Ordinarily I wouldn’t interrupt your busy lives to tell you about my dreams. But I want this on the public record so that if, in a few years, it should come true, I get money or at least props.<\/p>\n
It was a short dream. Actually it was a snapshot. It was an album cover. Michael Buble<\/a> had recorded an album of Morrissey <\/a>songs.<\/p>\n It was this face, <\/a> done kind of like this.<\/a><\/p>\n Ever since, I have been trying to imagine a syrupy crooner like Buble smearing his pouty, velvet vocals all over the maudlin, sardonic tunes of Moz. (gee, guess which one I like better?) The effort of this imagining has caused my head to collide with itself and not in a pretty way. Picture “We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful”<\/a> done all fake-loungey with finger snapping. I am so popular on the bus, I swear. Even Saint Aardvark <\/a> ignores me these days.<\/p>\n But hey – if William Shatner can do “Common People” and Tom Jones, apparently, can do whatever he wants, including “Lust for Life” with the Pretenders (and what a horrid, horrid noise that was), I think Buble should go for it. Maybe he’d gain a bit more crossover appeal. At the very least, I’d <\/b>give him a couple more years to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ordinarily I wouldn’t interrupt your busy lives to tell you about my dreams. But I want this on the public record so that if, in a few years, it should come true, I get money or at least props. It … Continue reading
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![kind of like this.<\/a><\/p>\nEver since, I have been trying to imagine a syrupy crooner like Buble smearing his pouty, velvet vocals all over the maudlin, sardonic tunes of Moz. (gee, guess which one I like better?) The effort of this imagining has caused my head to collide with itself and not in a pretty way. Picture “We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful”<\/a> done all fake-loungey with finger snapping. I am so popular on the bus, I swear. Even Saint Aardvark <\/a> ignores me these days.<\/p>\nBut hey – if William Shatner can do “Common People” and Tom Jones, apparently, can do whatever he wants, including “Lust for Life” with the Pretenders (and what a horrid, horrid noise that was), I think Buble should go for it. Maybe he’d gain a bit more crossover appeal. At the very least, I’d <\/b>give him a couple more years to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ordinarily I wouldn’t interrupt your busy lives to tell you about my dreams. But I want this on the public record so that if, in a few years, it should come true, I get money or at least props. It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.virgin.net\/music\/wallpapers\/images\/morrissey_800.jpg\"){kind=link}