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You'll know luscious, pouting Susanna Hoffs from her Oscar-nom performance in Teen Panty Planet, but did you know she's also a "pop "music star?! Turns out Sultry Susie [good grief - Ed.] played guitar(!!) for a "girlie group" back in the 'seventies. Or 'eighties. Whenever. She dropped by th' IoF© yesterday to chat about her "pash for pop"!
FT3 Heyyy! Susikins! Lookin' lu-ush, baby!
SH Uh, okay. I brought some albums with me to share with the Four Or Five Guys©.
FT3 Gee! That's swell! Why don't we stretch out by the pool, smoke a little wee-eed, get comfortable!
SH Anyway. Mark Everett's first album was privately recorded, and he tried to buy back every copy of it, but there's a homemade quality to it I find attractive.
FT3 There's a homemade quality to you I find attractive, baby! Ooh yeah! Lookit them cupcakes!
SH Can you just - move away a little? Like, Des Moines? Anyway, he shortened his name to just E, and released an exquisite pair of albums suffused with a melancholic melodicism that for me have a warmth missing from his later work as the ipso facto leader of Eels, although they are sadly underplayed today.
FT3 I luuuuurve the way you lisp like that! GrrrrRRRROOOOWL! A-WOOOO!!!! Hey - where'd she go? Gee - I guess my manly pheromones overcame her! I get that a lot! Why - she forgot her albums, th' dizzy broad! I'm sure she'll swing back for them when she's fixed her hair and put on some alluring perfume! She'll be like "Ooh! Farq! I forgot my albums! I'll just bend over in front of you and pick them up!" I'll just wait here by the pool with my robe open! Yessir! Oboy! Meanwhile, youse saps listen to the albums!
Want these? What's on your mind at three a.m.?
ReplyDeleteNothing, I'm in Non-REM Sleep.
DeleteWha?
ReplyDelete.Your 3 am or mine? If my 3 am it's usually something like "Can I be bothered to get up and pee or will I hopefully fall asleep again?"
ReplyDeleteThat's what did it this morning (it's 4a.m. here). It's the "cold" season, which means the nights are pleasantly chill, so the mental and physical anguish of "do I really have to take a pee or can't I just stay warm and go back to sleep" is considerable. I got up, of course. Had a pee, felt physically ill about Ukraine, then washed up on th' IoF© with the other familiar driftwood.
DeleteUkraine is so disturbing and will get worse before it gets better if it gets better...whatever better even means.
DeleteWhen was the last time you had your prostates checked?
DeleteI don't think that'll make much difference to Ukraine, Babs.
DeleteBon mot retort from Greenockian! I larfed aloud. Followed by a pensive moment of silence for the Ukrainian people.
DeleteYou're lucky, jonder - I larfed and accidentally* pissed myself.
DeleteLast check up was last week, coincidentally. It's all part of life's rich pageant for the more mature man...
*Redundant adverb - does anyone piss themselves on purpose?
Pissing your pants will only keep you warm for a little while (Nordic proverb).
DeleteCounterpoint: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/796537
My 3A is usually somewhere between deep sleep and Greenockian's Dilemma... 3A Thai Time(tm)(c)(r) on TThs teaching a class on resistance, rebellion, and revolution so when my mind's not drifting it's on that; every other day at that time it's sorta like a lot of the rest of my time: down the rabbit hole with Alice, sorta...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpUkNKP9eug&t=74s
ReplyDeleteIs that enough info to get the albums? What are you, the NSA?
All due respect to the lovely and talented Ms. Hoffs, Everett's a fairly fas-kin-eightin' fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliver_Everett
After reading that Wikipedia entry I think I'd run several miles before going anywhere near Mr E - talk about bad luck, bad karma or whatever. Gee, the things we learn on the IoF.
DeleteOne wonders, how Hugh Everett III, sired such a schlemiel?
DeleteI hope this is you being cryptically "ironic" again.
