Well, ask and you shall receive. . .looks like we're starting a Carona lyric-swap library. Yesterday, Roy Rivenburg and Lisa O'Neill Hill took on The Knack's "My Sharona." Today, our very own Jack Grimshaw shot us his lovely bastardization of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues."
P.S. If anyone else wants to contribute to our growing collection, I'm at jkahn@ocweekly.com.
Mikey's Folsom Prison Blues!
By Jack Grimshaw
Well, I know that prison’s waiting,
It’s just around the bend,
I traded
By Jeff Shaw at our sister paper, Citypages.
Love is a many-splendored thing and all, but it's also dependent upon a relationship's context -- and so is the associated music. You don't want Al Green's "Let's Get Married" to stream through the car speakers during your third date, you don't want your intended to think you stopped listening to new records after "I Love You Just The Way You Are" was released. . .aaaand you don't want "You Oughtta Know" to come on, well, ever.
Swapping out these em
UPDATED WITH EYEWITNESS REPORT ON DJ MOM PANTS!Johnny Cash, the revenge-minded father of a dead teen porn star, Bijou Phillips, Julius Shulman, Kelly Lynch, "Kevin" from The Office, Vilmos Zsigmond and a sour-faced Kristen Scott Thomas. No, these are not my ideal players in the perfect poker game but just some figures who have rocked my world so far at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which has reached the halfway point and continues through Thursday. Friday began with a bout of deja vu all over
Dream sequence: Mike Carona entertains his fellow inmates.Jack Grimshaw, the Weekly's eagle-eyed proofreader, just whipped up this diddy. Imagine disgraced, prison-bound, ex-Sheriff Mike Carona singing the following to his future minimum security federal pen inmates to the tune of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line":I keep a close watch on my cellmate Spike,I know the kind of ass that he would like, He wants to ride me like a 10-speed bike,I need a guard, I walk the yard. I find it very, very d
Film Screening: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 7:30 p.m.Hunter S. Thompson was the pioneer of a style he called "Gonzo"
journalism, a style where he would emerse himself into the story so much that he, himself would become a character in it--gun in hand, cigarette holder dangling from his lips. Come see a film dedicated to the one and only.Hibbleton Art Gallery, 112 W. Wilshire Ave., Fullerton, CA; http://www.hibbleton.comRing of Fire, 8 p.m."Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." These
