…and it’s not just because John Rich wrote the song “Raising McCain” about John McCain. In a recent CMT article, Rich Bitch had this to say about the late, Johnny Cash:
I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around.
Anyways, Rich’s repugnant attempt to channel Johnny Cash’s support for John McCain from beyond the grave, pissed off Cash’s daughter, Roseanne Cash. So much so that Cash took to her blog to speak out against Rich’s comments about her father:
It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined and to try to further their own agendas by doing so. Even I would not presume to say publicly what I ‘know’ he thought or felt. This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation. It is unfair and presumptuous to use him to bolster any platform.
…when it comes to the art of creating Art in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s image. I am in love with Stephens’ image of Nick Cave, complete with skeleton hands, clutching his ever-present ciggy. Stephens teaches art at Chana High in California. How lucky are those kids? Wait. Don’t answer that question yet. Stephens is also a big fan of Zombies. So much so that he has started doing Zombie Portraits of his students. Stephens will even make you a Zombie for a mere $25 bucks. Craig Stephens might be the coolest Art teacher ever.
Craig Stephens, Lou Reed. For Mr. Incredible.
When he’s not teaching Art or turning his students into Zombies, Stephens also manages to crank out a pretty boss comic called Working Stiff. Stephens says that creating a comic was a childhood dream of his.
Craig Stephens, Iggy Pop. For more Iggy Art click here.
Although it’s hard to imagine that Stephens has any, in his spare time, he paints a picture a day and posts them on his blog, Daily Painting.
Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, Dom Deluise in The Doctor.
In 1965, a young Glen Campbell paid a visit to the brilliantly funny Dean Martin Variety Show. In the vid above, Glen plays a cowboy with an arrow stuck in his gut in need of a doctor. Unfortunately, the only doctor in town is a drunk Dean Martin. I got completely dizzy watching Dino trying to make his way to the bar in the opening of this clip. I guess it really does takes a drunk to play a drunk. Maybe Cherrybomb has a future in acting after all.
Anyways, a few years later in 1969, Glen Campbell got his own Variety Show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. And, in the true spirit of any Variety Show, Campbell got to play sing-along with some performers like Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Johnny Cash. I would be remiss in not mentioning the time The Monkees visited the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour. This clip with Mike Nesmith and Davey Jones is Variety Show gold.
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