My Bloody Valentine 3D - not the same as My Bloody Valentine

A common problem seems to have struck my friend Kelly (and Phil, and others)...

"I was watching tv this week, when a movie commercial came on and I'm sitting there going 'Wait, why are people screaming? What's with the stuff being thrown at you' etc before the wheels in my head started to turn and I realized that "My Bloody Valentine 3-D" is not in fact a concert film of the band My Bloody Valentine - it's a horror movie."

If only My Bloody Valentine the band were in the movie My Bloody Valentine 3-D, alas. But to tide one over here's a very old MBV single from our friends at Little Hits. Cool beans.

RIP Odetta

What sad news this morning that the incredibly strange-voiced 60's folk singer Odetta has passed, just a month shy of her 78th birthday.

It seems like only yesterday I'd enjoyed her haunting, soulful voice on The 6th's "Wasp's Nests" CD singing "Waltzing Me All the Way Home" (click to hear).


One of my favorite references to Odetta is, from the film Hairspray by John Waters.

Hair hopper Ricki Lake and her beau seek refuge in the house of two beatniks played by Pia Zadora and The Cars' Ric Ocasek. Being the first beatniks they've ever met, the conversation goes like this...

Ricki: How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?
Pia: With an iron, man! l play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then l iron my hair, dig?... When l'm high, l am Odetta!