Chat With Dwight Yoakam, Kevin Smith, More
Highlights Of Monday And Tuesday
Rightly or wrongly, it's hard to think of director Kevin Smith without thinking 'Generation X." remember the whole Generation X thing? It actually seems kinda silly now -- like the invention of a bunch of baby boomers in an attempt to classify their unruly kids. Huh. Anyway, Kevin Smith, he of "Chasing Amy," "Clerks" and 'Dogma," is now doing a "Clerks' cartoon, and he'll be chatting about it this Tuesday on cnn.com at 8 p.m. EST, 7 p.m. CST, 5 p.m. PST.
Not many people can make a career out of joke rock. Devo sort of did it, Weird Al definitely has -- but most of the time it's helpful to have some genuine musicality backing up the silliness. The Rev. Horton Heat has a fun, raucous, rockabilly sound to give his crazy-backwoods-preacher schtick some substance. Chat with the wild and/or crazy guy this Monday on guitar.com at 8 p.m. EST, 7 p.m. CST, 5 p.m. PST. Registration required.
While on vacation I saw the Ka-YUTEST video: the British rockers Supergrass had hooked up with Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The video involved superimposing Supergrass heads onto Muppet bodies for the song "Pumping on Your Stereo" -- my description won't do it justice, suffice to say it was the Ka-YUTEST. You may also know them for the 1997 hit "Caught the Fuzz." chat with them audio-style this Tuesday on sonicnet.com at 9 p.m. EST, 8 p.m. CST, 6 p.m. PST.
Superagent Scott Boras is one of the most controversial people in baseball. anytime there's some flak about a contract, he's behind it -- one that immediately comes to mind involved J.D. Drew and his decision to turn down the Philadelphia Phillies, who drafted him, and play for the Independent League instead. If you're a baseball fan, you'll probably have a few choice words for Scott on espn.go.com at 3 p.m. EST, 2 p.m. CST, 12 noon PST.
I wasn't really a country fan when I saw "Sling Blade." But when I learned that the evil character Doyle in the film was played by country star Dwight Yoakam, I became a Dwight Yoakam fan. He's one multi-talented fella. Music-wise, he's best known for songs like "You're the One," "It Only Hurts When I Cry" and "The Heart that I Own." Chat with him this Tuesday on chat.msn.com at 7 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. CST, 4 p.m. PST.
