Wind down your window; I think I'm going to kiss you.

Billboard August 12.

• Tony Bennett's turning 80.
• Hey, remember that brief period in the mid90s when he was cool?
• It was weird.
• Apparently, the Copyright Act can now help artists.
• Madonna's get-up in this tour picture reminds me of the mother/not-a-bordello owner in East of Eden.
• When she's wearing the gloves and lace because she can't bear to look at her old-looking hands?
• That, completely.
• Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman have resolved their legal issues amicably.
• phew.
• I was worried, there.
• I mean, who do you root for?
• No, I won't do that.
• yay
• Joan Jett picture and Yo La Tengo picture on the same page!
• Although it does kind of feel like they're now ghetto-izing Li'l Steven and my beloved indie column guy.
• So, I heard some Pipettes, and I have to say:
• They just might be the greatest thing I've heard in a long while.
• Oh, and I bought the new Walkmen album (and an ironing board for making pleated skirts!) at Target, and it is awesome.
• (as are pleated skirts)
• (but more on my fall fashion choices in another post)
• Li'l Steven's complaining about radio.
• Li'l Steven, you know as well as I do that radio doesn't play Joan Jett's new stuff because she's not the radio-approved badass chick.
• Georgia's so adorable.
• blah blah Tony Bennett blah
• Jesus, this Tony Bennett section is HUGE.
• Camera Obscura's mentioned.
• Tiff burned their new album for me.
• I like it.
• I'm waiting for the fall to get a bit more blurrish before I really rock it a lot.
• Newbury Comics is still looking for a buyer, guys.
• So, Pink might be covering a Britney Spears song.
• $10 says it's "Toxic".
• Not that I'm complaining.
• But I'd rather see Eddie Izzard cover that song.
• (See, because I maintain that Eddie all transvestited-up bears a striking resemblance to Pink.)

Billboard August 19

• Hey, Karen O in the ToC.
• Secretly, I totally want to be Christian Joy and have a crazy rockstargirl to outfit in crazy rockstargirl ways.
• I'd be, like, Librarian By Day, Crazy RocStylist by Night.
• or something
• Like most of my plans (even the realistic ones), this involves moving somewhere else.
• "Depeche Mode Always in Fashion"
• Now, I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours...
• Or we could play Master & Servant.
• Iggy Pop is taking Mr Soundgarden's place as Mr Varvatos.
• Screw you, Audioslave. You'll always be Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine to Me.
• OMG, Karen O's got on this like space robot outfit.
• It's silver and purple and she's got these vertical rainbow-y tights on.
• Actually, it kind of looks like a successful version of what got Bradley aufed last week.
• Man, that's so awesome.
• You know, eye makeup should make a band prettier, not call their prettiness into question and the questioner into confusion.
• Evanescence is back.
• So is Nina Gordon.
• Which is ridiculous.
• So, you know what the best part of the Strangers With Candy movie was?
• Aside, of course, from, "I'm thinking about pussy; the science fair's for queers," which I kind of want to make my myspace headline, but I already get enough skeezes.
• David Rakoff as Matthew Broderick's silent biographer.
• It was genius, and I so love that man.