tigerbeatpoet is the online moniker of Jen Paulson. She hasn’t flipped through the pages of Tiger Beat in years, and is not much of a poet. However, she knows quite a bit about obsessing over music and musicians, squealing over cute and or badass things and tigerbeatpoet.com is an outlet for the culmination of all this - from her hometown of Minneapolis, to the whole wide world.
Right now, writers and bloggers and newspeople are writing about Michael Jackson’s passing today. With the exception of his scandals of recent years, Michael Jackson was an icon for over half of his life. From the sweet and sublime vocals that brought him his initial fame with his Gary, Indiana bred brothers in the Jackson 5 he later established himself with a highly successful career as a solo artist, notably breaking MTV’s color barrier as the first African American to have a video on the network with “Billie Jean,” all of course which led to his eventual crowning as the “King of Pop.”
His groundbreaking record, “Thriller,” remains the highest selling record of all time.
I was reminded that I care about this after seeing Kristen Stewart’s new haircut somewhere this week. Intensity in ten cities.
Ok, I am on my Runaways biopic train of ambivalence again. I have no clue how its going to turn out and my recent discovery on the casting (yeah, I’m behind on such news): Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie? What? Huh? Hey, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt for now, because she is still just SO likeable, but that is relatively mind-boggling. It is so weird it might work. And I won’t lie, I can’t wait.
I dunno – I have a feeling you can just sense my overwhelmed and confused head-shaking regarding this. Can you?
HOWEVER: from the IMDB.com rumor alert – Michael Shannon may be cast as that genius, exploitive bastard Kim Fowley. Possibly not a step up from that Oscar worthy performance of his in Revolutionary Road, but sign me up. I love that guy. Love, love, love him.
I can’t stop. I listen to this song every day, at least once. It’s closer to three times a day, like taking my medicine. Something about it is all-encompassing, and possesses a general feeling of Rock and Roll awe that I have been searching for. And I didn’t think that feeling could be elevated. Until I saw this video of the band performing it on Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert. One year, six months and one day before I was born.
How obnoxiously cool is Rick Nielson in this video? And Robin Zander? Oh yeah – white pantsuit dreaminess. Also – I always forget that Tom Petersson was actually hot. And there aren’t a whole lot of words you can use to describe Bun E. Carlos’ except ‘Milton-from-Office-Space’ mixed in with DRUM KING.
That reminds me, I have to find out what this Tinted Windows grouping is all about. Enjoy!
