All is One

And everything comes to One,
As we dance on, dance on, dance on.
- Theodore Roethke

New Album Soon....Blood, Mayhem and Aliens with a Beat

My new album is being finished now, narrowing down songs still......I am getting excited....get ready earthlings!!!!!!!!!

Moonbeams and tangerines,
Bette Rat A Tat Tat Dillinger

Fame: No One Has Fifteen Minutes

One impression I have about those few Lady Gaga emails is that they are from teens who don't know that even for the biggest names, fame is over before you know it. It hurts to hear that in our society, but now no one will ever have the fame of past generations. This can be very positive, but some will find it scary.

A case in point is the Bob Dylan article I cited a few posts ago. He was picked up because they didn't recognize him. As you might note if you do a search, Bob Dylan was the embodiment of the 60s. I was taken aback that he wouldn't have looked a little familiar to the police, but they were sincere in their lack of recognition. So, Lady Gaga has no chance whatsoever. Sorry.

I posted a picture at the top of this entry of........Michael Corleone....Tony Montana.....Dr Kevorkian (yeah, his hair is not the trademark black, and that is the reason). I didn't recognize him and I can recite lines from "Scarface", and have seen the "Godfather" films so many times I have lost count. I am sure less devoted fans would have no idea who he was. And, sadly, in twenty years people will be asking who he was and what he was famous for.....Al Pacino!

So if you do ANYTHING for "fame" you are crucifying yourself. An 18 year old I know asked me who the "old ugly girl" in the "weird blonde wig" was....and I was looking at a book of Andy Warhol photos.

Whoa, I got some Emails About My Posts!

I couldn't believe that a few emails about my post re: Lady Gaga were waiting for me on various sites across the Wild Wild Web for me. I mean, no one comments on this blog. I sometimes think of it like a diary.....but these were so intense I couldn't go without answering them:

1) "You don't know anything. You are horrible. How could you say those things about Lady Gaga? U are never going 2B the rock star she is now. you are just jealous. she writes her own songs, and she can play the piano. get a lyfe!!!!!!"

Lady Gaga is a rock star? Okay, drink some more kool aid. And, sure I am jealous that she has a huge monetary cushion.....she is the hieress to a large fortune, and I entered this world without a cent. So sure, I am jealous. "Writing your own songs" is something to brag about when the lyrics are great. I actually have heard David Bowie, Grace Jones and Queen. They write/sing/interpret great images in their songs. As for playing the piano, did you have one in your mansion? Everything is based on exposure, which is determined by economics. Thanks.

2) "I don't get you. you are an idiot and so is bob dylan. you don't know about stuff today like lady gaga does. she is talented, and she is the next madonna. go to hell."

How did Bob Dylan get into this? And no, I don't know about Lady Gaga's "stuff" like her creepy tendency to market to little girls though all she can act like is a bad Peaches. When you find her talent, you should give it to her. Maybe Madonna is keeping it in storage?

Evidence of Pop Music's Saga of Rags to Riches

I saw this, and remembering my post "Dear Lady Gaga" about the necessity of a popular musician coming from a modest background (read: being able to relate to others from all walks of life, and this does not mean your chauffeur or maid) in order to be successful over the long term, I just had to post this:

In the past nine months, Dylan has visited the childhood homes of Neil Young and John Lennon, in both cases appearing without fanfare and barely identifying himself after he was recognized.

Last November, Winnipeg homeowner John Kiernan told Sun Media's Simon Fuller that Dylan and a friend arrived unannounced in a taxi to his Grosvenor Ave. home, where songwriter Neil Young grew up.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8335824&page=1

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, eh?

New Album Soon

Soon there will be a new album.......maybe the title of the blog will give you a clue.
Check back soon, and thanks for the interest!

Dear Lady Gaga/The Narrative of Rags to Riches

Lady Gaga, before you were born into a lifestyle that involved going to the same school as Caroline Kennedy, during the times of the icons you state influenced you, there was an unwritten rule that the media is currently trying to distort. The masses (myself included) know it all too well still, sweetie: the happiness of seeing a working class individual cleverly place themself in the monied arena through sheer moxie made many feel that there was still class fluidity in the Western world. Maybe that is why NME readers voted you the most overrated music act EVER this week? Hmmm...
See, to me and to many others, a main source of the fun of music "legends", aside from their music and aura, was the knowledge they now were free from the typical working class destiny: to remain in the working class. That implicitly told the listener/viewer that maybe they might get to embrace the "riches" of life, even though their lot was too often dark rags. Of course there are negatives to this, but I am not going to analyze them here.
So, Lady Gaga, rising out of obscurity is the beginning of the roller coaster of media attention, and I can't imagine how fantastic it was to see true talents like David Bowie, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, et al, get their first taste of attention, and of course the relatively mild monetary spoils that follow. But it seems people (except for children) are repeat listeners when they can relate to the person, and that is typically done by early childhood experience. Who over twenty has not seen the childhood photo of little Kurt Cobain? The message implied is that Kurt came from a very working class town, and wanted intellectual freedom. Your Sacred Heart photos are probably kept in a nice vault. Wonder how much was spent on your Communion. Are you understanding my point?
Bowie's is the story I know the best, and his father was a modest organizer for a charity. It was great to read the life (though romanticized, but what isn't?) of Bowie the man, who broke out of the rigid class system his creativity was stuck in through the power of rock and roll! When I saw newer music stars on the scene, such as Kurt Cobain, I was happy he had been able to avoid the grey fate of a janitor as he described in his journals.
So it seems people see through your game right away, and that is why they dislike you. And that hate will only burn hotter...that is why you are re releasing you album again, huh? Also, why did you want to be a pop star when you went to school with millionaires? You and your family also are millionaires, so the usual logical answers do not fit, but you are not compelling enough for people really to care, it seems. And anyway, if anyone is taken aback by your clothing, they should look up Leigh Bowery. I am in the Motor City and am amazed no one sees the ridiculous way you appropriate his images.......to an extent. He really did provoke people. You, not so much. But I am writing this, so huzzah to you.
Anyway, MTV is dead and you have fans that are notoriously fickle (11 year old girls). They will be moving on very soon. You know that, thus the re release of a first album. But you will never be the next anything to any community. You cannot reproduce the narrative of "rags to riches". You desperately try to be a "gay icon" yet choose Perez Hilton as your celebrity friend? Do you know any gay people? lol And you are fanning your flames (pun intended): All those individuals you site, regardless of where they came from, had a humble upbringing, but, as the narrative story goes, they overcame it through their own determination and fire in the belly.
Why is it fixed in place? Because it is a tad ridiculous to desire to be a pop star...you know, wacky props, outfits etc. The ones who can make high art out of a low budget are celebrated. Buying or sewing numbingly accurate reproductions doesn't count, Stephani. That means you are going from riches to riches. Andy Warhola is laughing his ass off at you, honey, for so many reasons.
So, Stephani, saying you danced in a bar in New York for a few months while going to an elite school is not "paying your dues". Having to chose between food and rent is......comprende?