Sinister: "bona drag"--a digression.

[Jason Scott]

hi witty ones,

An inevitable end to my bad day yesterday was this:

On TV, the opening throes of The Smiths sacred "How Soon Is Now" began to 
play. I ran from the kitchen to see what was up. Turns out Nissan is using 
the song in their commercial for the new Maixima 2000. Johnny's reverb went 
on as a camera panned around the curves of the automobile. So that was 
pretty sad. But THEN I thought about the fact that the commercial ended 
sweetly enough EXACTLY before Morrissey's vocals were about to cut in. Now 
this gets me thinking: either they sampled and looped the guitar bit (see: 
SoHo's "Hippiechick", for which Moz/Marr recieved a whopping %75 of 
royalties for illegal use of the sample), OR...the ever money-hungry 
Moz/Marr wrote it out back in the early days so that they might be able to 
do such commercialism later on? Can you imagine Moz and Marr writing and 
playing along "I aaaaaam humaaaaan and I need to be riiiiiichhh...ER...I 
mean...lOOOVEEED..." ??? Being a Smiths affecianado, my trained ear told me 
that the music was NOT an afore mentioned "sample and loop", but in fact the 
real deal. If anyone's ever read the unauthorized musicology "Morrissey & 
Marr:The Severed Connection" by Jonny Roghan (whom Moz was quoted as saying 
"I wish he'd get run over by a bus."), they will read about how much grief 
the band has gone through regarding money.(see: court battle with ex-Smith 
members over royalties, in which the judge called Moz all kinds of nasty 
things like "vile" and "despicable" for his stinginess about turning over 
royalty money...hmmm...perhaps that's where "beware, I bear more grudges).

But I digress...as anounced.

The point is, the world is going to pot, no? Will there be a day 10 years 
from now when I hear B+S on TV supporting Hanes terrycloth underwear (pardon 
the pun back there)? I dunno. Maybe Electronic Renaissance could be used to 
sell stereos in stores or something.

And I'm getting old. The crap softie music station at work here just played 
"Blister In The Sun" by Violent Femmes and "People Are People" by DM...mixed 
between a bunch of top 40 garbage.
Then "Good Vibrations" came on, and my Lobster Bisque tasted much better.

E.A. and I will be meeting some of you shortly at El Rancho Relaxo later 
tonight, so I can't wait for that. If anyone wants to make it up to North 
York after, There's SEVERAL bottles of wine chilling, and a fridge full of 
beer! HUZZAH! Let the naked twister games begin!

Nice 2 luv u baby!  (sorry, I sawe 54-40 the other night for retro-kicks.)

Jason D. "Panic on the streets of Toronto" Scott
a.k.a. Barfly

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