Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Mothership is MIA

We meet all kinds of interesting people at music conferences and pho dinners and stuff. One of these cool women manages the business affairs of George Clinton (Parliament, Funkadelic and The P-Funk Allstars).

I’ve always thought that must present all kind of fun and interesting challenges, not the least of which is untangling all of the bad deals, uncredited samples, and who knows what else. Despite all I know about the history 20th Century music, the recording industry, and pop culture, I had no idea until this morning that the Mothership has been missing since 1982.

You really must read this article, “In Maryland, George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic and a missing Mothership.” This is important stuff and it belonged on the front page of the Washington Post. This is the Mothership we’re talking about, after all!

Clinton & his compatriots are at the 9:30 Club tonight and it’ll no doubt be an amazing show, but I’m sad to say we’re going to sit this one out.

80s Face

Husband just sent me this & I can’t decide which part is more awesome, the hair or the Exorcist-inspired breathing technique:


edited to add: Just hours after we watched this and I posted it, we went to yoga. I’ll be damned if the teacher didn’t say, “you can use lion breathing here…” which I’d never heard of so I snickered at the coincidence, then she added, “just stick your tongue out and pant.” I nearly fell over, and I don’t mean that as a cute expression, I mean that I nearly fell over.