Category Archives: Tuneage

A Dumb Internet Meme I Can Get Behind

A recent tweet from Ted Leo alerted me to the latest intertube craze: making fake album covers. Apparently, it goes like this: you get an artist name from a random Wikipedia page, an album title from a random quotation, and a cover image from Flickr’s “explore last 7 days” page. It’s about as stupid and addictive as it sounds.

I gave it a shot and came up with two decent LPs. This one’s from my side project with PJ Harvey:

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Update:
Ted just posted another example, far superior to mine. He’s just as good at making fake albums as he is making real ones.

Transformer Jr.

Whilst in the car, my iPod rolled over to “Satellite of Love” (the Lou Reed version, not the Joel Hodgson version). I started to sing it to The Baby in the back seat, and she seemed to genuinely like it.

I can tell when The Baby genuinely likes something. She is already quite adept at expressing displeasure, or just looking straight past you when she doesn’t care to be bothered with you. She can even fake-laugh already, when she thinks she should be laughing at something.

So The Baby likes Lou Reed. I’ve promised The Baby that for her next birthday, I’m getting her a copy of Metal Machine Music.

The Dust Blows Forward, The Dust Blows Back

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Hot on the heels of The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke is now attached to star as Don van Vliet in the upcoming biopic Lick My Decals Off, Baby: The Captain Beefheart Story.