Buy Or Don’t Buy

Breaking Glass: a 1980 movie about a Kate Bush figure (doesn’t record anything in her punk years, wears white face makeup that girls begin to imitate, signs a record deal that turns her music into empty new wave femme vocal tracks, band turns from band name to KATE) that lays out one/the transition between punk and new wave in Britain. Hazel O’Connor acted and wrote all the songs. Her career soars, just as in the movie, and her songs go from spunky funky to shitty new wave, JUST AS in the movie.

Shattered Glass: Hayden Christensen becomes a famous journalist for making up a bunch of stories for UPenn’s newspaper. Peter Sarsgaard is on the trail/totally jealous. (Read: the last season of the Wire.) I don’t remember what Hank Azaria or Steve Zahn do–probably tie up their best friend’s girlfriend and yell “Hey Ma! Get off the dang roof!” Right???

Now, let’s loop!

This gem, a bit of a departure. It’s Hazel’s vapid & weird cover of the Stranglers’ Hanging Around, and now we know where Counting Crows gets its post-M Jonesian ideas from:

(Monsieur Jones.) The loop is that I always say Shattered Glass when I mean Breaking Glass (always as in the past week). Why? Damask me!

Mmm, mmm, I’m lovin’ it.