Blondie: Chris Stein
News about Chris Stein, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Blondie.
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mid summer thereabouts
Posted by Chris Stein at 7/26/2006 10:41:00 AM
we are in the midst of the heat wave that of course has nothing to do with global positioning or warming (sic)... in my opinion the real 'inconvenient truth' is in fact that the last time a lot of people were able to get together on a single cause in the western world was probably for world war two, i cant think of much like mindedness after that, just a lot of conflict and division...
today i saw in my favorite magazine; the new york times that athletes who tried to get their red blood cell counts up by lying in oxygen tents etc, situations replicating mountain climbing and the like would be penalized by the doping committee... i think they are missing the point here: athletes should be penalized for exercising! why not just go all the way, exercise creates unfair advantages, raises hormone and blood levels, should be banned like dope!
one of my myspace associates, Jerry, sent me finally a copy of Takashi Miike's IMPRINT, this is the 'Masters of Horror' episode that HBO deemed to horrifyingly horrible to be seen by even the grittiest of american Horror fans (apparently it ran in the UK however)... IMPRINT is pretty damn rough i have to admit, i'm tempted to say it make AUDITION look like an episode of friends by comparison but i wont... sadly i am leaning in the direction that says that IMPRINT is indeed to heavy duty for our delicate american sensibilities, as long as we stick to REAL murder torture and mayhem its ok here... Miike in presenting this stuff in an elegant and sensual context makes it all the more horrendous, i loved it but its the kind of thing that does imprint itself so be warned...
im starting to get feedback on the BBC docu, thus far most of the comments have been very positive... hopefully it'll air in the states soon, its filled with points that i might take time to address at some time later on... one thing i may have mentioned is that when one is stuck in the midst of media it becomes all consuming, i frequently am sleepless with racing thoughts about who said what and how that statement might be misconstrued on and on... there is a cut off point however as i realize one could spend their life retracting and adjusting statements they made... this stuff is endless
thats it, stuff in the works for soon
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butt heard round the world
Posted by Chris Stein at 7/10/2006 05:51:00 PM
so we have the demise of a latter day Achilles and one of the weirdest events that i can recall all in one... the vilified Christian Renaldo was able to suck it up with twenty thousand people booing him whenever he touched the ball so what happened to Zidane, today i heard that Materazzi called him a "terrorist" which makes little sense... i am reminded of Tysons ear incident and Frankie at the Hall Of Fame induction but those events pale in the face of the grandeur and scope of the Zindane headbutt... just like everyone else i was really thrown by the thing it just seems so crazy and off...
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various/RAMONES/BBC
Posted by Chris Stein at 7/05/2006 10:25:00 PM
a couple of things... first barbara just found this thing on youtube that is great its at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIblEAMxrjY
or put 'RAMONES WARHOL STEIN' into the youtube search or go to my myspace page which is:
http://www.myspace.com/esxp
it brings back a lot of memories... contrary to things i've heard over the years the Ramones and i were very close up until the end... there was a period when i was the only one who had Johnny's phone number and Joey or one of the others would call me and say "tell John to call so and so..."
this went on for maybe four or five months...
its grimly ironic but somehow appropriate for the topic of our discussion in this clip to be the decline of rock
i miss all those guys a great deal i wish they were still around...
"Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes" was a short lived show produced by the Warhol gang that ran on MTV... i dont recall how many episodes were aired but not too many... i also did a piece of music that became the shows theme... i must have been on it various times, i really only remember this and an interview with Bill Burroughs i did...
this was shot in the last very deluxe Warhol factory in midtown, Andy wasnt around and word was he was out with a cold or flu...
the next day we all heard that he had died (for me that puts the date of this taping at Feb.21 1987)... as a result this thing is sort of steeped in sadness...
for you UK fans The Blondie BBC doc airs on Friday, July 21 at 10:35 pm on BBC 1 in the UK...i really like this thing, everyone worked hard on it... it still presents a ton of issues for all of you maniacal super fans, myself included, theres a lot of unresolved stuff in it and i'm sort of looking forward to fielding questions about it... BUT its by far the best docu done about BLONDIE in a long time if ever... i'm sure it will air in the states soon
beyond that FRANCE-ITALY!!!! hey i said the Germans too what the fuck do i know... lets hope that like some of the heavier preceeding games it doesnt go into penalty kicks
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tour etc
Posted by Chris Stein at 7/04/2006 05:52:00 PM
due to general weirdness i just got the last 185 or so e-mails at once... so i see that a lot of you want more info about the tour being shut down... the problem with doing make up dates immediately is that all the shows that were booked by regional promoters were for the 'road rage' blondie/cars show... simply none of these guys are gonna take just us without the cars without a bunch of re-negotiation, its not just a matter of plugging us back into shows, theres a lot of considerations about size of venues etc... i'm sorry about all of this i somehow thought that most everyone would realize some of it but i still got complaints about my ignoring the situation... believe me i think ticket prices us and other acts are way over the top these days but there is not much i can do about the expenses of touring... there are other elements that added to the high ticket price of roadrage but you are gonna have to figure them out, theres just stuff it wouldn't be right for me to go into here
im sorry that any of you are disappointed, hopefully not as disappointed as british or german cup fans cause we will still be around whereas the 2006 world cup is a one shot... i really thought the germans had a good shot, i didnt think enough about the german-italian soccer jinx
speaking of that im also feeling bad about some of you who were coming long distances (like from overseas) who couldn't cancel flights, hotel stuff etc... at this point i dont know how to make it up maybe we can do something in the future... i can only personally apologize to fans who were disappointed and hassled by all this situation
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