Blondie: Chris Stein
News about Chris Stein, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Blondie.
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summer grinds on
Posted by Chris Stein at 7/27/2005 11:59:00 PM
summer grinds on very hot here... i have been reading "haunted" by 'ol chuck palahniuk, pretty much a fan tho i was disapointed in a few of the later ones like 'lullaby', pleased to say this is up to speed... my favorites still are 'invisible monsters' and 'fight club' of course, theres nothing like that first novel...
let me reassure todd in florida who wonders if aliens had any effect on my liking 'war of the worlds'... well of course it sucked, it aint "ZEBRAMAN" but i am taking it in context of what i expected/hollywood hash and re-hash, i mean damn you cant spend that much fucking money without getting a few decent shots out of it, you gotta give it to them for some of those huge mechanical scenes: the church splitting open and the boat overturning... unfortunately yes it was more of an exercise than any attempt at actually making a great film...
AGAIN: requests for stuff; interviews, song rights, and 'official' type things like that should go thru the proper channels: our management co. 10th street entertainment, in L.A. and NYC, song rights for films have nothing to do with us as artists (unfortunately) they have to be procured thru our various publishing companies, mostly EMI/Chrysalis for the older stuff... the best way to GET AUTOGRAPHS is to send YOUR OWN BLONDIE PICTURE or blank piece of paper or cereal box or whatever to either our above mentioned management OR BETTER, TO ONE OF OUR GIGS with A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE... again A SELF ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE will almost guarantee results, at most gigs we have a pile of mail like that... lastly if you try the self addressed stamped route make sure that you use US postage for the US, UK for UK etc. we have gotten stuff from the UK here in the US with UK stamps which are not recognised by the US postal authorities... i'm sorry that we dont have any kind of autograph thing set up beyond this but thats life as they say
its gonna rain again here, the spring and summer have been so damp giant mushrooms are growing on the other mushrooms, i've heard that its all related to the tsunami etc
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Posted by Chris Stein at 7/05/2005 11:59:00 PM
 the days are going by and mostly im absorbed in baby related issues... akira is really great and provides endless amounts of just everything, now shes up to three word sentances... i have been working a little on music but it may be another month or so before i get into it more intensely... debbie sends thanx for all of the birthday wishes... i'm gonna see if she will put up a message board herself as she is starting to get into doing more e-mailing and computing...
actually got to the movies which is a big event now war of the worlds of course, it was unavoidable... thought the first act was really great, i really got caught up, it got a little weighty as it went on but it way surpassed my (low) expectations... should have seen batman though
i just re-read 'the bonfire of the vanities' which is a great bit of writing... the film version just sucked so dont go by that...'bonfire' came out in '87, anyway there's an amazing bit of prophetic psychic weirdness, or perhaps just astute premonition on the part of Tom Wolfe in the very first chapter; its a scene with the fictional mayor 'Goldberg' of NYC being shouted down at a 'town meeting' type event in harlem, anyway the head of his police bodyguards is named "Guliaggi", very cool... im sure Rudy was around at the time Wolfe researched the book, i cant imagine its a coincidence... anyhow very worth reading
also colin farrell looks so much like charles manson its nuts, could he be "pooh bear" manson?
thanx ali for the letter
finally i sort of hate computers, the frustration level is so high, if only i could have HAL around to argue with... i finally had to change my long standing e-mail address, everytime i logged on i was getting 80-90 messages about cock enlargement, teen black elderly and every other kind of slut imaginable, all the weekend vacations i-pods and playstations i'd won and the occasional suggestion that 'freedom begins at home' etc. in other words rat out your friends and neighbors... what a relief to be back to not using the spam filters, it got so it was easier to take names out of the spam things than to delete stuff
oh i almost finished halo 1, just on the last stupid bit, hopefully the next one will be less monotonous
pic is 'night life in bangkok'
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