DeleteThe problem with being "ironic" in blog comments (emails, whatever) is that you lose all the physical tells of face-to-face conversation, and the tone of voice, that would flag your words as being "ironic". Is there an emoji you could use?
DeleteWithout the playfulness, the body theatre as it were, of real conversation, internet "irony" is just typing the opposite of what you really feel/the truth, and challenging others to be smart enough to get the joke. Because if they're not, it's on them, right?
If only there was "Ironic", "Sardonic", "Antiphrasis" "Sarcastic" etc. etc. fonts.
DeleteThat said, don't sell the Four Or Five Guys short, as It's been my observation: they get it.
I was being "ironic", Babs.
DeleteI'll bet
DeleteYou're being "ironic", right?
DeleteWould it be ironic to say that we're now all post-ironic?
DeleteThe absence of "body theatre" may be why emojis were needed, as well as text-lang shorthand like LOL, j/k, ROFL and PMPL (pissed my pants larfing).
DeleteAll irony aside, I don't get the humor in just typing out the opposite of what you think is true.
DeleteOr, to put it "ironically" - I really get the humor in typing out the opposite of what you think is true.
It works in real-life conversation: "and we can so trust our leaders to do the right thing" said in a heavy voice with a knowing look. There's an understood complicity.
Innerestingly enough, Bad Dude In Love isn't mentioned on his wiki page. I guess he got it removed - he's in complete denial about it. It's not a great album by any stretch (as the two by E are), but it's not terrible, either.
ReplyDeleteE.
From an internet comment:
Delete"This is Mark Oliver Everett (better known as E) of Eels fame’s official LP release from 1985, Bad Dude in Love.
Only 500 copies of the album were made and handed out mostly to friends and for promotion.
In a 2000 interview, Chris Sneidern, an acquaintance of E in 1994, said of the album, “The record to get, apparently, is the Mark Everett record, it’s called the Mark Everett something… ‘Cool Dude’ record or something. It’s one of those things that if you were to show it to him he’d flip, he’s apparently not comfortable with it.”
E seems to be very uncomfortable with the album, even refusing to mention it in his 2007 autobiography Things the Grandchildren Should Know."
Mr Von Sneidern is worth a listen if anyone's interested.
DeleteThe name Mr. Von Sneidern makes me think of "Mr. Barky Von Schnauzer" from this TV commercial:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/2cgiuf33X1Q
Oh, Susanna!
ReplyDeleteShe's just as wonderful today. But I couldn't find a contemporary picture that had the same play of light and shade, the same balance of composition, and the same subtly muted palette as this.
DeleteI'd pay to see "Teen Panty Planet" with Ms. Hoffs. That's probably what I'll be dreaming about at 3am unless the dog wakes me up to walk her down the hall to my daughter's room which inexplicably she chooses to move to in the middle of the night.
DeleteYou're in luck, MrDave! It was written and directed by Susanna's mom in 1987. They changed the title, but in our hearts it will always be Teen Panty Planet.
Deletehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092537/
It has crossed my mind that I was a student at UC Berkeley at the same time as Ms. Hoffs.
DeleteI'm a big fan of the guy who produced and played on "A Man Called E", a man who calls himself Parthenon Huxley.
ReplyDeleteI used to have CDs by the man, Jonder. Like to hear them again, if you can get it together!
DeleteHow have I never heard of this guy?
DeleteWhich guy?
DeleteThe exotically named Parthenon Huxley.
DeleteYou've probably looked on YewChewb already - masses of stuff there.
DeleteI will serve up some Parthenon Huxley, aka P.Hux, nee Rick Miller, aka Rick Rock, to satisfy the demand from all two of you.
DeleteMany thanks!
DeleteA précis on P. Hux (for Farq and the Shark):
ReplyDeleteUnder the name Rick Rock, the man born Rick Miller made a 1982 single called “Buddha, Buddha” (produced by Don Dixon and Mitch Easter). Power pop fans may know his song “Bazooka Joe” from Yellow Pills Vol. 2, or “Every Minute” from the Poptopia series.
