Spin Me Right Round
I kind of hate Spin Magazine. I like reading some of it, but then again there are so many things that I hate. The thing I hate most is their reviews, though. I just bought the new Talib Kweli album, Eardrum and am pretty impressed with the quality of it. Not unlike Kweli, it's a really well made album. Spin says as much: they like the guests (Kanye, Jean Grae, JT and others), they like the production (Kanye, Just Blaze, others) and they think Kweli spits some pretty hot fire...but they gave the album 2.5 out of 5 stars. Why? They don't like Kweli's voice. Not the way he uses...they just think it's too nasal. So...based on something Kweli couldn't possibly change, Spin takes away points. Would anybody want to work for Spin? Of course, what can one expect from a guy like Bob Guccione, Jr., a guy who dated both Ann Coulter and Candace Bushnell. Guccione, Jr's father, of course, is Bob Guccione, Sr, the man behind Penthouse, which makes Playboy look like...Highlites. Peeing is (or was) involved. I have to give the Junior Guccione some credit, though. He pissed off Axl Rose enough for him to sing:
"Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin, what? You're pissed off that your daddy gets more pussy than you? Fuck you! Suck my fucking dick! Get in the ring motherfucker, and I'll kick your bitchy little ass"
So of course, since Bob Guccione, Jr has been studying karate (pronounced kah*rah*tay in this case, obviously) for 9 years, he challenged Rose to a fight and much like Chinese Democracy, Rose disappointed. It's got to suck to be Axl Rose.
In other news, today the Beatles met Dylan and a year later Dylan was booed off stage for going electric. Also Pepsi was named and Lohengrin premiered. Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay, St. Augustine was established, and the dollar was allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
Goethe, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Tolstoy, and Jack Kirby were born. Emmet Till, Robert Shaw, John Huston, and the Szekeres' passed on.
But the most historically significant thing that happened today happened in 1981 with the birth of Mary Katherine Baynor. Happy birthday, my friend. May there be many, many more.