musical_conspiracy_theories past the two characters in jeremy fisher's song "highschool" are the same two guys from joel plaskett's "ashtray rock" album, even though the first song came out before the later album. 221217 ... raze mark mcgrath and ethan hawke are secretly brothers. they're just waiting to reveal the truth to the rest of the world in a collaborative tell-all memoir after both their careers bottom out. 221218 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Stravinsky went back in time to steal the first four notes of the chorus of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" for the beginning of his Rite of Spring. 221218 ... e_o_i Grace from the immer_immersion program had one: the reason that Eurovision awarded the winning prize this year to Sweden, whose song wasn't as memorable as Finland's punchy, goofy "Cha Cha Cha," is that the winner gets to have a song from their country at next year's Eurovision, and 2024 will apparently be the 25th anniversary of ABBA's win, so...the whole thing is a plot to get ABBA to sing at Eurovision again. (I realize that my chronicling of the class stopped right before the Switzerland trip. My excuses: I was wildly busy, then extravagantly lazy, than tiringly busy again. Now I'm being extravagantly lazy during a time of tiring busy-ness, which is dangerous, so I should go and commune with The_Sisterhood again.) 231005 ... raze simon le bon was once in love with david sylvian, though it remained an unrequited affair of the heart. how else to explain duran duran building their entire career around japan's "quiet life"? 231020 ... raze chad kroeger is really the paddle pop lion. he moonlights as a maker of mediocre butt rock to cover up his true identity. 231106 ... raze rod stewart sold his soul in exchange for easy money and a stable of wives half his age. the same man responsible for the brilliance of "gasoline alley" and "every picture tells a story" couldn't follow those albums with almost fifty years of mindless schlock unless he was altered in some fundamental spiritual way. 231229 ... raze john rzeznik is paul westerberg's illegitimate son. 240715 what's it to you? who go blather from