Taylor covers Amy, can't tell up from down

[koganbot]

Taylor Swift hits it sideways:

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[koganbot]

Oh yes, she just played London and NONE OF YOU WENT TO SEE HER!!!

:(

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Now you tell us. Some publicity agent you are.

Taylor covers Steve Reich

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ZOMG the dustbin drumming! (cf. other cameraphone clips on youtube)

[cis.livejournal.com]

I did, actually.

[cis.livejournal.com]

*jazz hands*

[cis.livejournal.com]

what i particularly enjoyed about her 'rehab' cover is that she only sang the opening chorus and the first verse, cutting back to the chorus at the bridge, and then finishing -- in other words, she sang it in such a way that she made no reference to alcohol let alone anything else.

[cis.livejournal.com]

cutting back to the chorus in lieu of the bridge, i should say.

what i particularly enjoyed about her backing band is that she basically has a harem of boys (five of them!) with awful awful unforgivable hair. plus one girl, but even she was wearing quite hideous trousers.

[cis.livejournal.com]

well, mostly it was the guitarists with the awful hair. but awful. Every time i caught sight of one of them my brain would short out from sheer hilarity.

I didn't stay for the Q&A because i always find that sort of thing super awkward, and the friend I was with needed to get home. But there was one.

[cis.livejournal.com]

She was, by the way, fantastic -- all the little introductions I'd heard before, on youtube clips and suchlike, were impossibly charming. Her voice was clear and her pitch was good: the songs were just different enough to stay fresh. She did her little arrogant shoulder-shimmy and you thought: yeah, it's good to be you. I left loving her more.

[koganbot]

Terrific!

[cis.livejournal.com]

since she'd preceded the cover with a little spiel about how much she loved shopping in london and how she could just live in topshop, in a little tent, they'd never know she was there, the effect was to suggest that they tried to make her go to rehab for ~*shopping addiction*~.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

The person filming doesn't seem to grasp the subtle differences between taking a photo and making a video. Or maybe they were going for "canted" and overshot?

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

Frank! For some reason my old link to the page of your columns isn't working. Is there any good way to reach them now besides searching for each column one at a time, so I can point all and sundry in their direction, etc.?

[koganbot]

This is because LVW changed servers, or layouts, or something, so the URLs are all new. You can get to most of the columns by putting "Rules Of The Game" through the LVW search engine, like this:

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/search/?q=%22Rules+Of+The+Game%22

However, links to one of the pieces ("Dresses Are My Weakness, Seriously") don't get you anything (too bad; it's one of my favorites), and three of the pieces you need to search separately because LVW forgot or chose not to include "Rules Of The Game" in the title when posting them originally. Those links are:

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/jun/28/britney-shows-brain

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/jul/04/whats-wrong-with-pretty-girls

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/jul/26/which-social-class-sounds-better

Searching for "Frank Kogan" isn't adequate because at the moment three of the pieces are missing my name. I've asked LVW to fix these, but so far they haven't. When they do (assuming they do), "Frank Kogan" will be my default search.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Frank! I am right now listening to Emerald City by Teena Marie and OMG YOU WERE RIGHT SHE IS AMAZING! I absolutely love 'Lips To Find You' especially.

[koganbot]

I knew you and Teena were made for each other.

Dresses are my weakness, seriously

[koganbot]

My Taylor Swift column from back in January has reappeared!