Re: (TV) bangs! meltzer! cheater!

[eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>]

not familiar with stephen trask or john hedwig...ought i
know em??
too bad it weren't the cheater i was thinking of (who, now
that i think more clearly, were a local pseudo-heavy metal
band outta rochester, ny).

i don't think meltzer means verlaine wanted to be sting back
then....or even sting, in exact particularity....more that
he felt verlaine wanted to be a pretty boy popstar.

re: almost famous...i too walked outta the theatre (thank
buddha it was one of those free preview screenings) mildly
sedated & pleased...but after a bourbon & 15 minutes of (not
too hard) reflection, i realized it wasn't any different
from any other run of the mill hollywood, let's jerk you
round emotionally with no genuine payoff, piece of shit...&
crowe's lil stand in character was most noxious...even
execrable....
do read meltzer's piece if you can find it....

chelsea girl wrote:
> 
> > mingyah...weren't cheater a bad hard rock band ca.
> > 1981???
> actually, no.  the cheater of which i speak is stephen
> trask's most recent band, and his efforts with them
> eventually led to his composition of the music for the
> off-broadway musical/soon to be a major motion picture
> _hedwig & the angry inch_.  one of the first songs
> john cameron mitchell did with them in his hedwig
> character was, reportedly, "see no evil".  as a fan of
> both tv & _hedwig_, i'm curious to hear it.
> 
> > meltzer (from the horse's mouth as it were) has
> > repeatedly called verlaine a "sting wannabe" (which
> > i find hilarious)
> especially since tv/verlaine predated sting.
> 
> > he does love the dictators tho...& since yr a fan of
> > "almost famous" (I ain't), you oughta check the
> > recent archives &
> > read meltzer's hilarious (& right on) piece bout
> > crowe & the movie
> in my defense, i will say the following: i liked
> _almost famous_ on the same level as i would enjoy a
> black-and-white milkshake.  that is to say that it
> tasted sweet going down and hit the spot when i first
> ingested it, but it's not something that was so
> substantial that it stayed with me.  as far as
> boys-finding-themselves-to-music films go, it was no
> _velvet goldmine_, but i can understand others'
> indignation -- he was on the scene at the time when
> the story was unfolding and has a front-row seat to
> the liberties crowe took.  (i did like philip seymour
> hoffman's portrayal of lester bangs, though.)
> 
> --chelsea
> 
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