Happy Birthday Morrissey! Here’s to many more years whisking songs of love, pain, desperation and laughing in the face of all that.
I know i am a bit early but i have to get an early night due to exams so happy birthday mozalini
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS US TOUR STARTS IN TEN DAYS!
we invite all to reblog this! help us spread the word! THANKS!INDIANAPOLIS Thursday May 30. info: http://ticketf.ly/WJEgUg
MILWAUKEE Friday May 31. info: http://bit.ly/ZTq1hx
MINNEAPOLIS Saturday June 1. info: http://bit.ly/U4vzW8
IOWA CITY Sunday June 2. info: http://bit.ly/UosVe5
DES MOINES Tuesday June 4. Special Flood show! Show info: http://ticketf.ly/U4zUIO
OMAHA Wednesday June 5. Show info: http://bit.ly/Xxmlke
KANSAS CITY MO Thurs. June 6. Adult show, open to all ages. Show info: http://bit.ly/VaZDAF
DENVER Friday June 7. Show info: http://bit.ly/Y5TbP4
SALT LAKE CITY Saturday June 8. Show info: http://bit.ly/10iXQyw
plus a free in-store performance and signing at Graywhale. Info: http://on.fb.me/143NFM5
BOISE Sunday June 9. Special Flood show! Show info: http://bit.ly/V8EXvGplus a free in-store performance and signing at the Record Exchange http://bit.ly/ZHGm9D
VANCOUVER Tuesday June 11. Early show. Info: http://tktwb.tw/13lwIMU
SEATTLE Wednesday June 12. Show info: http://bit.ly/Y5TgCk
PORTLAND Thursday June 13. Show info: http://bit.ly/W3K7F8
SAN FRANCISCO Friday June 14. Show info: http://bit.ly/ZfKMVa
ANAHEIM Saturday June 15. Show info: http://bit.ly/V68R3Z
SAN DIEGO/SOLANA BEACH June 16 End of the Tour party! Free beer! Show info: http://bit.ly/RTweuZ
BROOKLYN Saturday August 12. FREE CONCERT Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park. http://bricartsmedia.org/events/they-might-be-giants-moon-hooch (yes there is $3 suggested donation so don’t be uncool about it!)
Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:
“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.
So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”
We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.
And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.
It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
