a lucrative enough bet for practically everyone to jumpwagon. this means that a truely alternative radio station would be proudly playing men at work, ted nugent, and colin blunstone. but that stuffs too alternative. better stick with the more normal alternatives.

like britpop outfits blur and oasis, whove been duking it out on the uk charts for the past year. oasis second lp whats the story morning glory, contiunues to refine its trex beatles influence. blur, meancwhile has put out its fourth album, the great escape, which has already sent the notoriusly fickle british media press into paroxyms of album of the year joy ( doubltless meaning that the group is in for one hell of a redrubbing within the next 12 months).

meanwhile, the rather hapless rca label is laying heavy odds on alternative. rca has unfairly been classified as a once in a decade hit maker (elvis in the 50s, jefferson airplane in the 60s , bowie in the 70s, eurythmics in the 80s and … uh … the dave mathhews band now i guess) , and has gone through a sucession of executives trying to mine pop hits . the new rca team under president bob jamison is now focusing on repeating th ematthews sucess. with such newer alternative acts as hum, babe the blue ox and from good homes.

mca , polygram, warner … they’re all furiously signing acts that can even looselely be considered alternative. sony , which operates the columbia and epic labels among others, is dropping major acts all over the place tduring the fourth quarter: mariah carey, cypress hill, celine dion, alice in chains, and a greatest-hits collection from michael bolton.

of course, few if any of those acts are alternaitve, but rest assured that sony is working that area hard. new spinoff labels work and 550 music while, broad-based, are each busily coming up with alternative rock acts, while their older siblings start laying the groundwork for the likes of oasis , korn, and rage against the machine.

meanwhile the hunger for out-of-the-ordinary has even extended to tv animation, that former wasteland of pen-and-ink sitcoms where frede and barney kept running around a ceaselessly-repeating background. while many cartoon series still rely on the same library music, the more outlandish outfits are seeking out more outlandish composeres, in a kind of throwback to the death-defying diverse approach of such classic cartoon composers as carl stalling and scott bradley.

duckmans executive producer gabor csupo was personal friends with frank zappa , that , added with dweezil zappas voiceover work on duckman, helped csupo gain access to frank’s condiderable vaults for some music cues. devo’s mark mothersbaugh, no stranger to odball scoring assainments (pee-wees playhouse), has brought his perspective to nickelodeons rugrats.

quick-stalling like cuts can be heard on nickelodeons ahhh real monsters, according to composer drew neumann, who recalls one episode involving everything from traditionally sitcomy sounds to more hardcore, nine inch nails type music. thats right. nine inch nails for cartoon music.

forgive this crappy transcription. i hate typing on laptops.

so who is this girl labelled ‘nine inch nail’s guano girl’ in the above article? shes not mentioned in the text, and searching for guano girl in google gives me nothing.

you got email in my instant messaging!

ok i want an interface!!!!

this interface mocks an im client
but uses emails back and forth

is that so hard?

does this exist?

of dogs and dogmen

librarians are more helpful than city workers

i go to renew my dog license (wtf a license for a pet?) at city hall:

me: do you know of any dog parks in the area?
her: oh , no, i dont live in this city.
her: and i wouldnt know about that because i dont have any dogs

well thats a whole lot help there! what the hell does the city do with my $16/year ?

i found a list of dog parks for detroit:
http://www.detroitdogparks.com/
but most of them are for residents of that particular city _only_ or want $65 for non city residents per year. and i dont feel like dealing with the dog park rent-a-cops.

fuck all this bullshit.

i need unfiltered unedited uncensored search from google

if i want to search for serials and cracks for educational and FAIR USE purposes i should be able to. why is google nannying my search.

edit: whoops, it appears the serial results are gone because of dmca notices sent by bsa…