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  • Mar. 28th, 2008 at 10:52 PM
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"Ticket to Ride" by the Carpenters has to be one of the weirder covers. Still, I'd give a lot to be able to sing like Karen Carpenter.

Um.

Here's some Mad Max footage set to Motörhead. Because I am metal, totally.

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Today I had a lobster burrito and a Negra Modelo with an ocean view, plus other pleasures. I lived like I was livin' in paradise.

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The JLA Satellite blog finally got around to reviewing Justice League of America #124, the very first comic book I remember buying. It was on sale at the little grocery store at Lopez Lake, a regular destination for our family vacations, and maybe it was the spooky cover, but I was drawn to it like Batman to a mugger, and though I've drifted away and come back to comics many times in the intervening years, I've loved them ever since.

People in the comments to the blog post are dissing the co-writer of that issue, Elliot S! Maggin, but he wrote Last Son of Krypton, which remains one of my all-time favorite novels, and I will always love him for it.

I should get a new copy. Mine would fall apart if I touched it.

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She really was an alto angel, though, Karen Carpenter.

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[info]jlundberg wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 07:32 am (UTC)
My parents always played (and still do) the Carpenters Christmas album during the holidays, and I didn't realize until I was in high school or college that they actually had a huge music career.

The cover of "Ticket to Ride" is interesting; maybe not the best one I've heard, but certainly interesting. It's unfortunate they chose a blindingly sunny day to film the video, since they're squinting the whole time.
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[info]bluetyson wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 12:05 pm (UTC)
Yeah, don't diss the Maggin.

I am on my second copy of that book, actually. :)

And, if you want a no-damage-to-it browse version :-

http://web.archive.org/web/20061010200102/superman.ws/thebook/lsok_contents.php
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
Well, that link certainly whet my appetite. Must find a copy now!
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[info]jonhansen wrote:
Mar. 30th, 2008 01:13 am (UTC)
I see AbeBooks has a number of copies for sale.

Hmm. Might have to find this myself.
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[info]pantlessjohnny wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 12:28 pm (UTC)
Whoa - Carpenters too early in the morning. Brain now weird and sentimental. Need metal.
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[info]birdhousefrog wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 01:07 pm (UTC)
Because I am metal, totally.

Oh, yeah, right. Like I believe that. I've never even HEARD the Carpenter cover of Ticket to Ride and I'm older than you are. Carpenters, bleah. I had no idea why they were popular when I was, well, younger. Muskrat Love and all that blechy sentimentality. I'll take Elvis Costello's sharp edge any day.
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 05:13 pm (UTC)
Muskrat Love was by Captain and Tennille, and it is very frightening.

And ARE YOU QUESTIONING MY DEVOTION TO METAL???!!!???
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[info]birdhousefrog wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 05:23 pm (UTC)
Oh, Picky, Picky! BLEAH!

Should I question it? I mean, honestly, "She really was an alto angel"? It just seems so out of context with some of the video clips you've posted. Shows a sweetly sentimental side of you, it does. But for all I know Karen Carpenter had some secret heavy metal garage hits on reel-to-reel that will surface someday.

Oz
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)
Let's not even my mention my John Denver thing ...
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[info]msisolak wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 03:29 pm (UTC)
I can't say I cared for all of their songs even back in the 70's--awfully sappy, in many ways.

However, Karen Carpenter's voice? Wow. I hadn't listened to her since I began voices lessons. My vocal coach will choose her over many other possibilities when he needs an example of a wonderful alto. (I may have to lay in a few CDs. At least the Ticket to Ride album doesn't have recognizable sappy titles.)
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)
Close to you
Hey, have you guys heard the version of "Close to you" that was in the movie MirrorMask? The movie Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean made? That was a cool cover. The monotone robot voice is awsome.

Becky
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 06:44 pm (UTC)
Re: Close to you
Here's a link from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz8-7JsFD_g

Becky
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC)
Re: Close to you
Creepy, but love the animation and design. I still need to see that movie.
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC)
Re: Close to you
Creepy, but love the animation and design. I still need to see that movie.
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[info]randbot wrote:
Mar. 30th, 2008 02:11 pm (UTC)
If you like the Carpenters, you should check out The Free Design if you don't know them already. You've gotta love the innocent purity of a group that made a completely irony-free song called "Kites Are Fun."

Sample song: I Found Love (ignore the video; couldn't find any actual footage of the band)
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