Thursday, June 4, 2009

Phil Spector vs everyone



I know I shouldn't be impressed, but I can't help myself.

Phil Spector Twittered me from his cell. Whoa! Trouble was it was to tell me that he was listening to The Vines.

Kind of ironic, no?

P.S. Update, 22.06: 3/6/09. 'Phil Spector' now claims that (s)he's a fraud. Well, thank Christ for that.

4 comments:

  1. Ahh - good to read the Rolling Stone article finally. A great piece of writing, surely that is your literature review? ;)

    I'm not sure what "The Vines" link is going to though? Spore - I play that game but WTF?
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  2. Read the heading, dude. 'Abominations against nature'...

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  3. I see - very glib. Hey I recollect from my time working in a record store, someone from "industry" telling me that the street press were an important part of their marketing strategy because they were "sluts for exclusives" and "cheap" because they were "run by children". Just some snarky from my past - fairly unquotable i'm sure. ;)

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