Fuzzbox

Karl is taking French so that he will be able to better communicate when we return to Montreal this Christmas. Anyway, he has to listen to tapes for the course and this somehow pulled him to an old box which we keep in the bottom of the guestroom closet. The box full of his childhood cassette tapes.

He has rediscovered one of his favorite bands from his innocent youth. The band is called Fuzzbox. I guess they were from the UK. The name of their tape is "We've got Fuzzbox...And We're Gonna Use It!!" Karl assured me that Fuzzbox were the Go Go's on acid. ...More like the Go Go's without melody or a decent sound engineer. Anyway, to show you how innocent my significant partner is ---- all of the songs are fairly sexual in nature. It seems obvious to me to what the name of the band refers, but poor Karl is positive that it only refers to the instrument. Meanwhile the big busted girls sing songs like "XX Sex" ---- I hate this music, but he forced me to listen to it on our way to and from the market today. Torture!

Is anyone out there familiar with Fuzzbox -- I gather they are a relic from the 80's.

We saw the new Woody Allen film. You know how hit songwriters like Barry Manilow or Rod Stewart who performed such chart-topping hits in the 70's seem to be unable to reproduce the same glory in current recordings? Well, I think the same thing has happened to poor Woody. He continues to sing the same old song, but he is no longer charting. And no matter how hard she may try, Christina Ricci is no Diane Keaton. And Jason Biggs is no Woody. "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" are classic films, but maybe it is time to do something new.