As Parthenon Huxley, he made an LP for Columbia called Sunny Nights (1988). Columbia dropped him, he became a staff writer for MCA Records, produced albums for Mark “E” Everett and Kyle Vincent, and formed a trio called P. Hux.
In 1999, he became the frontman for ELO (renamed The Orchestra after legal action from Jeff Lynne). He toured and recorded with them for over a decade. In 2001, he started his own label to release Parthenon Huxley and P. Hux records.
Here’s the P. Hux album Deluxe (1995). I added their version of “Perfection” from the 1996 Badfinger tribute album Come And Get It, plus Parthenon Huxley’s 2013 remake of “Buddha, Buddha”. As you may have guessed, it’s smart and well-played power pop.
Deluxe (Faux Deluxe edition) https://workupload.com/file/fzMbY3aAp6c
“Buddha, Buddha”: https://youtu.be/WQ_hkPmfjDg
Thank you! Looking forward to it.
Delete"Homemade Spaceship: The Music of ELO Performed by P. Hux" is Parthenon's own version of the songs that paid his rent and allowed him to tour the world.
Deletehttps://myzuka.club/Album/1225856/p-hux-the-music-of-elo-performed-by-p-hux-2005
Thanks for Deluxe - I thought I had a couple of his CDs (way back when) but maybe it was just this.
Delete3 a.m.? Which is c;loser...refrigerator or bathroom? Got to work with Sue a few years ago. As nice as you could imagine and more talented than credited.
ReplyDeleteYou're a very lucky man. She's an A1 hooman bean. Prodigiously talented, too. Eternal Flame, whatever you may think of it, is a freaking monster pop song, a huge hit. And the fact that she was naked in the studio while recording it only adds to its greatness. "Can you feel my heart beating?" *faints*
DeleteAbout 3am I’m deciding whether to write for a while longer or hit the sack. I’ve had headphones on for the last two hours as per the missus... bring the volume way down on the speakers & sumthin “mellow” as she calls it, then silence after that set. I’ve been listening to some of my mixtapes & visiting blogs that I frequent.
ReplyDeleteVisiting the IoF I came upon E.
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the man/band??? numerous times & the privilege of having spoken in-depth with him several times. He is the vignettes his song are. From pedestrian to etheral, down-to-earth to heavenly, his many universe’s universe is a warm & charmingly tragi-comedic place. Perhaps novicaine for the Soul.
Here’s one of my favorites. By less than twenty seconds into “Dog Faced Boy” & you’ll be hooked.
Souljacker
https://mega.nz/file/MfZGTBQD#oRY3rdBQl76AfPdk5mJiLFHtdWEzpozlX-rbXC4tzaM
Souljacker E made with John Parish. Debatably(sic) E’s best. Now on board for E’s latest Extreme Witchcraft, which I could share, if anybody wants.
In case you missed it - link: February 27, 2022 at 8:32 AM
ReplyDeleteSultry Sue here: https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-fame-susannah-hoffs-interview.html
ReplyDeletenice article & photos..too bad link is now dead...a reup would be appreciated. thanks
DeleteWith pleasure, wkc!
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/XzwbNVKaGxq
Thanks!
DeleteWarming to my theme: Susanna Hoffs is that rare thing, a genuine sex symbol. Natural (as opposed to the artificiality of Madonna), knowing (those eyes!), playful, totally in control, and always, always class out th' ass. And she's all those things today, too. It's not easy to think of others in her league - Bardot, certainly. Diana Rigg.
ReplyDeleteShame her mother effectively derailed her movie career. Or not! She's perfect as she is.
I might've posted this here before, but you can never get enough of sexy Susie.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNMXjVbalE
Skip to four minutes in to get a version of Feel Like Making Love that will make you push Farq into the pool to have Susie for yourself.