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Chris Isaak on tour, on fire

I missed Chris Isaak the last time he was on tour, but I caught him today in Webster, MA, at a place called Indian Ranch. I’m a big fan of this guy, and as always Isaak put on a masterfully entertaining show. Here’s a quick minute of Chris today, doing one of his most popular tunes, Blue Motel.

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Isaak strolled up into the audience to give the ladies a thrill, and to make us men wish we could be more like him…

… then for his encore he came out wearing his famous mirror suit, which loses some of its effect at an outdoor, daytime show, but was still fun to see.

I hope you caught Isaak on PBS recently. His latest album is Beyond the Sun, and he talks about making it in this video I swiped from Amazon.com.

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Hallelujah, K3!

It’s been four years since a Flemish friend got me started on K3 (we Americans hear it pronounced as “kah-tree”). Much has changed since then both professionally and personally for the ladies, but they continue to be popular and ply their trade in music, TV shows, and movies. K3 fan Mia told me the new single from their upcoming movie, Where Are The Angels?, has been posted on YouTube. Lately, some of the K3 videos I’ve embedded from YouTube have been pulled, so I extracted the MP3 audio. I really like this one.

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Mia explains the premise for the movie.

K3 has to be nice for 24 hours or they are in big trouble when they get kidnapped by angels.. but in these 24 hours their 3 annoying nieces arrive and they are everything but nice little troublemakers can K3 stay nice? The short teaser trailer is really funny! 😀 It shows K3 thinking they are slim as always but actually they are fat as hell, which is a side effect when you lie or when they are mean.. kinda like a curse.

With all of the overweight and obese kids in America, I wonder how well this idea would work here?

Look! Up in the sky! Listen! Up in the Fresh Air!

Terry Gross on Fresh Air interviews Larry Tye, author of a new book about Superman and the men who created the character.

Tye apparently isn’t essentially a comic book fan, which is perhaps a good thing. I don’t know yet how he portrays Siegel and Shuster, the creators of Superman. In recent years it’s become apparent that there was a lot to not like about writer Jerry Siegel the man, and Joe Shuster drew sleazy fetish illustrations, perhaps out of financial necessity and/or an interest in the genre. There’s a Fresh Air segment about that, too.