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"Runaway" 2003-08-02 - 4:38 a.m. older - previous - next - profile - host - my band - my lj I bought Misfits Project 1950 today at first I wasn't so impressed with it; but the more I listen to it the more I like it it came with this DVD featuring some live performances; and some stuff about Balzac Balzac is this Japanese Horror Punk band that Jerry Only has taken a shine to and signed to his label(Misfits Records); and is pushing like crazy they're all over Misfits.com personally I don't like Balzac that much you can't really understand what the hell the lead singer is saying maybe I'd like them if you could hear the lyrics; lyrics are important but on the DVD there's a promotional video of Balzac covering The Haunting and Don't Open 'Till Doomsday(pushed together as one song) and there you can understand what he's saying; but that only makes it worse his voice is terrible it's really high pitched and he has a really heavy accent it doesn't sound good at all so yeah, I'm not a fan of a band you haven't heard of; moving on on the DVD of the Misfits(the current lineup of Jerry; Dez Cadena and Marky Ramone); most of the songs were recorded from a show in Vermont at some Snowboarding championship and it's snowy all the fans are in like, heavy jackets and caps and such and Jerry Only is just up there in his tights and leather vest and it's like, "damn" because playing bass in the cold sucks I know it's not as bad once you're "warmed up", but it's still not the best way to play and not only that, but the fans start throwing snowballs onstage, and Jerry reaches out and catches some of them, then just keeps playing and I'm just awed by that plus Jerry does this weird thing where he holds his fingers and his thumb together and plays kind've like he's picking and the first time I saw a closeup of him playing I thought he was picking but this time you can tell he's not; but it just looks weird anyway; during the first song, the camera does a lot of Unnecesary Closeups and those three look really old not just like old, like, Rolling Stones old it must just be the cold, though; because the last song they're playing at a club and they don't look that bad anyway, there's this girl in the front row at Vermont; who looks exactly like Catherine I'm pretty sure it's not; but the resemblance is striking anyway, when they play at the club for the last song("runaway") Jimmy Destri of Blondie joins them because he played keyboard on the album and it's really funny he gets up there with a look on his face that's half "what am I doing here?"-boredom and half "I'm the best keyboard player ever"-arrogance and from the look of it his part looks so simple and it's hilarious halfway through the song he gets a keyboard solo; and he leans the thing forward, but then he drops it so he plays the rest of the song sitting down playing his keyboard accross his lap and after that he smiles and looks like he's cool but at first he just looked so arrogant it's hilarious but the standout guest-star is John Caffiero I'd heard his name before but never quite knew who he was he's a producer and he does some backing vocals on the album and for a few songs on the DVD and he sounds really good he has this high pitched(but not like the guy from Balzac) version of the Misfits-vocal style* that sounds really good that's why I'm glad he's doing the vocals for another Misfits Records band: Osaka Popstar and the American Legends of Punk (originally just 'Osaka Popstar') I don't quite get the name either, but their (rough cut of a)song 'Wicked World' that you can download from misfits.com sounds really good it's been in my head since I heard it and I'm not sick of it so I can't wait for that album to come out but on to the asterisk *-I've never been sure what to call that weird, Danzig/Michale Graves/Jerry Only/Jim Morrison/to-some-extent-Elvis vocal sound usually I just call it the Misfits sound I can do it pretty well lately I've been debating wether to go with it all the time or just try and sing "normally" but that's an issue that actually has an effect on my life, and we can't have that in my diary, now can we? on an entirely different note Sindy told me about this show called The State that used to be on MTV that members of Reno911 used to be on [and in case Robyn's reading: Micheal Ian Black is in it too] and they have a website www.statemedia.net that has clips of every skit that was on the show and I'm addicted; it's some funny shit so now I'm (mock)pissed at Sindy for getting me addicted to something else edit-upon reading this entry; I've realized just how much of a high-school teenage-girl I sound like; and how far that strays from my original intent with this thing. From now; I'll try to only write when I have something to say; and to live up to my dark, brooding layout. -The Management The Morror, The Morror! Sweet Dreams � � |