And “Go That Deep.” GO.

• 1975, J.P. Donleavy: “Isolation is a necessity, also an acute loneliness and a sense of slight rejection.”
• A crazy world of crotchet
• Build a robotic xylophone
• David Lynch discusses music projects
• “God and Germs Are Everywhere“
• Eight great Antarctic explorers
• Factory farms infographic
• “Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism“…?…?
• Helen Thomas still hates the Jews
• Houdini Fly inflates head and breaks walls
• Marvel Comics’ long history of embarrassing itself on stage in New York
• Mercury poisoning makes boy birds gay
• Mutilated corpse falls from the heavens
• Portland coyotes are everywhere
• Prisoner fashion timeline
• Richard Dawkins: “Christopher Hitchens, my hero of 2010.”
• “Processions, Night and Fire“
• Snake fang evolution
• Simply Red vocalist issues apology to the all ho’s he banged
• Submit your finest lesbian romance stories here
• Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
• The 50 states, depicted as food
• The eternal question: Why did kamikazes wear helmets?
• The Insanity Virus
• The site Real-Life Superheroes supplies a handy list of Taser and stun gun laws
• When women are most fertile, they avoid contact with their dads

Recall that 80s pop — even at its most putrid – had a remarkable and rarely discussed quality. For instance, beneath the noxious pep of Wham! was a foundation of extremely high-caliber musicianship.

Wham! arrangements typically featured such ace studio musicians as bassist Deon Estus, who seemed capable of mimicking Jaco Pastorious at will. And maybe I’m reaching, but I posit that Wham!’s “Freedom” is a mall-pop descendant of Weather Report‘s “Birdland.”

Wham! wasn’t alone in this regard. Go back and listen to the most irritating and bland Top 40 artists from the 80s –- the Cutting Crew, Mr. Mister, Richard Marx —- and beneath the crap surface lay a bedrock of virtuosity.

That’s not the case in today’s vapid pop scene.

Anyway…

(Pal) Rob and I decided there should be a Wham!-Jaco tribute band called…

Wham! Report