Blondie: Chris Stein
News about Chris Stein, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Blondie.
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/19/2004 04:20:00 AM
i am very split by the climate surrounding the election in that on one hand i feel totally divorced from it like its some kind of stupid game show while on the other i get caught up and pissed off by all the bad feelings involved in it... im starting to think now that whoever wins the result of all this mean spirited bullshit is just going to have a negative effect... but i cant believe the depth of seeming lies and crap floating around... i saw a film about the last election called 'unprecedented' something like that... just amazing, i didnt have, and i doubt many of you have any idea of how deep the madness surrounding that election went... the blackballing of supposed 'felons' from voting in the Fla. election etc etc... what makes me the most crazy though is that with all of these facts compiled out there all that results from them is a bunch of entertainment, documentaries, no action...
as usual i cant help but feel the human race is rushing into a wall with no brakes, that at best its fifty fifty, that is the fight with the 'dark side'
i hope these S.A. shows are ok, i think several of them are in festivals, and festivals are a struggle...
on a positive note the NY area has been flooded with cheap 'no territory' DVD players... these are generic guys called "CYBERHOME" and sell for around forty bucks, i've been told you can find them on amazon, i got one a while back and its quite great to be able to play anything, not get the wrong region error...
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/12/2004 04:21:00 AM
i'm pleased to announce that after years and years the GUN CLUB's stuff is finally available again, Long Gone John at 'Sympathy for the Record Industry' has done a great job with Jeffrey's sister Jacqui and myself getting the whole catalog back in circulation, the ep and two lp's are available on vinyl and cd from http://sympathyrecords.com/
as in the past im still amazed that this stuff was done so long ago, it sounds like a lot of what i hear now only maybe better...
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/11/2004 04:21:00 AM
so the ramones benefit in the city, i saw a load of people i hadnt (seen) for quite a while, we were kind of burnt by the time we got on stage but i think the crowd that had been hanging for six hours was even more wasted though they all stuck it out till the bitter end, the strokes are really pretty great, Joan J. was my favorite deliverer of ramones songs, today i saw an ad on tv for some download company that made prominent use of a ramones song and it's just sad, obvious that they are going to now be finally recognized as a major force in music...
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i have been drawn into 'the da vinci code' book, i just started it out of curiosity and am really pleased that the message it imparts is capable of being one of such mass appeal, i wonder if its possible for western society to change back to feminine orientation...
of course the fucking election, is it as exciting as the world series, wrestlemania?
look i registered to vote, ok, the last and only time i ever voted was for McGovern, so if all the jerks like myself get involved maybe it'll help, again; we have been all over europe in the last year and everyone i talked to over there, cab drivers, people in coffee shops etc etc think that the us world position is wrong, the war a mistake etc, the view we get from the media here is really skewed and slanted, we dont get a balanced picture of world opinion
lastly for now im starting to get a lot of messages from south america, a lot of you down there talking about this up coming short tour, i cant believe we never got down there in the past, we ARE definitely gonna show up, im looking forward to getting there...
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